Great Violinist and brother of famous mridangist Thrissur Narendran. Rajendran has accompanied many leading artistes in the Carnatic music field. Rajendran ,who had also composed several Krithis and light music songs, performed at several prestigious centres in France. C Rajendran composed many prolific Carnatic compositions. He composed 60 above Carnatic compositions, in all forms like, Varna, Kriti, Ragamalika, Pada, Tillana, Bhajan and Mangalam. A Varna in the raga Bridavana Saranga was his debut composition. After retirement C Rajendran focused entirely on composing compositions on Carnatic music. "Sri Maha Ganapathe," in the raga Gambira Natta, was the first kriti composed by him. Sanskrit is the language used in majority of his compositions. Two Malayalam kriti’s were also composed by him. His songs are always exquisite blends of music and lyrical elegance. Each of his compositions is a benefit to Carnatic music and is written in accordance with his own style. He composed: ? Varna – 22 ? Krti – 37 ? Ragamalika – 2 ? Pada – 1 ? Tillana – 2 ? Bhajan – 2 ? Mangalam – 1 C Rajendran’s compositions include variety of uncommon ragas, including Suddha Todi, Veenavadini, Subali or Shekara Chandrika, Shivashakti, and Ganavaridi, and as well as some uncommon talas, including Khantajathi tiruputa and Sangeerana chapu. He also composed some Hindustani ragas like Binnashadj, Kalavati, and Mishra Shivaranjini. Each of his composition are the mixture of raga bhava, tala and with attractive lyrics. Raga innovations ‘Hariharapriya’(janya of 22nd Mela Kharaharapriya) and ‘Mayavathi’ (janya of 22nd Mela Kharaharapriya) are two new ragas that created by C Rajendran and he wrote a Varna and a Kriti in the ragas Mayavathi and Hariharapriya, respectively.