Venue: Satguru Gnanananda Hall, Narada Gana Sabha, TTK Road, Chennai

Date: 25th Jan 2007

Festival: Muthamizh Peravai’s 31st Music Festival

Vocal: Sri Sanjay Subrahmanyan

Violin: Sri S. Varadarajan

Mrudangam: Sri Neyveli Venkatesh

Ghatam: Sri Trichy Murali

List of songs:

1) undan pAda (varnam) – shankarAbharaNam – kanDa aTa – madurai subramNya iyer (O)

2) chandiran oLiyil – malayamArutam – misra chApu – subramaNya bhArati (ONS)

3) aDuthAnai – yadukulakAmbOji – tisra tripuTa – tirunAvukkarasar (AS)

4) kA guhA shanmugA – kOsalam – rUpakam – kOTIswara iyer (ANS)

5) karuNAlaya nidhiyE – hindOLam – Adi – vEdanAyakam piLLai

6) thillai chidambaramE – kApinArAyaNi – Adi – mArimutha piLLai (O)

7) yArO ivar yArO – bhairavi – Adi – aruNAchala kavi (AST)

8 ) kunrin mIdhu ninru kanDEn (?) – khamAs – rUpakam – ?? (O)

9) batti mudalAm – rAgamAlikA (Ahiri, hamIrkalyANi & suruTTi) – misra chApu – vEdAnta dEsikan (O)

10) mAlOn maruganai (viruttam) – kAmbOji, sAvEri, bEgaDa, shanmukhapriyA, mOhanam & jOnpuri

      mAlAsai kObam – jOnpuri – Adi – aruNagirinAthar

11) vAzhiya senthamizh – madyamAvati – Adi – subramaNya bhArati

(Key: O=raga outline, A=raga alapana, N=neraval, S=kalpana swaram, T=taniavartanam)

Sri Sanjay Subrahmanyan sang an interesting, exclusive Tamil compositions concert for Muthamil Peravai at the Narada Gana Sabha. He was at his usual best, delivering a quality performance once again, ably assisted by the accompanying artists. Everything about the concert was so good except for the fact that the auditorium folks had probably decided to give a feeling of the North Indian winter to Chennai folks assembled there. It was biting cold inside the auditorium, at least in the area where I was sitting.

Sri Neyveli Venkatesh and Sri Trichy Murali played a taniavartanam in Adi talam comprising chatusra and sankIrna nadais and a kuraippu in tisra nadai.