The greatest disciple of the great GeeyeNBee mahavidwan does one of the sweetest Chnadrajyothi which his English literature master of his called 'Moonlight' renderings ever in the company of one of the best pakkoms ... ha ha ... Narayanakurup Kanthi Kumar [california]
Amazing alapana by SKR. Also, he seems to have "whistled" this krithi in a separate video. Sheer vintage stuff! For any budding artist, it is like a tutorial on how to develop the phrases laced with brighas and evolve portrayal of the contours of any raaga with sublime clarity & precision!
Excellent and crisp as you mentioned. It looks like MSGs violin is fitted some stop watch. He never exceeds 60-70% of the time taken by vocalist. But he shows the raga structure in typical MSG and the vocalist style. Real God of violin