Source: The Hindu | VENKATESAN SRIKANTH
March 27, 2014
All India Radio’s national broadcasts of live recordings from the 167th Tyagaraja Aradhana at Thiruvaiyaru brought the scent of the festival to listeners.
All India Radio, in a special programme “Ravivaria Akil Bhartiya Sangeeth Sabha”, some time back, broadcast the live recordings of two Carnatic music concerts from the 167th Sadguru Tyagaraja Aradhana Festival which was held at Thiruvaiyaru, where the saint composer Tyagaraja attained samadhi. The emphasis in the music recitals during this festival is on the compositions of Tyagaraja, through brief raga alapanas and neraval to bring out the lyrical value of these compositions. Music lovers also, who gather at the Aradhana, pay great attention to the lyrical values. Unlike in other regular concerts, the emphasis is also on the mathematics in swara singing. AIR has been broadcasting such live recordings for the past many years. The other highlight of these broadcasts is to hear the group rendering of the famous five ‘Pancharatna’ kritis — in the ragas Nattai, Gowla, Arabhi, Varali and Sri — by innumerable musicians gathered like pilgrims at the venue.
The first broadcast contained a brief vocal duet recital of Shanmukhapriya and Haripriya, (popularly known as the “Priya Sisters”), for about 45 minutes. Even in the...................
Read more at http://www.thehindu.com/features/friday-review/music/words-of-succour/article5839679.ece
March 27, 2014
All India Radio’s national broadcasts of live recordings from the 167th Tyagaraja Aradhana at Thiruvaiyaru brought the scent of the festival to listeners.
All India Radio, in a special programme “Ravivaria Akil Bhartiya Sangeeth Sabha”, some time back, broadcast the live recordings of two Carnatic music concerts from the 167th Sadguru Tyagaraja Aradhana Festival which was held at Thiruvaiyaru, where the saint composer Tyagaraja attained samadhi. The emphasis in the music recitals during this festival is on the compositions of Tyagaraja, through brief raga alapanas and neraval to bring out the lyrical value of these compositions. Music lovers also, who gather at the Aradhana, pay great attention to the lyrical values. Unlike in other regular concerts, the emphasis is also on the mathematics in swara singing. AIR has been broadcasting such live recordings for the past many years. The other highlight of these broadcasts is to hear the group rendering of the famous five ‘Pancharatna’ kritis — in the ragas Nattai, Gowla, Arabhi, Varali and Sri — by innumerable musicians gathered like pilgrims at the venue.
The first broadcast contained a brief vocal duet recital of Shanmukhapriya and Haripriya, (popularly known as the “Priya Sisters”), for about 45 minutes. Even in the...................
Read more at http://www.thehindu.com/features/friday-review/music/words-of-succour/article5839679.ece
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