T K Govinda Rao, Nada Inbam

T K Govinda Rao - R K Shiram Kumar - K V Prasad

Nada Inbam, Raga Sudha Hall.
22nd August 2006. 6 pm

ninnE bhajana - nATTai - Adi - T (RNS)
teratIyaga rAdA - gauLipantu - Adi - T (S)
telisi rAma - pUrNacandrikA - Adi - T (S)
paridAnamiccitE - bilahari - kaNDa cApu - PSI (RNS)
Ema ninnE - mukhAri - Adi - SS (RS)
tani Avarttanam
Ananda sAgara - garuDadvani - Adi - T (short sketch)
srI visvanAtam - caturdasa rAgamAlikA - Adi - MD
kaNamum maravAdE - sAmA - Adi - AK (S)
antakana dUtarigE - rAgamAlikA - kaNDa cApu - PD
manju nihAr - mAND - misra cApu - kAvaDi chindu
caraNa kamalAlayattai - senjuruTTi - kaNDa cApu - kAvadi chindu
nI nAma rUpamulaku - saurAshTRam - Adi - T

The concert began with a beautiful elaboration of nATTai and 'ninnE bhajana' was rendered with a nice ciTTai svaram, beautiful neraval and measured svarams at 'sItAnAtha sakala lOka pLalaka tyAgarAja sannuta'. The gauLipantu kriti, 'teratIyaka' which followed was good and the svarams were displaying the raga bhavam. 'telisi rAma' was rendered with all the caranams though the usual ciTTai svaram was missing. However, kalpana svarams followred.

Bilhari was the first major Alapanai. The ragam was elaborated very well and all the aesthetic beauty of the ragam was brought out. 'paridAnamiccitE' was rendered with amazing neraval and svarams at 'rokkamicchutakunE mukkaNTi celikAnu'.

The mukhAri AlApanai was very beautiful and 'Ema ninnE' was a treat to hear. It was rendered with a lot of bhavam and a round of svarams. The garuDadvani short sketch gave a good flavour of the rAgams. 'Ananda sAgara' was rendered beautifully with sparkling ciTTai svarams.

'srI visvanAtam' was rendered beautifully. 'kaNamum' in sAmA, a TKG favourite was good with nice svarams. The second rAgamAlika, 'antha kaNa' was rendered in a set of hindustani style rAgams and was good also. The two kAvaDi chindus were beautiful also.

Whenever one has to write a write-up about a concert like the one in consideration, one falls shorts of words for in the first sentence itself one exhausts all available superlative adjectives and it gets tough to find better words to describe pieces that followed. Else, one goes terribly repetitive in describing each piece. I usually tend to get very repetitive.

Sri Govinda Rao gave a really amazing concert and was at his creative best. His voice was co-operating and was quite audible right from the first piece, thanks to the double microphone. Sri Shriram Kumar was very accurate in following the vocalist in each sangati and kriti and even during the neraval and svarams. His AlApanais were fitting also. Sri Prasad played very aptly to accompany the pieces and was able to play well for each sangati sang. His tani was beautiful also. He showed a few nice patterns and also, his korappu to the beginning of 'Ema ninnE' was very enjoyable.