Malladi Brothers at Tatvaloka on 13th Dec 2011

Singapore Indian fine arts on 13th December 2011.

Mannargudi Eswaran
M.A.Sundaresan
Trichy Murali

Saint Thyagaraja in His kriti "etla dorakitivo" says -

pAda balamO peddalASeervAda
balamO suswarapu
nAda phalamO ....

it means

"Is it because of the might of Your holy feet? or is it because of the strength of blessings of elders?
or is it because of the result of (my Upasana of) Nada of melodious Svara "

Malladi brothers, undoubtedly, has all the three. Another brilliant concert by MBs. Almost 3 hours concert with RTP
despite the fact that the next day, they have a concert at vAni mahAl. It is the second concert of the December
season for them,

Singapore cultural association has conducted this programme at Tatvaloka, Eldams road. Yesterday was the last day of the
programme. This sabha had some excellant concerts like sashank, Gurucharan which I could not attend.

You will not stop appreciating that they planned at pallavi on the stage, rendered Spencer venugopal kriti and also sAranga
kriti in knowing that it is Singapore sabha and
Singapore is famous for Murugan temple. So, they had the pallavi as sinhapuri murugane, sivan magane, guhane"

Full crowd, being a small hall with less number of chairs, few of the old people were listening by just standing. Most of the
crowd remained till mangalam and gave a standing ovation.

jalajAksha- asAveri varnam - Lalgudi G Jayaraman

sri Raghuvara suguNaalayA - Bairavi -Thyagaraja and swaram in "the same line"

vasantA rAgam followed by eTlaa dorakitivO -ThyagarAja- Neraval in "pAda mahimo beddlar sri" and swaram.

DevagAndari rAgam followed by "Sri kAmakshi srilarAja tanaye sadAnanda hrudaye" -spencer venugopal. Spencer Venugopal
was present in the concert.

arunAchala natham - sAranga -Dikshitar.

Detailed MayAmAlava gowlai- vidulaku mrokkeda, mayAmALava gaula, Adi, Tyagaraja.

Ananda bairavi-RTP-Pallvi in "Sinhapuri murugane, sivan magane, guhane"- kalyAni, mohAnam, -Kanta jAti triputa talam tisra
nadai.

karpagAmbikai-Bilahari-Sivan.

sarvam brahmamayam-maduvanthi-Sadhasiva brahmendera.

Adi deva paramAtma - annamAcharya - Sindubhairavi

Mangalam.

asAveri set the mood of the conert. Mic system not co-operating for first 10 miuntes, they took a quick plunge into
bairavi and a flow of vasantha(m) started.

Rare kriti and neraval with the "punch" lines were poetic and then came Spencer's kriti. lAvanyam of kAmakshi was well
knit in the kriti. Initially, I thought it was Dikshitar kriti untill they announced the composer.

raag MM gowla as main was bit surprising. Traditionally, they take heavy weight rAgas as main. But sriram did full justice
in bringing the beauty of this rAga. Excellant rendition.

Anandha bairavi was short and on the spot pallavi in MLV style was praiseworthy

Sometimes. one has to take life as it comes. Coming Saturday, MBs are giving concert at Petachi with Trichy sankaran
EmbAr kannan and Dr.Karthik. Next day, 4.3o slot at MA with Varadarajan, Umayalpuram sivaraman Two concerts
at strategice places with great accompanists less than 24 hours time.

Excellant Tani. Violin is Ok. Somehow, Sundaresan could not play to his potential. He looked disinterested. He finished his
return quicker and only Ananda bhairavi saw some classics.

Also he was throwing his hand during tani with ohs, besh etc. I though he will hit ravikumar's nose.