Vaikam Jayachandran, Music Club IIT Madras

Vaikam Jayachandran - B U Ganesh Prasad - Umayalpuram Mali - Palghat Sajeev

Music Club IIT Madras. DoMS Hall
6th November 2007. 6:45 pm

vakra tuNDa - slOkam in kalyANi
vanajAkshirO - kalyANi - Adi - RSI
gajAnanayutam - chakravAkam - Adi - MD (S)
nannu kanna talli - kEsari - Adi - T
mAmava mInAkshi - varALi - misra cApu - MD (RNS)
brOcEvArevarE - srI ranjani - Adi - T (RS)
rAjagOpAlam bhajEham - mOhanam - rUpakam - MD (RNS)
nAda tanum anisam - cittaranjani - Adi - T (S)
parama purusha - vasantA - - ST
sivakAmEsvarIm - kalyANi - Adi - MD (RNS)
tani Avarththanam
tERuvadeppO nenjE - khamAs - Adi - MS (R)
pazhani ninRa - kApi - rUpakam - PT
srI mAdhava vAsudEva - bEhAg - Adi - MV (R)
kalyANa krishNa - shubapantuvarALi - Adi (R)
nI nAma rUpamulaku - saurAshTram - Adi - T

Another classical concert. True to the expectations, Sri Jayachandran presented classical music with good vigour. The AlApanai of varALi was done in a very matrued and scholarly fashion. srIranjani and mOhanam were treated with a different out-look. They were far from the usual AlApanais one hear. The AlApanai of the kalyANi was quite nice also. The kritis were all rendered with a lot of bhavam and there was no compromise on the quality of music. The choice of kritis was quite off-beat and handled well as well. One has not heard some of these pieces in a concert for ages. The neraval and svarams for varALi at 'shyAmE sankarI digvijaya pratApiNi' were done very well. The neraval and svarams for mOhanam were sung at 'nAradAdi kruta bhajanam nAda laya yuta sadanam'. The neraval and svarams were sung in the pallavi line 'sivakAmEsvarIm cintayEham' for the main piece. All the manOdarma parts were very nicely executed. The kalpitam was good also.

Sri Ganesh Prasad was good thro' the concert and gave fitting replies for all the pieces. Sri Mali and Sri Sajeev did a good job with the percussion dept and played a short-yet-sweet tani.