Concert with H V Srivatsan & Ramnad Ragavan at S V Temple, Pittsburgh – Tyagaraja Aradhana, April 1985

• Listened to this concert in person
• First time listening to a live concert of KVN
• H V Srivatsan still in high school played wonderfully

Concert at Tansen Festival, Chicago 1983 with M S Anantaraman and Tiruchur Narendran

• Great concert
• Unforgettable prakkala nilapaDi
• Great tani

• varNam – varALi
• jaya jayA – nATa
• endarO mahAnubhAvulu – sri
• dEva dEva – poorvikalyANi
• tyAgarAja yOga vaibhavam – Anandabhairavi
• sripatE – nAgaswarAvaLi
• annapoorNE – sAmA
• prakkala nilapaDi – karaharapriyA
• various

Concert at Music Academy 1982 – M S Gopalakrishnan and Vellore Ramabhadran

• Great Concert
• Love the ‘karunai cheyvAn’ in sri
• Perhaps the best rendering of the chatura raga RTP

• varNam – sanakarAbaraNam (aTa)
• kanchadaLAyadAkshi – kamalAmanOhari
• anurAgamulE – saraswati
• mA ramaNan – hindOLam
• ungaL puzhakkaDai – Anandabhairavi
• bOgendra sAyinam – kuntalavarALi
• karuna cheyvAn – sri
• nee kElana – dEvamanOhari
• RTP – chatura rAga (sankarAbaraNam, tODi, kalyANi and darbAr)
• kANa vEDAmO – sriranjani
• various

Concert with M S Anantaraman & Pallakad Raghu (?)

Concert at Indian Fine Arts Society, Chennai – M S Gopalakrishnan, Umayalpuram Sivarman and ??? kanjira

Excellent recording quality & Very good concert

• varNam – sri
• nee bhajana – nAyaki
• ninnE nera namminAnu – pantuvarALi
• ini oru kaNam – sriranjani
• bAlakanakamaya – aTANA
• neetu charaNa – kalyANi
• bAlakrishnan – dhanyAsi
• ennEramum – dEvagandhAri
• mAyammA – Ahiri
• sripathE – nagaswarAwaLi
• mOkshamu – sAramati
• RTP – bEgaDA

House Concert with N Ramani, M S Anantaraman, Tiruchur Narendran and Ramnad Ragavan

• varNam – sri
• nEnendu – karnATaka behAg
• rAmanAtham – pantuvarALi
• mAnasa guruguha – Anandhabhairavi
• nAdOpAsana – bEgaDA
• ninne nammiti – simhEndramadyamam
• murugA murugA – sAvEri
• slOkam
• geetArtamu – suraTi
• karpagamE – madyamAvati

RTP in tODi with Lalgudi Jayaraman and U K Sivaraman

House concert with Lalgudi Jayaraman, Palghat Rajamani on mridangam and Palghat Mani Iyer on kanjira

• varnam – bhairavi – aTa (Kanjira starts only in the charanam part; you can hear prompting!!)
• raguvara – pantuvarALi
• mariverE – Anandabhairavi
• RTP – kalyANi
• nArimaNi – kamAs

Interesting tani, which has Kanjira leading (not surprising) !!

with M S Gopalakrishnan and U K Sivaraman at Mysore

• varNam – kAmbhOji – aTa
• siddhivinAyakam – shanmukapriyA
• gurulEka eTuvanTi – gowrimanOhari
• viDajAladurA – janaranjani
• dAmOdara – keeravANi (lot of recording problems from the neraval part – makes it very choppy)
• sArasAksha – pantuvarALi
• annapoorNE – sAmA
• RTP – dhanyAsi (mridangam accompaniment in the tAnam part)
• kanDu dhanyanAdE – behAg
• ??
• mOkshamu galadA – sAramati
• krishnA nee bEganE – yamunA kalyANi

with M S Gopalakrishnan and Pallakad Raghu

• varNam – sri
• nee bhajan gAna – nAyaki
• dEva dEva jagadeeswara – poorvikalyANi
• mArubalka – sriranjani
• ambaramE taNNeerE – kalyANi
• orajoopu – kannaDagowLa
• puNNiyam oru kODi – keeravANi
• mAtaDa bAradO – kamAs
• eppO varuvArO – jOnpuri
• various

with Lalgudi Jayaraman and Palakkad Mani Iyer at Navaratri mandapam, Tiruvanandapuram

• sumasAyaka – karnataka kApi
• smarasadA bAlagopAlam – bilahari
• pannakEndrasaya – Ahiri
• janani pAhi – suddhasAvEri (elaborate alapana plus tanam with mridangam)
• slOkam – rAgamAlika

with Lalgudi Jayaraman and Palakkad Mani Iyer

• varNam – tODi – Adi
• ElA nee dayarAdu – atANA
• sobhillu – jaganmOhini
• birAnavarA – kalyANi
• srinivAsa – karaharapriyA
• sri chAmundEswari – bilahari
• murugA murugA – sAvEri
• tAyE tripurasundari – suddha sAvEri
• RTP – tODi
• viruttam – rAgamAlikA

Some more Additions

with M Chandrasekaran and Pallakad Raghu at Krishna Gana Sabha – 1982

• varNam – bEgaDA – Adi
• kANa vEnDAmO – srrianjani
• muruga muruga – sAvEri
• anda rAma sowndaryam – kEdAragowLa
• seshAchala nAyakam – varALi
• amba nannu brOvavE – tODi
• orutti maganAi pirandu – behAg
• sAmaja varadA – suddha sAvEri
• ennEramum – dEvagAndhAri
• prakkala nilapaDi – karaharapriyA
• evarurA – mOhanam
• mAyammA – Ahiri
• viruttam – rAgamAlika
• Pullum Silampina – sankarAbaraNam
• tillAnA – poorNachandrikA
• dasarathasutha – jonpuri

with VV Subrmanian, J Vaidyanathan and S Suresh – Sangeeth Sammelan (90’s)

• gurulEkha – gowrimanOhari
• tyAgarAjaya namastE – bEgaDA
• sri kumAra – aTANA
• kAmakshi – varALi
• ArabhimAnam – rAgamAlikA
• tillAnA – sankarAbaraNam

The thirty tiruppAvais 

1. mArghazi tingaL – nAta
2. vaiyatu vAzhveergAL – gowLa
3. Ongi ulagaLanda – Arabi
4. Azhi mazhai kannA – varALi
5. mAyanai – sri
6. puLLum silambina – sankarAbaraNam
7. keesu keesu – bhairavi
8. keezh vAnam – dhanyAsi
9. toomaNi mADattu – hamirkalyANi
10. nOTru swargam-Thodi-MC
11. kaTru karavai -husEni
12. kanaittu iLam – kEdAragowLa
13. puLLin vAi – aTANA
14. ungaL puzhakkaDai – Anandabhairavi
15. EllE iLam kiLiyE – bEgaDA
16. nAyakanai – darbAr
17. ambaramE – kalyANi
18. undu mada kaLiTran – sAvEri
19. kuttu viLakkeriya – sahAnA
20. muppattu moovar -senchuruTi
21. ETra kalangaL -nAdanAmakriyA
22. angan mA gnAlattu – yamunAkalyANi
23. mAri mulai – manirangu
24. anDru ulagam – sindhubhairavi
25. orutti maganAi – bEgAg
26. mAlE maNivaNNA – kuntalavarALi
27. kooDArai vellum – poorvikalyANi
28. karavaigaL – kAmbhOji
29. chiTram chiru kAlE – madyamAvati
30. vanga kaDal – suraTi

with Kovai Balu  and Palghat Raghu

• varnam – sankarabaranam
• tulasidala – MMG
• nee bakthi – jayamanohari
• siva siva – pantuvarali
• prakkala nilapadi – karaharapriya
• RTP – chartura ragam
• various

with M S Gopalakrishnan, Palghat Raghu and R S Krishnamurthy Rao- Music Academy 1967

• rArA mA inTi – asAvEri
• endarO mahAnubhAvulu – sri
• evarani – dEvAmrutavarshiNi
• seetamma mAyamma – vasantA
• nee chittamu – dhanyAsi
• mOkshamu galadA – sAramati
• toli nEnu jEsina – kOkiladwani
• kaligiyuntE – keeravANi
• dAsararati – tODi
• ETi janmamidi – varALi
• various

• varNam – bEgaDA
• gNanamu sagarAdA – poorvikalyANi
• en manam oosalADa – simhendrmadyamam
• prakala nilapaDi – karaharapriyA
• ekkAlattilum – nATakurunji

• seshAchala nAyakam – varALi
• slokam
• manasija – Ahiri
• alivEni – kurunji
• chittam eppaDiyO
• krishna nee bEganE – yamunAkalyANi
• various

• nAdasudArasam – arabhi
• kudaram (tiruppavai) – poorvi kalyani
• tanayuni – bhairavi
• yArendru ragavanai – yadukula kAmbhOji
• sripatE – nAgaswarAvaLi

• jaya jaya – nATa
• appa rAmabakthi – pantuvarALi
• baktibeeksha – sankarAbaraNam
• sAmaja varagamana – hindOlam
• tAyE yasOdA – tODi
• yArendru rAgavanai – yadukula kAmbhOji
• inta sowkya – kApi
• punniyam oru kODi – keeravAni
• kanDu dhanyanAdE – behAg
• sri vishnu
• thillAnA – kAnaDA
• mangalam

with Lalgudi Jayaraman, Palghat Raghu and Vinayakaram – Mysore 1974

• varnam – kAnaDA
• endarO – sri
• kripajoochuTaku –
• parama pAvana – poorvikalyANi
• brOvavamma – mAnji
• annapoorNE – sAmA
• nennE nammitinayyA – simhendramadyamam
• dhyAnamE – dhanyAsi
• various

with V.V.Ravi and Palghat Ravi – Madras Music Academy 1987

• Varnam-Sarasijanabha-Nata-Adi-SwathiTirunal
• Sharanagatha-Gowla-A-?
• Pahi Parvatha – Aarabhi – A-
• Sheshachala Nayakam – Varali – R – Dikshitar
• Mayanai (TPV) – Sree- (incomplete)
• Yelavatharamethukontivi-Mukhari-A-Thyagaraja
• Kalitheera – Todi – MC
• Kshemam Gurum Gopala – Ragamalika
• Ennayum – Manirangu –
• RTP – Kalyani
• Dasaratha nutha – Sindhu Bhairavi –
• various

With Nagai Muralidharan and Vellor Ramabhadran – Leham, Maryland 1993

• varNam – bhairavi – aTa
• sAmaja varada – suddhasAvEri
• rAmanAtham – pantuvarALi
• enatani ne – mukhAri
• amabaramE – kalyANi
• ninnuvinA – tODi
• RTP – sahAnA
• various

with Chalakudy Narayanaswamy & Palghat Mani Iyer – Navaratri Mandapam

poor recording

• varNam – kAmbhOji – aTa
• dEva dEva jagadeeswara – poorvikalyANi
• sumasAyaka – karnataka kapi
• rAsavilAsa – kAmbhOji
• parama purusha – vasantA
• mandaradhara – tODi
• smara sada – bilahari
• bOgendra sAyinam – kuntalavarALi
• pAhi janani santatam – nATakurunji
• various

with M Chandrasekaran, Mannargudi Easwaran and Sivaramakrishnan – Navaratri Mandapam 1993

• deva deva jagadeeswara – poorvi kalyani
• pahi parvata – arabhi

• entarA – harikambhoji
• mAnasa guruguha – Anandhabhairavi
• sri subramanyaya – kambhoji – incomplete
• Alapana & tanam – sAvEri

with T N Krishnan and Palghat Raghu

• varnam – sankarabaranam – aTa
• sAmajavaradA – suddhasAvEri
• toli nenu jEsina – kOkiladwani
• endarO mahAnubhAvulu – sri
• parama pAvana – poorvikalyANi
• srinivAsa – karaharapriyA
• anupama – aTANA
• evarimATa – kAmbhOji
• various

with M.Chandrasekharan and Trichur C Narendran – Swati Tirunal compositions

• suma sAyaka – karnATaka kApi
• gOpanandana – bhooshAvaLi
• taruNi gyAn – dwijAvanti
• rajeevAksha – sankarAbaraNam
• pankajakshan – tODi
• alasara paritApam – suraTi
• sAramaina – bEhAg

• jaya jaya – nATa
• pAhi parvatha – Arabhi
• koodArai – poorvikalyANi
• mArubalka – sriranjani
• mAyammA – Ahiri
• nee kElana – dEvamanOhari
• RTP – chatura rAgam
• various

Random Collection

• RTP – chatura rAgam
• bAlagOpala – bhairavi
• Manasuswadhina – sankarAbharaNam
• punniyam oru kODi – keeravAni

Wedding concert – 1973

• varnam – kAnaDA – aTa
• sAdinchanE – Arabhi
• ninnE nera namminAnu – pantuvarALi
• entarA neetana – harikAmbhOji
• mAnasa guruguha – Anandhabhairavi
• neetu charaNa – kalyANi

with V Sethuramiah and Palghat Raghu – Music Academy 1969

• varNam – varALi
• sAdinchanE – Arabhi
• siddhivinAyakam – shanmukapriyA
• entarA neetana – harikAmbhOji
• ninnuvinA – reetigowLa
• pAhimAm – husEni
• sri subramanyAya – kAmbhOji
• various

Wedding Concert

• varnam – kalyANi – aTa
• rArA rAma – asAvEri
• rAmanAtham – pantuvarALi
• etudA nilachitE – sankarAbaraNam
• tanayuni – bhairavi
• paridAnamichidE – bilahari
• amba nannu brOvavE – tODi
• various

with T S Veeraraghavan and U K Sivaraman – Ghatkopar (Mumbai) 16 May 1971

• entara – harikAmbhOji
• mAnasa guruguha – Anandabhairavi
• neetu charaNa – kalyANi
• eppaDi manam – husEni
• sri subramanyaya – kambhoji
• parama purusham – lalitapanchamam
• RTP – sAvEri
• various

with T N Krishnan and Vellore Ramabhadran – Delhi 1971

• varNam – kAmbhOji – aTa
• shObillu saptaswara – jaganmOhini
• sAdinchanE – Arabhi
• ninnE nera namminAnu – pantuvarALi
• mAnasa guruguha – Anandabhairavi
• manasu swAdinamai – sankarAbaraNam
• ini oru kaNam – sriranjani
• kArtikEya – tODi
• ArabhimAnam – rAgamAlika
• sri chAmundEswari – bilahari
• brOchevArevururA – kamAs
• sukhi evvarO – kAnaDA
• RTP – dhanyAsi
• sivakAma sundari – mukhAri
• various

with M Chandrasekaran and Trichur Narendran – Music Academy 1981

• varNam – nATakurunji
• jaya jaya – nATa
• angAraka – suruTi
• dEva dEva – poorvikalyANi
• sri lalitE – nAgadwani
• ninnE namminAnu – tODi
• mOkshamu galadA – sAramati
• chintadeerchirA – saurAshtram
• RTP – nATakurunji
• various

with Lalgudi Jayaraman and Palghat Raghu – Ragasudha Nov 22, 1975

• varNam – mAyamAlavagowLa
• telisi rAma – poorNachandrikA
• raghuvara – pantuvarALi
• nanganalloor – Anandhabhairavi
• birAnabrOva – kalyANi
• annapoorNE – sAmA
• bAlagOpAla – bhairavi
• murugA murugA – sAvEri
• tAyE tripurasundari – suddhasAvEri
• amba nannu brOvavE – tODi
• various

with M Chandrasekaran and U K Sivaraman – Perambavur

• varNam – sri
• telisi rAma – poorNachandrikA
• dEva dEva – poorvikalyANi
• sumasayaka – karnATaka kApi
• hecharika – yadukulakAmbhOji (has recording issues in the swarams)
• puNNiyam oru kODi – keeravANi
• bAlakrishnan – dhanyAsi
• pAhimAm – husEni
• taruNi gyAn – dwijAvanti
• various

with Nagai Muralidharan and Vellore Ramabhadran – Cleveland April 10 1993

was in the audience 🙂

• varNam – bhairavi – aTa
• endarOmahAnubhAvulu – sri
• sivatya mahAgaNapatim – nATa
• vAdErA – pantuvarAli
• sogasugA mrudanga – sriranjani
• manavinAlagincha – naLinakAnti
• O jagadambA – Anadhabhairavi
• nitichAla sukamA – kalyANi
• Om namasivAyavE – hindOLam
• tatvameruga taramA – garuDwani
• rArA mA inTi dAka – asAvEri
• RTP sankarAbaraNam
• varugalAmO – mAnji
• krishnA nee bEganE – yamunAkalyANi
• mangaLam

with Nagai Muralidharan and Vellore Ramabhadran – Pittsburgh April 20 1993

was in the audience 🙂

• varNam – nATa
• charanAgatamendru – gowLa
• sAdinchanE – Arabhi
• sEshAchala nAyakam – varALi
• karuNa cheyvAn – sri
• mOhana mayi – yadukula kAmbhOji
• piravA varam tArum – latAngi
• srinivAsa tava charaNam – karaharapriyA
• manam irangAdA – mAyAmALavagowLa
• sripatE – nAgaswarAvaLi
• tatvameruga taramA – garudwani
• mOkshamugaladA – sAramati
• RTP – dhanyAsi
• various

with C R Mani Iyer and Palghat Ragu – Music Academy 1973

• varNam – bhairavi – aTa
• intanucu varNimpa – gunDakriyA
• pAhimAm brugannAyikE – husEni
• en manam oosalADa – simhendramadyamam
• tAyE tripura sundari – suddhasAvEri
• akshayalingavibhO – sankArabaraNam
• amba nannubrOva – tODi
• bRovavammA – mAnji
• various

with R K Sriramkumar and Manoj Siva – Cleveland April 1997

was in the audience 🙂

• vAtApi gaNapatim – hamsadwani
• sogasugA – sriranjani
• raghuvara – pantuvarALi
• manavyala – nalainakAnti
• dattAtrayA – ranjani
• inta sowkayamninE – kApi
• nAdOpAsanA – bEgaDA
• kanDavarku – kuntalavarALi
• RTP – poorvikalyANi
• various

• siddhi vinAyakam – shanmukapriyA
• entarA – harikAmbhOji
• ninnuvinA – poorvikalyANi
• brOvavammA – mAnji
• rAma nannu brOvarA – harikAmbhOji
• upchAramu jesEvAru – bhairavi
• ambaramE taNNeerE – kalyANi
• RTP – sahAnA
• andri ulagam – sindhubhairavi
• thillAnA – paras
• irakkam varAmal – bEgaDA
• rAmanai – sindhubhairavi
• parAtparA – vAchaspati
• janani – sAvEri
• sarasijanAbha sOdari – nAgagAndhAri
• kali teera – tODi

with M Chandrasekaran and Palghat Raghu

• varNam – kAmnhOji- aTa
• ninnE nera – pantuarALi
• nAyakanai – darbAr
• annapoorNE – sAmA
• nanganallur – Anandhbhairavi
• pAhi janani –
• srinivAsa tava – karaharapriyA
• anupama – aTANA
• RTP – tODi
• slokam
• andri ulagam – sindhubhairavi
• eppO varuvArO – jOnpuri
• thillAnA – paras
• From some other concert
• sAdinchanE – Arabhi
• ini oru kaNam – sri ranjani
• chEta sri – dwijAvanti

with V V Subramaniam amd U K Sivaraman – Music Academy 1975

• varNam – mAyAmAlavagowla
• tyAgarAjaya – bEgaDA
• angarAkam – suruTi
• bhajare rE chita – kalyANi
• annapoorNE – sAmA
• sarasijanAbha – nAgagAndhAri
• bAlagOpAla – bhairavi
• sri rAma – yadukulakAmbhOji
• sri satyanArAyaNam – subhapantuvarALi
• mAyammA – Ahiri
• chEta sri – dwijAvanti
• tirupugazh

Lecture Demonstration at Indian Fine Arts Society, Chennai

with M S Gopalakrishnan & Tiruchur Narendran – AIR Concert

• sreepatE – nAgasvarALi – Adi – tyAgarAja
• kANa vEnDAmO – sreeranjani – roopakam – pApanASam Sivan
• ninnE namminAnu – tODi – miSra cApu – SyAma SAstri

with M S Anantaraman & Tiruchur Narendran (Educated guess) – Likely from the US tour of 1983

• nAda tanu maniSam – chitta ranjani – tyAgarAjar
• appa rAma bhakti – pantuvarALi – tyAgarAjar
• sabhApatikku vEru daivam – abhOgi – bhArateeyAr
• pOgadiralo ranga – sankarAbaraNam
• mA ramaNan – hindOLam – pApanASam Sivan
• kArtikEya gAngEya – tODi – pApanASam Sivan
• ennaga manasuku – neelAmbari – tyAgarAjar
• mOkshamu galadA – sAramati – tyAgarAjar
• viruttam – rAgamAlika
• eppo vAruvAro – jOnpuri – bhArateeyAr
• jagadOddhAraNa – kApi – purandara dAsa
• tillAna – kuntala varALi
• mangaLam

with S Varadarajan, K V Prasad and H Sivaramakrishnan – December 2001

• varNam – kAnaDa – aTa
• sAkEta nagara nAta – harikAmbhOji – roopakam
• O jagagamba – Anandabhairavi – Adi
• needu charaNa pankajamula – kalyANi – Adi
• inta soukhyamani – kApi – Adi – tyAgarAju
• varugalAmO – mAnji – miSracApu
• kanDu dhanyanA – behAg – roopakam
• harihara ninnanu – sindhubhairavi – Adi
• tillAna – poorvi – Adi
• mangaLam

with H V Srivatsan, J Vaidyanathan and Palghat Sundaram

All Swati Tirunal compositions

• pAhimAm bRUhannAyikE lOkanAyikE – husEni – roopakam
• paramapurusham hRUdaya bhAvayEham – lalita panchamam – khanDachApu
• rAmachandra pAhi satatam ravi vamSa deepa – poorNachandrika – roopakam
• paNimatimukhi bAlE – Ahiri – miSrachApu
• dEvi pAvanE (rAgam tAnam kriti) – sAvEri
• neelAmbhOruha tulya nEtra yugaLAm (SlOkam) – Anandabhairavi
• AndOLika vAhanE – Anandabhairavi – miSrachApu

with R K Sreeramkumar, J Vaidyanathan and H Sivaramakrishnan

All tyAgarAja compositions

• nArada gAnalOla – aThANa – roopakam
• manavi nAlakincharAdatE – naLinakAnti
• ETi janmamidi hA – varALi – miSrachApu
• tattva meruga taramA – garuDadhwani – roopakam
• anurAgamulEni manasuna – saraswati – roopakam
• heccharikagA rArA – yadukula kAmbhOji – khanDachApu
• mundu venuka iruprakkala tODai – darbAr – Adi
• smaraNE sukham – janaranjani – Adi
• nidhi chAla sukhamA – kalyANi – miSrachApu
• kRUpa joochuTaku – chAyAtarangiNi – Adi
• inta soukhyamani – kApi – Adi
• geetArthamu sangeetAnandamu – suraTi – Adi

Concerts elsewhere on the web

At MIT, Boston – 1993; with Nagai Muralidaran and Vellore Ramabhadran