There are two things that are the most striking to me from this video apart from what a genius Mali was. a) That he is so fearless to experiment with Kapi and test its boundaries without worrying about the audience or critics lambasting him. It's what makes this performance so unique and almost liberating to even listen to. b) The audience is actually laughing and having a great time at all of his chromatic experimentation, without over-analyzing. We're the first generation of people to be able to listen to recordings of legends from 50-60 years ago, all readily available to be compared with contemporaries. But perhaps owing to this, as Carnatic classical listeners, we've become so much more critical of contemporary artists and their art. I love this rendition because it reinforces the fact that there are no rules in art and how rewarding it could be when you're actually involved in the music and not the technicalities.
Mahalingam is a real genius.His skill is incomparable.He is the standard for all the coming up flutists Especially the sound of his flute is distinct .One cann make out the difference between the sound of his flute and the others'
A true definition of Genius, Legend or whatever you call. I still recall with nostalgia the concert he gave in Thevar Hall, Tiruchi some 5 decades ago An overflowing auditorium and rasikas treated to a 3 hours concert.
Which neural networks in his brain must have been trigerred during the initial alapana and tanam? Filled with ``never heard this before'' phrases gushing one after the other, each one more imaginative than the previous, embellishing the raga ever so more. Unmatched creativity at the peak of his powers. Also very folksy in the way the raga was rendered, lots of playful passages intertwined with traditional prayogas in Kapi!
What a unique Kapi! What a genius! Where are the artificial borderlines between the so-called classical, light, folk, etc. music and the raw music of nature now?! Mesmerising! Please upload more such musical treasures!🙏
Thank you for your comments. Please share this channel among your friends for the benefit of future generations. Many of the musician youngsters, though highly talented, do not seem to be aware of music of this level and few have heard the music of greats such as TRM and TNR.
What a great Vidwan Maharajam Vishwanatha Iyer must have been to have accompanied Mali so more than ably and on par with a professional Mridangam vidwan. Astounding. The kaanada was played with such wooing affection in true Mali’s style 😍
Mali was a genius who comes up once in ages ; people used to compare Palladam Sanjeeva Rao a great flutist of yester years but Mali stood supreme; few flutists have the command he had over the instrument, how wonderful one can listen to such music and thanks for uploading;
He has shown all the flute lovers how much long we can travel with Kapi raagam sorroundingand spreading to the vast areas and to the so much of deep and go to so much underneath and shown it has got no bounds as much and as much explore it.Really thrilling and magnificient to listen to all the swaraas with what sort of fingering its amazing. Rajagopal m g
Great Genius Mali, child prodigy, performing kapi is absorbing, excellent, finding it difficult to describe with words, there is absolute divinity in his music. God has given him a short life only to play this divine instrument
I do not know how to thank you for uploading this Feast which I am hearing on this Adi Amavasai . I pay my respects to all the three great Artistes. I thank you, again, and again and again.
Ghatam i believe is Vilwadri Iyer, TRM was ahead of his times for common folk, pathbreaking flute playing that became the standard to be followed in the times to come...easily with TNR (Nadaswaram) , TRM is topmost name in wind music instrument playing in Carnatic style...
Sir, Appreciate very much, sir, your efforts to digitise these collections, which otherwise might have lost in course of time. These recordings gives us a chance to pay, once again, heartfelt tributes to these great souls. But for efforts like this, where there is no reward or gains other than a simple self satisfaction, these gems may go soundless. Thank yo once again sir
Nikhil Banerjee was no doubt a great musician, but he was largely teacher- and gharana dependent. Our Mali wore no such shackles, that was his greatness!
This is the best of the best instrumental music. When three maestros/ wizards / geniuses of Carnatic Music come together on one stage, all can expect a magic / miracle of sort in music. There’s no lyrics, no language problems; only Naada/m (just pure & blissful sound). There’s lots of ‘oh’s, ah’s, bhesh, bhale..bhale and laughs from listeners in this audio that demonstrates how the concert was in real time. My humble salutations to these three late Maestros. Thanks to ‘Best of Carnatic flute’ for sharing this wonderful, marvelous, vintage classic. 👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼👍🏽👍🏾👍🏻👌🏼👍🏽👍🏾👍🏻👍🏾👍🏻👍🏾👍🏻👍🏾👍🏽👍🏻👍🏻👍🏽👍🏾👍🏽👍🏻👌🏼👍🏾👌🏼👍🏻👌🏼👍🏻👍🏽🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Beautiful! Thanks very much. Great musicians were never satisfied with their goals in a particular field, and this is ample illustration of that. I have a full CD of Ustad Alla Rakha singing khayal, and he sings really well! This is perhaps one of Mali's best renditions of Kapi. Incidentally, Mali also enjoyed excellent rapport with Dwaram Venkataswamy Naidu. Excellent concert! Thanks once again!
There a couple more Kapis that I have uploaded which are equally superb. Do listen to them. Thanks for your comments. I wish more visitors will follow you in this regard.
The Great Mali's disciple late Shri. N.S. Srinivasan dialled the great from my house in Hyderabad. I had the fortune to talk to him. When I asked him what he would charge is if he was to come there. He quoted a figure and said he would do it for half for my sake. While I refrain from stating the amount, tears come from my eyes when I think of the very small amount that he quoted. Both late Dr. N. Ramani and my best friend late Shri. N.S. Srinivasan were the disciples of the great artist, N. S.S.'s recordings are not available. I have a tape of Mali, N.R. and N.S.S. given to me by N.S.S.
Will you please upload Ustad Alla Rakha's khayal? Been searching for Chembai violin, as well, and so happy to find it here. And yes, what a unique Kapi! Where are the artificial borderlines between so-called classical, light, folk, etc. music and the raw music of nature?!
Kodi kodi Pranamam for uploading this real gem.... Must experience this journey through the unexplored terrains of kapi. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Captivating music,unique and spendid,indeed. Thank you very much for uploading this divine music. I have come to know from you, that Sangeetha Kalanidhi Sri MVI was Sri Shemmangudi's preceptor. Thank you for this also.
This is a different kind and different order of music; nothing like this before or after...such exquisite sweetness. No one has or had this, perhaps Nikhil Banerjee came close, can think of no other
Namaste Ramesh ji.....have you listened to Shri B.N. Suresh? In my personal opinion, the sound that he produced from his flute was just as sweet. Sadly, he died very young (45 years) and we are only left with a small body of his recordings. I have had the good fortune of attending many of his concerts as a boy and I remember being completely enthralled.
@@srprahlad I have been trained by Mali's first line disciple, Sri t.s.Sankaran, so it took me very long to first acquire a taste for Hindustani music and then listen to its proponents objectively. Nikhil's control over sweetness both in extreme drut and extreme vilambhit is no less remarkable. Both were utterly unselfish people which is probably what ultimately reflects in their music
Thanks. Mali also played a brilliant Kapi in Los Angeles, a detailed alaapane followed by 'Meevalla gunadoshamemi'. LS on the violin and Trichy Shankaran on the mridangam.
என்னுடைய தாத்தா, மற்றும் அரிமளம் சகோதரர்கள் என்று அழைக்கப்பட்ட எனது அப்பா, சித்தப்பா,& அண்ணா முனைவர் அரிமளம் S.பத்மநாபன் ஆகியோர் இவர்களுடைய கச்சேரிகள் பலவற்றையும் நேரில் பார்த்து கேட்ட பாக்கியசாலிகள்.இவர்கள் வாழ்ந்த காலத்தில் பிறந்த ஒன்றே நான் செய்த புண்ணியம்.
I am a great lover of music as also a fan of Mali and heard him at various levels.As a genius, he has a mastery over the instrument which takes him to great heights. By sheer tricks alone, his music cannot attract so many. You should mark the purity of notes in his ' trickish'play. A depth in raga bhaavam could be seen in the flashes. Stalwarts of the kind accompanied him in this concert at Thyagaraja vidwat samaj at mylapore in mid forties, when Mali was Quite young and played without his eccentrics normally seen at later years of his music performances needs to be lauded. I have heard him at Rama seva mandali Bangalore for a full stretch of four & half hours in 1951 and this remains fresh in my memory even today!
Excellent performance by three Genius Musicians. Good luck to all who have done their maximum works for downloading the Programe. My heartiest congratulations to them With Greetings, vande Maataram 🙏.
This is a rare concert where the recording shows not only the quality of the music but also the quality of the enjoyment. Where are the other songs in this concert? I remember a sublime but truncated Shanmukapriya. Do you by any chance have the full song?
Thanks. I actually found the Shanmukapriya that you have uploaded. It is the same as I have - truncated. Please share any Thiruppambaram Swaminatha Pillai and T. Viswanathan.@@bestofcarnaticflute2736
Yes, truncated, unfortunately after a promising start. I have never heard any recording of T Swaminathan Pillai. He is the first one to use a 8 hole flute, which Mali then brought into prominence. Mali had a lot of respect for him as a musician. I am told, however, that he did not have a good blowing technique and his playing was very hissy. I do not have recordings of T. Viswanathan but I am sure you can find it elsewhere. From the very little I have heard of Viswa, his blowing was also quite hissy. When you label your channel as "Best of Carnatic Music" and include mostly Mali, Mali becomes the yardstick and it is difficult to find pieces that measures up to this standard.
There are two things that are the most striking to me from this video apart from what a genius Mali was.
a) That he is so fearless to experiment with Kapi and test its boundaries without worrying about the audience or critics lambasting him. It's what makes this performance so unique and almost liberating to even listen to.
b) The audience is actually laughing and having a great time at all of his chromatic experimentation, without over-analyzing.
We're the first generation of people to be able to listen to recordings of legends from 50-60 years ago, all readily available to be compared with contemporaries. But perhaps owing to this, as Carnatic classical listeners, we've become so much more critical of contemporary artists and their art. I love this rendition because it reinforces the fact that there are no rules in art and how rewarding it could be when you're actually involved in the music and not the technicalities.
Mahalingam is a real genius.His skill is incomparable.He is the standard for all the coming up flutists Especially the sound of his flute is distinct .One cann make out the difference between the sound of his flute and the others'
A true definition of Genius, Legend or whatever you call.
I still recall with nostalgia the concert he gave in Thevar Hall, Tiruchi some 5 decades ago
An overflowing auditorium and rasikas treated to a 3 hours concert.
What a genius. It's a rare combination. Thanks.
Which neural networks in his brain must have been trigerred during the initial alapana and tanam? Filled with ``never heard this before'' phrases gushing one after the other, each one more imaginative than the previous, embellishing the raga ever so more. Unmatched creativity at the peak of his powers. Also very folksy in the way the raga was rendered, lots of playful passages intertwined with traditional prayogas in Kapi!
What a unique Kapi! What a genius! Where are the artificial borderlines between the so-called classical, light, folk, etc. music and the raw music of nature now?! Mesmerising! Please upload more such musical treasures!🙏
Intoxicated
A VERY RARE COLLECTION, SWASTHI !
I fully agree with Mr. Ravishankar. In time to come, we may not be able to hear music of this caliber.
Thank you for your comments. Please share this channel among your friends for the benefit of future generations. Many of the musician youngsters, though highly talented, do not seem to be aware of music of this level and few have heard the music of greats such as TRM and TNR.
During lockdown I am able to enjoy Mali flute with Chennai on violin and maharajapuram viwanathier on miruthangam . Really A rare of Rareast
Muthu Subramanian
Sorry but it is not Chennai, it is Chembai on violin
What a great Vidwan Maharajam Vishwanatha Iyer must have been to have accompanied Mali so more than ably and on par with a professional Mridangam vidwan. Astounding. The kaanada was played with such wooing affection in true Mali’s style 😍
It is indeed a unique combination of 'Carnatic Sangeeth artistes. Let us enjoy the concert fully. - "M.K. Subramanian", Chapel Hill, N.C., USA.
Mali was a genius who comes up once in ages ; people used to compare Palladam Sanjeeva Rao a great flutist of yester years but Mali stood supreme; few flutists have the command he had over the instrument, how wonderful one can listen to such music and thanks for uploading;
Thank you for uploading the video. 🙏🙏🙏
The great masters forever..Mali is so great who really taught the flute how to sing !
He has shown all the flute lovers how much long we can travel with Kapi raagam sorroundingand spreading to the vast areas and to the so much of deep and go to so much underneath and shown it has got no bounds as much and as much explore it.Really thrilling and magnificient to listen to all the swaraas with what sort of fingering its amazing. Rajagopal m g
It is a pleasure to hear even the names of these guru's, but to see them in different roles, is even more challenging..
Genius !
Great Genius Mali, child prodigy, performing kapi is absorbing, excellent, finding it difficult to describe with words, there is absolute divinity in his music. God has given him a short life only to play this divine instrument
I do not know how to thank you for uploading this Feast which I am hearing on this Adi Amavasai . I pay my respects to all the three great Artistes. I thank you, again, and again and again.
Superb is an ordinary word to describe Mali's Kapi ragam performance. No superlatives are enough to describe.
quality of recording is amazing !They have really had a great time performing !For listeners its heavenly music !
There is no parallel to this concert. The talents are superb!!!!!
Ghatam i believe is Vilwadri Iyer, TRM was ahead of his times for common folk, pathbreaking flute playing that became the standard to be followed in the times to come...easily with TNR (Nadaswaram) , TRM is topmost name in wind music instrument playing in Carnatic style...
Absolutely Divine Bliss. My FAV MVI takes the Mrudangam and Chembai Takes the Violin?!! Oh BLISS!!
Definition of sweetness...what a bliss to hear this legend of legends...na bhootho na bhavishyathi....
Sir,
Appreciate very much, sir, your efforts to digitise these collections, which otherwise might have lost in course of time. These recordings gives us a chance to pay, once again, heartfelt tributes to these great souls. But for efforts like this, where there is no reward or gains other than a simple self satisfaction, these gems may go soundless.
Thank yo once again sir
Nikhil Banerjee was no doubt a great musician, but he was largely teacher- and gharana dependent. Our Mali wore no such shackles, that was his greatness!
Please don't forget to hit the subscribe button. More subscribers will provide me with a greater incentive to upload more music like this.
done
great. no words to explain the melody. A million thanks to you for uploading
This is the best of the best instrumental music. When three maestros/ wizards / geniuses of Carnatic Music come together on
one stage, all can expect a magic / miracle of sort in music. There’s no lyrics, no language problems; only Naada/m (just pure & blissful sound). There’s lots of ‘oh’s, ah’s, bhesh, bhale..bhale and laughs from listeners in this audio that demonstrates how the concert was in real time. My humble salutations to these three late Maestros. Thanks to ‘Best of Carnatic flute’ for sharing this wonderful, marvelous, vintage classic. 👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼👍🏽👍🏾👍🏻👌🏼👍🏽👍🏾👍🏻👍🏾👍🏻👍🏾👍🏻👍🏾👍🏽👍🏻👍🏻👍🏽👍🏾👍🏽👍🏻👌🏼👍🏾👌🏼👍🏻👌🏼👍🏻👍🏽🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
K dumfounded
Beautiful! Thanks very much. Great musicians were never satisfied with their goals in a particular field, and this is ample illustration of that.
I have a full CD of Ustad Alla Rakha singing khayal, and he sings really well!
This is perhaps one of Mali's best renditions of Kapi. Incidentally, Mali also enjoyed excellent rapport with Dwaram Venkataswamy Naidu.
Excellent concert! Thanks once again!
There a couple more Kapis that I have uploaded which are equally superb. Do listen to them. Thanks for your comments. I wish more visitors will follow you in this regard.
The Great Mali's disciple late Shri. N.S. Srinivasan dialled the great from my house in Hyderabad. I had the fortune to talk to him. When I asked him what he would charge is if he was to come there. He quoted a figure and said he would do it for half for my sake. While I refrain from stating the amount, tears come from my eyes when I think of the very small amount that he quoted.
Both late Dr. N. Ramani and my best friend late Shri. N.S. Srinivasan were the disciples of the great artist, N. S.S.'s recordings are not available.
I have a tape of Mali, N.R. and N.S.S. given to me by N.S.S.
Will you please upload Ustad Alla Rakha's khayal? Been searching for Chembai violin, as well, and so happy to find it here. And yes, what a unique Kapi! Where are the artificial borderlines between so-called classical, light, folk, etc. music and the raw music of nature?!
Kodi kodi Pranamam for uploading this real gem.... Must experience this journey through the unexplored terrains of kapi. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
If you are new to this channel, do visit the top10 playlist. You will find other Mali gems there.
Thanks for uploading this treasure
3 Gems indeed... Thanks a lot for uploading
Great Great Music. Thanks for uploading.
Anybody knows in which year these stalwarts had confluenced in Chennai to bless our souls with their magic performance?
Captivating music,unique and spendid,indeed.
Thank you very much for uploading this divine music.
I have come to know from you, that Sangeetha Kalanidhi Sri MVI was Sri Shemmangudi's preceptor. Thank you for this also.
This is a different kind and different order of music; nothing like this before or after...such exquisite sweetness. No one has or had this, perhaps Nikhil Banerjee came close, can think of no other
Namaste Ramesh ji.....have you listened to Shri B.N. Suresh? In my personal opinion, the sound that he produced from his flute was just as sweet. Sadly, he died very young (45 years) and we are only left with a small body of his recordings. I have had the good fortune of attending many of his concerts as a boy and I remember being completely enthralled.
It would be a bit of hyperbole to compare Nikhil Banerjee with our Mali. There was never an accidental false note in Mali's music!
@@kurpadix oh Yes, Suresh's music is incredibly sweet too. In his later years Mali played extremely slow. There he was without equal.
@@srprahlad I have been trained by Mali's first line disciple, Sri t.s.Sankaran, so it took me very long to first acquire a taste for Hindustani music and then listen to its proponents objectively. Nikhil's control over sweetness both in extreme drut and extreme vilambhit is no less remarkable. Both were utterly unselfish people which is probably what ultimately reflects in their music
@@rameshparthasarathy8328 , Sir, do you listen to Shri Sankaran's grandson Mr Jayanth
who has become popular at an young age?
Magical play!!!
Again great music Thanks
Awesome #5:30
Thanks. Mali also played a brilliant Kapi in Los Angeles, a detailed alaapane followed by 'Meevalla gunadoshamemi'. LS on the violin and Trichy Shankaran on the mridangam.
That concert is available as a CD. The kApi there is very good but IMO, not up to the standard delivered here:
ua-cam.com/video/MZ-f1F6kG6s/v-deo.html
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaappppp0pappaaapapppppppppp
Ppap
Lllll
என்னுடைய தாத்தா, மற்றும் அரிமளம் சகோதரர்கள் என்று அழைக்கப்பட்ட எனது அப்பா, சித்தப்பா,& அண்ணா முனைவர் அரிமளம் S.பத்மநாபன் ஆகியோர் இவர்களுடைய கச்சேரிகள் பலவற்றையும் நேரில் பார்த்து கேட்ட பாக்கியசாலிகள்.இவர்கள் வாழ்ந்த காலத்தில் பிறந்த ஒன்றே நான் செய்த புண்ணியம்.
Excellent ragamalika
I am a great lover of music as also a fan of Mali and heard him at various levels.As a genius, he has a mastery over the instrument
which takes him to great heights. By sheer tricks alone, his music cannot attract
so many. You should mark the purity of notes in his
' trickish'play. A depth in raga bhaavam could be seen in the flashes. Stalwarts of the
kind accompanied him in this concert at Thyagaraja vidwat samaj at mylapore in
mid forties, when Mali was
Quite young and played without his eccentrics normally seen at
later years of his music
performances needs to be
lauded. I have heard him at
Rama seva mandali Bangalore for a full stretch of four & half hours in 1951
and this remains fresh in my memory even today!
simply superb...
shankar krishnamurthy .
Simply mesmsrising
Excellent performance by three Genius Musicians. Good luck to all who have done their maximum works for downloading the Programe. My heartiest congratulations to them
With Greetings, vande Maataram 🙏.
Unbelievable
Divine
Kapi soaked in honey
மாலி புல்லாங்குழலுடன் விளையாடுகிறாற்.
perhaps Lord venugopala must have chosen Mali to mesmerise humanity
Indeed you are right.
Need to add that the tambura artist is none other than Sangeeta Kalanidhi N. Ramani
🙏🙏🙏🌹🌹🌹🙏🙏🙏
This is a rare concert where the recording shows not only the quality of the music but also the quality of the enjoyment. Where are the other songs in this concert? I remember a sublime but truncated Shanmukapriya. Do you by any chance have the full song?
I uploaded what I thought were the most important pieces in that concert. I will look for the shaNmukhapriyA.
Thanks. I actually found the Shanmukapriya that you have uploaded. It is the same as I have - truncated. Please share any Thiruppambaram Swaminatha Pillai and T. Viswanathan.@@bestofcarnaticflute2736
Yes, truncated, unfortunately after a promising start. I have never heard any recording of T Swaminathan Pillai. He is the first one to use a 8 hole flute, which Mali then brought into prominence. Mali had a lot of respect for him as a musician. I am told, however, that he did not have a good blowing technique and his playing was very hissy. I do not have recordings of T. Viswanathan but I am sure you can find it elsewhere. From the very little I have heard of Viswa, his blowing was also quite hissy.
When you label your channel as "Best of Carnatic Music" and include mostly Mali, Mali becomes the yardstick and it is difficult to find pieces that measures up to this standard.
@@bestofcarnaticflute2736 , true that. :-)
Krishna himself playing the flute!
Words tend to be meaningless!
Great manodharma .
Is that Ramani sir in between Khatam and Mali Garu .
Not sure but it looks so.
Piravi perum payan.
*chembai
Mali is showing his bag of tricks. Not music.
Divine