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This recording is a part of a bicentenary celebration for Muthusvami Dikshitar bicentenary celebrations that happened in Shanmukhananda Hall, Bombay - 1975.
Vocal: M S Subbulakshmi
Vocal Support: Radha Viswanathan
Violin: V V Subramanyam
Mridangam: Karaikudi Mani
Ghatam: V Nagarajan
In Of Gifted Voice, the Life and Art of M.S. Subbulakshmi, New Delhi: HarperCollins, 2021, Keshav Desiraju writes of the bicentenary celebrations for Muthusvami Dikshitar in 1975.
"More significantly, two great recitals, entirely of the compositions of Muthusvami Dikshitar, were given by Subbulakshmi in the course of 1975. The foremost representatives of the performing form appeared at carefully curated events in Bombay and Madras. Subbulakshmi’s Bombay concert at the grand Shanmukhananda Hall in March 1975 was sponsored by the National Centre for the Performing Arts with the December concert being at the Music Academy, Madras. The Bombay concert list makes impressive reading with familiar and unusual songs alike, including ‘Vatapi’/Hamsadhwani, the luminous ‘Veena pustaka dharini’/Vegavahini, a learning from T. Brinda sung as it is in the traditional style of that school, ‘Minakshi’ in Gamakakriya, both the Anandabhairavi and Todi navavarana kritis, ‘Sadasivam upasmahe’/Sankarabharanam, ‘Hariharaputram’/Vasanta, the appropriate vaara kriti for the day, ‘Divakara tanujam’/Yadukulakambhoji, ‘Ranganayakam’/ Nayaki, ‘Sri Parvati’/Bauli, the evergreen ‘Rangapura vihara’/ Brindavanasaranga, ‘Gange mam pahi’/Jenjuti and ‘Mamava Pattabhirama’/ Manirangu."
The author goes on to say that "(t)he December recital in Madras was, if anything, even more beautifully structured". Several songs from this concert have been commercially released under the title Guru Guha Vani but the thoughtless manner in which the editing of songs has been done, and the inclusion of songs from other concerts, do little justice to what was a magnificent concert.