Kalpakam Swaminathan, Nada Inbam

Kalpakam Swaminathan (Veena) - S.R. Padmavati (Veena) - Tanjavur Kumar (Mrudangam)

Raga Sudha Hall, Nada Inbam.
7th October 2007. 6 pm

varNam - pantuvarALi - aTa tALam - Ponnaiah Pillai
srI jAlantara - gambIra nATTai - Adi
vara nArada - vijaya srI - Adi - T (short sketch)
daNDAyudapANim - Ananda bhairavi - rUpakam - MD (RS)
piravA varam - latAngi - Adi - PS (R - SRP)
manasu vishaya - nATTaikuranji - Adi - T (RS)
karuNAnidiyE thAyE - bauLi - misra cApu - PS
sadAsrayE abhayAmbikE - shanmukhapriyA - rUpakam - MD (RT)
sankari nIvE - bEgaDA
tanI
padam in sahAnA - composition of Chinnaswami
rAgamAlikA piece in 9 ragams.

Kalpakam mami played a nice concert. All the pieces were beautifully rendered. The rare varNam was good to hear. The AlApanais of vijayasrI, Anandabhairavi, nATTaikuranji and shanmukhapriyA were all beautiful. daNDAyudapANim and manasu vishya were amazingly rendered with interesting rounds of svarams. The shanmukhapriyA tAnam was short and sweet.

Smt Padmavati's latAngi AlApanai was nice as well. Though mAmi had some little hitches with her vINa, the music was divine as usual.

I had to leave during the shanmukhapriyA piece.