Venue: Narada Gana Sabha Mini Hall, TTK Road, Chennai
Date: 02 Dec 2006
Organizer: Karthik Fine Arts
Vocal: Sri S.R. Veeraraghavan
Violin: Sri R. Ambika Prasad
Mridangam: Sri Erode Nagarajan
List of songs:
* vAtApi gaNapatim – hamsadwani – Adi – muthuswAmi dIkshitar (S)
* srI vaidyanAtham – atANA – Adi – muthuswAmi dIkshitar
* nAda sudhA – ArabhI – rUpakam – thyAgarAja (AS)
* venkaTa ramaNa – latAngi – rUpakam – pApanAsam sivan
* kANa kaN kODi – kAmbOji – Adi – pApanAsam sivan (ANST)
* kshaNamadunA – sumanEsa ranjani – Adi – jayadEva (O) (tuned by Sri Rajkumar Bharati)
* srIman nArAyaNa – bOwLi – Adi – annamAchArya
* piLLangOviya – mOhanam – Adi – purandaradAsa
* thillAna – behAg – Adi – m.bAlamuraLikrishnA
(Key: O=raga outline, A=raga alapana, N=neraval, S=kalpana swaram, T=taniavartanam)
Sri S.R. Veeraraghavan is Dr. M. Balamuralikrishna personified in everything (including attire). His song renditions, raga alapanas, kalpana swarams are all heavily influenced by Dr. BMK. I think he must be BMK’s student for sure.
Sri Ambika Prasad on the violin was very good at following the vocalist and did a very good job as an accompanist. Sri Erode Nagarajan was simply awesome. He is Sri Umayalpuram Sivaraman personified in his taniavartanams and while playing for songs.
Ramkumar R 