Side A and B: Nadopasana - Begada - Adhi - Tyagaraja
Also in Side B: Orithimaganai pirandhu - Behag - Adhi
Yaar Poi Sollu vaar - Todi - Adhi

This album is a production of Sanjay's Kutcheri for Narada Gana Sabha, in December 1999. Those who are fond of traditionalist variety of music should like this Begada of Sanjay's. The alapana part is of that quality, that when you hear it, you'll tell yourself, "okay, good". In other words, nothing spectacular, nothing that'll stir the soul. A pretty much down-to-earth Begada, nonetheless enjoyable. At times, you get a feeling that Sanjay is not singing in his own voice, but in a put-on one, but that, if counted as a defect, is a minor one.

It is when Sanjay comes to the neraval and swara sequences that his class begins to show. Nadopasana has been sung and heard times approaching infinity, and is perhaps difficult to introduce novelty into it. However, neraval and swaras are quite thrilling.

Accompanist Mysore Nagraj is a mature violinist, but one gets an impression that his Begada essay is a shade less in quality that Sanjay's. However, he too picks up at the neraval and swaras. Something , perhaps, in the theory that 'time' has something or the other to do with everything, what?

Orithimaganai Pirandu comes out very well as a Behag should. Nothing again noteworthy here. Todi is a surprise inclusion, at this stage. Why bring in a tonsured Todi at the end of the album is something that the inlay card omits to explain.

On the overall, this is an album worth buying.