It was indeed a great day for Sathya as it was the 450th concert he was performing on stage. It is also a coincidence that he was performing for the same forum, Nadopasana, which gave him the first ever oppurtunity on the 9th Dec'01!
Sathya started with a brisk Sahana varnam playing two kalams and taking the madhyama kalam for charanam also performed kalpanaswaram, being first attempt.He then went on to perform Srimahaganapathey in Gowla with a good outline of the raga and kalpanaswaram. Rajeev on violin along with Calcutta Karthick on mrudhangam and Valaingaiman Hariharasubramaniam on ghatam were excellent and were enhancing the concert to their best.
Sathya detailed alapana for Begada and after the concert many of his well wishers who have been constantly following him complemented for his level of maturity seen in his approach to the raga aalapana. The krithi Nadopasana was followed by a brisk krithi in Neevada in Saranga set to Kanda Chaapu. He then gave an outline for Bilahari and performed Karpagambike set to rupaka thalam and the phrases of both Sathya and Rajeev during the kalpanaswarams and the percussion support were indeed good. Sathya took up Lathangi as the main krithi for the day and did a good aalapana, so did Rajeev and performed the krithi Piravaram Tharum set to Adhi. Percussionist gave a good thani which was followed by a Bhajan - Nanda Nandhanu and completed the concert with Karunai Deivame Karpagame in Sindhubhairavi.
Thanks to all who were present for his 1st concert on the 9th Dec'01 and were seen here too. This itself is a great blessing for Sathya. He also had few artists turning up and the greatest blessing was of Smt Jayalaksmi Santhanam, a renowned Singer apart from SAFE Sri Ramabadran and many of Sathya's well wishers.
Here is few small video tracks of teh concert as audio was not recorded.
Thanks to Calcutta Karthick who has given us the cd of this recording on teh 29th Mar'08 and the link is http://sangeethamshare.org/sathya/008_Nadopasana_02Mar08/
