- Celestial Ragas
- The Brilliance of Begada
Chitravina N. Ravikiran's Vintage Virtuosos / Semmangudi Srinivasa
Iyer
Cosmic Creations 0100
Contents:
- Introduction - V. V. Sundaram (1'24)
- Interview - Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer (8'03)
- Interaction - Chitravina N. Ravikiran (15'38)
- Varnam: Intachalamu - Begada/Adi - Veena Kuppaiyer (4'44)
- Tyagarajaya Namaste - Begada/Rupakam - Mutthuswami Dikshitar
(6'00)
- Neepadapankaja - Begada/Adi - Tyagaraja (2'54)
- Shankari Neeve - Begada/Rupakam - Subbaraya Shastri (6'07)
- Kalayami Raghuramam - Begada/Mishra Chapu - Swati Tirunal
(4'25)
- Manasuna Neranammiti - Begada/Rupakam - Patnam Subramanya Iyer
(5'20)
- Nadopasana - Begada/Adi - Tyagaraja (7'09)
- Javali: Arulvai Muruga - Begada/Rupakam - Chitravina N. Ravikiran
(3'50)
- Padam: Yalapadare - Begada/Tishra Triputa - Kshetragna (7'42)
Sound quality: superlative
Release date: 2000
Tracks #1 and #3 are in English, whereas #2 is not. Both #2
and #3 emphasize examples, and some of the improvisatory examples
(sung) in #3 are lengthy.
There is no written discussion with this release, not even a
listing of participating performers.
To purchasing information for this disc.
To Ravikiran ensemble recordings page.
T. M. McComb