Vidya Kalyanaraman, Nadopasana

Vidya Kalyanaraman - B Anantakrishnan - Nellai Balaji

Nadopasana
Raga Sudha Hall
3 March 10. 6:30 pm

sadA pAla rUpApi - slOkam in sahAnA
karuNimpa idi - sahAnA - Adi - VK
teliyalEru rAmA - dhEnukA - Adi - T
anudinamunu - bEgaDa - rUpakam - PSI (RNS)
enraikku sivakrupai - mukhAri - misra cApu - NS (R)
kamalAptakula - brindAvana sArangA - Adi - T
mInAkshI mE mudam - gamakakriyA - Adi - MD (RNST)

It was a good concert. The bEgaDa was presented well. The mukhAri AlApanai was nice as well. However, I would prefered a more peppy song between the varNam and dhEnukA to make it a better punchy start for the concert. The accompanists were good as well.

Vidya Kalyanaraman, Music Club IIT Madras

Vidya Kalyanaraman - Bombay Anand - Kumbakonam Swaminathan

Music Club IIT Madras
7 Jan 09. 6:45 pm

sadA bAla rUpApi - slOkam in nATTai
jaya jaya jaya jAnakI kAntha - nATTai - kaNDa cApu - PD (S)
srI lakshmI varAham - AbhOgi - Adi - MD (short sketch)
dEva dEva jagadIsvara - pUrvikalyANi - Adi - ST (NS)
cittam irangAdEnayyA - sahAnA - misra cApu - PS (R)
trilOka mAtA - paras - Adi - SS
bhakti biccamiyyavE - shankarAbaraNam - rUpakam - T (RS)
brOva samayamidE - gauri manOhari - ADi - GPV
RTP - varALi, mOhanam - kaNDa tripuTa (2 kaLai) 1/4 eDuppu, 4 akshara aridi
ambigai jagadambigai varALidO - mOhana punnagai purindu -
tani
paravasamAyanurA - nAdanAmakriyA - Adi - WVB
UrilEn kANi illai - pAsuram in sindhu bhairavi, hamsAnandi
tillAnA - hamsAnandi - Adi - Srimushnam Raja Rao
nI nAma rUpamulaku - saurAshTram - Adi - T
sriyatkAntAya - madhyamAvati

It was a very good concert. All pieces were exceptionally well handled. Each kriti rendition was weighty and crisp. All the rAga AlApanais were beautifully handled touching all the essential phrases and adding all the essentialities to make it very appealing. The neraval and svarams were well done too. The pallavi, set in different rAgams for the pUrvAngam and uttarAngam, was rendered quite elaborately and with trikAlam and tisram. The accompanists did a wonderful job in accompanying the main artist. They gave fitting patterns during accompanying and during their solo versions.

Vidya Kalyanaraman, Vani Mahal

Vidya Kalyanaraman - M Rajiv - Rajna Swaminathan

Vani Mahal
16 Dec 08. 2:15 pm

I entered as she was singing amma rAvammA and followed it up with good round of neraval and svarams. nATTakuranji was elaborated well, ekkAlatilum followed and was good. A quick bOgIndra sAyinam, led to the main 'ninnE nammi nAnu'. The AlApanai was elaborate and neraval, svarams were good also. The concert ended with a short viruttam and eppO varuvArO. She has good grip over kalpitam and manOdarmam. Accompanists were very good as well.