S.Sowmya , Indiranagar Sangeetha Sabha 9th July 2011

vocal : S.Sowmya

Violin : Nalina mohan

Mrudangam : Neyveli Narayanan

Ganjira : K V Gopalakrishnan

Songlist:

(likely to have missed the varnam)

02  tulasi dalamulache – mAyAmALava gauLa – Thyagaraja ( N,S)

        neraval & swara @ ‘sAkEtapura vasuni srI rAmuni’

03  ranjani niranjani – ranjani – G N B ( A,N,S )

        neraval & swara @ ‘ kanchadala lOchani kAmAkshi’

04  annapUrNE viSAlAkshi – SyAma – Dikshitar

05  ODi bArayya vaikuNThapati ninna  - bhairavi – Purandara Dasa ( A,N,S )

         neraval & Swara @ ‘ nODi muddADi mAttADi santOSa kUDi’

06  mA kELarA – ravi chandrika – Thyagaraja

07  dEvi brOva samayamidE – chintAmani – Shyama Shastri

08  RTP – SankarAbharaNam – khanda triputa 2 kaLai ( one beat after samam)

        pallavi line : rAjamAtangi pAvani paripUraNi ratnabhUshaNi manOnmaNi’

        ragamalika swaras in behag, rEvati , ———, surutti , Sankarabharanam

08b   tani Avartanam

09  kAdalennum tIvinilE radhE radhE – khamAs ?? -  Subramanya Bharati ?

10  ADum chidambaramO – behAg- Gopalakrishna Bharati

11  thillAna ( nadru dru tom dru ) – ?? – BMK ??

12 mangaLam – saurAshtram

Expecting the concert to start at 6:00pm, I reached by 5:45. By then the concert had already started and I presume, she had sung a varnam. We seated as she was starting mayamalavagaula. The first thing I noticed was the evident strain in her voice. This continued till the end, by on the whole she managed it very well.  Tulasi dala mulache had neraval and swara ( neraval at saketapuravasuni was interesting). The first alapana case at ranjani and I thought this was better of the rest in terms of alapana, despite a power interruption in the middle. GNB krithi was sung well with neraval at kanchadala lochani with nice set of swaram.

After the filler , she started a detailed alapana in bhairavi. The beginning and the initial stages were very good, but I thought it lost the steam in the middle. Having said that, the surprice choice of Purandara Dasa krithi was a welcome change and she did a good neraval and swara for the main piece of the day.

Pallavi was in the offing, since she did not give time for a tani avartanam after bhairavi. A couple of kritis, chintamani kriti to cover all the trinities, and a fast paced mA kELara wasnt really necessary. Sankarabharanam alapana also started beautifully, and was decent.  But, the tanam was superb and was acknowledged by the applauses from the audience ( this probably was the only occasion where the audience reacted in the middle). Pallavi with theusual trikalam was done well. Ragamalika swarams came in a continuous one take form, with no separate violin reply. 

Neyveli Narayanan and KV Gopalakrishna did a good tani, shortish though. They were very impressive through out and showed a lot of coordination and understanding. Nalina Mohan was adequate, and I particularly liked her return swara singing for the bhairavi.

Post main had a couple of tamil kritis and a thillana. Overall a good concert with some good selection of krithis.

 

S.Sowmya , Nadasurabhi Music Festival , 24 Nov 2010

Vocal : S.Sowmya

Violin : Mysore Srikanth

Mrudangam : Anoor Ananthakrishna Sharma

Ghatam : Sukanya Ramgopal

Song list ( partial) :

( I assume, I missed the first 3)

03  rAmA nI samAnamevvaru – kharaharapriya – Thyagaraja ( A,N,S)

neraval & swara @ ‘ paluka palukulaku tEnelOluku mATalADu’

04  rAma rAma rAma rAma, rAmA ennirO – vasantha – Purandara Dasa

05  pArvathi ninnu nE – kalgaDa – Shyama Shastri

06  SrI venkaTa girISam – surutti – Dikshitar ( A )

07  intha prabbhuva kAnenO – mOhanam – Vijaya Vittala Dasa

08  mInAkshi mEmudam dEhi – gamaka kriya – Dikshitar ( A,N,S,T )

neraval & swara @ ‘ madumadamOdita hRdayE sadayE mahAdEva sundarESapriyE’

09  bAgilanu theredu  – rEvathi – Kanaka Dasa

10  thIrAtha viLayAttu piLLai – rAgamAlika -  Subramanya Bharathi

11  mangaLam – saurAshtram – Thyagaraja

I reached the venue during the kharaharapriya alapana. Rama Ni Samana was good with detailed neraval and swaras.. For once, I thought this was the main and I reached late. After a couple of small krithis, surutti alapana started. While I wasn’t greatly impressed, the krithi was rendered very well.  Dikshitar’s master piece Minakshi mEmudam was the main piece of the day. I thought the alapana was brilliant so was the neraval.

Anoor Ananthakrishna Sharma was very good through out and so was the rather short tani avartanam. Post main included a Kanakadasa krithi, makring respect to the poet on his birthday.