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Vijay Siva is known for pursuing the D.K. Pattamal and D.K. Jayaraman benignant of singing, and this performance was nary exception.
The performance was a beauteous blend of bhava-laden sancharas with brisk singing astatine the neraval and kalpanaswaras, the erstwhile merging good with the gamaka-laden Dikshitar kritis.
Vijay Siva began the performance with a creation successful Nattai ‘Jaya jaya swamin’, followed by Tyagaraja’s ‘Sugunamule’ successful Chakravakam, with a brisk niraval and kalpanaswaras astatine ‘Srinayaka’ successful the charanam segment. This was followed by a little alapana of Sree raga commencing connected the tara shadja, essaying the grandeur of the raga successful 5 minutes.
The accent connected the classical operation ‘Pa ma ri ga ri sa’ was perceptible passim the raga essay. ‘Sree varalakshmi’, a fashionable Dikshitar kriti was chosen with kalpanaswaras astatine ‘Bahavana bedachature’. Next came the Varali raga alapana, a little but awesome sketch, followed by the creation ‘Nee vandidaivamugana nannu’ successful Adi tala with different brisk niraval successful the charanam line.
Vijay Siva brought retired the quality and grandeur of Karaharapriya done his bhava-rich rendition. | Photo Credit: Courtesy: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan
‘Saragunga palimpa samayamu’ successful 2 kalai Adi tala, a creation by Ramanathapuram Srinivasa Iyengar successful Kedaragowla, followed. This paved the mode for a majestic Karaharapriya. The alapana was implicit with a substance of briga-and-bhava-laden phrases successful each the octaves, a tiny glimpse of swarabedham to Kurinji successful the madhyasthayi.
In ‘Pakkala nilabadi’ successful Misra Chapu, a fashionable creation by Tyagaraja, the niraval successful ‘Manasuna’ successful the charanam, was taken up successful item successful each 3 octaves.
A shloka successful Ragamalika was rendered successful praise of Lord Nataraja of Chidambaram, followed by a lighter portion connected Muruga. ‘Thullu matha vetkai’, a Thiruppuzagh successful Hamsanandi was the concluding piece.
Vijay Siva was ably accompanied by Sanjeev Venkataramanan connected the violin and Manoj Siva connected the mridangam.
The dialog betwixt the mridangam and kanjira (S. Sunil Kumar) during the tani avartanam was exemplary.
