Malladi Brothers, Music Academy

Malladi Brothers - Sriram Parasuram - Trichy Sankaran - B S Purushottaman

Music Academy. 26th December 2006. 4:45 pm

kAma janaka - gauLa - Adi - ST (S)
shrIpapriya sangItOpAsana - aTANA - Adi - T (S)
bruhadambikAyai - vasantA - cApu - MD (RS)
rAma nI vAdu - kalyANi - Adi (tisra naDai) - T (RNS)
maravakavE - sAma - rUpakam - PSI
naDaci naDaci - kharaharapriyA - Adi - T (RNS)
tani Avarththanam
RTP - chArukEsi - tisra tripuTa
'manamOhana harE mAdhavA madhusUdhanA pAhi'
iDadu padam - khamAs
some kriti in sindhubhairavi.

The concert started with a beautiful short sketch of gauLa and the rare kriti was rendered well with a nice round of svarams. The aTANA kriti was nice and rendered with a nice set of svarams.

The vasantA AlApanai was the best of the concert. It was a nice AlApanai and the kriti was rendered with a lot of bhavam and the svarams were good. The kalyANi AlApanai was followed by a good rendition of the rare kriti with neraval and svarams. The sAmA kriti was well rendered.

The main kharaharapriyA AlApanai was good in parts. The kriti was rendered well with nice sangatis and neraval and svarams. The 10 minute RTP was superficial. The artist probably should have worked out more time for the pallavi to bring out the rAga bhAvam fully.

Sri Sriram Parasuram on the violin was good. His replies to the main artist were better than that of theirs on many occasions.

Trichy Sri Sankaran just stole the show. He playing for each kriti, with great anticipation and appropriate use of thoppi were all very enjoyable. His patterns for each sangati, and the neraval and svarams were good also. He was ably assisted by Sri Purushottaman who played very well. The tani they both was very good.