Saturday 28 March 2015

Violin duo's 'pure' music, no gimmicks

Vid V V Ravi and Vid B U Ganesh Prasad performed a violin duet for the mandali at Jaya Nagar East End.  And the audience felt it was blissful singing.  

Such was the classical stroke that they brought to the stage.  

The concert just had ‘pure’ music devoid of any gimmicks.  They started with the Navaragamalika Varna and continued to play some popular numbers like “Rama Bhakti Samrajya”, “Shobillu”, “Bantureethi”, “Gnanamusagarada”.  “Mari vere” in Ananda Bhairavi held the audience in spell bound.

Ravi and Ganesh chose Abheri as the raga for the day.  

Super gamakas along with meticulous ‘Jaaru’ swaras and ample 'Brighas' highlighted their raga rendering.  Their violins sang “Bhaja Re Re” and touched everyone in the crowd.  Their ‘Gayaki’ style of playing the instrument was just amazing.

Vid. Sudhindra and Vid. Shrishaila supported them on the Mridangam and Ghatam respectively. We had an interesting incident after the concert.  A little boy grabbed Sudhindra’s mridangam and started exploring it.  Something is in store.

- By Smirithi P Kumar

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