Thursday, December 8, 2011

59th Sawai: Dr. M. Balamuralikrishna

Sangat:
Violin: P. V. Raghavendra Rao
Mridangam: Tiruvaru Vaidyanathan
Vocal support: Viraraghavan

Panditji started the performance with his own composition in raga Mahati - mahaniya madhur murti - set to Aditala.

The next piece was again his own composition in raga Arabhi - sakal ganadhish mahaganesh - set to Adital.
After this Panditji sang raga Lavangi (S r M P d S - S d P M r S). The alaps were sung elaborately. This was followed by a composition - omkarakarini madahamkarharini set to Adital. The saragam based jugalbandi with violin and mridangam was remarkable.

The next piece was a composition - madhuram gayati vanamali. This was followed by a tillana in the same raga set to Aditala. The tillana phrases with mridangam bols and sargam were quite interesting.

The next piece was a composition - hanuma ho manama. Panditji mentioned that the speciality of this song was that all occurances of letter ma in the lyrics were set to the note ma.

All sangatkars provided excellent sangat. Their solo pieces also were very well played.

Everytime I hear Panditji I am always amazed by his silky smooth yet powerful and extremely tuneful voice with a range of full three octaves.

Amazing performance by a great master!

- Bansuriwala

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