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11.12.2024
Ahead of World Violin Day (December 13), Deepa Chakravarthy caught up with Lalgudi GJR Krishnan to get a holistic perspective on the violin as a Carnatic instrument.
A lifelong serenade - Deccan Herald
24.01.2022
It was ace violinist Lalgudi G Jayaraman’s love for Bengaluru and its weather that had made Nandi Hills his melodic getaway until the late eighties.
"Violinists Lalgudi Krishnan, Vijayalakshmi honoured" - The Hindu
23.09.2017
The violinist duo — Lalgudi G.J.R. Krishnan and Lalgudi Vijayalakshmi — were conferred with the eighth Indira Sivasailam Endowment Medal and citation at the Music Academy on Friday.
"Strings and Tunes – GJR Krishnan’s Akademi award a tribute to Thyagaraja’s lineage" - TOI
25.10.2016
It was an honour of a unique kind when Lalgudi GJR Krishnan, the son of legendary violinist Lalgudi Jayaraman, received the Sangeet Natak Akademi award earlier this month. Krishnan, who has taken after his father both in manners and mannerisms, is one of the outstanding violinists of the current era. With his sister Lalgudi Vijayalakshmi he has performed many duets of exceptional quality that are known for their purity, aesthetics, adherence to classicism and seamless blending of the two violins, which are a treat to the layman and the cognoscenti alike.
Winsome twosome - The Hindu
12.10.2016
As the New Year dawned on January 1, a large and loyal audience assembled at the Mylapore Fine Arts Club early in the morning to hear a violin recital by Lalgudi Krishnan and his sister Vijayalakshmi. Krishnan had been performing in the same venue on every New Year day morning for 30 years in a row till 2006 in the company of his father and guru Lalgudi Jayaraman, and Vijayalakshmi had eventually joined them to form a trio.
"Krishnan and Vijayalakshmi hold high the Lalgudi patanthara in their concert" - The Hindu
29.12.2022
The Lalgudi brother-sister duo have continued to carry the torch, lit by their father, in an exemplary manner. They have not been swayed by the new idioms of concert performance or the urge to add colours that don’t blend well. Vijayalakshmi’s raga alapana of Kamboji stood out as the perfect specimen of the school’s code at their concert for The Music Academy.
One for the rasika! - The Hindu
10.03.2011
Generally, Carnatic vocalists prefer to take up weighty and well-known melodies for Ragam-Tanam-Pallavi, probably because they feel lighter and less familiar ragas may not give them adequate scope for developing the concept fully and properly. But highly accomplished solo instrumentalists don’t feel such constraints. Among the leading musicians who seem to specialise in adopting a variety of unusual and attractive ragas for RTPs in their performances together, are violinists Lalgudi Krishnan and his sister Vijayalakshmi.
"Happy duo" - The Hindu
02.06.2016
Lalgudi Jayaraman’s son and daughter - Krishnan and Vijayalakshmi - are a contented duo. They miss their father at this crucial hour but are happy with the way >the book has shaped up . “It is beautifully written. We were not there in Appa’s formative years and were very young when his star was on the ascent. We travelled to a different era and lived through all those moments during the interview sessions,” says Krishnan.