mEghasandESam - Musical drama in Sanskrit - Old AIR, Bangalore recording

Submitted by jkmohanarao on Tue, 2012-05-01 11:14 My Gallery

mEghasandESam, a musical drama in Sanskrit broadcast by AIR in 1978, may be heard here. It was composed and conducted by bAlAMtrapu rajanIkAMta rAvu, the then station director of AIR, Bangalore. The singers are rajanI and bAlamuraLi. Incidentally rajanI was recently chosen for the Tagore ratna award (commemorating Tagore's 150th birth anniversary). The whole script in Sanskrit with explanations at various intervals is also available for those who are familiar with Telugu. The link is
http://www.eemaata.com/em/issues/201205/1939.html?fmt=rts
This is actually an appendix to an article of mine on the mandAkrAnta metre in Sanskrit that is used in several messenger poems. I was researching on this work on and off over the last few years. There are lots of links to other renderings in my essay whose link is
http://www.eemaata.com/em/issues/201205/1942.html?fmt=rts&allinonepage=1

Enjoy!

Regards! - mOhana