Palghat K. V. Narayanaswamy

There are about 15 songs from various concerts. Please click below to download

Palghat K. V. Narayanaswamy

Palghat K. V. Narayanaswamy - Concert No 27

This elaborate concert with 19 files at Malvankar Auditorium, New Delhi in the year 1975 accompanied by T. N. Krishnan in Violin and Velore Ramabadran. Please click below to download

Palghat K. V. Narayanaswamy - Concert No 27

Palghat K. V. Narayanaswamy - Concert No 26

In the year 1975 this concert was at Dikshiter Bi-centenary festival consisting all Dikshiter krithis, accompanied by V. V. Subramanian in Violin and Umaiyalpuram K. Sivaraman in Mrudhangam. Please click below to download

Palghat K. V. Narayanaswamy - Concert No 26

Palghat K.V. Narayanaswany - Concert No 25

This concert was accompanied by V. Thiagarajan in Violin and Vellore Ramabadran. Pleas click below to download

Palghat K.V. Narayanaswany - Concert No 25

Palghat K.V. Narayanaswany - Concert No 24

This concert was accompanied by M. Chandrasekar in Violin and Palghat Raghu in Mrudhangam. Please click below to download

Palghat K.V. Narayanaswany - Concert No 24

Palghat K.V. Narayanaswany - Concert No 23

Remembering Padma Shri and Sangeet Natak Akademi awardee Carnatic vocalist K V Narayanaswamy (15 November 1923 - 1 April 2002), is widely considered to be among the finest Carnatic music vocalists of the 20th century.

Born to a Palakkad Iyer family in Palghat, a district renowned for its cultural and musical traditions in Kerala, he learned basic music lessons from his father Fiddle Viswanatha Bhagavatar and grandfather Narayana Bhagavatar. Ramanarayanan first began extensive training under Mridangam maestro, Padma Bhushan Palghat Mani Iyer, who proceeded to place him under the tutelage of Sangeetakalacharya C.S. Krishna Iyer, a highly competent vocalist, musicologist and composer in Palghat, and then under violinist and Sangeetha Kalanidhi Papa Venkataramiah.

In 1942, Ramanarayanan entered the home of Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar and remained an ardent disciple until the latter's death in 1967.

Starting off with a Madras Music Academy concert in 1954, in which he was accompanied by doyens Palghat Mani Iyer and Papa Venkataramayya, Narayanaswamy’s career kicked off. Then over the years he performed with legends of percussion as Palani Subramaniam Pillai, Palghat R. Raghu, Mavelikkara Velukkutty Nair, and Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman, among others.

On being made professor of music at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, between 1965–67, he went on a coast-to-coast concert tour of USA. He was one of four artists including Bismillah Khan, Ali Akbar Khan, and Ravi Shankar who participated in the hugely popular Hollywood Bowl music festival in Los Angeles in the summer of 1967.In 1974, KVN went to teach in Berkeley, California for a year, in the company of dancer Balasaraswati and sitarist Nikhil Banerjee. Invited by the American Society of Eastern Arts, he traveled to North America, Europe (Berlin Music Festival in 1976) and Australia (Adelaide Arts Festival in 1988) multiple times thereafter on various concert tours. He also joined the Music College in Madras as a lecturer in 1962 when Musiri Subramania Iyer was its principal, and retired as Professor of Music in 1982. In 1984, Narayanaswamy was to become the first Indian musician to be awarded the Fulbright Scholarship and went to San Diego State University in California as an artist-in-residence under the scholarship. For nine months he taught at the university and gave performances all over North America.

Some of his leading disciples were Padma Narayanaswamy, renowned flautist Shashank Subramanyam, vocalist K.V.Ananthan, violinist and vocalist Hemmige V.Srivatsan, Padma Sandilyan, Hemmige S.Prashanth, Pattabhirama Pandit M.R.Subramaniam, T S Ranganathan, Manipallavam K.Sarangan and Balaji Prasath.

He has received the President of India’s Padma Shri in1976, Central Sangeet Natak Academi Award in 1976 and Madras Music Academy’s Sangita Kalanidhi Award, 1986, among others.

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Please Click below to download this concert accompanied by T.N. Krishnan in Violin and Palghat Raghu in Mrudhangam.

Palghat K.V. Narayanaswany - Concert No 23

Palghat K.V. Narayanaswany - Concert No 22

At Cleaveland, USA in the year 1993 accompanied by Nagai Muralidharan in Violin and Velore Ramabadran in Mrudhangam. Please click below to download

Palghat K.V. Narayanaswany - Concert No 22

Palghat K.V. Narayanaswany - Concert No 21

Concert having 15 files. Please click below to download

Palghat K.V. Narayanaswany - Concert No 21

Palghat K.V. Narayanaswany - Concert No 20

This concert was with rare accompaniments of N. Ramani in Flute, M.S. Anantharaman in Violin, Ramnad Raghavan Ramesh  in Mridhangam and Trichur Narendran also in mridhangam at Cleveland, USA, in 1983. Please click below to download.

Palghat K.V. Narayanaswany - Concert No 20

Palghat K.V. Narayanaswamy - concert No 19

This concert accompanied by Anantharaman - Sivaraman and Shyamsunder has 12 files. Please click below

Palghat K.V. Narayanaswamy - concert No 19

Palghat K.V. Narayanaswamy - concert No 18

This concert has 16 files. Please click below

Palghat K.V. Narayanaswamy - concert No 18

Palghat K.V. Narayanaswamy - concert No 17

This concert is having  12 files. Please click here

Palghat K.V. Narayanaswamy - concert No 17

Palghat K. V. Narayanaswamy - concert No 15

This concert has 16 files on 23rd May 1993 in USA. Please 

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Palghat K. V. Narayanaswamy - concert No 15

Palghat K.V. Narayanaswami - Concert No 16

This concert with 12 files accompanied by M. S Gopalakrishnan and Ramabadran. Please click below

Palghat K.V. Narayanaswami - Concert No 16

Palghat K. V. Narayanaswamy - Concert No 14

Accompanied by Sikkil R Bhaskaran and Palghat Raghu. Please click below

Palghat K. V. Narayanaswamy - Concert No 14

Palghat K. V. Narayanaswamy - Concert No 13

This concert was on 10-4-1980 acc0mpanied by M. S. Anantharaman and Umaiyalpuram K Sivaraman. Please click below 

Palghat K. V. Narayanaswamy - Concert No 13

Palghat K. V. Narayanaswamy - Concert No 12

This concert was at Cleveland on 10-04-1993 accompanied by Nagai R Muralidharan and Vellore G Ramabadran. Please click below

Palghat K. V. Narayanaswamy - Concert No 12

Palghat K. V. Narayanaswamy - Concert No 11

This concert was at Calcutta in the year 1973 accompanied by Lalgydi G Jayaraman and Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman. P;ease click below

Palghat K. V. Narayanaswamy - Concert No 11

Palghat K. V. Narayanaswamy - Concert No 10

This cocert was at Nada brahma Gana Sabha, Mysore in 1993, accompanied by Nagai R. Muralidharan and Vellore G. Ramabadhean Please click here

Palghat K. V. Narayanaswamy - Concert No 10

Palghat K. V. Narayanaswamy - Concert No 09

This concert was at Ghatkoper, Bombay,on 16-05-1971 accompanied by T.S. Veeraraghavan and Umaiyalpuram Sivaraman.. Please click below

Palghat K. V. Narayanaswamy - Concert No 09