Suguna Purushottaman, Krishna Gana Sabha

Suguna Purushottaman - Poorna Vaidhyanathan - Trivandrum Vaidhyanathan

Krishna Gana Sabha. Gokulashtami series
6th September 2007. 6:30 pm

gajAnanam - slOkam in hamsadvani, kEdAragauLa
viribhONi nI pai - kEdAragauLa - misra jhampai - Rudrapatnam Venkataramayya (varNam)
brOvabAramA - bahudAri - Adi - T (S)
nIlAcalanAtam bhajEham - simmEndramadhyamam - Adi - MD (RS)
nA morAlakimpa vEmi - dEvagAndhAri - tisra Ekam - T (RS)
srI kamAkshi kaTAkshi - vasantA - Adi - Thiruvarur Ramaswami Pillai
endu dAginADO - tODi - misra cApu - T (RNS)
tani Avarththanam
mAdava mAmava - nIlAmbari - Adi - NT (R)
srI krishNasAmikku sari evarE - kEdAragauLa - misra cApu - PS
sonnadai kEL kaNNA - pantuvarALi - Adi
nIraja daLa nayanA - mAND - Adi - Suguna Purushottaman
kastUri tilakam - slOkam in kuranji
srI vENugOpala - kuranji - kANDa Ekam - MD
anda nAL ninaivu - brindAvana sArangA - Adi - Suguna Purushottaman
nIla vaNNanai ninaindAl - hamsanAdam - misra cApu - Suguna Purushottaman
rAma bhakta hanumAn - jOnpuri - Adi - Suguna Purushottaman
nI nAma rUpamulaku - saurAshTram - Adi - T

Smt Suguna Purushottaman is one of the few musicians of the old guard who still continue to entertain us with classical music of the highest order. All AlApanais were sheer display of her display. The neraval and svarams were all well structured and were enjoyable. She started her concert with a invocatory slOkam. The rare kEdAragauLa varNam was presented beautifully. The bahudAri piece had an interesting round of svarams at 'srI vAsudEva' and 'brOvabAramA' successively.

The simmEndramadyamam AlApanai was short and sweet. The kriti was rendered with an elaborate round of svarams at line begining 'nIlAmbikA' in the anupallavi. The detailed dEvagAndhAri AlApanai was done in a very un hurried fashion. The kriti was rendered in a moving fashion with all its three caraNams and an elaborate round of svarams at the pallavi line. The vasanta kriti was nicely rendered with the required stresses on the svarAksharams in its chittai svarams.

The main tODi AlApanai was rendered very elaborately, including all the enjoyable phrases adding to its beauty. The kriti was rendered amazingly with neraval and svarams at 'sthambamu lOpala nuNDaga lEdA'. The nIlAmbari AlApanai was good. The kEdAragauLa kriti was rendered in an unhurried fashion. The kuranji piece was rendered beautifully. Smt Suguna Purushottaman announced that she rendered the brindavana sAranga piece, in memory of Sri Yagnaraman. The piece described the past memories of the person and also created a sober mood. All the other tukkadas were well rendered also.

Smt Poorna Vaidhyanathan on the violin was good in parts. The sound system had the violin playing a little loud. Sri Vaidhyanathan played well for the full concert. His tani was nice as well.