Ranjani Hebbar, Nada Inbam

Ranjani Hebbar - Shertalai Sivakumar - B Ganapatiraman

Nada Inbam, Raga Sudha Hall
20 May 09. 6 pm

Era nApai - tODi - Adi - PSI
rAga sudhA rasa - AndhOLikA - Adi - T (short sketch, S)
shankari samkuru - sAvEri - tisra Adi - SS (RNS)
padavini sadbaktiyu - sALagabhairavi - Adi - T (S)
EtAvunarA - kalyANi - Adi - T (RNS)
tani
sAntAkAram bhujagasayanam - slokam in bAgEsrI
sAgara sayana vibhO - bAgEsrI - Adi - MDR

It was a very impressive concert by the young and upcoming vocalist. She has a good voice and shows great energy and stage presence. Her kriti renditions are very weighty and has the right azhuttam. Her manOdarmam is quite matured and has very good flavour of the rAgams.

The svarams of AndhOLika reminded me of MLV at some parts. The AlApanais of both sAvEri and kalyANI were very elaborate and done in a very chaste fashion. They were both unorthodox in they were started and eventually built up, and yet had all essential and classical phrases carefully interwoven to make them colourful and enjoyable. The kriti renditions were very good. The neraval and svarams for all the pieces (as mentioned in the post) were done in a very matured fashion.

The violinst was good in parts. He gave some good replies to the main artist. His sAvEri AlApanai was a tad too short. The mrudangist was very good and played with very good anticipation. His accompanying for all kritis and each sangati was very matching. The tani was very nice also.

I had to leave after the bAgEsrI piece.

Walk-in Concerts at The Hindu November Fest

Ranjani Hebbar & K Gayathri - Vocal
Bavani Prasad - Veenai
L Ramakrishnan - Fiddle
R Sankaranarayanan - Mrudangam

The Hindu Friday Review November Fest
Music Academy TT Krishnamachari Auditorium
19 Nov 08 5:15 pm

High Tide. Programme on Ghana Ragams

nATTai (Ragam - RH, LR and Tanam - BP)
gauLai (Ragam - KG, LR and Tanam - BP)
Arabhi (Ragam - LR and Tanam - RH, BP)
varALi (Ragam - LR and Tanam - KG, BP)
srI rAgam (short sketch - LR)

pallavi: 'endarO mahAnubhAvulu antariki vandanamulu' - Adi (2 kaLai) 1/2 eDuppu, 5 akshara aridi.

The pallavi was rendered with varying speeds. Svarams were first sung in srI rAgam and then in all the 5 rAgams eventually finishing in a kOrvai set in Arabhi, varALi and srI rAgam.

tani

iraNDAm gana rAgangaL - rItigauLa, nArAyaNagauLa, kEdAram, bauLi, nATTaikuranji - Adi - Suguna Purushottaman

The concert was good. The vocalists were both good in their own way. Ranjani's renditions were weightly and had some very beautiful phrases. Gayathri was banking more on the melody and voice modulations. Bhavani Prasad was very good and the veenai was handled very beautifully to give some divine music. Ramakrishnan was good and played well. Shankaranarayanan was very accomodative and played with good anticipation.

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V Sumithra & Nandita Ravi - Vocal
Akkarai Swarnalatha - Fiddle
B Ganapathiraman - Mrudangam

The Hindu Friday Review November Fest
Music Academy TT Krishnamachari Auditorium
19 Nov 08 6:30 pm

Deep See. Programme on Naya Ragams

nIsAti deivamendu - srIranjani - Adi (daru)
bhajarE rE citta - kalyANi - misra cApu - MD (RNS) [Sumithra]
taNigai vaLar - tODi - kaNDa cApu - PS (RNS) [Nandita]
peRRa tAi tanai maga marandAlum (viruttam) - sAvEri, sahAnA, shanmukhapriyA, suruTTi
tillAnA - suruTTi - Adi -MV

Both the vocalists were true to their styles and did full justice to their tradition and yet it gelled amazingly well. It was a treat to hear them both sing the first and last pieces together and the co-ordination during the viruttam was quite good also. In the individual parts, they were, needless-to-say, very good and quite weighty in rendering the kriti and with equally fitting AlApanai preceding and neraval, svarams to follow, it was indeed quite an evening. One only felt they could have sung a little longer. The accompanists were good and did well to play along for the songs.

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Sandeep Narayan - Vocal
B Vijaya Gopal - Flute
S J Arjun Ganesh - Mrudangam
Nerkunam S Sankar - Kanjira

The Hindu Friday Review November Fest
Music Academy TT Krishnamachari Auditorium
19 Nov 08 7:45 pm

Cascade. Programme on Desiya Ragams

rINamatanuta - bEhAg - Adi - ST
saundararAjam - brindAvana sArangA - rUpakam - MD
apadUru - khamAs jAvaLi - Pattabhiramayya

The bEhAg piece was rendered well. brindAvana sArangA was elaborated in hindustani style with both of them going phrase by phrase. I couldnt stay till the end.