Added a page for T N Krishnan.
Author: Shankar Krish
T V Sankaranarayanan – Additions
Added three concerts to page for TVS; you can find them at the end of the page as “some more additions”.
Ramnad Krishnan – Additions
Added a concert to page for Ramnad Krishnan. You can hear the concert here too.
Concert at Jamshedpur in 1964, with Lalgudi Jayaraman and unknown mridangist.
Shyama Sastry Compositions
Created a page with the recordings of his compositions along with links to the lyrics.
Madurai T N Seshagopalan – Update
Added concerts with Mysore Brothers as accompaniment.
Archive.org is back and no more issues…
All the pages are working well now, as archive.org is fully back on line 🙂
On issues on the blog
In the last 3-4 years, I have been primarily using archive.org to store the recordings and providing access to them on my blog for listening purposes.
Unfortunately, archive.org was a victim of DDoS (Denial of Service) attacks a week ago, because of which the site is completely down and none of the resources on their site are accessible. So, when you visit the blog pages, in some pages or in some sections of these pages, you may find white space appearing instead of the audio gadget. They say that the DDoS attack has been stopped and that they are in the process of restoring their site. I am hoping that they will be restoring their services soon and I will post an update when their services are restored.
S Kalyanaraman – Additions
You can find the new additions here.
Most of them have no details on the accompaniments; also the quality of recordings vary widely.
GNB Compositions
Created a page with the recordings of his compositions along with links to the lyrics and now you can listen rendering of his compositions at a single place.
Nadaswaram with Violin Accompaniment
Back in the 70’s when I lived in Hubbali, AIR Bangalore was a great source of numerous concerts during the Rama Navami time. Like today, it was the time, when numerous organizations would organize concerts for a week or so. And during this period, AIR Bangalore would broadcast excerpts of these concerts and probably some live concerts as well.
It was during this time, I distinctly remember listening to Namagiripettai Krishnan playing with violin and mridangam accompaniment. It was the time when Namagiripettai was the leading Nadaswaram vidwan along with Sheik Chinna Moulana Sahib, and I was a frequent listener to these two, once again with AIR being the main source. And I also remember attending a concert of Namagiripettai at Hubbali; of course I don’t remember any details.
As I was browsing thru the nadaswaram concerts, I cam across a recording of Namagiripettai with M Chandrasekaran on the violin. You get a completely different perspective of his playing and elevated by the accompaniment of M Chandrasekhar. As you listen to this concert, you can hear MC appreciating Namagiripettai in his kalyanavasantam alapana, which is definitely one of the top alapanas in that ragam. You will definitely enjoy this.
- mAkElara – ravichandrikA
- mOkshamu galada – sAramati
- kAraNam kETTu vADi – poorvikalyANi
- nee dayarAdA – vasantabhairavi
- nAdalOluDai – kalyANavasantam
- mOhana rAma – mOhanam
- Pallavi – ShanmukapriyA
- tukkadas
No idea who the mridangam and kanjira accompaniments are 😦
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