Kannada Compositions in Carnatic Concerts

cienu · Post by **cienu** » 26 Apr 2009, 10:44

A great effort Cool

Look forward to this. As you said Ramkriya and LJI can help in identifying the composers, translations etc. You may also include the Vachanas of Basavanna (presuming that they have not been sung in the post tani part of the concert)

vs_manjunath · Post by **vs_manjunath** » 26 Apr 2009, 16:08

Coolji- Very Interesting Project. We eagerly wait for u'r U/Ls.

Sreeni Rajarao · Post by **Sreeni Rajarao** » 26 Apr 2009, 16:56

Kulkarni Sir!
I salute you for your service!
And,
a big THANK YOU!

Sreeni

Lakshman · Post by **Lakshman** » 26 Apr 2009, 18:33

shiva darsushana. rAgA: madhyamAvati/shuddhadhanyasi. Adi tALA. Composer: Purandaradasa.

P: shiva darushana namagAyitu kELE shivarAtriya jAgaraNe
A: pAtALa gangeya snAnava mADalu pAtakavella parihAravu
jyOti lingana dhyAnava mADalu dyUtagaLilla anudinavu
C: bEDida varagaLa koDuvanu tAyi brhmaNa rANiya nODuvanu ADuta pADuta vELaya basavana
Anandadali nalidADuvanu shikharava kaNDenu purandara viTTalana hari nArAyaNa dhyAnadale

Lakshman · Post by **Lakshman** » 26 Apr 2009, 18:33

Enu dhanyaLO lakumi. rAgA: tODi. aTa tALA. Composer: Purandaradasa.

P: Enu dhanyaLO lakumi enthA mAnyaLO sAnurAgadinda hariya tAne sEve mADutihaLu
C1: kOTi kOTi bhrtyariralu hATakAmbarana sEve sATiyillada pUjegaLanu dhATiyinda mADutihaLu
2: chatra cAmara vyajana pariyanka pAtra rUpadalli nintu citra caritanAda hariya nitya sEve mADutihaLu
3: sarva sthaLadi vyAptanAda sarva dOSa rahitanAda garuDa gamananAda purandara viTTalana sEvisuvaLu

Lakshman · Post by **Lakshman** » 26 Apr 2009, 18:36

varava koDu enage. rAgA: kalyANi/ranjani. jhampa/Adi tALA. Composer: Kanakadasa.

P: varava koDu enage vAgdEvi ninna caraNa kamalangaLa dayamADu dEvi
C1: shashi mukhada nasu nageya bAle eseva karNada muttina Ole
nasuva supalla guNashIlE dEvI bisajAkshi enna hridayadoLu nindu
2: ravi kOTi tEja prakAshE mahA kavijana hritkamala vAsE
avirala puri kAginele Adi kEshavana sutanige sannuta rAnivAsE

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 26 Apr 2009, 19:46

Bravo, Cool.
Rajesh certainly is a catalyst.

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 26 Apr 2009, 20:03

How I wish our DRS was with us here?
He would have flooded this thread with choice Kannada Kritis including his own!

srinivasrgvn · Post by **srinivasrgvn** » 26 Apr 2009, 20:44

I think it would be better if somebody could post the meanings of the above songs too. Let us learn/hear these beautiful compositions with their meanings.

srkris · Post by **srkris** » 26 Apr 2009, 23:40

http://www.mediafire.com/?0mmyg3qm0zt

This is a recording (bad quality) of "nA mADidha karma", in sahana (kannada song) by Chembai in a 1960s Bangalore Ramanavami. No idea of its composer, don't have the sahitya.

I have heard only this and a Krishna Nee Begane in the Kannada language from Chembai.

coolkarni · Post by **coolkarni** » 27 Apr 2009, 06:17

Ramaprasad · Post by **Ramaprasad** » 27 Apr 2009, 06:54

In a book titled "Purandhara Dasara Padagalu"

coolkarni · Post by **coolkarni** » 27 Apr 2009, 07:09

Ramaprasad · Post by **Ramaprasad** » 27 Apr 2009, 07:27

I have tried to transliterate the best way I can from the Kannada original

Naa Madidha Karma. Composition ascribed to Purandhara Dasa

P:
Naa Madidha Karma Balavantha Vaadare, Nee maduvadheno Deva ||

AP:
Saamaanya Vallidhu Brahma bharedha bharaha |
Nemadhindhali Enna Phaneyalli bhare dhudhake ||

C1:
Athithi galige anna kottavanalla para |
Sathiyara Sangagalige bittavanalla ||
Mathiheena Naanaagi Marulaagiddheno Deva |
Gathi yaavu dhinnu Garudagamana Krishna ||

C2:
Anna paanangalige agraganya naagi |
Snaana sandhyaadhi japa thapava neegi ||
Dhaanavaanthaka ninna dhyaanava maadadhe |
Shwaana nanthe mane mane thiruguthaliddhe ||

C3:
Innaadharoo ninna dhaasara sangavitthu |
Mannisi salahayya Manmatha janaka ||
Annya robbara kaane aadharisuvavarilla |
Pannaga shayana Shri Purandhara Vittala ||

svkashyap · Post by **svkashyap** » 27 Apr 2009, 09:28

Yesterday Ranjani & Gayatri sang a kannada song in ranjani. The song was kAdiruvevu nAvu rAma. It is special in 3 ways

1. Sung before tani with elaborate alapana, nerval and swaras.
2. It is composition in kannada but not a dasara pada (Generally all kannada songs tend to be)
3. It is composied by Smt. Ambuja Krishnan. (Female composer's kritis feature very rarely in a concert)

http://rasikas.org/forums/viewtopic.php? ... chool.html

They also sang Hari smaraNe mADo nirantara preceded by a ugabhoga in yamunakalyaNi.

vganesh · Post by **vganesh** » 27 Apr 2009, 09:37

CoolJi ..... Looking forward to uploads. Useful while travelling

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 27 Apr 2009, 10:15

kashyap,
It is kAdiruvenu nAnu. Sorry to be correcting you again, but I happened to be there with her when this song came to Ambujam Krishna.

girish_a · Post by **girish_a** » 27 Apr 2009, 11:10

Great work, Coolji! Looking forward to more. Felt very happy seeing this thread.

coolkarni · Post by **coolkarni** » 27 Apr 2009, 13:43

knandago2001 · Post by **knandago2001** » 27 Apr 2009, 22:43

thanks K'ji..

this is for Rajesh and Sreeni
Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer
http://www.mediafire.com/?zwmy0dqrt05

Doreswamy Iyengar
http://www.mediafire.com/?izliztownzw

Sreeni Rajarao · Post by **Sreeni Rajarao** » 28 Apr 2009, 07:08

Nandagopal,
Thanks!
Happy to see this thread growing!

Sreeni

coolkarni · Post by **coolkarni** » 28 Apr 2009, 07:10

gobilalitha · Post by **gobilalitha** » 28 Apr 2009, 07:52

coolji, YOU seem to be not only a jack of all trades and master of all .gobilalitha

coolkarni · Post by **coolkarni** » 28 Apr 2009, 08:24

svkashyap · Post by **svkashyap** » 28 Apr 2009, 10:06

arasi wrote:kashyap,
It is kAdiruvenu nAnu. Sorry to be correcting you again, but I happened to be there with her when this song came to Ambujam Krishna.

Arasi,

Thanks for the correction. But I'm sure they sang in plural.

Anyway, please elaborate the second point.

S.NAGESWARAN · Post by **S.NAGESWARAN** » 28 Apr 2009, 19:18

Sri Madhava Rao and the undersigned were very close friends for the past 5 decades and we used to attend innumerable concerts together. Sri Madhava Rao will visit me at my house at least twice a week. We will be listening to my music collections at least for 2 hours.

He is scholar in Kannada and other languages and he is a very good singer also.

One day I have requested Sri Madhava Rao to sing some Dasar krithis and explain the meaning of the songs also.

As you all know that Smt.MLV has propagated lot of Dasar krithis. They were sung in the traditional Carnatic music ragas.

Sri Madhava Rao knows many of the traditional Dasar krithis. He devotes more time on tuning of many Dasar krithis which were not sung till now and compose the songs in more neo ragas such as Durga, Pahadi, Desh, Navarasakannada, Jonpuri etc.

I am giving the download links for a few songs sung by Sri Madhava Rao and giving the meaning of the songs.

Download links.

http://rapidshare.com/files/226668220/0 ... _.mp3.html
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http://rapidshare.com/files/226663151/0 ... _.mp3.html
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http://rapidshare.com/files/226670339/0 ... _.mp3.html
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http://rapidshare.com/files/226670954/0 ... _.mp3.html
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http://rapidshare.com/files/226674384/0 ... _.mp3.html
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http://rapidshare.com/files/226676858/0 ... _.mp3.html
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http://rapidshare.com/files/226680054/0 ... _.mp3.html
MD5: 2D197AE0C860F924B1E86FF4238ACFA2

http://rapidshare.com/files/226681356/0 ... _.mp3.html
MD5: 0BD4D4E9689C6A7B81B0C7E802811766

http://rapidshare.com/files/226684187/0 ... _.mp3.html
MD5: 6768C24CA7AAAA7949A2039FC8AD10D4

http://rapidshare.com/files/226687462/1 ... r.mp3.html
MD5: 454A643711B850E3B9EE52EBAE56E3A7

Kindly post your replies after listening to the songs.

S.NAGESWARAN.

Akshara · Post by **Akshara** » 29 Apr 2009, 07:22

Thanks Nageswaran for all those links. And MLV has indeed given a large space in her repertoire for the Dasara padagalu and made them popular in her own meticulous way with perfection in diction and soulfulness in rendering.

coolkarni · Post by **coolkarni** » 29 Apr 2009, 10:40

vs_manjunath · Post by **vs_manjunath** » 29 Apr 2009, 14:19

Mother of MLV (Smt Lalithangi ?) had authored a CM Book which contained many Dasara padagalu.
"rAma manthrava japiso( jonpuri)" was one song which i remember having seen in this book. rasikas possessing this book( Lakshmanji ?) may kindly give more details of the contents of this book.

vs_manjunath · Post by **vs_manjunath** » 29 Apr 2009, 14:25

chandra chUda shiva shankara(Ragamalika); dhaya mAdo ranga(Kalyani);krishna nI bEgane(Yamuna Kalyani); yAke nirdhaya nAdhe Yo hari ye;venkatA chala nilayam & many more were all master pieces of MLV.

Akshara · Post by **Akshara** » 29 Apr 2009, 19:29

You will be adding another lovely name from TN, to this , at the end of this series

larger repertoire .... clearer diction ....

Coolji...couldnt help smiling at your presumptions. Yes, being a kannadiga, Dasa is close to my heart and the mind naturally tends to follow the path where there is perfection. But I refuse to be baited

though I still hanker after diction. It's terrible to hear the lovely lyrics otherwise. Manjunath has mentioned the gems...chandra chuda is steeped in bhakti and soulful lyrics..yes I know coolji...there I go again.May be I will come up half way to your bait...I did mention elsewhere that I had been to a performance in Toronto and at the end it only iterates that the bhakti and sway that makes the singing linger, is somewhere far more permanent than the grammar and technique we nail it for - though not for a moment am I discounting the absolute importance of these elements in the rendering.

Lakshman · Post by **Lakshman** » 29 Apr 2009, 20:44

List of songs in the book "Purandara manimala"

coolkarni · Post by **coolkarni** » 29 Apr 2009, 21:17

S.NAGESWARAN · Post by **S.NAGESWARAN** » 30 Apr 2009, 01:52

Regarding post No.29,

I Would like to request the Rasikas to download the links given and enjoy the Dasar krithis.For each krithi due explanation of the meaning of the songsi n Tamil were given by Sri Madhava Rao.

Kindly post your views after listening to the songs.

S.NAGESWARAN.

S.NAGESWARAN · Post by **S.NAGESWARAN** » 30 Apr 2009, 02:11

Sri Madhava Rao gave a concert at Raga Sudha Hall in which he had sung only Dasar krithis.

Sri Madhava Rao gave an introductory talk on Dasar krithis which was very informative.

At the end of the concert, Late Sri S.V.Krishnan, Founder of the Raga Sudha gave a valedictory speech which was also very informative.

The down load link for the above two speeches are given below.

1. http://rapidshare.com/files/227258797/0 ... h.mp3.html

2. http://rapidshare.com/files/227262478/1 ... _.mp3.html

S.NAGESWARAN.

S.NAGESWARAN · Post by **S.NAGESWARAN** » 30 Apr 2009, 02:19

"Thoo Matha Jaganmatha-Chalakabairavi-Abang by Sri Madhvamuneeswarar-Sung by Sri G.S.MANI."

Akshara · Post by **Akshara** » 30 Apr 2009, 06:48

coolkarni wrote:Akhasra
I was only hinting at renderings by TR Subramaniam.
He is right up there with MLV in singing Kannada Krithis

Coolji - my sincere apologies for the misunderstanding of your comment.

Lakshman and Nageswaran, thanks for that wealth of information...truly mind boggling. Lakshman, any idea where one could lay hands on MLVs book? Nageswaran, the links downloaded were indeed a treasure trove - sorry am not knowledgeable enough to comment on the technicalities

S.NAGESWARAN · Post by **S.NAGESWARAN** » 30 Apr 2009, 08:01

Aksharaji, Thank you for your post No.40.

Leave alone the technicalities. If you were able to know the meaning of the kannada lyrics it is ok. But if you don't know Kannada and can understand Tamil, you can appreciate the meaning of the songs as explained by Sri Madhava Rao.

The Dasar krithi where in each line, one one Avatharam is included of the various avatharams [the Dasavatharam] was fine.

And the Balaleelaigal of Krishna was captured excellently by Various Dasars.

In the Raga Sudha concert, the introductory speech by Sri Madhava Rao, wealth of informations was given.

Did you enjoy the Dasar krithis which were tuned in the neo Ragams by Sri Madhava Rao.

S.NAGESWARAN.

coolkarni · Post by **coolkarni** » 30 Apr 2009, 08:39

coolkarni · Post by **coolkarni** » 30 Apr 2009, 10:49

S.NAGESWARAN · Post by **S.NAGESWARAN** » 30 Apr 2009, 13:32

Regarding post No. 39,

Coolji, excuse me for posting the Abhang in this thread. Being a kannada lyric, by oversite I have posted it in this thread.

This posting may be delated from this thread.

I have already posted this Abhang in the Bhakthi heading[ under request from a Rasika]

S.NAGESWARAN..

Akshara · Post by **Akshara** » 01 May 2009, 20:26

S.NAGESWARAN wrote:
In the Raga Sudha concert, the introductory speech by Sri Madhava Rao, wealth of informations was given.

Did you enjoy the Dasar krithis which were tuned in the neo Ragams by Sri Madhava Rao.

S.NAGESWARAN.

Nageswaran, I completely enjoyed every aspect of it - I am familiar with the language - I speak it. This only goes to show that there is a wealth to be explored, worked upon, innovated and rendered...many steps beyond the familiar realms. Am sure one of our senior musicians will do a second phase of rejuvenation....Many thanks for checking and enquiring on our understanding.

ramakriya · Post by **ramakriya** » 01 May 2009, 21:31

cienu wrote:A great effort Cool Look forward to this. As you said Ramkriya and LJI can help in identifying the composers, translations etc. You may also include the Vachanas of Basavanna (presuming that they have not been sung in the post tani part of the concert)

Late entry to the thread

ramakriya · Post by **ramakriya** » 01 May 2009, 22:08

coolkarni wrote:
Enjoy this Ugabhoga -
Brilliant phase that goes...

Giliya Mariyannu Thandu Panjaradolage Poshisi.

the aptness of the raga-valaji- the dulcet handling words and then....
crossing over to a volcanic rumbling of Revathi .

Enjoy !!

Thanks

BTW this is a verse from KanakadAsa's Haribhakti Sara - and not an ugAbhOga.

-Ramakriya

knandago2001 · Post by **knandago2001** » 01 May 2009, 23:31

Nambikettavarilavo - Kalyani - Ariyakudi Ramanujam Iyengar & K.V. Narayanaswami (two separate renditions)
http://www.sangeethamshare.org/gvr/kalyani/

splendid niraval at garuda gamana...

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 02 May 2009, 01:25

svkashyap,
I did not see your post until now. Please send me an E-mail through the forum and I will answer your question.

coolkarni · Post by **coolkarni** » 02 May 2009, 07:15