Gayathri Venkatraghavan, Shanmukhapriya

Gayathri Venkatraghavan - V Sanjeev - B Ganapathiraman - K V Gopalakrishnan

Shanmukhapriya, Swamy's Hall.
26th August 2008. 6:30 pm

vigna rAja krupA sindhO - slOkam
Era nApai - tODi - Adi (short sketch)
pAhi srI patE - hamsadvani - Adi (S)
hariharaputram - vasantA - kaNDA Ekam - MD (RS)
vanajAsana vinutA - srI rAgam - vilOma misra cApu - Subbaraya Sastri (R)
kaNDEn kali tIrndEn - kalyANi - rUpakam - GKB (S)
mAnava kula bhUshaNa - hindOLam - misra jhampai - GNB (R)
entuku peddalavalE - shankarAbaraNam - Adi - T (RNST)

It was a nice concert. Began with a very invocative slOkam. The kritis were all very beautifully rendered. The manOdarmam was good as well. The accompanists were on par with the vocalist and made the concert all the more interesting. However, I couldn't stay till the end.

My pick of the concert was the extraordinary AlApanai of srI rAgam by Smt Gayathri and the stunning rendition of the kriti which followed.