Bagyalakshmi Chandrasekharan Veena Recital- An auspicious start to 2015

Rasaanveshanam started off 2015 with a splendid, sedate and sonorous veena recital by the highly acclaimed Vid. Bagyalakshmi Chandrasekhran (Profile http://bit.ly/BhagyaLChVeena ). Schooled in the Mudikondan style and performing for over 50 years, she exudes a quiet confidence as she coaxes very melodious gamakas and song enunciations in a pristine gayaki style. She has no hesitation in taking up difficult ragas or in elaborating famously "vocal" krithis and doing full justice to the song with alapana, niraval and swaras. Her tanam is grand and does full justice to the possibilities of the instrument. Tuned at a not-too-low, not-too-high pitch, the instrument sounds very sweet across octaves. She enjoys playing in mandara sthayi also! At the same time she explored the top Sa in Taara sthayi during Keeravani raga and swaras.


She was ably accompanied by Vid M Gururaj, an artiste in remand for both mridangam and morsing accompaniments. He works at AIR, Bangalore.


At Thiagarajan's elegant residence, in the presence of the Trinity (a lovely painting as a backdrop), we were treated to over 3 hours of great music. The 50-odd rasikas, all evidently keen listeners, had a memorable experience.


Song List

1. Sami daya Judu - Kedaragowla varna - Tiruvottriyur Thyagayya
2. Sri Mahaganapati - Gowla - Muthuswami Dikshitar
3. Kumaran Thazl- Yadukula Kambhoji- Papanasam Sivan
4. Saraswathi-Saraswathi-NS Ramachandran
5. Manasu Karagade- Kaanada- Pranesha Dasa
6. Sadananda- Raghupriya- Koteeshwara Iyer
7. Keeravani Ragam Tanam Pallavi in Khanda Triputa (Tanam in Panchaghana ragas, swaras in Kalavati, Hindustani Todi, Brindavani, Revati)
8. Chinnanchiru Kiliye- Ragamalika-Subrahmanya Bharathi
9. Karunai Deivame-Sindhu Bhairavi- Madurai T Srinivasan
10. Uyyala Dukavayya-Neelambari-Thyagaraja
11. Veda ghosha 

We welcome new members to this devoted musical alliance of keen rasikas to seek out memorable classical musical experiences. We also intend to feature very talented vocalists as well as a top notch Nagaswaram concert in a temple this year!!!!


Happy listening here of two excerpts:


Chinnanchiru Kiliye.. kannamma.: http://youtu.be/AfI-Xc4FcGk


Karunai Dheivamey Karpagame...: http://youtu.be/e5fUsgXN9vM