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தியாகராஜரின் அம்மராவம்மா-ராகம்~கல்யானி~The late S. G. Kittappa, for many years the lone star of the Tamil stage had for an accompaniment his brother, Shri S. G. Kasi Iyer, on the Harmonium. His rich, sonorous and pliable voice could be matched by notes which could be coaxed only out of the Harmonium. All other instruments were unequal to the vocal challenge. To dismiss Kittappa as a stage singer would be doing injustice both to his music and to his artistic genius. It is said that the great composer Gayaka-sikamani Muthia Bagavatar used to test his own competence with Kittappa's vocal chords. The flashes of musical variations with which Kittappa illuminated Carnatic music compositions, classical, semi-classical and light, attracted admiration and emulation by great stalwarts like Violin Govindaswamy Pillai, Nadaswaram Rajaratnam Pillai and Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar. These masters were regular first-nighters at his stage shows."

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[sonny19xx]

sorry i stand corrected. indeed this kriti is by thyagaraja

[sonny19xx]

THANKS vintageaudio54.This is memorable Kalyani alapana by SGK. i dont think this is thyagaraja kriti , it is syama sastri .

[BinoySkaria]

beautiful singing

[cyberbrahma]

Scintillating Kalyani!Thanks.

Please correct "karnatak music" as "carnatic music" in your description, to avoid the readers getting a wrong notion that the type of music merely belong to the state of Karnataka.

Please add a tag "carnatic" also.

Regards

S.K