A Medley - Abhishek Raghuram

Sharing a medley of compositions from a concert in 2017. These compositions threaded themselves in a sequence that was not planned before, in a manner that surprised us pleasantly as we presented them. As it happens sometimes, the magic of the moment and the location finds its way into the music, somehow.
Sung here first, are a couple of stanzas from a poem: pAyum oli nee enakku - by the celebrated Tamil renaissance writer Sri Subramania Bharati. In its immediate appeal, it is a strikingly beautiful love poem. In the larger context, the poem speaks of the eternal tug between inspiration and expression. The evocatively longing music, based on Raga Mand over Adi (Tishra) is a composition by Sri Rajkumar Bharati.
Flowing into it is a Devaranama: allide namma mane, Illi bande summane, - by Saint Sri Purandaradasa. The sahitya uses the metaphor of our dear homes, to remind us what our real haven is. It calls for devotion and piety, in place of worldly greed and possession. This devaranama has been composed to a tune based on Raga Rageshri, Tala Adi (Tishra), by Smt. M D Pallavi.
Violin: Sri H N Bhaskar
Mridangam: Sri Patri Satish Kumar

[@archanakumar]

Santa Clara Convention Center - SIFA Concert - Sep 10th 2017. Was almost a 5-hr concert !

[@RamyaSivaramakrishnanSinger]

Thank u so much for sharing this. I was there sitting as an audience in 2017 at academy when Abhishek ji and Sanjeev ji performed a jugalbandi. This is the song Abhishek performed and gave me goosebumps.

[@ramsundaram4615]

Abhishek is a grand super star. Full of manodharmam. Great singer.

[@keshavasaralaya4518]

This is how the music directly pours in to our heart and soaks slowly and becomes everything. One cannot but let him surrendered to such a mesmerising performance. Salutes to all the artists

[@gemindia]

Simply outstanding and the HN Bhaskar and Patri add so much to elevating the Music! Thank you

[@meenakshipadmanabhan8926]

Listening to this singing of AR is sheer bliss🙏God bless you 👍

[@umashankari554]

Excellent

[@shwethaswaminathan9237]

Aah, this was the SIFA 2017 Concert and what a concert it was!! With a football game happening, a lot of us reached the concert venue super late, but it was so worth it. The Kalyani RTP with a bit of Nattakurinji and Hindolam peppered in and HNB's violin return of Kalyani was something out of the world!! Prayers for the world to return to normalcy and for us here in the Bay Area to listen to live concerts again!!

[@gemindia]

Thank you for capturing the mood of the concert so succinctly

[@ramsundaram4615]

Greatest poet Bharathiyar's song.

[@chandusan]

Amazing as always. From the sec you start singing, it seems like I stat to see and feel god. Just keep doing this service of singing for us for a long long time Abhishek. Prayers for your good health❤️

[@santhanamr.7345]

Ohhhh! What a soul stirring mesmerising and hypnotising rendition. As a Tamil Kannadiga from Bengaluru I thoroughly cherished both the sahityam! The whole performance was glorified by the wonderful percussion! Kudos to him whoever was It! Will be greatful if it can be revealed! GOD BLESS ALL

[@keshavasaralaya4518]

The wonderful accompanying artists are Vidwan H N Bhaskar on violin and Vidwan Pathri Sathish Kumar on mridanga, as I infer from the group photo coming at the end

[@ItsShankz]

Brilliant. Vid. AR never disappoints.

[@harisankar2298]

namasthe anna no words excellent , surely patri sir will be the mridangam

[@malathynarayanan6078]

Another melodious medley - Arumai. Thanks for sharing

[@satyanarayanaks9972]

This singing is capsule of happiness and bliss🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@Sam-hc4sd]

God level!!

[@seshadrisubramanian]

Mesmerising! Lending Hindustani touch

[@meenakshi_arun]

Another favorite from the archives 😍

[@ramsundaram4615]

Raghuram is a master genius

[@lakshmisunder4643]

Super fantastic melody. Beautiful singing

[@malathynarayanan6078]

This medley was awesome.Thanks

[@mallikarjunaraomaram5995]

Super voice sir Super singer

[@sridharanneela7286]

Beautiful !!!

[@narayanansubramaniam9970]

I regard Abhishek as a close friend of my family. He is the guru to a my grand niece Avani, daughter of Srikanth, and Rakshita, a niece of my wife Jayalakshmi.

[@Sam-hc4sd]

Kannada pronunciation is perfect!!

[@24Alien]

Sublime...

[@APKoilNSapthagireesanjaya]

Very harmonious combination!!

[@prakashraman262]

Simply Divine..

[@satyanarayanap5068]

Superb rendition 🙏

[@selvakumarrajakumar2921]

Super super voice 🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@sudarshanrao8868]

Superb rendition 🙏🙏🙏

[@jayadevsubash]

Veenai Adi ! 😭❤️

[@mallikarjunaraomaram5995]

Super your voice

[@lakshmivithal3252]

Mesmerising rendition of raaga mand & bagesri. You have taken me to another world by singing this eternal piece of allide nammane. Lilting melody and bhavam I can't forget for my life time. Such a wonderful presentation Abhishek ji. Composer Mr. ARUN also did a awesome job. My sincere thanks to both of you. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@lakshmivithal3252]

Sorry, composer Mrs M D Pallavi, thak you so much Madam. You composed this song so well and given a new dimension to enhance the beauty of lyrics 🙏🙏

[@sriramandganesh7753]

Superb rendition. 🙏

[@mukundbharadwajL]

simply superb

[@SujithBalakrishnaWarrier]

Superb rendition

[@kasinathan9489]

🙏🙏🙏

[@raghunath44]

Patri🙏

[@sambusambu3671]

😍😍😇🙏

[@EESHA7458]

🙏🙏🙏😪

[@subrahmanyantr722]

The Devarnaamaa is in Raagaa Rageshri & not Bhaageshri ! Both differ in the Gaandhaar note !

[@yashasvikarri]

Could anyone please post the transliteration and meaning for the compositions presented in this beautiful organization, so that I can associate the transcendent music with fitting sentiment? Thank you.🙏🏾

[@keshavraj8441]

I could hear hariharan ghazal style being employed here.

[@gemindia]

Sir, do not compare. Abhishek is pure classical . Hariharan, with all respects, and shankar Mahadevan is following , cannot but become filmy.

[@keshavraj8441]

@@gemindia abhishek himself had claimed hariharan (distant relative) influence his singing kzbin.info/www/bejne/mIPTYX96j6lpg6c 1:45 onwards

[@bharathijagannath8198]

Yes yes, Abhishek is supreme.

[@WorldofWellness]

No words to describe the opening Maand, flawless in every sense, enjoyed every bit. The raaga on veene adi sounds so mesmerizing. The same is not true with the Purandara dasa krithi, Allide Nammane, though. The sahityam of this song is so much deeper than the Raaga I felt. Disappointing Dasa Krithi:(