Vijay Siva, Music Club IIT Madras

Vijay Siva - R K Shriram Kumar - Manoj Siva

Music Club IIT Madras
10th August 2006 6:45 pm

sadA pAla rUpapi - slOkam - kIravANi
bAla sarasa muraLI - kIravANi - Adi - OVK
sObillu - jagan mOhini - rUpakam - T (NS)
karuNajUDavammA - pantuvarALi - Adi(2) - SS (RN)
murugA muzhumadi pazikkum ArumugA - sAvEri - Adi - PS (RS)
soundara rAjam - brindAvana sArangA - tisra Ekam - MD
teliyalEru rAmA - dhEnukA - Adi - T
R T P - sankarAbaraNam - tisra jhampai (tisra naDai 2 kaLAi) sama eDuppu. tALam reduced to 1 kaLai.
'samAnamA sabhApatE sadAsivA sakala ulagamE unakku sari'
rAgamAlika svarams and korappu in hindOLam, hamIrkalyANi, kuntaLa varALi
tani Avarththanam in tisra jhampai (tisra naDai 2 kaLAi)
ini yenna pEchirukkudu - sahAnA - Adi - Subbarama Iyer
thammaiyE pugazhnthicchai - senjuruTTi - cApu - sundarar tEvAram
IyenRu nAn oruvariDam - viruttam in punnAga varALi, yamuna kalyANi, sindhu bhairavi
kAnthamAm kathirkAmam thanil - sindhu bhairavi- Eka tALam - Mayuram Viswanatha Sastri
ANDavan darisanamE - jOnpuri - Adi
iyal isaiyil - husEni tiruppugazh - vishama tALam - Arunagiri Nathar
nI nAma rUpamulaku - saurAshTRam - Adi - T
svasti prajA - saurAshTRam

The concert started with a beautiful slokam and the beautiful kIravANi piece. The jaganmOhini kriti was rendered with neraval at 'dhara rksAmAdulalO...' and svarams at 'saptaswara'. The pantuvarALi AlApanai was done well showing the rAga lakshaNams and the rare grand kriti taken up was really well rendered with neraval at 'maragatAngi panchanadIshu rANi'. A couple of kalpana svarams in this kriti would have been more fulfilling.

The sAvEri was elaborated well and the svarams that followed the kriti which had a starting two aksharams before the tALam started were good and had some nice patterns rendered. The slow rendition of the brindAvana sArangA kriti, a version away from the popular version we hear, had a definite impact followed by the dhEnukA.

The main course, sankarAbaraNam was elaborated to the fullest and was very fulfilling. The tanam was also beautiful. The pallavi was rendered well without a hitch with anulOma, pratilOma and the korappU to madhyamam was done in all the four ragams in a cycle. each ragam coming for an avartanam and then half and so on. It was well rendered. The tani in such a not-so-common taLam was good also, displaying some intricate patterns.

The post tani session had all the pieces rendered very enjoyably and unusual ease. The concert was on the whole very fulfilling and some of the pieces still ring in one's mind.

The violinst was in his usual best all thro' the concert and so was the mrudangist. The enjoyment one derived from the concert was understandably from the combined effort of all the three men on stage.