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Frenzied pace
THE PERFORMING style of the violin brothers Ganesh and Kumaresh was powerfully energetic, intensely precise and intuition-driven. God has given them extraordinary communicative skills, to scale musical heights and delve into ocean depths, but somehow has withheld from them the most precious gift - shantham.
Once the primacy of music to still the mind is understood, and not just tickling excitement, other lofty values find fulfilment at the sublime plane. Their future path beckons them from rhetoric to reverie.
In their recital under the auspices of Veena S. Balachandar Trust, the duo rendered the song ``Naadupai'' (Madhyamavathy) with swaras with great ferocity. The song records the poignancy of Sri Tyagaraja held up for partitioning the family property. The way the violinists handled it looked as if they visualised in their minds how the parties involved in the property partition would have exchanged hot words in anger. Such was the pace of the song and sparring swaras. Sankarabharanam by Ganesh and Charukesi by Kumaresh were the ragas taken up for alapana and their imagery was marked by felicitous expressions and also by over-demonstrativeness. ``Kancha Dalaya Daakshi'' (Kamalamanohari) ``Raga-ratna-maalikache'' (Ritigowla) ``Aada Modigala'' (Charukesi) and ``Akshaya-linga-vibho'' provided solid kirtana fare. Guruvayur Dorai (mridangam) and Harishankar (Kanjira), ignited by the pace of the violinists play, extended frenzied percussive support.
— SVK
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