Inde du Sud: Padam, le chant de Tanjore

Aruna Sairam
w/ Durai Swaminathan (violin), Arun Prakash (mridangam), Udupi S. Sreedhar (ghatam)
Ocora (Radio France) C 560152

Contents:

1. Padam: Paiyyada Paimida Ceri Pavvalinci - Nadanamakriya/Tisra Triputa - Kshetrayya (9'49)
2. Padam: Poosadaramu Reeti Pondina - Thodi/Tisra Triputa - Govindaswamy (21'31)
3. Padam: Kontegadu Muvvagopaala - Surati/Tisra Triputa - Kshetrayya (9'58)
4. Padam: Ninnu Juchi Naalugaidu Nelalaaye - Punnagavarali/Tisra Triputa - Kshetrayya (9'28)
5. Kriti: Paramatmudu - Vagadishwari/Adi - Tyagaraja (8'01)
6. Sloka: Sayankale Vanante - Hamir Kalyan (4'40)
7. Sloka: Triloka Karshanangam - Dvijavanti (3'10)
8. Sloka: Sevyam Sringara - Hamsanandi (3'40)
9. Sloka: Vandeham Rasa - Surati (1'53)

Sound quality: superlative

Recording date: September 1999 (France)

This program is unique on CD, illustrating the art of padam by perhaps its leading contemporary practitioner. Aruna Sayeeram is a student of the late T. Brinda, the acknowledged master performer of padam.

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