J.B. Sruthi Sagar, at The Music Academy, 26th December 2020

J.B.Sruthi Sagar (Flute)
K.P.Nandini (Violin)
R.Akshay Ram (Mridangam)
Recorded as part of the digital 94th annual concerts of the Music Academy, Madras, supported by HCL concerts

[@kschami]

PLAYLIST 1. THODI Sri Krishnam bhaja Manasa dikhiitar 00:01:01 2. EzhiluDai Hamsanadam - Hamsanadam - Tanjore Sankara Iyer 00:17:40 3. Raghupate Rama - Shahana - Thyagaraja - Alapana 00:22:50 krithi 00:39:57 thani 00:51::40 4. Thumaka Chalata Ramachandra - Jinhjuti - Tulasidasa 00:56:11

[@SachiRSachidananda]

1. Srikrishnam Bhaja Manasa Satatam - Todi- Muthuswami Dikshitar 2. EzhiluDai Hamsanadam - Hamsanadam - Tanjore Sankara Iyer 3. Raghupate Rama - Shahana - Thyagaraja 4. Thumaka Chalata Ramachandra - Jinhjuti - Tulasidasa

[@srikrishnansundaram3813]

Thanks sir

[@sanskrithymnsforyou5468]

Thanks for this list ..

[@kschami]

Thanks .Will use this info to come up with time stamped list

[@chandrasekaranvaidyanathan1215]

Sruthi is among the truly talented and blessed artists of the younger generation... And someone who carries his talent and achievements lightly on his shoulder.. humility is sign of a great artist... Enjoyed this concert

[@hariharanm1990]

Very pleasant soothing and sterling manodharma

[@vrvenkataraman828]

Oo Mm.mjj9

[@vrvenkataraman828]

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[@bestofcarnaticflute2736]

There are a lot of positives about Sruthi Sagar: his total commitment, devotion, his baaNi, dedication. Where he could improve is on tonal quality particularly when playing the higher notes. I am sure he will do so with time.

[@rsrinivasan770]

Heavenly Flute!

[@sumanthganapathibasavapatn141]

I completely agree with you. However, the tonal quality of higher notes is sometimes lowered by the instrument itself, and blowing harder to produce a more tonally correct pitch results in screeching noise. So it's most likely a technical difficulty.

[@swathisuresh5837]

The thodi in the beginning was outstanding ! Reminded me of DK Jayaraman sirs rendition of Shri Krishnam Bhaja manasa.

[@deepaganeshram3426]

Simply superb. Pristine music that transports us to another world altogether.

[@jayashreekannan3213]

The divine instrument put to best use ! Rich melody all the way, swarams were too soothing like conversation between two birds with lovely modulations. Enjoyed this brilliant concert. God bless.

[@ktsviolin-whoamicreations2146]

அற்புதமான சிந்தனையுடன் குழலை உள்ளம் உருகி உள்ளம் கொள்ளை கொள்ளும் இவருக்கு என் மனமார்ந்த பாராட்டுக்கள்.

[@avinodshyam]

Very good Nadham of the mridangam ! Doubles the experience of the whole music.. congrats to Shrutisagar, Nandini and Akshay..

[@akshayramramanathan666]

Thank you so much brother🙏

[@SachiRSachidananda]

The flute has always an irresistible call for me. And JBSS is simply SUPERB every time. God bless

[@sujaypuranik92]

That 'Thumaka Chalata Rāmachandra' rendition at the end of the video was pure bliss. Heavens!

[@rajunair8087]

Amazing! Thodi, hamsa nadam & sahana are excellent. Nandini and Akshay also played marvallously🙏🙏🎉🎉🎉

[@akshayramramanathan666]

Thank you 🙏

[@ravichandran8302]

Really God gift sruthi sagar.soul searching music.highly orthodox what a thejas

[@vijayrk7329]

What an amazing young musician..seems like the new Ramana Balachandran. Super talented team.On my radar now!

[@mrshankara]

Ramana Balachandran... First time hearing about him. Be not offended. Will check. :)

[@mrshankara]

Got it...the Veena prodigy... Love and respects to these boys who are rooted in tradition while achieving new heights in music. Hoping to hear unadulterated Karnatak music from these highly talented young ppl.

[@jaibharateesha7882]

Shruthi Sagar is Godess Saraswati's manifestation. His Sahana rendering is awesome and no words to describe.🎉

[@saraswathisubramanian246]

Very very talented Artist.தோடி, ஹம்ஸநாதம்,ஸஹானா, டுமகசலத all outstanding. Accompaniments too good. Mrudangam நாதம் needs a mention. GOD BLESS THEM

[@akshayramramanathan666]

Thank you Saraswathi Subramanian ji🙏

[@naraharisharma8667]

My mind passified, listening to this soulful music, that we will not go dry and need not worry for my lifetime, another 40plus years, we have great music food

[@naraharisharma8667]

Satvika music food cooking and keeping continuity filling us, 🙏🙏🙏

[@gopuraman]

Sahana outstanding! Sruthi, Nandini and Akshay well played👏

[@akshayramramanathan666]

Thank you so much sir!🙏 Namaskaarams!🙏

[@devarajethiraj6594]

Well played

[@saraswathisubramanian246]

Superb Superb Audio. கச்சேரி நேரில் கேட்பதுபோல் சௌக்கியமாக உள்ளது

[@saraswathisubramanian246]

What a soul stirring devine player. Each blow in any ragam is ச்ருதி சுத்தம். His name is very apt.His musical knowledge nd the way he handles each ragam is boundless like Sea.God bless this child a long healthy happy life AHEAD.

[@kumarsreenivasan8020]

Excellent Mridangam by Akshay Ram ji and Superb Violin by Nandini Ji

[@akshayramramanathan666]

Thank you so much Kumar Sreenivasan ji🙏

[@enrichingexchanges]

That tOdi was just outstanding!

[@subrahmanyadikshitulu5923]

👍👌🌹🌷🙋 excellent..very very melodious..

[@ranganathankrishnamoorthy5156]

Akshy mrudhamgam amarkalam!! For Rasikas like me future is very bright! Long live Akshay and achieve a lot!! Singapore🇸🇬 became cooler than before after this concert! The artists are now world famous!! What else? Only the claps sound is missing!

[@akshayramramanathan666]

Thank you so much for your kind words...🙏🙏 Thank you for watching our concert!🙏🙏 Namaskaarams

[@ranganathankrishnamoorthy5156]

Health is wealth . You are the nationalised property of this Bharath! Save our Hinduism!!

[@sridhar1911]

Carnatic music will thrive for ever through upcoming stalwarts like Shruthi Sagar and other young artists of great talent.

[@purushothamagowda1742]

Highly gifted musician---- Shruthi sagar. All the best for him👍👍✌️✌️

[@MrKanthikumar]

Delightful beginning with Guruvayoorappa Kshetra darshana kirtana by globetrotting Dikshitar "Sri Krishnam bhajamanasa" in Thodi!! I met the young KPNandini during the 2011 academy season. She and a male friend of hers were so sweet to this old man visiting form the USA. We chatted on my love for MDR's music. She ran off for dinner hitching a lift from the friend's bike. She waved a goodbye for me as I too went for supper at Woodlands. Nandini's violin adds luster to Sagar's brilliant pullamkuzhal! Greetings to all three musicians. Narayanakurup Kanthikumar River Islands California

[@kmathis1000]

Excellent. I wish there was a decorated diety on stage. 🙏

[@govindarajulu-kasturi9614]

Simply Divine music. God Bless the Vidhwan's. Thanks.

[@rsrinivasan770]

Amazing! A Real " Ocean of Shruti "!!

[@SomasundaramMeiyappan]

An ingenious aalaapana of Sahana by Sruthi Sagar IMHO. Enjoyed it very much! Starts at 24 min mark if anybody wants to listen to that straight away.

[@MrKanthikumar]

Hamsanadam and a rare song. How sweetly rendered with the pakkom excelling. Nandini's mellow gap filling out of this world. I love it. Ha ha ... "Tavapadame ???" This is a new song for me. Hamsanadam is sweet you know. Suh-Huh-Na and what? Delightfully restrained but retaining the full flavour of Sahana by Nandini !! ... this is what makes this short kutcheri one of the best. No doubt. Rama ika nannu? Vandanau raghunandana sethu bandhana bhaktachandana? I vasudhani vantidaivamu? Nandini's solo take is superb; she can sing too! Giripai (Sriramadarshanakirtana!!!), JayajayaRaghurama(Swathi Thirunal)? Govindanadhyana(Purandaradasar)? With rupakatalam Raghupate Rama Ravana bhima Hyderabad Bros and DKJ loved to sing this Thyagarajaswamikal song. Sahana was owned by him. "Giripai" was his crowning glory. No doubt. The late and honourable Indian President Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan's favourite song was that!! Did Andhra's man former President V V Giri(Kerala's governor too) loved Giripai? , I sometimes wonder. Sahana neraval and swaroms out of this world. When Shruthi Sagar raises his pullakuzhal the receding fading sounds add to the hearing pleasure "immensely", as MDR would say in his impeccable English nurtured to full fruition at Kalakshetra library. Sweet layavinyasom![9 loser morons did not like this recital] Yaman? Yamunakalyani? No matter how sweet as the kutcheri is sadly coming to a close. Namaskar

[@pnarayanannampoothirisoupa1639]

wonderful playing . May they be blessed with long years of such service to music

[@srinivas6363]

Excellent Performance By All

[@kumarsreenivasan8020]

Superb Thodi , excellent start

[@vsankarnaraynan]

Listening your performance for the first time. Excellent. Very good support by Nandini and Akshay.

[@viswambharanviswambharan9471]

Beautiful&powerful thodi.. Great 🙏🙏🙏

[@NagaSaiSharma]

Final Mohara Muktayi is a composition of Patri Satish Kumar sir… Just commenting to add credits to his composition!!

[@subramanianbalakrishnan6191]

Splendid Sahana. Sweet,succulent with Sangathis,,well reproduced on the violin also .Lovely and lofty performance by the trio ,in a short span of one hour Highly promising and praiseworthy program

[@venketeshwarankk8079]

It is melodious musical concert

[@vyakaranamvenkatadribharad4683]

Dear JB...simply melliflous...as I spoke to u in ragasudha hall....ur feel makes us u r wondering in brundavan along with lord krishna

[@kothapallichandrasekhar8793]

Wonderful..Speechless...

[@venkateshflutist]

Perfect flutist, excellent performance

[@balasadasivam]

Melodious and selection of songs are superb 👌👏👏👏

[@jayanatarajan3240]

Excellent .👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@udayaprasad7062]

Wonderful, God bless , glimpses of the great T R Mahalingam , no exaggeration

[@vimalranka7966]

So divine & so calming 🙏

[@sujathachandrasekaran1997]

Brilliant. Music from heavens!

[@9146rsn]

May God bless the performers for this heart rendering performance! Thank you 🙏

[@vijayrvr]

Wow! Soulful concert. Thank you!

[@lalithagudipati1698]

Devine music 👌🙏🙏🙏

[@rajagopalan6556]

Amazing anna 🕉️🙏 very nice

[@sakuntalaramaswamy8230]

As Always Sruthi Sagar, simply Superb. !!

[@rakshith3547]

Nice Mrudangam accompanyment

[@akshayramramanathan666]

Thank you Rakshit ji🙏

[@rakshith3547]

You kept it simple and apt for fluit without any adambaram. You are a highly skilled artist , my guess is you are a student of a top mrudangist who is god gifted. All the best for your Carnatic career and wish to see you in more number of concerts

[@sujathaganapathy2707]

Outstanding Soulstiirring performance.

[@mvsurendrasharma2550]

Pleasant great

[@sripathikv1329]

Very Divine

[@sumanaspirit]

Superb. Tasteful, controlled, sweet.

[@89skandakumar]

Outstanding performance of JBSS....nice violin and mridangam accomplishments.....congratulations to entire team

[@kanakaraghunathan6843]

Sruthi, it was a great concert!

[@udayaganesh996]

Superb.god bless you.

[@subramanianranganathan5258]

Amazing performance by the team!

[@kumarsreenivasan8020]

Superb Swaraprasthaaram in Thodi

[@ArunVisweswaranP]

Brilliant. Thanks to the Academy !

[@kumarsreenivasan8020]

Superb Sahana Alapana

[@var1942]

Simply Divine.God bless

[@KoushikSekhar]

Simply outstanding.

[@vishwanathan94]

Excellent! More encouragement to artists

[@mukundbharadwajL]

Superb sahana

[@dominicdeneuve8760]

My name is Dominic, and I am French, and I really like Carnatic music. Could someone give me the names of the ragas played during this concert? Thank you.

[@ranganathankrishnamoorthy5156]

A junior Mali!! Kuzhalinidhu 🎻Violin also inidhu Academy eppodum namadhu!! Sangeetham padukappu anadhu!! Vazhha ACADEMY!!!

[@devarajethiraj6594]

Ok

[@sankarsarma987]

Divine

[@mayuramjshankar]

Very nice concert

[@rakshith3547]

Fantastic

[@vijayasriviswanathan3423]

God bless you.

[@kumarsreenivasan8020]

Superb Hamsanaadham

[@kschami]

MMA gives details of songs in music season souvenir.. Why not do so at least for instrumental music like this? First one is a Thodi krithi?

[@Sam-hc4sd]

Sri Krishnam bhaja Manasa dikhiitar

[@kschami]

@@Sam-hc4sd Thanks First time hearing that krithi by MD'

[@Sam-hc4sd]

@@kschami listen to the same by semmungudi it's heavenly.

[@radhikaramanujan1006]

Adhbutam.

[@m.k.aasanthavil296]

Very nice 👌👌👍

[@tyagarajakinkara]

He will be one day, a sangita kalanidhi.

[@ramsubramaniank.sathyanath8322]

Devine 🙏

[@krishnapartha]

Modern Mali!!! But not drunk I suspect. ❤

[@natarajansivakumar5978]

Enjoyable concert. Pure sound that was pleasing to ears. Would be better to have songs listed in description. Thanks.

[@ggirish7641]

Soulful

[@sathsangschoolofmusic6672]

Divinity oozing out

[@kirancs6217]

Very good

[@rnagarajan5427]

excellent

[@shyamramamurthys6193]

Wow

[@janakibalu30]

Wonderful Thodi.

[@madhusudanveeraraghavan5104]

Can some one post the list for the benefit of the rest

[@bharadwajjayaraman8773]

Sri krishnambaja, thodi - Dikshithar Ezhiludai hamsanadam - sankaraiyer Raghupathe - thyagarajar Thumaku chalaku - thulasidas

[@ranganathankrishnamoorthy5156]

THANKS❤ SIR. 😙😁@@bharadwajjayaraman8773

[@srikanthsampath]

Can someone list the songs?

[@srikanthsampath]

Sahana is it Raghupate Rama Rakshasa Bhima

[@sundararajan1960]

EXCELLENT MY BLESSINGS

[@sairamaamuralidharan3862]

🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️👍

[@bhamavaradarajan4435]

Soulful. Melodious!👌

[@bhamavaradarajan4435]

Ahaa!aahaa!👏

[@kamalasubramanian3872]

THE FOLLOWING COMMENTS SAY IT ALL.

[@laxmikrishnapuri9806]

Colourful thodi

[@KoushikSekhar]

Sahana 22:50

[@extanegautham8950]

Was wondering. How can we be sure this is really Music Academy and not India Fine Arts or Yankee Stadium? Perhaps they could put the typeface right accross the lotus, or instead of Thiruneeru Vibhuti, the flautist could have it written on his forehead! LOL....so cheesy...

[@musicstudent5026]

Takes you back to the old times. I mean literally. High pitched Flute sounds. Music is fairly slow and good. If reminiscing of the past is what some think of, as an achievement, I disagree. In my humble opinion it is nothing but a cut and paste job. Instrumental concerts are meant to push things beyond the edge and cant be equated to Vocal concerts. This performance, though caters to the vocal music lovers, lacks innovation and anything suggestive of pushing the boundries. Some of the Carnatic Flute Maestros have already taken this instrument to dizzying heights and this concert falls much below those standards. Expectations on upcoming talents like Sruthi Sagar is indeed a lot and hope he comes good.

[@rarara2412]

You listened to this spectacular performance and this is what you took away?

[@musicstudent5026]

@@rarara2412 As a student of Music, that is sincerely my take away from the concert. Music is not a cut and paste job. Presentation of Music involves many other factors and especially ones own contribution.