Sandhyavandanam Srinivasa Rao

Personally, I have not heard him in person and did not know about him at all for a very long time. Got to know about him on rasikas.org primarily. Listening to his recordings and reading about what he was able to do for Carnatic music in the AIR, it is unfortunate that he does/did not get the recognition he deserved.

I am sure you can get info about him on the internet and here are some recordings many of which may already be on youtube and other spaces.

with Govindaswamy Naickar – Violin & Madras A Kannan – Mridangam

  • bhajana sEyavE – kalyANi
  • mummUrtulu gumigUDi – aTANA
  • ninnu vina mari dikkevvaru – poorvikalyANi
  • bhavanuta nA hrida – mOhanam (Long tani)
  • uyyAla loogavayyA – neelAmbari
  • venTEsa ninnu – madyamAvati
  • lEkana – asAvEri
  • RTP – kAmbOji
  • kAsilo poyyEnE – mukhari
  • slOkam – sAmA, kApi, yadukulakAmbOji

with Dwaram Mangathayaru – Violin & Bangalore Praveen – Mridangam

Shanmukhananda Hall 11-03-1984

  • varNam – bhairavi – aTa
  • SaraNu siddhi vinAyakA – nATa
  • mOsaboku vinavE – gowLipantu
  • sogasuga mridanga – sriranjani
  • kripajoochutaku – chAyAtarangiNi
  • EmijEsitE – tODi
  • bAlasubramanyam – suraTi

with M S Anantaraman – Violin & M N Kandaswamy Pillai – Mridangam

Max Mueller Bhavan

  • varNam – sahAnA
  • gaNanAtanE – sArangA
  • nAdatanumanisam – chittaranjani
  • mErusamAna – mAyAmALavagowLa
  • AragimpavE – tODi
  • sarOja daLa nEtri – sankarAbaraNam

with M S Gopalkrishnan – Violin & Tanjore Upendran – Mridangam

  • varNam – bEgaDA
  • divAkara tanujam – yadukulakAmbOji
  • siva siva siva enarAdA – pantuvarALi
  • ElA ni dayarAdu – aTANA
  • entani nE varNintunu – mukhAri
  • talli ninnu nera – kalyANi

with T N Krishnan – Violin & T V Gopalakrishnan – Mridangam

Vinayaka Temple

  • varNam – kalyANi – aTa
  • praNamAmyaham – gowLa
  • vAtApi gaNapatim – hamsadvani
  • gajavadanA – sriranjani
  • lEkhanA – asAvEri
  • geetArtamu – suraTi
  • sri satyanArAyaNam – subhapantuvarALi
  • hasti vadanAya – navarOj
  • gajavadanA bEDuvE – kAPi

with T S Veeraraghavan – Violin & Karaikudi R Mani – Mridangam

Music Academy

  • varNam – darbAr
  • vAtApi gaNapatim – hamsadvani
  • nee pada pankaja – bEgaDA
  • ninnu vinA mari – poorvikalyANi
  • mAnasa guruguha – Anandabhairavi
  • evarikai – dEvamanOhari
  • RTP – kAmbOji

with V Thyagrajan – Violin & T K Moorthy – Mridangam

Coimbatore 19-05-1984

  • sugunamulE – chakravAkam
  • banTureeti – hamsanAdam
  • AlapanA – tODi
  • dAkshAyani – tODi
  • nAdupai – madhamAvati
  • sri kamalAmbikAyAm – sahAnA
  • sri rAjagOpAla – sAvEri
  • vAchamagOcharame – kaikavasi

It is possible that the ‘sri rAjagOpAla’ could be from a different concert, because the violinist sounds different from the previous compositions.

The last item is from a different concert.

AIR Concerts

with R K Venkatrama Sastry – Violin, Palghat Kunjumani – Mridangam & Palghat Sundaram – Ghatam

  • varNam – hamsadvani
  • gajavadanA – sriranjani
  • ADiya pAdattai – Arabhi
  • seetamma mAyamma – vasantA
  • baDalika dheerA – reetigowLa
  • tanu ninnadu – kEdAragowLa
  • viruttam – tiruppugazh

with Ivaturi Vijayeswar Rao – Violin & Venkayala Narasimham – Mridangam

  • hasti vadanAya namastubyam – navarOj
  • neelotpalAmbikAyai namastE – kEdAragowLa
  • sri bhArgavi bhadram – mangaLakaisiki
  • dharma samvardhini – madyamAvati

with M S Anantaraman – Violin & Trichur Narendran – Mridangam

  • varNam – AbOgi
  • manasu karagudEmO – hamsadwani
  • kalinarulaku – mAyAmALavagowLa
  • mama hridayE – reetigowLa
  • rAmA ika nannu brOva – sahAnA

with Annavarapu Ramaswamy – Violin & Dandamudi Ramamohan Rao – Mridangam

  • rAvE himagiri kumAri – tODi
  • sankari neevani – bEgaDA
  • himAchala tanaya – Anandabhairavi
  • talli ninnu – kalyANi
  • pAlincu kAmAkshi – madyamAvati

with S Jaganmohan Rao – Violin & Dandamudi Ramamohan Rao – Mridangam

  • varNam – bEgaDA
  • tuLasi jagajanani – sAvEri
  • Ananda naTana prakAsam – kEdAram
  • baDalikadeera – reetigowLa

Not so great and Noisy recordings

  • varNam – tODi
  • eTu namminA – sAvEri
  • AlapanA – karaharapriyA
  • mitri bhAgyamE – karaharapriyA
  • nA morAlakimpavEmi – dEvagAndhAri
  • girirAja – Anandabhairavi
  • patiki akshatalu – suraTi
  • tera teeyaga rAdA – gowLipantu
  • tappi bratiki – tODi
  • cEta sri bAlakrishNam – dwijAvanti
  • dharma samvardhini – madyamAvati
  • neenE dayALO – Anandabhairavi

with M S Gopalakrishnan – Violin & Erode Gururajan – Mridangam

QMC

Appears that the concert was recorded from a device on the lap of the person attending the concert (from the speakers that may have been away).

  • varNam – bEgaDA
  • siva siva siv enarAdA – pantuvarALi
  • tappi bratiki – tODi
  • bruhaspatE – aTANA
  • RTP – kalyANi

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