Padma Shankar, Nada Sudha

Padma Shankar - Vocal
Aarthi Shankar - Fiddle
Thillaisthanam Suryanarayanan - Mrudangam

Nadha Sudha, Ganapathi Sacchidananda Ashram, Velachery
9 Jan 10. 5 pm

nAdasvarUpiNi - nIlAmbari - Adi - LGJ [varNam] (short sketch)
srIman nArAyaNa - bauLi - Adi - A
mahita pravrudda srImati - kAmbhOji - tisra tripuTa - T (short sketch)
AnandAmrutakarshiNi - amrutavarshiNi - Adi - MD
sabhApatikku - AbhOgi - rUpakam - GKB (RS)
ten madurai vAzh - hamsarUpiNi - Adi - LGJ
EtAvunarA - kalyANi - Adi - T (RNST)
jagadhOdhAraNa - kApi - Adi - PD

It was a good concert. It was pretty interesting to hear the popular violinst sing. She has a good voice and gave a pretty interesting concert with some rare kritis. They were presented well. The songs and the manOdarmam were good and had a strong punch of her lineage. The accompanists were good too.

Vittal Ramamurthy & Padma Shankar - Fiddle Duet, Krishna Gana Sabha

Vittal Ramamurthy & Padma Shankar - Neyveli Narayanan - Udupi Sridhar

Krishna Gana Sabha
27 Dec 08. 2 pm

marivErE - latAngi - kaNDa cApu - PSI (RS)
akhilANDEsvarIm - dvijAvanti - Adi - MD (RS)
amba vANi nannu - kIravANi - Adi - HMB (N)
mahita praviddha - kAmbhOji - tisra tripuTa - T (RST)
mAnasa sanchararE - sAmA - Adi - Sadasiva Brahmendrar
kAkkai siraginilE - rAgamAlikA - Adi -Bharathiyar
jagaddOdhAraNa - kApi - Adi - PD
tillAnA - sindhubhairavi - Adi - LGJ

It was a good concert. Thanks to all the one-way restrictions and the flyover work in T Nagar, i reached late. Smt. Padma played latAngi AlApanai. Sri Ramamurthy elaborated dvijAvanti, while they shared kAmbhOji. The svarams and neraval were all shared. It was a good concert. They both played with a lot of understanding and there was a good unison. All kritis were well rendered and the accompanists were good as well.