Ramakrishnan Murthy, Sravanam

Ramakrishnan Murthy - Nagai Sriram - Trivandrum Balaji

Sravanam, TTD Centre
13th August 2008. 6 pm


pic courtesy: Trivandrum Sri Balaji

viribhONi ninnEkOri - bhairavi - aTa - PA
abhimAnamen - bEgaDu - Adi - PSI (S)
nannu brOvu lalitA - lalitA - cApu - SS (R)
idi samayamu - nATakapriyA - rUpakam - MV (RNS)
sarasvati dayainidhi - sarasvati - Adi - PS (short sketch)
entuku peddalavalE - shankarAbaraNam - Adi - T (RNS)
tani
smarajanaka - bEhAg - rUpakam - ST
sAgara sayana vibhO - bhAgEsrI - Adi - MDR
smarasundarAnguni - paras - Adi - DS
nI nAma rUpamulaku - saurAshTram - Adi - T
suruTTi short sketch

As i was entering, the bhairavi varNam was towards finishing. The bEgaDa kriti was sung well with some interesting patterns in the svarams. The short lalitA AlApanai was good. The AlApanai of nATakapriyA was very good. The kriti and the manOdarma parts which followed were good as well. The main shankarAbaraNam AlApanai was elaborate and done very well. For some reason, it kept reminding me of Semmangudi mama. The kriti with neraval and svarams was good. The two jAvaLis were all good as well.

I had gone with high expectations to this concert. After his HCL concert at Academy, i was hoping he gets better, and he did. Sri Sriram on the violin and Sri Balaji on the mrudangam played very beautifully and in an encouraging fashion. The solo versions on the violin were all very good. The tani was nice as well.