Sri T.R. Mahalingam, was a great genius flute player acknowledged not only in India, but also at intentional level. We’re blessed to have in our midst and to enjoy his great flute performance. - “M.K.Subramanian.”
I am a foreigner, (parisian), lived long in India love Bach who made me cry ( the first time, I was guite young, I experienced tears of Ananda listening to a moment in the magnigat: "et misericordia", I could not imagine such a huge ocean of love invading my heart, too huge to be contained WAS my heart. Listening to this fantastic concert of Mali, I say: thank you thank you to the one who has posted this! I can not enter my full comment
lesser mortals understand the depth of the music Mali carried with him... Na bhootho Na bhavishyathi... Whether Lord Krishna played this instrument so melodiously or not is the question mark but we are all fortunate to have him during our generation...
He has rendered Kalavathi ragam (Ennudu juthuno) very well. Mali seems terrible as a team player ... frequently indulging in unnecessary swara gymnastics and trying to outfox his accompanists! Yet, his talented team carries him well - all the four have done a marvellous job!
He can be so witty! one can imagine Krishna's pranks!!! 44,38... suddenly people clap as I am commenting! He knows what is silence too. This notion has been dropped with the young ultra technical artists who want to show they can do 100 notes in one second and that too, during almost the whole concert... Technic can be quite a trap...Mali uses it to go "beyond", a master of laya and so much emotion in his music.
You can find many of mali's concerts on sangeethapriya.. Please google search it since it is not allowing me to post a website name.. There are about 60 concerts on this website.. When you enter the website just click on "Search and Catlog".. This will then take you to a screen where you can search for Concerts by artist..
This was recorded at Krishna Gana Sabha -T.Nagar-Chennai.This was the last concert in chennai, After this,He gave a concert in Bangalore .I was fortunate to attend this concert ,which started at 8.30 pm and ended abruptly at 9.40 om (Secratery Mr.Yagnaraman said in his opening speech that Mali will play till next year i. e 12.01 ) Mali could not play due to his fractured left hand (u can see a supporting pillow on his lap) Mali lives in our hearts
@uptothe Western Music also is not much into improvisations... most of it is composed, pre decided and played... In Carnatic, improvised music and manodharma sangitham is the heart.. Other than Jazz and some Blues... improvisations in Western Music is very limited... Generally it terms of melodic complexity... if you have to give 5 marks to western classical, you need to give about 10000 marks for carnatic... In terms of Harmonic complexity, Carnatic is 0.5 and western music is 10
"unnecessary gimmicks"? Wrong characterisation for flute music laden with highly satisfying subtleties and nuances of Laya and Svara, and inputs of ingenious inputs of intuition in various ways -- all of which make for an altogether higher dimension of musical enjoyment involving both listeners and artist, deeply, alike, which is not to be found in any other Carnatic music presentation, instrumental or vocal, these days.
An example of his unnecessary gymnastics: In the Shankarabharanam kriti at about the 58th minute, he tries to improvise a korvai and misses the talam (laya) a few times due to his own lack of focus. A totally avoidable miss! He's no doubt a genius, but here instead of recovering from his miss, he ungraciously gestures to his accompanists as if it's their fault. A hardly enjoyable moment!
@uptothe Nope... not at all.... Fundamental Difference... Western Music is rich in Harmonic Complexity, not in Melodic Complexity... Indian Classical is more melodic. Indian Classical is very preliminary in harmonic complexity ... As a basic comparison in Melodic Complexity... Western music has few scales and a modes... Most of it is Major scales and 7 modes around it.. or Harmonic Minor and its modes... These 14 scales are utmost you will get to see and a few other alterned scales in jazz.
Sri T.R. Mahalingam, was a great genius flute player acknowledged not only in India, but also at intentional level. We’re blessed to have in our midst and to enjoy his great flute performance. - “M.K.Subramanian.”
I am a foreigner, (parisian), lived long in India love Bach who made me cry ( the first time, I was guite young, I experienced tears of Ananda listening to a moment in the magnigat: "et misericordia", I could not imagine such a huge ocean of love invading my heart, too huge to be contained WAS my heart. Listening to this fantastic concert of Mali, I say: thank you thank you to the one who has posted this! I can not enter my full comment
Thanks for uploading. Both current and future generations of music and flute lovers will be thrilled to see him perform live.
There were two instrumental music vidwans mesmerized the audience in the past. Shriman Mali and Shri T N Rajarathinampillai.
Aananda Bhairavi Raaga. Fantastic vidwan. Amazing music .
She is a fabulous violinist.
lesser mortals understand the depth of the music Mali carried with him... Na bhootho Na bhavishyathi... Whether Lord Krishna played this instrument so melodiously or not is the question mark but we are all fortunate to have him during our generation...
Awesome! Divine vidwan. One & the only Mali! He will ever live in our hearts.
An eccentric that history can never again produce............
He has rendered Kalavathi ragam (Ennudu juthuno) very well.
Mali seems terrible as a team player ... frequently indulging in unnecessary swara gymnastics and trying to outfox his accompanists! Yet, his talented team carries him well - all the four have done a marvellous job!
He can be so witty! one can imagine Krishna's pranks!!! 44,38... suddenly people clap as I am commenting! He knows what is silence too. This notion has been dropped with the young ultra technical artists who want to show they can do 100 notes in one second and that too, during almost the whole concert... Technic can be quite a trap...Mali uses it to go "beyond", a master of laya and so much emotion in his music.
Awesome
what a maestro !!!!! fascinating
@basefellow The Morsing player is Pudukkottai Sri Mahadevan, a very talented and experienced Morsing player.
You can find many of mali's concerts on sangeethapriya.. Please google search it since it is not allowing me to post a website name.. There are about 60 concerts on this website.. When you enter the website just click on "Search and Catlog".. This will then take you to a screen where you can search for Concerts by artist..
thank u MR.Shrikar Krishnamurthy sir for informing about sangeethapriya, No doubt is is an almanac
A better video version with digitally enhanced audio is available in my channel.
Great artist
Soulful
🙏❤️🙏
God of flute💐
This was recorded at Krishna Gana Sabha -T.Nagar-Chennai.This was the last concert in chennai, After this,He gave a concert in Bangalore .I was fortunate to attend this concert ,which started at 8.30 pm and ended abruptly at 9.40 om (Secratery Mr.Yagnaraman said in his opening speech that Mali will play till next year i. e 12.01 ) Mali could not play due to his fractured left hand (u can see a supporting pillow on his lap) Mali lives in our hearts
For the record,
the mridangist is Mannargudi Easwaran, G.Harishankar is the Kanjira artist. Cannot identify the morsing artist
The first song is O Jagadamba. You correct, it is Ananda Bhairavi. It's a composition of Shyama Shastri.
God
Thanks a lot for posting.. Mali is always unique
Anand bhairavi was really good. What is the song ?
greatest flautist
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Thanks!
@uptothe
Western Music also is not much into improvisations... most of it is composed, pre decided and played... In Carnatic, improvised music and manodharma sangitham is the heart.. Other than Jazz and some Blues... improvisations in Western Music is very limited...
Generally it terms of melodic complexity... if you have to give 5 marks to western classical, you need to give about 10000 marks for carnatic... In terms of Harmonic complexity, Carnatic is 0.5 and western music is 10
what is the first song? ananda bhairavi ragam?
@ramkis1
Oooooo Jagaaaadamba......
t r maha lingam was died at 1978 what is s this then....
He passed away in 1985. I believe this was his last or one of his last concerts.
Dr N Ramani is the thalam artist.
"unnecessary gimmicks"? Wrong characterisation for flute music laden with highly satisfying subtleties and nuances of Laya and Svara, and inputs of ingenious inputs of intuition in various ways -- all of which make for an altogether higher dimension of musical enjoyment involving both listeners and artist, deeply, alike, which is not to be found in any other Carnatic music presentation, instrumental or vocal, these days.
Totally agree with you. Click on the user name of this message for some real Mali treasures.
An example of his unnecessary gymnastics: In the Shankarabharanam kriti at about the 58th minute, he tries to improvise a korvai and misses the talam (laya) a few times due to his own lack of focus. A totally avoidable miss! He's no doubt a genius, but here instead of recovering from his miss, he ungraciously gestures to his accompanists as if it's their fault. A hardly enjoyable moment!
Rekha Ram Lakshmanan can't say he is frowning at the mridangam artist. Seems more like he is chiding himself!
@uptothe
Nope... not at all....
Fundamental Difference... Western Music is rich in Harmonic Complexity, not in Melodic Complexity... Indian Classical is more melodic. Indian Classical is very preliminary in harmonic complexity ... As a basic comparison in Melodic Complexity... Western music has few scales and a modes... Most of it is Major scales and 7 modes around it.. or Harmonic Minor and its modes... These 14 scales are utmost you will get to see and a few other alterned scales in jazz.