2009 Madras Music Season: rAgam nIlamani in nagaswaram and veena
rAgam nIlamaNi has its scale delineated as S R2 M1 P D1 N3 S in the ascend and S N3 D1 P M1 R2 S in the descend. It is the janya (child or derivative) rAgA of the 27the mElakarthA rAgam sarasAngi (which has all the seven notes within an octave of its scale in both ascend and descend as S R2 G3 M1 P D1 N3 S – S N3 D1 P M1 G3 R2 S)
Here is a short recording of rAgam nIlamani played in the nAgaswaram. The moving piece was recorded by me in 2006 (with the permission of the artist who shall remain unnamed) at the kEsava perumAl kOil in mylapore, Chennai, during a music season flop concert, (which I walked out).
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This 2009 music season, I listened to ennakavi pAdinAlum, the standard (Tamil) song in nIlamani, played by Revathy Krishna on the veena, as a thukkadA (short songs at the tail end of a concert). Although the concert I attended was not one of her best, I was amazed at the voice like felicity she wielded her veena on this song – which, unfortunately, one can appreciate if only one can comprehend the Tamil lyrics. Even otherwise, enjoy the instrumental.
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Dear Arunn,
Hope you are doing fine and enjoying the music season.
We are doing fine. We are currently at NCSU as I took sabbatical.
Sujana listened to the nIlamani piece you put up and she says the raga is almost like sivaranjani though occassionally M2 is used.
moorchana is S R2 G1 P D2 S
S D2 P M2 G1 R2 S
Can you re-check ?
We look forward to more reviews. Are you planning to attend Mrs. Sudharani at MA
regards
Sarma
Sarma: Thanks for the comment. Will check. Yes, I plan to attend MS concert at MA.
Enjoy your sabbatical.
cheers,
Arunn
Thanks Arun. I wish you had more reviews in English !!
I will send you the alapana of nIlamani by Sujana on veena shortly !
By the way I have uploaded some of Sujana’s veena on you tube ! I wanted to upload to my website but have access issues ! You can check the following link when you have time.
http://rasikas.org/forum/topic11846-veena-concert-of-sujana-vadlamani-uploaded-on-you-tube.html
cheers
Sarma
Sarma: Thanks for the link. Will listen to it.
Re more English language reviews: I have written one more in English, since your last comment
I was debating whether to write in Tamil or English. Due to lack of time, settled for this two pronged approach of splitting the reviews equally into both. If I could squeeze some free time, will try and translate the earlier Tamil ones into English 
Cheers,
Arunn