Ramana Balachandhran: Ragam Bhageshri

Ramana Balachandhran concluded his recital at the FEA-curated CROSSROADS festival in Chennai with a lovely composition by MD Ramanathan called "Sagara Shayana Vibho" in Ragam Bhageshri. He was accompanied by the amazing Patri Satish Kumar on mridangam.

[@udupisharada7558]

Patri Satish Kumar's mridangam sings...would call it a singing mridangam...👏👏

[@rajeshrajagopal5714]

Both ramana and patri... you both filled my eyes with tears of joy....music to its most cristal purest form...

[@krishnant1611]

Ramana Balachandhran, a child prodigy, has matured into a superb Veena player. He plays Veena with super dexterity as if he is singing into it. Patri Satish, an extremely talented mridangist, enjoys and plays in a unique manner that makes the concert complete. The two Vidhvans have rendered quite a few ragas together (Jaganmohoni, Chandrajyothi, Behag, Sourashtram, Neelambari, Ranjani, Bhageshri etc.) - all of them sound beautiful and serene. At the end of Bhageshri, Ramana concluded with a few lines from Akshramanamalai that was simply divine.

[@narayanababuvedula8446]

Very orthodoxy. The boy is young but fortunately NOT influenced by the fusion culture and he did his best in adhering to the orthodosic structure of raga bagesri like pandit Nikhil banarjee Hindustani sitar maestro of last century.

[@abhisings]

Came here after sir Shankar Mahadevan ji praised him of his renditions... Nice bhageshree.. And of course the Mridangam accompaniment... 😊🙏

[@prashanthak867]

Me too brother

[@altclut]

He is a musical genius - always perfect - especially when he sings! Is there anyone in India who can compete with this? Tell me !

[@sumitsaha9471]

Music is not a kind of competetion my friend. Itss Pure Love and people who lives in them they are truely blessed and they do everything in Love..not for Love.

[@arvinduniyal1901]

He is genius no doubt...Its an individual path where there is sky yo reach and sea to explore..

[@kiranurn.subramanian3441]

A magician with the Veena! He sings and his Veena sings also! This youngster has a very bright future! I consider Patri Satish Kumar the best mridangist alive! As always, a great job accompanying Ramana!

[@padminithirumalachar8609]

This is how music should be. Unhurried, immersive, pleasant, peaceful. What a mature presence at such a young age. Sakshath sharadamba putra. May God always be with you and guide you.

[@sreeharimridangam3177]

What a following dear Patri sir....melodical accompanying....veena no words,beautiful playing

[@sridhar9751829268]

Pure like crystal.....originally carnatic .......Rajesh vaidya sir must know the beauty of pure classical...

[@srinivasanjeya]

vaidhya unfortuntely plays in 5th shruthi which really is unsuitable for veenai. any shruthi between 2 to 3 is best suited for veenai. he is indeed a wonderful vainika. however the he plays in unorthodox way. my humble opinion.

[@rangaveeravalli]

@@srinivasanjeya i concur. sometimes one fears whether he lacks the mano-dharmam for that rigour, and sometimes one wonders if he is a victim of and slave to his dexterity..? :(

[@karthikv1906]

Sridhar Sri when did Rajesh play ? He dances / jumps on veena . He can rather play electric guitar band . This boy ramana is amazing . He has bright future

[@guppi277]

I for one is not a great literate of Carnatic music nor a critic of this art form. Liked this reference to Rajesh Vaidhya, that plays electric guitar on Veena, to the accompaniment of heavy metal...! Veena is such a divine instrument and his play on it is such degenerate and is a toxic example for younger generation. He has hacked the instrument was a hardware and the play on it as a software. said he is certainly talented. There's also a female version of Rajesh Vaidhya. And it is called Sri Vani

[@sujathafan]

This young boy - expert veena vidhwan also sang at Ramanashram during Aradhana celebrations three days back. Hope my assumption is correct. Superb rendtion of the song in Bageshri

[@sangameswarana8063]

Absolute kaalapramanam.... fully blossoming hindusthani style....pathri playing mridangam like pakhawaj aptly.... blessing treat

[@vidyamsvidya7112]

Nice observation!!!

[@vidyamsvidya7112]

Dhrupad style of artistic manifestation!!!

[@karumuribalasubrahmanyam433]

Sir, I am happy to listen Shri Ramana Balachandhran raga Bagheshri. Is raga Bagheshri and Bhageswari both are same helpful in reversing diabetes?

[@jayamangalamsudharsan5296]

very versatile player along with stylish Patri Sathish Kumar . It is rarely played by instrumentalists ""Sagara Shayana Vibho" in Ragam Bhageshri "" the rendition is very clear and perfect

[@ganasenlashmi4102]

Dr sar your players amazing amazing amazing and welcome

[@GreenGSRao]

Love your music i.e. Your Veena speaking the lyrics with Bhavam.

[@HarishBhardwajohteri]

Apart from the two artists, I want to thank the third one. I am talking about the sound engineer! The mic setting of the mridangam is 'perfection'.

[@sumajyothi8977]

You are so serious ... Bravo...May matha Gayathri bless u more...aayushman bava 🙏

[@sethurajaraomurthy9232]

Brilliant performance by both 👌

[@umehta1954]

What perfect SUR lagaw, simply touching all emotion attached to Raga.

[@vish2553]

Mind blowing rendition of Bhgyasree raga, heart melting 😢

[@sumajyothi8977]

Heavenly..long long live kanna...🙏👍

[@shievashankarimohanasundra7007]

Speechless 🌸

[@raghavendrask6119]

Awesome, such a divine sound ...... Naada Brahma

[@hiranyam]

This one overwhelms and overtakes the entire mind, The still moments and the slowness the mandra gaanam are artistically blended to mould this nostalgia.

[@savithrividyasaghar4179]

So beautiful Ramana👌🙏🏻

[@radhakrishnanganapathy3137]

sagara sayana vibho..was it written by Swathi Thirunal or M D Ramanathan..????

[@PADMININARAYANANtvm]

written & composed by M.D Ramanathan on Lord SreePadmanabha

[@forestswaras]

Bageshri is a Hindustani raga that came into Carnatic music, I think in the 20th century. This composition by MDR is the most commonly heard Carnatic composition in Bageshri.

[@pramodmathew8308]

Both are superb keep going

[@subhashinis5221]

Romba anusaranaiyana packa vadhyam. Great.

[@ab-px7hv]

“Signature” Kruthi for Bageshri Raga !

[@vijayjagtap2301]

May this star rise and rise....

[@MoniVHS]

Please add the Krithi, name of the composer for the benefit of ignorant people like me who can only enjoy such beautiful rendition,

[@gauthamsreeku178]

krithi - sagara shayana vibho tala - adi(2 kalai) composed by sri.MD Ramanathan

[@krishnapartha]

Moni V H S here is the composer singing his own composition. kzbin.info/www/bejne/p4WYdn2hhcZmba8

[@sree593]

Nice Performance 🙌

[@krishnapartha]

Beautiful.

[@sanjeevhappy99]

The sounds like electric veena.

[@krishnagautama652]

यह पिक अप लगाकर आवाज खराब कर लेते हैं ओरिजिनल माइक में आवाज बहुत अच्छी बाकी बजाया बहुत अच्छा है

[@subrukk]

Wonderful... 🙏🙏🙏

[@spideygaming2437]

You have taken out the juice of the raga anna

[@Sreejithponkunnam]

Great patri...

[@Perikamana1985]

Beautiful

[@monapantuttarakhand3049]

🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼💐💐💐💐🌹

[@purnachandrakishan9598]

Beautiful

[@JyoSco007]

Thank you 🙏😊

[@kalpanasarangam5744]

So Soothing

[@jvsuryanarayana]

A superb rendition!

[@anushasriram6881]

Superb playing

[@mallikarao4351]

Awesome🙏

[@singwithpramod2219]

🙏🙏🙏🙏👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼what fantastic artists they are.....

[@ramsundaram4615]

Brilliant melodies. Awesome . Prodigy

[@akshaywalke19]

❤️🎼

[@RaoDuggirala]

Would love to listen to you more

[@mrachusvlog9601]

Awesome

[@Musiclover22897]

Sowkyam!

[@PillaNageshwaraRao]

Nice Albumn Collection

[@chaitanyajoshi3982]

Godbleesimgs

[@metalforlife4ever]

No offence to the musicians here, but am I the only one who feels like their rhythm wasnt exactly in sync?

[@nsjey]

It is in sync with "Ragam Bhageshri".

[@satheeshsreedharan6730]

Yes, I too felt a lack of sync at times.

[@satheeshsreedharan6730]

Possible that these musicians are doing it at a higher level.

[@rangaveeravalli]

yes - ramana has that difficulty in odd moments, playing a micro-fraction early, as well as a mic.frac. late esp. when playing swarams . in this clip, it is evident from 5:15 to about 5:28 - when ramana had started earlier than the kaalapramanam and sri patri had to patiently maintain the beats for ramana to come back and join.. but the boy is young, these things settle down with more and more practice.. thus as the years pass we should hope to see this disappear.. as to the mridangam missing the lead player, esp. during the niravals and kalpanaswaras, that happens in many cutcheris, as the lead is creatively moving and the accompanist needs to get it and switch to. that is easier for a violin but tough for the percussion as the rhythm switches, and the durations of the phrases also change...! this improves when the pair keeps playing with each other more and more, and get this non-verbal precognition more and more.. :) but these are minute, say 0.01%, versus the rest of the divine prodigious music and competent percussion.. !

[@rainmanvs]

​@@rangaveeravalli Not commenting on swaras in other songs but it is within the freedom of the kala pramana style of this song. It's characteristic of this song. If you listen carefully the strokes are all well placed in the adjustments in your example before he slides right back on time to the beat in this example. In general, these things get forgiven with vocal artistes as they do it all the time as they adjust where the words are enunciated and moved. It's because they say the words for you. However, typically musicians do not have the luxury because you are overlaying the listener's knowledge of the vocal on their playing without singing it directly to them. He will learn that most people in the crowd will not appreciate these subtleties unless they are musicians themselves and that these sorts of risks are only reserved for vocalists to work well and not instrumentalists unless it is a super famous line...even then...