Voleti Venkateswarulu

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padren68
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Oh that one, it is a great concert and sply swara raga sudha

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hsuvarna wrote:This is he concert he has done in 1987 (karaikudi Mani and Lalgudi GJR krishnana).
One of the songs is GuruLeka which you can listen in Sampradaya (Ludwig's site).
It has 1) sarasiruhena (nattai varnam) guruleka(GowryManohari)
shiva-shiva(tygaraya pantuvarali) janani-nninu-ritigowla, shankarabhranam RTP
and a couple bhajans. I will enquire further whether I can publicly post it.
I have this with me, thanks

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Post by padren68 »

Voleti - GJR - Karaikudi Mani 1987
The location of the concert is Chittarangam, Chennai

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Post by humdinger »

Sri Padren68,
The kandarpajanka... that you shared was great. I have always heard sri balakrishnaprasad render it in this raga and was told that it was composed by Sri Voleti. Its great to hear this in his voice. thanks a lot.

one doubt though...you mentioned the ragam as kalavathi but the link says madhuvanthi. are they the same?
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padren68
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Post by padren68 »

Hi humdinger
My mistake while indexing:) It is kalavati.

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Post by humdinger »

my googled knowledge:
Sri Voleti tuned it in the hindustani Kalavati raaga. which is called Misra Valaji in karnataka sampradaaya. the Kalavati in Karnataka sampradaya is quite different.

is this true? how different is this misra valaji from valaji?

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Post by nhmenon »

any idea where I can download a varali by Sh.Voleti?

nhmenon@yahoo.com

hsuvarna
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Post by hsuvarna »

nhmenon wrote:any idea where I can download a varali by Sh.Voleti?

nhmenon@yahoo.com
I have downloaded that. I will email you that.

-harish

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Post by vijay »

Hi, hsuvarna could you also mail it to vijaysarma@hotmail.com

Thanks a Million!

Vijay

hsuvarna
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Post by hsuvarna »

I have posted to
http://www.rogepost.com/n/8015285874

It is 21MB. So email is not a good option.

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thanks hsuvarna! will download - hopefully tomorrow

coolkarni

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any idea where I can download a varali by Sh.Voleti?
From Here...

http://rapidshare.com/files/8342640/vv- ... mamiti.mp3

You will not find anybody accompanying him though.He seems to be singing for himself , all alone.:D:cool:

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Post by hsuvarna »

Thanks a lot for the great piece. Very very enjoyable.

coolkarni

Post by coolkarni »

Here are the other three in this soulful set .

http://rapidshare.com/files/8280213/vv- ... amaste.mp3
**brhadIshvarAya_namaste

http://rapidshare.com/files/8345280/vv- ... kumAri.mp3

**-himagiri_kumAri

http://rapidshare.com/files/8347039/vv- ... lakurA.mp3

** nannu_viDaci_kadalakurA.mp3

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Post by nhmenon »

unable to download from rogepost. Can you pl advice

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Can anyone tell me where I can download the bhairavi, Kharaharapriya and Durbar of Sh.Voleti. The quickdump download seems busy. Not working.
Menon

padren68
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Post by padren68 »

Mr. Menon
The rogepost link is pretty much active. Click on the link in this page which will open in a new page. In the bottom of that page u will find a d/l button. Let click on that and say save as and save it to your designated folder.
Hope this helps.

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Post by jayaram »

I tried rogepost too, but keep getting the following message:
Message: RogePost's downloads are undergoing
maintenance and will not be accessible in the next 2
hours. Please come back later.

This seems to be happening on a random basis, so hopefully we can download successfully some time!

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Clear Cache and delete temp internet files. This might help. I just now tried the link again and it works perfect.

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Post by hsuvarna »

Rogespost is a bit inconvenient for downloading. You will have to wait before you start your second download. But eventually you will be successfull. I could pull all the three on Friday. These are all as Coolkarni-ji said, Voleti's singing in a private meeting. No mridangam. No violin. I was delighted to listen his few words ("There is a kriti of Papanasam Sivan..." in vida-jalanu-ra). I never heard him speak other thann his songs. Hope Sri Padren68 or Coolcarni-ji have some lecdems.

Btw, TTD's old cassette Annamayya padahela, which is not available today, sung/composed by Sri Voleti . But one can listen to that casseete in http://www.tirumala.org/music1.htm . You have all annamayya songs here including some by Sri Nedunuri.

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How do u post a picture in this forum apart from u/l to a file share server

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padrenji

pl. check ur email

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A new album rel by Rajalakshmi Audio
https://celextel.com/stalwartsvoletiven ... -3071.html

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Post by nhmenon »

Padrenji

Looking forward to yr uploads of Sh Voletis concerts.
Regards

Narendran

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Post by murthyhmg »

I have posted an AIR of 3 kritis to www.sangeethapriya.org/~murthy - S.No.48. Akati Velala in Chakravakam has been repeatedly heard by me.

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Narendran
Will do it soon. I am kind of on the move now for the last 2 weeks. This weekend will do it +ve.

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The above picture is from the concert held at Sittarangam - Chennai (similar to Kalkshetra), accompanied by GJR and Karaikudi Mani

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Post by vijay »

It's a beautiful photo Padren, thanks a lot!

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Post by Radhakrishnan »

padren68 wrote:The above picture is from the concert held at Sittarangam - Chennai (similar to Kalkshetra), accompanied by GJR and Karaikudi Mani
It was built by Ludwig Pesch,mainly for conducting classical music and dance performanaces.The concerts used to be mikeless.
The tambura artist is late Ethirajulu sir,former instrument in charge, Kalakshetra.He was simply brilliant in tuning tambura and has put tambura for many great musicians like MS amma and Semmangudi sir.He was a good rasika also.

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Post by vijay »

Thanks for the additional details Radhakrishnan. It really is a haunting sight - the sweat-drenched Voleti in the limelight, lost in his music. The tambura artist, equally immersed, but visible only in profile (not unlike his instrument!)....the brick wall and the pensive rasika in the background...

I don't know if the effect was an accident but this photo is a masterpiece - any idea where it appeared? Also would you have a larger-sized image, Padren? I would like to print a blow-up.

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Post by Radhakrishnan »

This has to be Ludwig’s photograph ,it has that touch. Effect wasn’t ‘accidental’ he creates that mood with his B&W photographs,he takes the pictures with available light,not with flash(which gives flat pictures)and that style influenced people like me to take up photography.
You can see one more picture at his web site
http://home.planet.nl/~pesch082/htmlpag ... les02.html

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Post by padren68 »

It is very much Sri Ludwig's skill, no doubt. Infact the source for me was Ludwig and he has consented to share them. Here are couple more. The setting is absolutely brilliant and the concert too:)
Image
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Post by jayaram »

What wonderful pictures! He almost comes alive in these!

Just read a lovely write-up of him at the Sampurna site: http://home.planet.nl/~pesch082/htmlpag ... 10_VV.html
These excerpts are pure poetry:
"It is a curious fact that Voleti was more widely popular than his teacher. Perhaps it is because Pinakapani's music is like the sun whose intense brightness dazzles and scorches, while Voleti, like the moon, sheds a balmy effulgence".
And:
"Voleti was like the 'utsava vigraha (Utsavar)' of a temple-- the deity with burnished golden exterior, adorned with silk and jewels when taken in procession-- while Pinakapani is like the 'moola vigraha (moolavar)' in the sanctum-- sculpted in black stone: dark, mysterious and awesome".
Can we also get to listen to some of the great music of Shri Pinakapani-garu?

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i agree. These are lovely photographs!

Arun

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"Voleti was like the 'utsava vigraha (Utsavar)' of a temple-- the deity with burnished golden exterior, adorned with silk and jewels when taken in procession-- while Pinakapani is like the 'moola vigraha (moolavar)' in the sanctum-- sculpted in black stone: dark, mysterious and awesome".
Can we also get to listen to some of the great music of Shri Pinakapani-garu?
One can listen to Sri Pinakapani gaaru in http://www.raaga.com/channels/carnatic/ ... 00091.html

I have to salute the rasika who gave the raaga.com link. Another wonderful site for listening to great artists.

There are articles stating that the voice and singing of Sri SriPada and Sri Voleti sound similar. But I did not find them same at all or any nearness. On the other hand, I had to listen carefully to know whether it is Sri SriPada or Sri Nedunuri.

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Post by hsuvarna »

first lot of audios, now sonderful pictures. next is some vedio? Thanks a lot Sri Padren.
These pictures are so lively. Big thanks to Ludwig.

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Post by hsuvarna »

Any idea if Sri Voleti ever sang at MA?

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Post by nhmenon »

murthyhmg wrote:I have posted an AIR of 3 kritis to www.sangeethapriya.org/~murthy - S.No.48. Akati Velala in Chakravakam has been repeatedly heard by me.
Dear Murthy

The piece is in revathi and not Chakravakam.

Regards

Narendran

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Post by mridhangam »

the young sishya behind KM sir is Vittala Ramiah, presently working in AIR as staff artiste. In another thread there was a discussion abt no mike for mridangam. it is striking here too that there is no mike for mridangam. like the pic concert shud hv been ethereal too.
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Cool-ji, hope this is just a trailer of the full movie...

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I cannot believe this. I saw him singing. Great joy.
Sincere thanks to Sri Coolkarni from the deepest
part of heart.

I see Sri MSG playing violin and mridangam? Is it sri Kamalakar Rao? or Sri Dandamudi?
Who is playing tambura? looks like a DD clip.

-Harish

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Post by mahesh_narayan »

The mridangam artiste is Raghu Sir (I think I can safely trust my eyes on this one:). I cannot believe it either !!!! Had never heard this combo, now I have seen it.

Coolkarni Sir, many thanks for the video. Your database is very voluminous indeed !!!.

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Post by hsuvarna »

I cannot believe this. I saw him singing. Great joy.
Sincere thanks to Sri Coolkarni from the deepest
part of heart.

I see Sri MSG playing violin and mridangam? Is it sri Kamalakar Rao? or Sri Dandamudi?
Who is playing tambura? looks like a DD clip.

-Harish

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Post by jayaram »

Cool-garu, be prepared to get hugs from many others besides just me...:-)
"If there's heaven on earth, it is here, it is here"

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Post by rshankar »

mahesh_narayan wrote:Your database is very voluminous indeed !!!.
We call it 'akSayapAtram'.:D

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Jayaram Sir, I second you on the hugs:)
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