I am hardly qualified to comment on the music of Sri Madurai Main Iyer and even though my collection is rather small, I am glad to share what to I have and I hope you enjoy them.

All through my high school and college years, listening to Madurai Mani Iyer on the radio was always a great experience. It was a major change in the 1980’s when I managed to listen to his full concert recordings.

In the mid eighties, I met a gentleman in the Boston area (a friend of my classmate visiting me) and he played a recording that was fantastic and then gave me a cassette containing 45 minutes of that concert which happened to me a AIR Sangeeta Sammelan concert. In that concert, he sings ‘manasu nilpa’ in Abhogi which is simply out of the world and of course of the rest of the concert was great too. And I was always looking for the rest of that concert which eluded me for a very long time. I have no doubts that you will agree with me.

Let me start off with that concert posted by Raju Asokan on youtube.

Here are other recordings in no particular order.

• O jagadambA – Anandhabhairavi
• koluvamaragadA – tODi
• paridAnamicchidE – bilahari
• sukhi evaarO – kAnaDA
• sri satyanArAyaNam – subhapantuvarALi
• tiruvaDi charanam – kAmbhOji
• RTP – keeravANi

with T N Krishnan

• telisi rAma – poorNachandrikA
• angAraka – suraTi
• orajoopu – kannaDagowLa
• nijamarmalanu – umAbharanam
• vinatA suta – jayanatasEnA
• mOhana rAmA – mOhanam
• sukhi evvarO – kAnaDA
• various

• kauNai seyvAi- hamsadwani
• O jagadambA – Anadhabhairavi
• sooryamoortE – saurashtram
• nija marmamulanu – umAbharaNam
• meenAkshi mEmudam – poorvikalyANi

with T Chowdiah and Palghat Mani Iyer

• telisi rama – poorNachandrikA
• angAraka – suraTi
• rArA mA inTi – asAvEri
• sarasa sAma dAna – kApinaArayaNi
• vinanAsakOni – prAtapavarALi
• vinatA suta vAhana – jayantasEnA
• kA vAvA – varALi
• veLLai tAmarai – jOnpuri
• English Note

• varNam -bhairavi – aTa
• gnAnamosagarAdA – poorvikalyANi
• nija marmamulanu – umAbharaNam
• kaddanu vAriki – tODi
• chEta sri – dwijAvanti
• RTP – shanmukapriyA
• various

with Lalgudi Jayaraman and Pazhani Subramanya Pillai

• varNam – mOhanam
• appa rAma bakthi – pantuvarALi
• sooryamoortE – saurAshtram
• mAkElara – ravichandrikA
• vAsudEva yeni – kalyANi
• tAyE yasOdA – tODi
• nagumOmu – AbhEri
• vinAyakuni – madyamAvati
• manasA sri – eesamanOhari
• sri satyanArayaNam – subha pantuvarALi
• RTP – Mohanam

with Lalgudi Jayaraman

• sri gaNapati – saurAshtram
• nAda tanum anisam – chitta ranjani
• jootA murArE – Arabhi
• EtAvunarA – kalyANi
• suki evvarO – kAnaDA

with T N Krishnan

• vallabha – begada – roopakam – MD
• suryamurtE – suarashtram – ? MD
• intakanandame – bilahari – – tyg
• sogasuga – sriranjani – roopakam – tyg
• mAjAnaki – kambhoji – adi – tyg
• sarasa samadana – kapinarayani – adi – tyg
• suki evvaro – kanada – adi – tyg
• ka vava – varali
• sri mAtrubootam – kannada
• RTP – shanmukapriya
• slokam
• jayati jayati – kamas

• sahasra kara – vAchaspati
• koluvai – bhairavi (initial parts missing)
• kANa kaN kODi – tODi
• palukavadEmirA – dEvamanOhari
• enta bhAgyamu – sArangA
• nAdupai – madyamAvati
• bruhaspatE – aTANA
• brOva bAramA – bahudAri
• seetammA mAyammA – vasantA
• rAmA nee samAnamevaru – karaharapriyA
• mOhana rAmA – mOhanam
• mAyE twamjAyE – tarangiNi
• slOkam
• jayati jayati – kamAs

In private conversation at a home in Calcutta

If it was private, how is it that I have a recording !!!

• kApAli – mOhanam
• tAyE yasOdA – tODi
• kA vAvA – varALi
• various

• O jagadambA – Anandhabhairavi
• sooryamoortE – saurAshtram
• nijamarmalanu – umAbharanam
• sArasAksha – pantuvarALi
• chEtasri – dwijAvanti
• chakkani rAja – karaharapriyA
• vinAyakuni – madyAmavati
• RTP – mOhanam

with Lalgudi Jayaraman, Palani Subramanya Pillai and Umayalpuram Kodandarama Iyer

• vAtApi – hamsadwani
• rAmabakthi – suddhabangaLA
• sAmaja vara gamanA – hindOLam
• dArini telusukonTi – suddhasAvEri
• meenAkshi mEmudam – poorvikalyANi

with Lalgudi Jayaraman and Palghat Mani Iyer – Delhi 1962

• RTP – shanmukapriyA
• various

with T N Krishnan

• vatapi – hamsadwani – adi – MD
• bruhaspate – atana – – MD
• entabhagyamu – saranga – desadi – tyg
• brovabarama – bahudari – desadi – tyg
• seetamma – vasanta – roopakam – tyg
• rama nee samanamevaru – karaharapriya – roopakam – tyg
• mohana rama – mohanam – adi – tyg
• rara sita – hindOlavasantA
• rangapurvihara – brindavansaranga – – MD
• kavava – varali
• slokam
• maye – tarangini
• thillana – sencuruti
• eppo varuvaro – jonpuri
• jayati jayati – kamas
• english note
• mangalam

with M S Gopalakrishnan and Palghat Mani Iyer

• tatvamariya – reetigowLa
• chandram bhaja – asAvEri
• sArasAksha – pantuvarALi
• sahasrakara manDalE – vAchaspati
• chakkani rAja – karaharapriyA
• pAmAlai – harikAmbhOji
• mOhana rAmA – mOhanam
• RTP – tODi
• various