Radel Veena Festival - S. P. Ramh & Pavithra Mahesh

Excerpts from the duet concert on Jan 10, 2011: Starting with a crisp, yet complete Sankarabharanam item, with detailed exposition of raga, a short tanam and the Syama Sastri kriti Sarojadalanetri, the brother and sister duet play an expressive 'Enna Thavam seidenai' in Kapi, followed by the Purandara dasa kriti 'Venkatachala nilayam' in Sindhu Bhairavi, and finally the lilting Lalgudi jayaraman Tillana in Khamas raga. S P Ramh, a well-known vocalist in the Carnatic tradition of Indian music, uses the Radel