A tribute to great violin maestro Kunnakudi !

The great violin maestro Kunnakudi is no more. He was one of my all time favourites : Now I remember how many evening of mine were immortalised by his soothening music ! As a tribute to him I upload some of the evergreen Classical Krithis refined and finetuned through Kunnakudi´s violin

Bantu Reeti.mp3 (13.29 MB)
Bhagyada Lakshmi.mp3 (4.64 MB)
Bhavanutha.mp3 (8.34 MB)
Brahmam Okate.mp3 (6.44 MB)
Nadaloludai.mp3 (4.97 MB)
Nagumomu.mp3 (6.96 MB)
Raghuvamsha Sutha.mp3 (7.14 MB)
Rama Neeve.mp3 (7.41 MB)
Suprabhatam.mp3 (17.71 MB)
Vatapi Ganapatim.mp3 (13.53 MB)


In this concert he was accompanied by :
Keyboard : Shyam & Murugananadam ;
Rhythm Box : Gopal Veena : Revathi Shankaran & A.K.Devi ;
Flute : B.V.Balasai & Radhkrishnan Sitar & Harp : Shashi Acharya ;
Tabla : Sathyanarayana & Chinea Mridangam : K.Mohan Raman, T Subramanya & M.Ganapathi Violin : Ratnam & Krishnamoorthy Ghatam : R. Kalyana Raman ;
Kanjira : T.K.Dakshinamoorthy

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Surendran

Kunnakudi´s Jeevitha rekha

Padma Shri Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan (1935 - 2008) is a great violinist from Kunnakudi, Tamilnadu and is a top performer, arresting violinist, innovator and an artist of varied interests. He was born in 1935 to Sri Ramaswamy Sastri and Smt. Meenakshi at Kunnakudi, an important Lord Muruga Kshetram of Tamil Nadu. His father was his first teacher.Even at the early age of 12 his sound knowledge made him to accompany great stalwarts like Shri Ariyakudi, Shri Semmangudi and Shri Maharajapuram.He is known for his dexterity and subtlety in handling the instruments. He is catering his art not only to the Erudite scholar in music but also to the layman. His play reflects his own different moods and the demands of his audience with whom he establishes and enjoys rapport. He dwells with ease and competence at the highest and the lowest Kunakudi Vaidyanathan stopped accompanying vocal artistes in 1976 to concentrate more on solo concerts and is famous for his experiments on violin, which he refers as fingering techniques.The feature film ‘Todi’, his full length presentation of rich music with T.N. Seshagopalan is a success. Honours have pursued him. He was awarded the prestigious "Padma Shri" title by the Indian government, Sangita Mamani, Best music director award and more than 200 other awards