Instrumental Recital of Raja's Music

**skr** · 13th July 2011, 07:13 PM

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**sakaLAKALAKAlaa Vallavar** · 15th July 2011, 05:38 PM

thnx skr

will watch all videos u posted..

**skr** · 27th July 2011, 08:56 PM

Rajesh Vaidya playing Sundari Kannal from Thalapathy a few days back on Kalaignar TV..Check out from 02:30 onwards ..

KV · 28th July 2011, 11:34 PM

whoa! skr, for sharing this one, mikka nandri! Rajesh's playing is always very soulful. My only grouse in this one is the sound of his veenai. I think he's plugged it to a processor (seen in the video) and the sound it creates is a very electric guitar like one. The divinity of the veenai is somewhat missing. Anyway, he compromises for this with his lovely playing.

Never knew a ragam called Kosalam existed in the first place! Sundari kannaal's charanam has some unbelievably goosefleshy moments, the ones which Rajesh demonstrates here in this video. What a subtle variance in texture it creates in contrast to Kalyani's pleasant and warm feeling. This man's grasp and comprehension of music is simply beyond any other artist I've come across so far.

While googling for this ragam, came across this padhivu from Vel:
Kosalam was earlier used in film Thalapathi...the song is "sundari kannal oru seidhi"...Incidentally, the song blends the ragas "kosalam" & "kalyani" to give a blend of happy & pathos emotions (love & war scenes in that song..the orchestration in war sequences is in kosalam, the charanams mix both...pallavi reaches back to kalyani)..The genius in this song "sundari kannal oru seidhi" is that, the two ragas kosalam & kalyani, just differs in one swara, and IR has used this brilliantly to give two entirely different shades of emotions...The scale for the two songs are given here..

Kalyani - s r2 g3 m2 p d2 n3 s
Kosalam - s r3 g3 m2 p d2 n3 s...

**V_S** · 28th July 2011, 11:57 PM

Wow! that's very interesting to know and a very rare information.

KV and vel.

**skr** · 30th July 2011, 08:09 PM

One more song of Maestro where Kosalam is blended in a Kalyani based song is Vellai Pura Ondru from Pudhu Kavithai ..It happens in the 2nd interlude after the Flute-string portion but its not as profound as Sundari Kannal ..

**skr** · 31st July 2011, 03:43 PM

Lots of IR songs interlude and preludes played by musicians in programme Paadava Duet Paadalai in Kalaignar TV (already posted , just compiling it here)