In the 72 Melakarta scheme, Pratimadhyamam segment has quite a few well-known ragas including Kalyani and Shanmukhapriya, which are a staple in music concerts. It is said that Pratimadhyamam ragas can be easily identified with a rendition of just the raga scale, unlike the Shuddhamadhyamam ragas, in which gamakas and sangatis play vital roles. Vidya Bhavani Suresh decodes these aspects …
Smart choice of ragas and kritis, careful distribution of time, keeping the raga treatises and swarakalpana under control and avoiding over indulgence — all these contribute to the success of a concert. With his vocal cords in fine form, Gurucharan opened the performance with the ghana raga Adi tala varnam, ‘Chalamela jesevura’ by Vinjamoori Varadaraja Iyengar. The raga’s splendour could …
Veteran vocalists, Shanmukhapriya and Haripriya, are known for their rich manodharma. At Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan’s December music festival 2022, Shanmukhapriya began the alapana and let Haripriya continue it and together the Priya Sisters produced a thoroughly enjoyable Rishabhapriya. Pattammal’s composition, ‘Panniru Kaiyane’, would have guessed, the vocalists took up that composition and sang it beautifully, with a long tail of …
Indian Idol 12 was a well-loved season due to the strong and melodious contestants but apart from their singing, the other thing that wooed the audience was winner Pawandeep Rajan and Arunita Kanjilal’s pure chemistry. Recently, the former released a BTS video of his music video Yaad, where he can be seen walking hands in hands with Arunita on London …
Jayaraman was a singer whose simple, chaste and all-encompassing music enthralled rasikas. Dr. Sunder sang Muthuswami Dikshitar’s ‘Guni janadinuta guruguhodaye’ in Gurjari raga, using the line ‘Rajakumaram’ of the Abheri kriti ‘Bhajare re manasa’ to bring out the variation in DKJ’s voice output, followed by a recording of DKJ’s kalpanaswaras in ‘Birana varalichi’ to exhibit the precise rhythm shift from …
