Smitha Madhav is blessed with very soothingly melodious deep voice, with good range that helps her to reach different octaves effortlessly. She gave a vocal concert for Sangeetha Ksheerasagaram, last week at Thyagaraya Ganasabha’s mini hall last week. She was in the company of Ramaraju Dinkar on violin, P.V. Ramanamurthy on mridangam and T.P. Balasubrahmanyam on ghatam, who gave impressive support with equal competence.
Smitha Madhav opened her concert with invocative sloka and followed it with Dikshitar’s Vidulaku Mrokkeda in Mayamalavagoula of Thyagaraja, an impressive presentation steeped in devotion ending with swarakalpana in two speeds. This was followed by Theliyaleru Rama in Dhenuka also of Thyagaraja that mirrored nirvedam , (lack of devotion and ‘bhakthi’) in people of the times. Naadaloludai in Kalyana Vasantham, Rupaka talam was excellent presentation with fine alaapana in all details. She presented swarakalpana in two speeds. After the rendition of Rangapura Vihara in Brundavana Saranga of Dikshithar, Bhogeendra Saayinam in Kuntalavarali of Swathi Thirunal, Bantureethi Koluveeyavayya in Hamsanaadam of Thyagaraja, with brief nereval, Smitha chose Ramanamamaney Vara Khadgamidi and presented with swarakalpana in two speeds taking pallavi line that set the auditorium with ‘Rama namam’
The main item of Smitha’s concert was Chakkani Rajamargamu in Kharaharapriya of Thyagaraja. She presented the raga elaborately touching different colours of the raga.
The kriti rendition also carried emotive element and carefully developed and moved into neaeval at the line Kantiki Sundara Taramagu Roopamu followed by swarakalpana in two speeds. All the participating artistes were felicitated by S. Chakravarthy IAS (retd.) and former head of SICA.
