Vocal Concert by Arun Mahadevan at IISc

At Choksi hall, IISc organised, by Samskrta Sangha of IISc on 2nd January 2010.
Vocal: Arun Mahadevan
Violin: Satyaprakash K R
Mridangam: Balakrishna

01. varna - valachi - Adi - lAlguDi jayarAman
02. mumuchuvEnirAma - darbAr - rUpaka
03. shrIsatyanArAyaNa - shubhapantuvarALi - rUpaka - dikshitar
04. mOhana AlApa - rArArAjiva lOchana - Adi - mysUru vAsudevAchAr
05. aTukAdarA - manOranjani - Adi -
06. bhairavi - AlApa - lalite shrI- Adi- thyagarAja
07. bEhAg - irakkam - rUpaka
08. jagadoddhArana - kApi - Adi - Purandaradasaru
09. tillAna - mOhanakalyANi
10. mangalam

Review: 

Arun Mahadevan -  a BE student gave a good concert at IISc. He is trained under O S Thyagarajan and T R Subramanian. The concert started with a varnam in valachi. This was follwed by a short AlApa in darbAr and mumuchuvEnirAma. The main item was bhairavi and the sub-main was mOhana. It was nice to hear Mysore Vasudevaachaar's  rArArAjIvalOchana - a krithi rarely heard these days. Yet another rare composition  aDugAna in maNoranjani was rendered with full bhAva. The main piece bharavi was rendered very well with neraval and swarakalpana at teliyani-bAluDa. Sathya on violin and Balakrishna on mridangam provided able support. Sathya's ideas were notable. Balakrishna - a student of ShreemushNam Raja Rao followed up the krithis very well with a good aesthetic sense. At no point of time mridangam sounded noisy. Arun is gifted with a very good voice and his rendering sounds effortless. He has to improve his grip on laya.