Venue: Satguru Gnanananda Hall, Narada Gana Sabha, TTK Road, Chennai
Date: 01 Jan 2007
Organizer: Narada Gana Sabha
Vocal: Sri T.N.S. Krishna (TNSK)
Violin: Sri Mysore V. Srikanth
Mridangam: Sri B. Ganapatiraman
Khanjira: Sri K.V. Gopalakrishnan
List of songs:
1) Era nApai (varnam) – tODi – Adi – paTTaNam subramaNya iyer (AS)
2) brOvabAramA – bahudAri – Adi – thyAgarAja (S)
3) apparAma bhakti – pantuvarALi – rUpakam – thyAgarAja (ANS)
4) ranganAyakam – nAyaki – Adi – muthuswAmi dIkshitar
5) rAgam tAnam pallavi – AbhOgi -kanDa tripuTa (2 kaLai)
pallavi wordings: “oru daram shiva chidambaram enruraithAl pOdumA, anudinamum. orE”
6) nirupamAna – behAg – rUpakam – rAmanAtapuram srInivAsa iyengAr
7) tOm tridAni tadara tAni (tillAnA) – chadrakauns – Adi (tisra gati) – t.n.sEshagOpAlan (O)
(Key: O=raga outline, A=raga alapana, N=neraval, S=kalpana swaram, T=taniavartanam)
This was my second concert of the new year day and a cracker of a concert it was !! Everything in it was so nice, be it the bahudAri kalpana swarams, the pantuvarALi alapana, the moving rentition of “ranganAyakam”, the AbhOgi alapana or the pallavi that followed. Sri Mysore V. Srikanth followed TNSK very well. Sri B. Ganapatiraman and Sri K.V. Gopalakrishnan provided very soothing accompaniment for the songs playing with a lot of sowkhyam.
The audio in the hall was very poor in the beginning but it improved later towards the end of the second song.
Ramkumar R 