GN Balasubramaniam | Best Moments on Stage | 114 Birth Anniversary Tribute

Vaak offers a humble tribute to the revolutionary vocalist GN Balasubramaniam on his 114th birth anniversary today with a compilation of recordings from the golden era of Carnatic music. The tracks that have been chosen from our archives in order to exhibit the variety in manodharma and different compositions rendered by GNB. The details of the songs are:

1) 00:00:00 - Misra Yaman - Radha Sametha Krishna - Adi
With Kumbakonam Rajamanickam Pillai - Palghat TS Mani Iyer

2) 00:04:04 - Pantuvarali - Ennaganu Rama Bhajana - Rupakam - Bhadrachala Ramadasa
With Lalgudi G Jayaraman and Pazhani Subramania Pillai

3) 00:22:32 - Kanada - Mamavasada - Rupakam - Swati Tirunal
With Govindaswamy Naicker and Coimbatore N Ramaswamy

4) 00:32:46 - Kapi Narayani - Sarasa Samadana - Adi - Tyagaraja
With Lalgudi G Jayaraman and Pazhani Subramania Pillai

5) 00:50:45 - Begada - Nivera kula Dhanamu - Misra Chapu - Tyagaraja
With RS Gopalakrishnan and SVS Narayanan

6) 01:05:05 - Purvikalyani - Karanam Kettuvadi - Adi - Gopalakrishna Bharathi

7) 01:08:11 - Yadhukula Kambhoji - Ninnu Sevinchina - Misra Chapu - Subbaraya Sastri
With TN Krishnan and TK Murthy

8) 01:36:32 - Asaveri - Samayamu Thelisi - Misra Chapu - Tyagaraja
With Marella Keshava Rao and C Lakshminarayan

9) 01:47:56 - Kambhoji - Sri Subramanyaya Namaste - Rupakam - Muthuswamy Dikshitar
With Lalgudi G Jayaraman and Pazhani Subramania Pillai

10) 02:10:16 - Bilahari - Paridanaminchite - Khanda Chapu - Patnam Subramania Iyer
With TN Krishnan and Palghat Raghu

11) 02:19:29 - Kalyani - Vasudevayani - Adi - Tyagaraja
With Kumbakonam Rajamanickam Pillai - Palghat TS Mani Iyer

12) Alapanas:
02:28:09 - Raga Chenchukambhoji
With Lalgudi G Jayaraman

02:32:57 - Raga Malavi
With Lalgudi G Jayaraman

02:36:00 - Raga Amrithavarshini
With MS Gopalakrishnan

02:38:39 - Raga Jayanthasri
With Lalgudi G Jayaraman

02:40:50 - Raga Kiranavali
With TN Krishnan

13) 02:43:50 - Nattakurinji - Thanam
With MS Gopalakrishnan

14) 02:52:33 - Thodi - Pallavi - Dasharatha Bala Ramachandrayya, Dayanidhe - Adi (4 Kalai)
With Lalgudi G Jayaraman, CS Murugabhoopathi and Alangudi Ramachandran

15) 02:56:56 - Ragamalika: Varali, Kaanada, Bhupalam, Kathanakuthoohalam, Behag - Kalpana Swara - Tisra Triputa
With Mysore T Chowdiah and Palghat TS Mani Iyer

16) - Sloka
03:06:33 - Raga Sadvithamargini
With Lalgudi G Jayaraman

03:09:00 - Raga Kuntalavarali
With Lalgudi G Jayaraman

03:11:31 - Raga Rishabhapriya (incorrectly labelled)
With TN Krishnan

03:13:51 - Raga Gavathi
With MS Gopalakrishnan

03:17:00 - Raga Nayaki
With Lalgudi G Jayaraman

03:19:05 - Raga Padi
With Chowdiah

03:21:52 - Raga Hamir Kalyani
With Chalakudi Narayanaswamy

17) 03:26:26 - Kapi - Radha Mukha Kamala - Adi - Papanasam Sivan
With Lalgudi G Jayaraman and Palghat Raghu


The purpose of this upload is to assist the students and the lifelong learners of India in their pursuit of an education so that they may better their status and their opportunities and to secure for themselves and for others justice, social, economic and political. This has been posted for non-commercial purposes and facilitates fair dealing usage of academic and research materials for private use including research, for criticism and review of the work or of other works and reproduction by teachers and students in the course of instruction. Many of these materials are either unavailable or inaccessible in libraries in India, especially in some of the poorer states and this collection seeks to fill a major gap that exists in access to knowledge.

Note : The photographs used do not belong to the original concerts. The 78 RPM recordings have been sourced from the Youtube Channel, Serpent Maigre.

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