Season 2012

I had a rather different season this time. Attended far few concerts this season than many previous years. And for some reason, forgot to write down songlists during some concerts and misplaced some of them sheets when I did write down. Originally one wasnt planning to make a post here and hence wasnt really keen on keeping lists, however, felt very bad for not being part of the group here and therefor, have a few full lists here and points/items from my memory for the others. 

After Seshampatti Sri Sivalingam's concert at BVB, one took a long hiatus.

Heard Smt. Nanditha Ravi's concert at Ragasudha Hall. A well presented concert representing one of the old traditions of classical music. One then attended concerts of Smt. Suguna Varadachari and Smt. Ritha Rajan at Ragasudha Hall on the 17th and 18th of December 2012. Both were great concerts. As usual with the great vidushis, they were concerts of pure  classical music out-and-out. Smt. Suguna's kalyani AlApanai and kAntimatim were both wonderful. The main of the evening, tuLasi bilva with neraval at karuNatO was so moving. Smt. Ritha's renditions of the shankarAbaraNam and bEgaDa padams (mAnamE bhUshaNamu and yAlapadarE) were both stunning and so was the nATTaikuranji jAvaLi (tArumAru). Earlier her suruTTi AlApanai and angArakam in the old-world-version in cauka kAlam were amazing.


Palkulangara Ambika Devi - Trivandrum Sampath - Syamakrishanan - Nerkunam Sankar
21 Dec 2012. Raga Sudha Hall

ninnujUchi - saurAshTram (S)
jaya jaya padmanAbha - manirangu
gAngEya vasana - hamIr kalyANi (R)
bhavathi viswasome - mukhAri - misra cApu - ST (RS)
pAlimparAvadElarA - Arabhi (R)
dEva dEva jagadIswara - pUrvikalyANi (RS)
ninnADa - kannaDa
ninne nammi nAnu - tODi (RNST)

It was a concert of a different kind. A music that touched heart and soul. A stirring hamIrkalyANi, touching mukhAri. An Arabhi that flowed like a pravAham with no frills. indeed a sublime tODi. kAmAkshi kanchadalAyadAkshi neraval left each of the 40-odd people in tears.


R Vedavalli - Dr R Hemalatha - K Arun Prakash - N Guruprasad
23 Dec 2012. Music Academy

srI rAjagOpAla - sAvEri (NS)
nEnendu vedakudurA - karnATaka behAg
brOvasamayamidE - gauri manOhari (R)
rAmAbhi rAmA - darbAr - misra cApu - T
nagumOmu - AbhEri - Adi - T (RNS)
srI abhayAmbhA - srI
nIvADa nEgAna - sArangA
RTP - kAmbhOji - kaNDa tripuTa (rAgamAlikA tAnam in varALi, rItigauLa)
ranganE tiruvaranganE unadu pAdam tuNai
OrilEn kANi illai - ragamAlikA pAsuram in shanmukhapriyA, sahAnA, sindhubhairavi, bhAgEsri
srikAnta engaishTu - bhAgEsri - Adi - PD

Was a classical concert. The grand beginning was so wonderful with srI rAjagOpAla. The gauri manOhari AlApanai was great. The classical AbhEri (that with suddha dhaivatam) was a grand affair with an elaborate AlApanai, neraval and svarams at 'jagamElE paramAtmA'. The kAmbhOji AlApanani was wonderful and the tAnam was very moving. It was a superb pallavi fitting the occasion of 'vaikunTa EkAdasi'



Heard Trichur brothers and Prasanna Venkataraman at Music Academy. Trichur brothers sang dAchukOvalEnA. Prasanna's lalitA was moving. Heard Aishwarya Vidya Raghunath at Kapali Fine Arts. She sang O jagadambA for submain and O rangasAyee for main. It was a well presented concert which ended with Ahiri padam. Sri T N Krishnan's concert at Raga Sudha began with kAmbhOji varnam. The teratIyagarAdhA was great. 'dinamani vamsa' and 'paridAnamicchidE' were played well as well. After listening to Smt. Vedavalli's kAmbhOji, Prasanna's harikAmbhOji and mOhanam and Aishwarya's kEdAragauLa (varNam) and kAmbhOji, TNK's kambhOji, harikAmbhOji and bilahari in quick succession, it was a long string of same and/or related ragams and one just couldnt sit anymore. I m told TNK played mohanam for main.



R Vedavalli - RK Shriram Kumar - K Arun Prakash - N Guru Prasad
25 Dec 2012 Raga sudha Hall

entarA nItanaku (NS)
subramaNyEna - suddha danyAsi
nIkEla nAyaDa - dEvamanOhari
EtAvuna nErchitivO - yadukula kAmbhOji (RS)
nenarunchi nAnu
EkAmbrEsa nAyaki - shanmukhapriyA - Adi - MD (RTNS)
rAgamAlikA tAnam in bEgaDa, varALi, rItigauLa
tani
srI guruguhamUrtE - udayaravicandrikA
OsOsi - mukhAri
mOdi jEsevElarA - khamAs
tillAnA - hamsAnandi

a grand concert. The yadukulakAmbhOji and shanmukhapriyA were both so moving and sublime.


Rama Ravi - RK Shriram Kumar - K Arun Prakash
28 Dec 2012, Raga sudha Hall

intha mODi - sArangA
vinarAdanA manavi
srI sukra bhagavantam
Ananda naTana prakAsam (RS)
brOvasamayamidE - gauri manOhari
kAmAkshi gauri - sAvEri - Adi - PS (RS)
krupajUchuDaku vElarA
dalachina vAru - danyAsi
pAlayamAm pArvatIsA - kannaDa
raksha bettarE - bhairavi (RNST)
tArumAru - nATTaikuranji
bAla vinavE - kAmbhOji
paripOvalarA - bilahari
dalachu koNTE - kuranji
dAsaratE  sri rAma - khamAs - Adi - BR
harismaranE mADO - yamuna kalyANi

A great concert. The kEdAram was wonderful fitting the occasion of 'ArudrA darisanam'. the vAra kriti was well presented. The sAvEri and bhairavi were both wonderful. dalachina vAru was moving. The kAmbhOji padam was superb and the kuranji padam was just out of the world was a really rare treat. A touching concert.


Thamarakkadu Govindan Namboodri's concert at Raga sudha hall was awesome. His mAkElarA was perfect and superb. The danyAsi Alapanai and mAyuranAtam were both so wondeful. The aTANA AlApanai and srI kumAra nagarAlayE were awesome. The main was mari mari ninnE left one spellbound. Indeed a great concert.
Thanks to bad health, that was the last concert for me this season.

Its my bad that i missed noting down concert lists and don't remember what was sung in many of them. Hope to have a better season next time. Hope floats!