Ravikiran, Music Club IIT Madras

N Ravikiran - Chitraveena
Akkarai Subhalakshmi - Fiddle
K V Prasad - Mrudangam
S Karthick - Ghatam

Music Club IIT Madras
9th August 2006 6:45 pm

mAyatIta svarUpiNi - mAyAmALavagauLa - rUpakam - Tanjore Quartet (S)
tanamIda nE - bhUshAvaLi - Adi - T (RS)
kalAvatI - kalAvatI/yAgapriyA - Adi - MD (short sketch)
brOcEvArevarurA - kamAch - Adi - MV (RS)
tani Avarththanam
RTP - dhEnukA - Adi (2 kaLai) sama eDuppu
'sa ri ga ma pa da ni rajamulu bhajimpavE manasA'
tAru mAru - nATTaikuranji jAvaLi - Adi - Pattabhiramayya
tuLLumada vETkai - hamsAnandi tiruppugazh - Adi - Aruna Giri Nathar
nI nAma rUpamulaku - saurAshTRam - Adi - T (short sketch)
madhyamAvati (short sketch)

The concert began with a nice rendition of the mAyAmALavagauLa kriti with good svarams. The bhUshAVaLi AlApanai was well handled and gave a good flavour of the ragam. The kriti was beautifully rendered with svarams. The short sketch of kalAvati (the 31st asampUrNa mELam) also called yAgapriyA was good and the kriti had some nice phrases.

KhamAs AlApanai was followed by the kriti and some good swarams, leading to the tani. The starting phrase of dhEnukA was very catchy and established the rAga lakshaNam right there. It was a very inspiring elaboration of dhEnukA and the tAnam was well played also. The pallavi, played on request, was quite well set and had a lot of svarAksharams. It was well rendered and some of his usages of svarAksharams were liberally borrowed from stalwarts of yesteryears. The rare nATTaikuranji jAvaLi was rendered well. Sri Ravikiran gave a good concert.

Kum. Subhalakshmi ably supported the main artist and gave fitting replies to the main artists.

Sri Prasad was good thro' the concert and played for the compositions. he was accompanying the main artists with very good anticipation. He was ably supported by Sri Karthick. The tani they played had some interesting patterns and the korappu was very well done.