Malladi Brothers, Music Club IIT Madras

Malladi Brothers - B U Ganesh Prasad - M L N Raju - Vaikkom Gopalakrishnan

Clasfest 2008. Music Club IIT Madras. Central Lecture Theatre.
9th August 2008. 5 pm.

chalamEla - darbAr - Adi - TT
parvatarAja kumAri - srI ranjani - Adi - MD (RS)
AragimpavE - tODi - rUpakam - T (NS)
adi kAdu bhajana - yadukula kAmbhOji - Adi - T (RS)
tani
paNipati sAyI - jhankAradvani - Adi - T (S)
RTP - shanmukhapriyA - tisra tripuTa (2 kaLai) 1/2 eDuppu. 3 aksharam aridi.
nIrajAkshi kAmAkshi nikhilalOka janani niranjani
rAgamAlika svarams in balahamsa, danyAsi, yAgapriyA, suddha sArangA, suruTTi
tani
rAmachandruDituDu - dvijAvanti - Adi - A
yeduTanunnADu vIDE - bhujangiNi - Adi - A
tillAnA - khamAs - Adi
patiki hAratI - suruTTi - Adi - T
Walajapet Venkataramana Bhagavathar's Guru Sthuthi verses sung in madhyamAvati.

It was a very nice concert. From the word go, the concert was full of classical pieces rendered with a traditional gait. The choice of kritis and rAgams was refreshingly different. It was quite an amazing thing to hear yadukula kAmbhOji taken up for the main kriti of the evening. The kritis were all rendered very well. The manOdarmam parts were quite good. Sri Sriram's srIranjani and yadukulakAmbhOji elaborations were very classical. Sri Ravikumar's shanmukhapriyA was very good as well. The brothers shared the other manOdarma parts. In the pallavi, Sri Shriram sang balahamsa, yAgapriyA and suruTTi while Sri Ravikumar sang danyAsi and suddha sArangA. It was over all a very fulfilling concert.

Sri Ganesh Prasad gave able support and played his part perfectly to match the music of the main artist. Sri Raju played very interesting patterns on his mridangam. His accompanying for kritis and the manOdarmam was very nice. He also played along for the tAnam which was quite interesting to hear. Sri Gopalakrishnan very wisely supported him. Both that tanis were very good.