Dwaram Satyanarayana Rao hails from Dwaram family of violinists and grandson of legendary Sangitha kalanidhi Dwaram Venkataswmy Naidu. Kalasagaram featured him in a violin solo concert, last week held at Keyes High school, Secunderabad. He was accompanied by Peravali Jayabhasker on mridangam, B. Janardan on ghatam. Support violin was by Pawan Singh, his disciple.
Satyanarayana Rao opened with Natakuranji Pada varnam Chalamela in medium speed. Later he played Garuda Gamana Samayamide in Nagaswaravali of Patnam Subramanya Iyer and the swarakalpana he presented at the end was the highlight of this number presented with calculations. Phanipati Sayi in Jhankara Dhwani, a rare composition of Thygaraja was presented later.
Neekela Dayaradu in Sarasangi of Ramaswamy Sivan with brief alapana and an extensive swarakalpana in different gatis displaying Dwaram style bowing techniques of a solo. Mokshamu Galada in Saramathi of Thyagaraja and Brochevarevarura in Khamas of Mysore Vasudevachar followed. Both these numbers were played with sahitya appeal. He then delineated Simhendra Madhyamam in great detail for Ninne Neranammithinayya of Mysore Vasudevachar. The swarakalpana too was quite a relishing exercise. This was his sub-main number and was followed by a breezy number Raghuvamsa in Kadanakutuhalam of Patnam, displaying technical wizardry in Dwaram style. This number opened gates for the main number of the concert Thyagaraja’s popular composition Chakkani Rajamargamu in Kharaharapriya. The raga delineation was breath-catching, building it to climactic upper octave and then settling down in the madhyama and mandra sthayis. This was followed by a fine tanam presentation. Kriti presentation was expressive in presentation of this popular kirtana.
In the concluding part of the concert, he came out with a popular Annamacharya composition, a lullaby, Jo Achyutananda , followed by Dhanasri tillana of Swati Tirunal and a Purandaradasa number Bhagyada Lakshmi Baramma in Madhyamavati.
