Harmonium: Sudhir Nayak
Tanpura: Nilesh Pande and Sneha Deshpande
Taal (bells): Mauli Takalkar
Maheshji started his performance with raga Madhuvanti. After brief alap he sang bada khyal in vilambit Ektaal - e ho more sai kavan nagariya vasan tarap rahi dina raina. The ragavistaar was systematic and surel. Mahesh has a beautiful and tuneful voice which he uses very well for clear swara lagav. During the ragavistar the play around komal nisbad and introduction of shuddha nishad was quite interestingly done. I found the use of komal nishad to be quite liberal - in fact a bit more than shuddha nishad especially in madhya saptak. Boltaans based layakari was done beautifully. Taans were crisp, well planned, rigorously rehersed and very well executed. Bada khyal was followed by chhota khyal in madhyalaya Jhaptaal - shiv aaj balawant. This was followed by a tarana in drut Teentaal. Tarana was sung with a lot of power.
Mahesh continued his performance with what I think was Raga Din Ki Puriya (Puriya with komal dhaivat) - kaise nike lage in madhyalaya Jhaptaal.
Mahesh sang the popular abhang - abira gulala to conclude his performance.
Mahesh's clarity of pronounciation and attention to lyrics throughout the performance was quite remarkable.
Bharat Kamat and Sudhir Nayak provided very good tabla and harmonium sangat.
Overall an excellent performance by a very promising vocalist.
- Bansuriwala
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