Dudukugala - Gowlai, Adi, Thyagaraja
- A narration by Smt. Kamini Dandapani.

A Pancharatna kriti is an unusual selection for a concert, but Balamurali’s Dudukugala was a superb choice to follow Nattai. The low, melancholic notes of Gowlai were the yin to the yang of the soaring tones of Nattai. It is such a pleasure to listen to Balamurali sing this. He is one of the few musicians who enunciates the lyrics beautifully and does not break the words in the wrong places. The Pancharatna kritis can be tricky because the swarams have an inherent rhythm of their own, that is often different to how the lyrics flow. Even somebody like me who doesn’t understand Telugu, instinctively appreciates the poetry of the words when they are sung correctly. The succinct alapanai, sung at a leisurely pace, captures the pensive mood of Gowlai and matches the mood of the song, which is a lament by Thyagaraja on the many sins he committed.

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Please read the detailed narration of the concert by Smt. Kamini posted in the Description section of Track 1.

I would like to express my special thanks of gratitude to the following for their contribution in the restoration project of this concert.

1. Smt. Kamini Dandapani, who was actually present in the concert on that evening of 27th December 1976, reminiscences through a stimulative and absorbing narrative of the concert.
2. Sri. Ravi Joshi, who has tirelessly worked with a ‘never give up attitude’ to find, locate and source the spool tapes of the concert and for investing his time and effort in digitising the spools to get an excellent audio quality.
3. Sri. Palghat Ramaswamy, an avid music collector, who was generous enough to kindly donate the spools for our posterity project of Murali-gānam.
4. Sri. Scott Dorsey, a German reel to reel technician at San Jose, California who was able to fix some technical issues with the player and calibration of speed.

- Sreenivasa

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