song: sundaratara dEham
rAgam: kAmavardhani (pantuvarALi)
tALam: Adi
composer: Tyagaraja
language: Telugu
Violin: Raghavendra Rao
Mridangam: Thanjavur Murugaboopathy
Ghatam: Balasubramaniam
Kanjira: Karthik Venkatraman
concert: Cleveland Tyagaraja Utsavam 2008
If you want pure tradition, then no one better than OS Thyagarajan today.
GCLwins 3 months ago
I think it is high time they award Sangeeta Kalanidhi title on OS Thyagarajan. He has earned it, and it is well deserved by now.
I hope the academy doesn't make the same blunder it did with TN Krishan and Lalgudi fiasco on this one.
pistachioguy 5 months ago
@utubemadoli - thank you - yes, I too was confused when I read the title, since I knew it was Pantuvarali, but the first syllable "Pa" of the name did not fit into the Melakarta Kadapayadi formula, so I suppose it was changed to Kamavardhini.
Why they changed the entire name is surprising (maybe it was not such a popular raga at the time, though GNB's rendition of this kriti changed all that) - they could have changed it to Kama-Pantuvaraali, like Hanumat-Todi or Dheera-Shankarabharanam, etc.
pistachioguy 5 months ago