Kalpakam Swaminathan, Saraswathi Vaggeyyakkara Trust

Smt. Kalpakam Swaminathan - Veenai
Smt. Janaki Srinivasan - Veenai Support
Sri M R Gopinath - Fiddle
Thanjavur Sri R Kumar - Mrudangam

Saraswathi Vaggeyakkara Trust
Vadhya Lahari Series
NGS Mini Hall. 24 June 10. 6:30 pm

sAmi daya jUDa - kEdAragauLa - Adi
srI mahA gaNapati - gauLa - misra cApu - MD
kAmAkshI - bhairavi - misra cApu - SS (sketch)
sankari nIvE - begaDa - rUpakam - Subbaraya Sastri (RNS)
paripAlaya mAm kOdaNDapANE - darbAr - misra cApu - T (RS)
vara nArada - vijaya srI - Adi - T
brOcEvArevarurA - khamAs - Adi - MV (short sketch)
marivEre dikkevarayya rAmA - shanmukhapriyA - Adi - PSI (RNS)
tani
charaNu charaNu - senjuruTTi - rUpakam - Anai Ayya
rAmacandra prabhU - sindhubhairavi - Adi - ST
tillAnA - paras - Adi - RSI
vAzhiya senthamizh - madhyamAvati

It was a wonderful concert. The pieces chosen were interesting and it was an interesting combination of rAgams, composers, tALams. Each piece was rendered with a lot of bhavam and traditional ferver. The manOdarmam was wonderfully displayed as well. All the AlApanais were shared by the two vainikas, to be followed by the violinst. All the neraval and svarams were exchanged by the three of them.

Smt. Kalpakam Swaminathan's presentations were a class above and had many traditional phrases that were rendered with the appropriate stresses, that they demand. The kritis were all rendered with beautiful sangatis and fitting manOdarmam parts.

Smt. Janaki Srinivasan did a good job in accompanying her guru and supported her ably. Her presentations were neat. She also played a rAgamAlikA tAnam in sahAnA, aTANA and srI during the main tAnam.

Sri Gopinath followed the main artist like a shadow and did very good in his replies. Sri Kumar played with very good anticipation and in accordance to the krits. His short tani was nice as well.