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A serene temper marked Ananth Mysore’s vocal recital, held recently as portion of the HCL Concerts by The Music Academy astatine Kasturi Srinivasan Hall.
The U.S.-based vocalist’s grooming nether eminent vidwans came done successful his well-nuanced essays and deft handling of the kritis. Adding the requisite originative suites without excesses during the raga essays struck a chord with the listeners.
His show was anchored connected a Bhairavi raga theme | Photo Credit: Velankanni Raj B.
The item of his show was Bhairavi raga, the main portion of the evening. Equally commendable were his accompanists — Sreeranjani Muthu Subramanian connected the violin and Srihari S. Raman connected the mridangam. The young squad regaled with their dynamism.
The performance started with Tyagaraja’s Harikamboji raga kriti ‘Rama nannu brova ra’. The composer questions Rama: “Won’t you travel to support me? All that I person done is worship you, Sri Rama.” Ananth conveyed good the essence of this kriti. This was followed by a little raga sketch, mounting the code for a poignant rendering of ‘Kamakshi bangaru Kamakshi nannu brovave’ (Varali raga, Syama Sastri). Sreeranjani’s responses connected the violin enriched this melodious raga outline.
Niraval by the artistes added colour to the enactment ‘Shukha shyamale shivashankarI’. Ananth chose to render Muthu Thandavar’s Tamil opus ‘Kanaamal vinnile,’ successful Nilambari raga. The creation is rendered successful different ragas too.
Anant brought retired the myriad facets of Bhairavi successful his elaborate alapana. The violinist did justness to her mentation of the raga. The kriti was ‘Bala gopala palaya shumam’ (Muthuswami Dikshitar). The niraval-swara suite astatine ‘vainika gayaka guru guha nuta pura vairi vihita gopika manohara’ was well-crafted. While Ananth is honing his presumption skills, helium would bash good to enactment much connected impact.
The mridangist’s rhythmic excellence came to the fore successful the slow-paced Adi tala performed during the tani avartanam.
The performance concluded with ‘Sreenivasa thiruvenkata, (Hamsanandi raga, Papanasam Sivan) and a Kanada raga thillana.
