Originally Posted by
vel
V_S - very innovative and fresh sounding gowrimanohari....a classic in the lines of 'pon vaanam panneer thoovudhu..." The magic to watch for is see how free flowing the raga usage is......It is as if Raja had come up with the melody first and incidentally it falls into the gowrimanohari structure....so much of naturalness and ease in the design of the melody and apt use of the scale...this is where IR is just unbeatable.....Other MDs doing Carnatic melodies should see how IR, MSV etc made it look so free flowing and not forced and artificial melodies...