TNS for Brahma Gana Sabha at Petachi Auditorium » 06 Dec 2011 17:28

Sri.T.N.Seshagopalan
Mridangam - K.Ramesh
Violin- VV Ravi
Ghatam A.S.Murari


1)....Singing Ritigowla Swaram. Could not get the song/varNam.

2) Vinayaka - Hamsadhwani - Vennna Kuppaiyar - Hamsadwani- Adi
Swaram in "Paramakrupa sAgara"

3) Raag-Pantuvarali followed by "rAmanAtham bhajeham"- Muthuswamy Dikshitar. Actually, it is kasi ramakriya in Dikshitar term and he took
neraval in "kumAra guruguha viditam". This was in praise of rAmeswaram rAmanAtha swAmy.

4) Raag- kannada followed by "SonnAlum iyal manam kelAdhe" - "must be Oothukkadu"

5) sArasadala nayane - Saramathi- HMB.

6) Raag- Guharanjani followed by "Ikanethala" by HMB

7) Todi main followed by "Enduku dayarAduda"- Thyagarajar

Tani

9) vandu seruvar - sahana - kavi kunjara bharati.

10) "hE dayaluvA, hE krupaluvA - Prarthana abhang.

11) Oru pozhuthum- chakravAham- Tiruppugazh - Arunagirinathar.

12) pavamAna followed by "shriyak kAnthaya....srinivAsAya mangalam...."

It was Day 2 in BGS. Venue- Petachi Auditorium. BGS along with evergreen "nalli" conferred "gAna padhmam' on
Sri.Nagai muralidharan. TNS was in very good form and perfect sruit alignment, he gave a stellar performance.
It was almost 3 hours concert and he was energy personified. Just to mention, after he completed the pavamAna
and in the middle of shriyak kanthaya, he gave a 3 minutes madhyamAvathi raga alapana which showed the energy
this veteran has had.

Given a change he would have rendered RTP on that.

The venue was surprisingly half-full despite being Sunday. I was listening kannadA raaga after a long time

Guharanjani, as TNS explained is of 40% kuntalavarAli, 20% Harikambodhi and in daivatham, it touches nAttakurinji.
Interestingly, after TNS finished guharanjani and waiting for return from VVR, the latter could not get the rAga
correctly and after 30 seconds stopped and asked TNS to start the kriti...!!

Todi, home ground of TNS, saw some breathtaking "pudis" and VV Ravi's return was also equally good.

Tani was very well done by the duo.