Kalyana Vasanta – The Infuser of Freshness - M Balamuralikrishna - Annavarapu - Upendran - 1979 скачать в хорошем качестве

Kalyana Vasanta – The Infuser of Freshness - M Balamuralikrishna - Annavarapu - Upendran - 1979

Rāga Kalyānavasanta is known to be a rare rāga handled only by Saint Tyāgarāja for the first time. Musicians during his time and those who lived before are believed to have not made any composition in this rāga. While the rarity of the rāga and its creation is attributed to Saint Tyāgarāja, who has composed two kritis in Kalyānavasanta, Mangalampalli Balamuralikrishna (BMK) has also contributed for the development of this rāga though his beautiful composition “gānamālinchi kāvavé” invoking the deities of Kanchi Kāmākshi and Madhurai Meenākshi. The story behind this composition as narrated to us by Sri. B M Sundaram, (BMS) a well-known musicologist and disciple of BMK, is something that rarely happens for one to experience in one’s life time. It probably happened in the early sixties. Both BMK and BMS were travelling in a night train, heading to Rameshwaram in Tamil Nadu for a concert. They were comfortably sleeping in a coupe and all of a sudden, BMK woke up from his sleep and goaded his disciple to also wake up as he wanted to sing something. BMS, being meticulous and a disciplined disciple, always carried with him something to write down and was ready, pushing back his sleep. BMK started to hum the rāga Kalyānavasanta, squatting on his bunk bed in the moving train, and sang the composition “gānamālinchikāvavé,” line by line and went back to sleep like a baby. Then, BMS not only wrote down the lyrics of the song but he also captured the essential notes of the song as BMK sang them. The next day, BMK and BMS were at the temple town Madhurai having come from the other temple town Rameshwaram. BMK took up the rāga Kalyānavasanta in his concert and presented the composition “gānamālinchikāvavé,” as an offering to the presiding deity of Madhurai for the first time. BMS, when he completed his narration of this story, posed a question. He asked “Do you know, my guru has been generous enough to add my name in this composition?” As we were recollecting the lines of this song in the hope of quickly finding it to respond, BMS chuckled saying “né nammipādina.. Sundara..Muralī..gānamālinchi” Savour this beautiful composition, rendered in a rAga that infuses freshness, in a live concert held in 1979.