GNB Compositions

GNB ( G N Balasubramaniam) was one of the prominent composers of the 20th century, in addition to being trail blazing vocalist.

Of his 250 compositions in Sanskrit, Telugu and Tamil, only about sixty have been published. His compositions include many that are based on ragams that he created such as chandrahasita, sivasakti, amritA behAg. Also, there is no mudra or signature in his compositions depicting his humility. In the same vein, he has not sung his compositions in his concerts. There are a couple of books that published his compositions along with the notation. His compositions are primarily performed by his disciples and their disciples.

Finding that there is no easy way to find the recordings of his compositions in a single place, this is my humble attempt in presenting some of his compositions along with links to the lyrics on karnatik.com; you will find that not all the published compositions have a recording and some recordings have no lyrics published either. I will try to fill the gaps as I have access to them.

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CompositionRecording
Slokam on GNBS Kalyanaraman
aDagalEni anni
varALi
ambOruha pAdamE (varNam)
ranjani
S Kalyanaraman
bhAramA I bAluni
hamsanAdam
V Ramachandran
bhuvanatraya
mOhanam
V Ramachandran
dasha shata daLa
hamsanAdam
V Ramachandran
dhIm tadhIm tananatillAnA
hamsAnandi
S Kalyanaraman
en manattAmarai
rItigauLa
S Kalyanaraman
enta ninnu
candrahasita
M L Vasantakumari

V Ramachandran
entO moraliDa lEdA
kannaDa
eppuDu nI
bhairavi
V Ramachandran
gati vErevarammA
bhairavi
V Ramachandran
inkevarunnAru
subhapantuvarALi
Sangeeta Swaminathan
inta parAku neevE
bhairavi
Subhasree Ramachandran
kamala vAsini (varNam)
gAvati
V Ramachandran
kamalAsini sundari
kalyANi
T V Sankaranarayanan
kamala charanE
amritAbehAg
S Kalyanaraman

S Kalyanaraman & V Ramachandran
kAraNamEmi kAnanE
AndOlikA
S Kalyanaraman
karimukha varadA
nATa
S Kalyanaraman
karuNa jooDa rAdA
sahAna
V Ramachandran
karuNinci kApADuDa (varNam)
yadukulakAmbhOji
kavalai ellAm
saraswati
S Kalyanaraman
madhurApuri kalyANi
poorvikalyANi
V Ramachandran
mahA tripurasundari
kAmbOji
V Ramachandran
mahAdEva manOranjani
ranjani
mamAkulEswaram
tODi
S Kalyanaraman & V Ramachandran
manam irangAda
ravicandrikA
V Ramachandran
manasArakanE nammaka
AbhOgi
V Ramachandran
manasu rAdA
sAmakAdambari
Sanjay Subrahmanyan
mAnavakula bhUSaNa
hindOLam
V Ramachandran
mAnavati nannu sadA
tODi
V Ramachandran
mangaLa varadAyaki
kadanakutUhalam
M L Vasantakumari

V Ramachandran
mArakOTi sundari
bahudAri
M L Vasantakumari
maravanunE ninu
Arabhi
V Ramachandran
marivErE gati
mALavi
S Kalyanaraman
mOhana krishna
kadanakutoohalam
S Kalyanaraman
nA moralanu
nArAyaNi
S Kalyanaraman
nAkabhaya varamosagi
nATakuranji
S Rajam
nannu brOva nI
cencukAmbhOji
nee dayarAdA
AndOlika
Gayatri Girish
neekE evarunnAru
subhapantuvarALi
S Kalyanaraman
nI allAl ini
kAnaDA
M L Vasantakumari
nI caraNambujamunu
kIravANi
S Kalyanaraman
nI daya galgunO
SaNmukhapriyA
S Kalyanaraman
nI pAdamE gati naLinakAntimati
naLinakAnti
M L Vasantakumari

S Kalyanaraman
nI samAnamevaru
shubhapantuvarALi
Radha & Jayalakshmi

V Ramachandran
ninnu pOgaDa taramA
kuntalavarALi
S Kalyanaraman
ninnu vinA vErE gati
rItigauLa
V Ramachandran
ninnu vinA vErevaru
mALavi
V Ramachandran
niratamugA ninnE
udayaravichandrikA
Sudha Ragunathan
niravadhi sukha dAyaki
malayamArutam
V Ramachandran
nIvalayincE
chAyAranjani
nIvE nannu (varNam)
ranjani
S Kalyanaraman
pAda bhajana
khamAs
S Kalyanaraman

V Ramachandran
padamala iNayE
bEgaDa
V Ramachandran
paramakrpA sAgari
yadukulakAmbhOji
S Kalyanaraman
parAmukhamEla namma
kAnaDA
S Kalyanaraman
paritApamulEka
SaNmukhapriyA
V Ramachandran
ranjani niranjani
ranjani
S Kalyanaraman
sadA ninnE
naTabhairavi
sadA pAlaya
mOhanam
V Ramachandran
sakala kalA vANi (varNam)
hindOLam
V Ramachandran
sAmagAna lOlE
hindOLa
S Kalyanaraman
santatamu ninnE
valaji
S Kalyanaraman

V Ramachandran
samAna rahitE
sArangatarangiNi
Serthalai K N Ranganatha Sarma
sArasAkSi sadA (varNam)
varALi
sarasijAkSi nI
mArgahindOLa
V Ramachandran
saraswati namOstutE
saraswati
Sanjay Subrahmanyan
shankara mahAdEva
dEvamanOhari
V Ramachandran
sharatchandra nibhananE
veeNAdhari
V Ramachandran
shivAnanda kAmavardhani
kAmavardhini
S Kalyanaraman
sree saraswati
saraswati
S Kalyanaraman
shrI cakrarAja nilayE
shivashakti
S Kalyanaraman
sujana mAnasa
hamsAnandi
V Ramachandran
tAmasamika tALanu
AbhOgi
S Kalyanaraman
unnaDiyE
bahudAri
V Ramachandran
taramu gAdamma
pUrvikalyANi
vadarEramma nI pAda
sAvEri
vara vallabha ramaNa
hamsadhvani
M L Vasantakumari

S Kalyanaraman & V Ramachandran
varada nipuNa
poorNachandrika
M L Vasantakumari
vinuta pAlini
shivashakti
V Ramachandran

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