Veena Bheri | VV Ravi violin | Vadyam S02 E02 | Carnatic violin music | Minna Minni

Minna Minni presents the second season of Vadyam, a series celebrating Indian instrumental music. We are privilaged to feature senior exponent of Carnatic violin music, Sri VV Ravi, presenting a few rarely heard compositions of Sri Muthuswami Dikshitar. Today, he presents Veena Bheri in Raga Abheri.

About the artist:
Instilled with the nectar of musical lessons from Sri. Vadakkencheri Veeraraghava Iyer, Sri. V V Subrahmanyam, Sri. Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavathar, Sri Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer and P S Narayanaswamy; V V Ravi is a Carnatic violinist with an experience of 55 years in field. He has also served the All India radio, Chennai for over 35 years as a top ranking violinist. Needless to say, He has travelled and performed across countries and has students learning from him around the globe.

Video chapters
00:00 - Veena bheri by Sri VV Ravi
01:12 - Charanam of Veena bheri
02:36 - Swaram of Veena bheri

Credits:
Violin - V V Ravi
Concept and direction - Anugrah Lakshmanan
Logo & Title design and animation - @Animagic India - Chetan Sharma, Prajaktha Sharma, Gayatri Rao
Special thanks - Jayashree Aravind

Among carnatic violin music instrumentalists, VV Ravi violin holds a special place. Carnatic instrumental music violin, carnatic violin instrumental music and instrumental violin music have become integral parts of this artform over the years. Without a violin carnatic music concert today would be hard to conceive. Sri VV Ravi is among the best violin carnatic music and carnatic music instrumental violin exponents today. The Vadyam season 2 is a violin instrumental playlist, which will have four instrumental violin pieces, releasing every alternate week. This will be an instrumental solo violin presentation, without any other accompaniment. Vadyam seeks to bring out carnatic music instrumental music to the fore and give you an up close experience of the instrument. This particular season by VV Ravi violin will exclusively feature muthuswami dikshitar krithis and in this video, he has played Renuka Devi Samrakshitoham, one among the more rarely heard muthuswami dikshitar devi krithis.

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