Ilaiyaraaja - Thiruvasagam (Feat. Budapest Symphony Orchestra) 2005 (Welgate TIS 300605) Tamil Music {zVoz}

Genre: Classical Cross-Over, Devotional, Indian Raga (Tamil),
World Country: India
Year drive: 2005
Country of origin disc: India Published (label) : Welgate TIS 300605
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Tracklist:
1. Poovaar Senni Mannan (Vocals: Ilaiyaraaja)
2. Polla Vinaiyen (Sivapuranam) (Vocals: Ilaiyaraaja, Roy Harcourt)
3. Poo Eru Konum (Vocals: Ilaiyaraaja, Bavatharini)
4. Umbarkatkarasaey (Vocals: Ilaiyaraaja)
5. Muthu Natramam (Vocals: Unnikrishnan, Madhu Balakrishnan, Vijay Jesudas, Manjari, Asha, Gayathri & Chorus)
6. Puttril Vazh Aravam Anjen (Vocals: Ilaiyaraaja)

About the album
"It is unlike anything I've ever heard before, a stunning blend of Indian and Western music and instruments." - Stephen Schwartz, Oscar winning Broadway Playwright.

"(Thiruvasagam) is an excellent collection of hymns of fruits dipped in honey."

'Few of the world's biographies are more interesting than that of this man of rare genius.' says GU Pope, of Manicka-vachagar, (660 - 692 CE) the fourth of the four grandmasters. In his early youth he was the favourite chief minister of a great Pandya king of Madura. He met a Saiva guru - whom he then and always believed to be Lord Siva Himself - and was converted by him to become an utterly self-renouncing ascetic and Siva mendicant. When the King perceived that his minister had become a man of God he relieved him of his duties. The saint visited several places, all the while giving out in song his spiritual experiences. Finally while in retirement, the call came to him from his king to meet the aggressive disputations of the Buddhist emissaries from Ceylon. He answered their arguments but they were not convinced. Finally he turned to His Lord Siva for help. The King pleaded that his dumb daughter should be made ​​to speak. Acting on the suggestion and to the wonder of the audience, the daughter spoke. The Buddhists were convinced. Manickavachagar's unique bridal mysticism, undivided loyalty and exclusive devotion to the Lord, find immortal expression in his exquisite poems like Tiruvachagam which is a work of devotion-and-wisdom par excellence, known to melt even the hardest of hearts.