Notable Vainika Series: KP Sarada and Sivanandam

This Veena duet video is indeed a rare find. Their playing is well recognized for their bhava and soukyam. They belog to the Tanjore school of Veena Playing. This was obtained from Sangeethapriya's member, Ramasundaram. For more on these great artists please visit:

http://pages.prodigy.net/priyas/sarada.html

In this notable vainika series, I want to present different styles of Veena playing while covering majors vainikas of today and yester years. A student of Veena should be exposed to all styles of playing. It is also desirable that the student also look for playing techiniques from other intsruments as well. Music is a way of life - a life long journey - that never ends and the joyous learning continues

If I have left out any vainika, it is only because I don't have a video to post.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Vainika
• Veena
• Veenai
• Carnatic
• Karnatic
• Sara
• Sivanandam

[curiousmoron]

Awesome Thodi.

Is it just me who feels that there is something funny going on with Vidwan Sivanandam's contact microphone (pickup)? Sounds quite weird the sound coming out of that pickup.

[lol0000wut]

epic

[tnemyo]

What an incredible video! A great scion of the Dikshitar school playing his majestic krithi in thodi, followed by Amba Neelambari composed by his father Thanjavur Ponniah Pillai. The madhyamakala passages are played with such azhutham that one can almost hear DK Pattamal singing them. How amazing would it be to hear them render mAyA atheetha swarUpini which the Tanjore Quartet composed as a tribute to their great teacher Muthuswamy Dikshitar?

[lsjtifo]

It should not be too difficult for PODHIGAI to take the services of a knowledgeable person to write the names of atistes etc in correct Deva Nagari lipi, or else use only the English version (with some improvement there too). Just see how atrociously the names of the artistes like Sivananandan, Sarada and Ramabhadran are spelt in Devanagari.