M A Bhagirathi, Thyagaraja Sangeetha Vidwat Samajam

Dr M A Bhagirathi - Kandadevi Vijayaraghavan - Kumbakonam Ramakrishnan

Thyagara Sangeetha Vidwat Samajam
17th May 2006 6:30pm

ragunAyakA - Hamsadhwani - Adi
ennaDu jUtunO - kalavathi - Adi
banturIti - hamsanAdam - Adi (R,S)
tuLasi daLa - mAyAmALavagauLa - rUpakam
bAlE bAlEndu - rItigauLa - Adi
kAru bAru - mukhAri - Adi
rAmA nI vAdukonduvO - kalyANi - Adi (tisra naDai) (R, N, S)
taniyAvardanam
haridAsuDuveDalE - yamuna kalyANi - Adi
rAma nAmam bhajarE - madhyamAvati - Adi

I reached late and entered as she was starting to elaborate hamsanAdam. As I was entering, what immediately struck to me was the full throated voice the singer had. A very open throated powerful voice it was.

The AlApanai of hamsanAdam was done well and the kriti was rended well with beautiful svarams. The mAyAmALava gauLa kriti was rendered beautifully carefully splitting sentences to not mess with the meanings.

The rItigauLa kriti was rendered beautifully with some rare sangatis. The two line mukhAri she hummed in the mike was just tooo good. If only she had developed a short AlApanai or something, it would have been very good. The kriti was rendered in the right kAla pramANam showing all the bhavam.

The main kalyANi AlApanai was done very well showing all the essential sancarams and quite a few rare pidis were also shown. The kriti was very good and rendered beautifully with neraval ' nA manasuna nIyandu prEma mIraganu nammi' and svarams with korappu to pa.

The yamuna kalyANi piece which followed the tani was good also and the madhyamAvati kriti led to the finish.

Dr. Bhagirathi, all thro' the concert, displayed good voice control and she could sing even complicated sangatis with ease and get them right ever time she sang the sangati. One particular sangati which lingers is one in the mukhAri kriti's anupallavi which is just the ArOhaNam of the rAgam with distinct gamakas in all the savrams, and Dr Bhagirathi sang it with perfection and did it time and again whenever that line came. There were more such phrases all the thro' the concert. All the AlApanais were phrase based and not svara based which added more weight to the music.

The violinst also did a good job in giving apt replies to the main artist and also supporting her during the kritis. His AlApanais were also logically built with phrases.

The mrudangist did a good job and played for the kriti correctly. His tani was also very good.

bharath

PS: Also read, samajathil-sangitham by Arunn