Kanchi Kamakoti Peetam Asthan Vidwan N Ananthapadmanabha Rao, on Sunday at Ravishankar Guruji’s Art of Knowledge Centre at Sarjapur road branch, presented lovely Carnatic music concert and proved his ability as senior established seasoned vocalist.
His disciple M Suhas Acharya lended the vocal support. Vidwan Rao supported ably by Vidwan Dr R Raghuram on violin, Vidwan D.R.Chethanmurthy on mridanga and Vidwan Lakshminarayan on moorching.
Rao started the concert with raga saveri varana in adhital in two speed. Other interesting items Gamghanapathe in raga hamsadvani set to adhi thala. He paid his tributes to trinity composers by rendering Sri Muthuswamy deekshithar’s Navagraha kruthi Suryamoorthe in sowrastra set to chathrushra jathi ata thala, sri Shyamashthri’s Bhairavi raga swarajathi in mishrachapu and sri Thyagaraja’s Niravadhisukadha in Ravichandrika set to adhi thala.
The Raga Bilahari renderd briskly followed by Patnam Subramanya Iyer kruthi Paridhanamichhite set to kandachapu with kalpanaswaras interestingly. The main item of the concert Raga kamavardhini in detail with cute imaginative sancharas in all the octaves. Mysore Vasudevacharya kruthi Shankarinine renderd in slow phase scholarly followed by kalpanaswaras skillfully with lot of varieties of laya prabedha patterns. Chethan and Lakshminarayan played a interting thani on mridangam and moorching. Rao winded the concert with Mohana kalyani kruthi Sangeethasamrajya and Thillana in Thodi raga. Vidwan Raghuram on violin supported well thoroughly for the success of the concert. Packed audience had the feast of scholarly well planned concert.
-Vidwan Sheshanarayan.
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