The Featured Recording
New · Spring 2026
Varnam at Dawn
Ragam Kharaharapriya · Adi Talam · after Tyagaraja
Recorded before sunrise in a single sitting, this forty-minute varnam and ragam-tanam-pallavi traces Kharaharapriya from first alapana breath to the final korvai — unhurried, unedited, and tuned to the tambura alone.
Listen to the RecordingA Note on the Ensemble
Founded in Thanjavur and now resident in Chennai, the Kaveri Ensemble carries a kutcheri tradition three generations deep. Meenakshi Venkataraman learned at her grandmother's harmonium before entering the gurukulam of Vidwan K. S. Rajagopalan; Arjun Seshadri and R. Bhargav joined her in 2014, and the trio has kept an unbroken December-season calendar ever since.
Their concerts favour the long form — a full alapana given room to breathe, neraval taken phrase by phrase, and a tani avartanam that converses rather than competes. Rasikas will find the old Thanjavur bani intact: weight in the lower octave, ornament only where the raga asks for it.
Concert Calendar
2026–27 Season
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27 December 2026
Reserve SeatsPallavi Darbar: An Evening of RTP
Bharatiya Sangeetha Kendra · Bengaluru
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From the Reviews
Ninety minutes passed as one breath — the Kharaharapriya alapana alone was worth the season ticket.
— The Marghazhi Journal, December 2025
An ensemble that treats silence as a fourth instrument. The old Thanjavur weight, carried lightly.
— Carnatic Quarterly, Spring 2026
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