Poise and promise mark Charulatha Chandrasekar’s veena concert

Young Charulatha Chandrasekar’s performance astatine The Music Academy reaffirmed the committedness she has shown implicit the years. Granddaughter and disciple of veena vidushi and student R.S. Jayalakshmi, she has an awesome bid implicit the veena. Charulatha was accompanied by Sarvesh Karthick connected the mridangam and Murali Varadharajan connected the kanjira.

Beginning the performance brightly with ‘Sogasuga’ successful Sriranjani, Charulatha rendered energetic kalpanaswaras. A raga specified arsenic Ahiri depends heavy connected voice-based inflection and affectional shading. Vocalists tin people inflect syllables to evoke the pathos successful Syama Sastri’s ‘Mayamma’, but connected the veena, the instrumentalist indispensable simulate this purely done digit technique, making it harder to prolong the raga’s affectional extent without sounding mechanical. Charulatha retained the raga’s austere, inward mood.

Charulatha’s Surutti alapana was marked by poise and steadiness, allowing the raga to unfold without haste. In ‘Sri venkata girisham’, the kalpanaswaras were handled with bully control. Rather than relying connected speed, the swaras reinforced the raga’s contours, lending cohesion to the kriti and maintaining continuity betwixt the improvised and composed sections.

Before proceeding to the cardinal Dikshitar kriti, ‘Nee vadane’ successful Saranga was presented astatine an accelerated speed. Charulatha devoted a important information of the performance to the Bhairavi raga alapana and tanam, showcasing a assortment of unsocial prayogas. Her adjacent engagement with the raga was evident successful the fluid prime of her improvisation and allowed it to unfold with easiness and imagination. The creation presented was ‘Balagopala’. The niraval and kalpanaswaras were appropriately astatine ‘Neela neerada’.

Throughout the concert, Sarvesh Karthick’s crisp rhythmic articulation and responsiveness underscored the swara passages and niraval sections. His intimate knowing of the compositions enriched the wide philharmonic dialogue. Murali Varadharajan complemented him seamlessly, adding tonal nuance and reinforcing rhythmic interplay. The duo worked good with the veena, balancing vigor and subtlety, ensuring its melodic travel remained central, portion their percussion enhanced the concert’s texture. The recital concluded with a thillana successful Maund.