Whattey way to start the concert (Saranagatha vatsaley, Kadanakuthoohalam) by Sanjay yesterday evening at Koramangala.This is composed by his guru Calcutta Krishnamurthy. The Bangalore Season comes to an end with this concert before moving to Mecca of Music, Madras for the Magnus Opus December Season 2012. For me this is a special concert since he sung finally my request of long time "Sree Lakshmi Varaham Bhajeham" (Abhogi). He had a new team yesterday apart from his usual accompaniants of Varadarajan & Neyveli B Venkatesh. His choice of ragas and krithis stood out as usual and rendered a stupendous 'Sama" RTP (pallavi being "Samaganalolane Sadasiva maganae shanmuganey"). Khambhoji came with Muthu Thandavar's composition "aru marundoru tani marundidi ambalattE kaNDEn". It was simply brilliant with the neraval at "konrai tumbai aNinda marundu". The main piece being Dhanyasi, Muthuswami Dikshithar's another masterpiece "paradEvatA bRhat kucAmbA". evvarE rAmayya - gangeyabhushani,evarikai - devamanohari,rama nama payasake - bhimplas,haridasalu vedale - yamuna kalyani were the other renditions with apolomb. Mysore V Srikanth accompanied on violin was outstanding during the Thanam phase of Sama RTP.
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