Kanugontini🔸Bilahari🔹Tyagaraja 🎵 M Balamuralikrishna🔸D P Raju🔹D R Rao 🎙️ A Vintage Recording ~ 1970s
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Dr. M Balamuralikrishna, the musician
Dr. M Balamuralikrishna, the musician par excellence championed in sensitizing our experiential quality of music appreciation in terms of both listening and also of its perception.
Among many masterly rendered compositions of Saint Tyāgarāja of both celebrated and rare compositions, “Kanugoṇṭini śrī Rāmuni” in the rāga Bilahari stands out as one of the significant compositions. In his long journey in music, BMK has rendered this popular composition several times. Each rendition when listened to in tandem shows how improvisation has been imparted to the rendition of this composition in Muralīgānam over time.
The vintage rendition presented here is an excerpt from a live concert held at Sri Krishna Gana Sabha, Chennai sometime in the late 1960s or in the early 1970s. BMK is accompanied by Sri. Dattada Pandurangaraju (violin), a fellow student of BMK, who also learnt music from Sri. Paruppali Ramakrishnayya Pantulu and Sri. Dandamudi Ramamohan Rao (mridangam), a longtime associate and friend of BMK.
The presentation has all the main components of rāgālāpana, kriti rendition, svara-vinyāsam and laya-vinyāsam. It is a pleasure to observe how each component integrates seamlessly with the other to bring out the intended overall effect.
It is interesting to note that BMK used to sing this composition with the lyrics [let us call it as “first version”] that pictures Lord Rama’s coronation and those worshipping the Lord (i.e., a description of a congregation in which all his brothers and those who helped Him in conquering Rāvana are present there) whom Tyāgarāja adores. However, BMK had also found another version of the lyrics (“second version” - varying only in the charanam) which mentions about the congregation like in the first version together with Tyāgarāja singing a line of the Vedantic statement “Tat-twam-asi” (That thou art).
When asked about these variations in the charanam, BMK said that he was given some manuscripts in which the second version featured. After finding the second version, BMK perhaps has not rendered the first version to popularise the second version. From this perspective too, this vintage recording is quite special. May be, this is the only recording of BMK available today in which he renders the first version.
By the way, the composition “Kanugoṇṭini śrī Rāmuni” is also questioned by the critics for its authenticity of attribution to Saint Tyāgarāja though it remains very popular. Many scholars opine that, it does not show Tyāgarāja’s usual characteristics though the exultation of having had a vision of Lord Rama is conveyed by the words.
The debate about its authenticity does not come in the way to listen and enjoy the exultation expressed by the singer here, and how the same jubilation stays with us as an afterglow for a long time undoubtedly remains undebatable.
I had attempted to enhance the audio quality of this recording some seven years ago and, now I have the opportunity to revisit the audio again to clean, restore and remaster in pursuit of the spirit of continuous improvement.
Hope you all will be able to listen to and enjoy the blissful presentation of Bilahari.
Among many masterly rendered compositions of Saint Tyāgarāja of both celebrated and rare compositions, “Kanugoṇṭini śrī Rāmuni” in the rāga Bilahari stands out as one of the significant compositions. In his long journey in music, BMK has rendered this popular composition several times. Each rendition when listened to in tandem shows how improvisation has been imparted to the rendition of this composition in Muralīgānam over time.
The vintage rendition presented here is an excerpt from a live concert held at Sri Krishna Gana Sabha, Chennai sometime in the late 1960s or in the early 1970s. BMK is accompanied by Sri. Dattada Pandurangaraju (violin), a fellow student of BMK, who also learnt music from Sri. Paruppali Ramakrishnayya Pantulu and Sri. Dandamudi Ramamohan Rao (mridangam), a longtime associate and friend of BMK.
The presentation has all the main components of rāgālāpana, kriti rendition, svara-vinyāsam and laya-vinyāsam. It is a pleasure to observe how each component integrates seamlessly with the other to bring out the intended overall effect.
It is interesting to note that BMK used to sing this composition with the lyrics [let us call it as “first version”] that pictures Lord Rama’s coronation and those worshipping the Lord (i.e., a description of a congregation in which all his brothers and those who helped Him in conquering Rāvana are present there) whom Tyāgarāja adores. However, BMK had also found another version of the lyrics (“second version” - varying only in the charanam) which mentions about the congregation like in the first version together with Tyāgarāja singing a line of the Vedantic statement “Tat-twam-asi” (That thou art).
When asked about these variations in the charanam, BMK said that he was given some manuscripts in which the second version featured. After finding the second version, BMK perhaps has not rendered the first version to popularise the second version. From this perspective too, this vintage recording is quite special. May be, this is the only recording of BMK available today in which he renders the first version.
By the way, the composition “Kanugoṇṭini śrī Rāmuni” is also questioned by the critics for its authenticity of attribution to Saint Tyāgarāja though it remains very popular. Many scholars opine that, it does not show Tyāgarāja’s usual characteristics though the exultation of having had a vision of Lord Rama is conveyed by the words.
The debate about its authenticity does not come in the way to listen and enjoy the exultation expressed by the singer here, and how the same jubilation stays with us as an afterglow for a long time undoubtedly remains undebatable.
I had attempted to enhance the audio quality of this recording some seven years ago and, now I have the opportunity to revisit the audio again to clean, restore and remaster in pursuit of the spirit of continuous improvement.
Hope you all will be able to listen to and enjoy the blissful presentation of Bilahari.
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