Madurai Sundar, Music Club IIT Madras

Madurai Sundar - Lalgudi Vijayalakshmi - Mannarkoil J Balaji - B S Purushottaman

Music Club IIT Madras. DoMS Hall.
22nd August 2007. 6:45 pm

sAmi ninnE - kAmavardini - Adi (short sketch) (varNam)
gaNapatE - janaranjani - Adi - HMB (RS)
budamAshrayAmi - nATTakuranji - misra jhampai - MD
srI varalakshmI - srI rAgam - rUpakam - MD (RS)
kA vA vA - varALi - Adi - PS (S)
sangIta sAstra - mukhAri - Adi - T
mahAlakshmI - sankarAbaraNam - misra cApu - PS (RNS)
tani Avarththanam
RTP - shanmukhapriyA - kaNDa tripuTa (2 kaLai). eDuppu 3 aksharams before samam. 5 akshram aridi
'oru taram siva chidambaram enRu uraiththal pOdumE manam kanindurugi'
rAga mAlikA svarams in AbhOgi(with one snatch of valaji in graha bedam) and valaji.
ivanArO - kAmbhOji - misra cApu (padam)
vaNDArkum - viruttam in sindhubhairavi
tEdi unnai caraN aDaindEn - sindhubhairavi - Adi
tillAnA - bilahari - adi - ARI
alli vizhiyAlum - khamAs - akshara srENi - ArunagirinAtar (Thiruppugazh)
uruvAi varuvAi - viruttam in suruTTi
nI nAma rUpamulaku - saurAshTram - Adi - T

The concert began with a short sketch of kAmavardini and the varNam was rendered in three speeds. The janaranjani AlApanai was short and the kriti was well rendered with a round of svarams. The kriti of the day in nATTaikuranji was to follow.

The AlApanai of srI rAgam was good. The kriti was rendered in a slow tempo with elaborate svarams at 'bhAvanA bEda caturE'. The varALi kriti was rendered beautifully with an elaborate round of svarams with some kaNakku as well, at the pallavi line.

The main AlApanai of shankarAbaraNam was done quite elaborately with some nice patterns. The kriti was rendered well with elaborate neraval and svarams at the pallavi line. The AlApanai of shanmukhapriyA was done in a phased manner, and was free flowing and full of nice phrases. The tAnam was nice as well. The pallavi was rendered nicely, with some nice neraval and svarams, involving kaNakku. There was changes of naDai and anulOmam and pratilOmam as well. The rAgamAlikA section was nice also.

The kAmbhOji padam was rendered in a bhava laden fashion, reminding one of TNS' rendition. The viruttam and kriti in sindhubhairavi and tiruppugazh were good also. The tALam of the tiruppugazh was a kaNDa lagu in 2 kaLai and then in 1 kaLai and a kaNDa cApu, thus making it a progression from kIzh tALam to mEl tALam.

Sri Sundar gave a nice concert with some good classical music that dint have any frills. It was quite bhava laden and also involved quite a bit of kaNakku vyavahAram. His music is quite refreshing.

Smt. Vijayalakshmi on the violin was real good. Her AlApanais of janaranjani and srI rAgam brought out different flavours of the rAgams. Her svarams matched up to that of the main artist for all the pieces. Her shankarAbaraNam and shanmukhapriyA were both very nice. Her playing for the pallavi was good also.

Sri Balaji played mrudangam with good sense of anticipation all thro' the concert. He played according to the flow of the kriti and matched to the sangatis also. He was ably supported by Sri Purushottaman. Their tani was nice and had a different sounding mOhra to end it.