Vignesh Ishwar with R.K. Shriramkumar (violin), Praveen Kumar (mridangam) and Anirudh Athreya (kanjira).
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The Kalyani Menon Foundation recently organised Vignesh Ishwar’s concert at The Music Academy’s Kasturi Srinivasan Hall to mark the fifth death anniversary of well-known singer Kalyani Menon. R.K. Shriramkumar was on the violin, Praveen Sparsh on the mridangam and Anirudh Athreya on the kanjira.The concert opened on an energetic note with Swati Tirunal’s ‘Sri kumaranagaralaye’ in Atana. The mood then shifted with the rendition of Dikshitar’s ‘Sri matrubhutam’, a chowka kala composition in Kannada. The niraval at ‘Vasudeva mahitam’ was steeped in bhava and seamlessly seagued into kalpanaswaras at ‘Suvasita nava’ in madhyama kala.Shriramkumar’s violin opened the next piece, Marimutha Pillai’s ‘Kaalai thooki ninradum’, in Yadukula Kamboji, with an alapana that maintained a calm and steady mood. The concert regained its vibrancy with the rapid brigas of Tyagaraja’s ‘Nenarunchinanu’.
Vignesh opened the concert with Swati Tirunal’s ‘Sri kumaranagaralaye’ in Atana.
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