Kalpakam Swaminathan, Nada Inbam

Kalpakam Swaminathan - vINai
Hemalatha - vINai support
Padma Shankar - fiddle
T K Ramakrishnan - mrudangam

Nada Inbam, Raga Sudha Hall
1st December 2007. 6 pm

sAmi iti nIku (varNam) - kannaDa - Adi - PSI (short sketch)
vallabha nAyakasya - bEgaDa - rUpakam - MD (RS)
dAriNi telusukoNTi - suddha sAvEri - Adi - T
vinanAsakuni - pratApavarALi - Adi - T
brOva bAramA - bahudAri - Adi - T (RNS)
kOrinavara - rAmapriyA - rUpakam - PSI (R)
bruhannAyaki - AndALi - Adi - MD
mInAkshi mE mudam - gamakakriyA - Adi - MD (RTNS)
caraNu caraNu - senjuruTTi - rUpakam - Anai Ayya (R)
karpakamE - madhyamAvati - Adi - PS
tillAnA - dhanasrI - Adi - ST
suruTTi AlApanai

Amazing concert it was. varNam was rendered well. The bEgaDa AlApanai was rendered beautifully. the kriti had a nice round of svarams. the suddha sAvEri kriti was just amazing. the AlApanai of bahudAri was quite exhaustive with some really inspirational patters. the neraval svarams were nice also. rAmapriyA AlApanai was moving. AndALi was good as well.

The main course gamakakriyA was presented well. the AlApanai and tAnam were nice. The kriti was rendered well. neraval and svarams were good as well. the post-main items made a nice round up for the concert.

Smt Kalpakam Swaminathan was her usual best. moving AlApanais, stunning kriti renditions and amazing svarams. She played ciTTai svarams in begaDa, suddha sAvEri, bahudAri and rAmapriyA kritis.

Smt Padma Shankar accompanied according to the needs of the occasion. Playing the high volume fiddle, for the low volume vINai must have been quite tricky. She lived up to the occasion and played very amicably. She provided excellent support to the main artist. Thanks to the mic men, the audio levels were set in a way that we could hear both the instruments. Sri Ramakrishnan was very good and his patterns were nice. however, his vadhyam played quite a few tricks. He chose to not play the tani after mInAkshi mE mudam dEhi.