Chettinad Vidhyashram, RA Puram, Chennai
14 Dec 2008
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Sri T M Krishna - Vocal
Sri R K Sriramkumar - Violin
Sri K Arun Prakash - Mridangam
Sri Giridhar Utupa - Ghatam
Theme : Mummoorthigal
01 sri naadadi guruguho - mAyamAlava gowlai - Adi - Sri Muthuswamy Dikshitar N S
02 thalli ninnu nera - kalyAni - misra chApu - Sri Shyama Sastri - N
03 sri nilothpala nayike jagadambike - nAri rEthigowlai - rupakam(2) - Sri Muthuswamy
Dikshitar R
04 koniyAde - kokiladhwani - Adi - St. Thyagaraja
05 intha sowkya - kApi - Adi(2) - St. Thyagaraja R S
06 thani Avarthanam
07 mAyamma - Ahiri - Adi(2) - Sri Shyama Sastri N
08 nArayana hari - yamunA kalyAni - Adi - St. Thyagaraja
09 mAmava pattAbi - mani rangu - misra chApu - Sri Muthuswamy Dikshitar
10 mangalam
Quite an interesting and enjoyable concert. I heard for the first time the ragam Nari
Reethigowlai. Krishna, after a wonderful alapana took some time to explain about the
ragam. The 20th melakartha has Nari Reethigowlai in the Dikshitar way of
classification and Natabhairavi in the Venkitamahi's system. Interestingly the kriti itself
has "nata bhairavi" mentioed in it which indicates that Dikshitar was well aware of the
other classifciation system.
The concert was ably supported by Sriramkumar, Arun Prakash and Giridhar Udupa.
The thani was played nicely in a manner to suit the kriti's kalapramaanam.
Request someone to provide additional details and corrections to my observations, if
any.