Amritha Murali, R A Puram Bhakta Jana Samaj

Amritha Murali - Karaikkal Venkatasubramanian - K V Gopalakrishnan

R A Puram Bhakta Jana Samaj, Sringeri Matam, Mandaveli.
29th December 2006. 6:30 pm

sAmi ninnE kOri - srI rAgam - Adi
dEva dEva - mAyAmALavagauLa - rUpakam - ST (NS)
abhimAnamen - bEgaDa - Adi - PSI
badalikadIrA - rItigauLa - Adi - T (RS)
vAcAma gOcaramE - kaikavasi - Adi - T
mInalOcana brOva - danyAsi - cApu - SS
nannu pAlimpA - mOhanam - Adi - T (RNS)
tani Avarththanam
paccai mA malai pOl mEni - Thondaradi podi Azhvar pasuram. in rAgamAlika
karpUram nArumO - rAga mAlikA - kaNDa cApu - Nachiyar thirumozhi of Andal.
nI nAma rUpamulaku - saurAshTRam - Adi - T

I was heading in the general mylapore - alwarpet direction, hoping to find some good concert to sit for the evening. Thankfully spotted Amritha and KVG at this venue and after a quick word, decided to enter and sit for this concert. The srI rAgam short sketch with which she began the concert was nice. The varnam was rendered well. The mAyAmALavagauLa piece was rendered beautifully with nice round of neraval and mEl kAla svarams at 'jAtarUpa nibhacEla janmArcitam mamAkhila'. The bEgaDa kriti provided a good tempo for the concert. The rItigauLa AlApanai was done well. The rare kriti was a treat to hear. An elaborate round of svarams was an added icing to the tasty cake. The kaikavasi and danyAsi kriti were rendered well, however one longed to hear neraval and/or svarams in danyAsi. The main mOhanam AlApanai was done well. The kriti was rendered decently with a good neraval and nice set of svarams. Some of the phrases were indeed quite good. The rAga mAlikA pAsurams were good also. On the whole, she did a good job in all departments. Sri Venkatasubramanian was good in most parts. He was a bit struggling to reach the 'iDam' during the mEl kAla svarams of rItigauLa. His mOhanam was good. His accompanying for the kritis and the neraval were also ok. Sri Gopalakrishnan played very sensibly. His playing for viLamba kAla kritis is always very good. His anticipation is much appreciable. His tani was nice.