Unnikrishnan concert - 25.07.07

Going to a concert , is something which gives me immense pleasure and excitement. so when i look into the entertainment column , i only look at the concerts , listings , so far i have attended more than 200 concerts ,mostly i go with my father ,december is our favourite month where we schedule our listening session by the first week of december itself!!!I have many favourites , infact i cannot hate any musician as i see God in our music. But i definetly have my favourites i like one factor in each of my favourites. To list a few ,
UnniKrishnan - (my father's top favourite too...) - bhavam , voice and his commitment to a audience
Vijay Siva - Bhani , repotoire
Sowmya - voice , style of singing
Sanjay subramanium- creativity personified
T.M.Krishna - singing style , swarams
the list goes on...............................

Yesterday was one such very pleasant evening when we went to unnikrishnan's concert , at shastri hall . we sat dowm with a bag of expcetations , as a started off with a thodi varnam , which was rendered more to slower paces , we could see that his melifluous voice was a little strained, then he went on to intha para in mayamalavagowla ,where he gained a little grip over the voice and the kalpana swaram in this was short and crisp . next was a kriti in purnachandrika , which was free flowing and small chitta swarams decorated it . this was followed by an alapana of purvikalyani , which was good , and very well continued by shri R.K.Shriramkumar sir , the kriti was satre vilagirum pillai , he renered it very slowly and beautifully filling the rendition with bhavam. this was followed by a wonderful bahudari , very lilting and fresh, song choice was again for the popular brova baramma , the audience sang with him !!!! This was definetly a wonderful piece followed by the crown of the concert - Bhairavi , every second of the raga alapana was as though a juice of bhairavi was given out from a fruit , and the violin was simply brilliant . He sang upacharamu , with neraval at kapata nataka sundari-both neraval and kalpana swaram were soothing , and captivating. The concert was in memory of a mrindaga vidwan the tani was a perfect tribute to him , only this can be said for the thani we heard sterday . though the tukkadas section was short , it was very sweet , a new song vittala raho was a beautiful melody , a padam in dhijavanthi took us to another world , ending pieces were a kavadi chindu and a thillana in hamsanandhi , which give a beuatiful unni signature finish to this lovely concert . a very happy and an enjoyable evening !!!!!!!!!!