Around 26.30 "Mozart abducted on a Camel" fits so well....laughed so hard I fell out of my chair!!! It's hideous it's wonderful!! Oh, the trills, oh, the trills!!! Then, off we go again on the camel...😂

Good thing that tastes differ. I love this foot-tapping piano concerto. The fact that many other people don't, is immaterial. Millions of people don't like classical music, yet I do. Any concerto that gives me pleasure is OK, and this one does.

I was sent here by David Hurwitz. The concerto certainly does not disappoint XD - utterly hilarious.

This is proto-Yanni composer. Like a proto-New Age. Simple, repetitive piano patterns, cheesy, kind of strumming orchestral, vaguely oriental music and hypnotic pulse. He was a visionary.

Its so bad that its good! To think that Djabadary and Prokofiev were born in the same year (1891) and probably knew of each other's existence. Had he lived longer, he might have been Stalin's favourite composer (since both are Georgian!)

Once again KZfaq shows me another unsung composer. It really is a shame composers like this can't find the recognition they deserve!

This piece is indeed bliss, as David Hurwitz has well appreciated. Its opening shares the exoticism of Delius's Hassan -- but the pianist quickly brings one back to Mozart. The slow movement falls somewhere between Chopin and Richard Clayderman. Not to be missed -- and to be enjoyed in company.

I like this a hell of a lot. This piece gets trash talked a lot, but I think it's very competent and beautiful. The orchestra is dark but the piano is bright and cheerful. The contrast is so logical. It has elements of Mozart and Ravel and so many others, yet has a distinct identity and style. I don't think this is a bad concerto at all. Quite excellent.

Delightfully different. I am passing through KZfaq discovering so many new works I like I can't keep track of all that I want to revisit even with hitting the thumbs up sign. I hope to revisit this, especially on those occasions where I find works I don't like. I can then look for this work again.

This is just, I have no words, I am dying inside, from the theme in the first movement, I just have no words of my pain

Arise from the forgotten world !.....Bravo...

Great music!! Never heared of this Georgian composer before, but it tastes for more!!! Thanks for spoiling us, yet again!!

I have this CD (you can get it through the Quantum label) and have played it many times. The Georgian themes spring out at you and it's a joy to listen to. As with so many other somewhat obscure composers it is well worth recording - Hyperion has an endless supply of romantic and late romantics to continue their Romantic Piano Concerto series for another 30 years!!! Come on Hyperion - starts putting more out. How about aiming for 6 a year????? 😀

As Alfred Lord Tennyson said "It's better to have tried and failed than never tried at all".

Heraclius DJABADARY, Georgian composer (1891-1937). Concerto in A major for piano and orchestra opus 10 composed in 1921. Pianist Henri GORAIEB Conductor Louis de FROMENT with `Orchestre Symphonique de RTL` Recorded at `Studios de Radio-Tele-Luxembourg` in 1980. 1. Maestoso 2. Adagio-romance 3. Allegro-rondo

"Camel Procession" - D. Hurwitz 😂😂😂

Thanks for uploading this :)

Great music!

Awesome! Beautiful music.

Thanks for sharing!

wow 0_0, c'est génial!!!

ერეკლე ჯაბადარი - Héraclius Djabadary, Georgian public figure, composer October 17, 1891, Tiflis - August 18, 1937 ♥

Quite a tour - here and there Delius, Schuman, Liszt, Chopin, S, Saens, even Amadeus....I woud call it "Rhapsody-Music Souvenir" of Classics in a Good Humour Afternoon close to a fireplace and a white Cat....Cheers.

vraiment, il est magnifique Djabadary...

There are aspects of this piece that I admire - the attempt to blend traditional Georgian music with a Western Classical Orchestra, the colorful orchestration, and the rhythms. The piano writing feels anachronistic and is not particularly inspired. The writing in places is clumsy, sometimes a bit boring, and sometime goofy, but that doesn't mean it deserves so much scorn. I think some of this criticism of this piece, comparing it to a "camel procession" is not merely uncharitable, it strikes me as problematic. The man was trying to integrate the music of his homeland, a region where the musical tradition is influenced from Persian, Armenian and Turkish music. I think that was an admirable goal. To dismiss this piece as "camel music" is an ugly and frankly ignorant thing to say. If all you think of is camels when you hear music influenced by traditional Georgian music, perhaps you need a geography lesson-- and a lesson on respect for non-western musical traditions.

Thank you very much! Do you have other things from him as well? Wonderful music...

À Tbilissi, Géorgie est né : Heraclius Djabadary (1891-1937) : compositeur (Rhapsodie géorgienne)

(Writing this before watching Hurwitz as to not get biased) The 1st subject has a catchy and bouncy theme. I find the piano entry in the first movement quite interesting. A clever reworking of the main theme into a lighter mood while the orchestra accompaniment retains its exotic and percussive quality. The 2nd subject is a dramatic change in style from the 1st subject like it was copy pasted from another work - it doesn't quite work for me. the brass in this movement are quite... interesting? Not the best piano writing as well. He got a good theme going, he just ran it into the ground.

¡ COMO SE NOTA EL GÉNESIS ORIENTAL DE ÉSTA BELLA MÚSICA, PLENA DE CARÁCTER !!! GRACIAS Y FELICITACIONES POR LA PROMOCIÓN DE AUTORES DE ÉSTA ESTÉTICA.- PODRÍAMOS ASIMILARLA CON LAS MARAVILLOSAS OBRAS DE ARAN KHACHATURIAN (DE FORMACIÓN EMINENTEMENTE RUSA), DE NUTRIENTES FOLCKLÓRICAS, SIENDO LAS DE ÉSTE DE MUCHO MAYOR NIVEL.-

Wonderful music. Thank you!

This is rather nice! I'm glad I stumbled across it. Thanks for the upload!

VERY NICE ALMOST FORGOTTEN ROMANTIC PIANOCONCERTO OF A FORGOTTEN COMPOSER. HERACLIUS DJABADARY COMPOSED FINE MUSIC.

If interested by other works of Djabadary please check KZfaq with: Henri GORAIEB, Georgian Rhapsody, Op. 2 for Piano and Orchestra by Heraclius DJABADARY.

The slow movement is pretty nice...it's absolutely not the worst concerto ever written.

Mozart abducted on a camel.

Nice ! Je ne connaissais pas ce compositeur !

It's actually not a whole lot worse than the Tchaikovsky Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra op 56. Certainly ahead of its time with an opening that could be the soundtrack for a gladiator movie and some parts that sound like Peter Nero.

Hmmmm.....a new name of a composer to me. WIKI gives dates as 1891-1937). Sounds eastern Europe to my ears

Great!

A very fine piece, (my opinion, views seem to be divided!!).

What a badass name.

hey, this guy is great - do you have any other music by Djabadary?

Oh dear

J'adore cette musique, j'ai eu un mal de chien à trouver ce vynil en 83 et ne comprends pas qu'il ne soit pas plus joué et connu.

Remembers the music of Gurdjieff and Komitas.

It would make sense as a tone poem, but not as a piano concerto. It does grow on me, until I find the piano line superflous. Piano concertos can exude national color and get away with it; I think of concertos by Ravel, Bartok (to an extent), and above all Gershwin... but the concerto is generally the most international of expressions. Example: Tchaikovsky's violin concerto seems much like a slightly-Russian response to Beethoven's concerto, and his first piano concerto (the only one often played) could have been composed by someone not Russian. Tchaikovsky was very Russian, but he also knew when to turn down the Russian-ness. (This makes him the greatest Russian composer before Prokofiev, by the way, and Shostakovich is the Beethoven of the twentieth century when he wasn't writing propaganda as music). This work does grow on me, but I am satisfied that the piano obbligato is a mistake. I'd say take out the virtuoso parts for piano and give them to stringed instruments and spread out the rest throughout the orchestra. Don't get me wrong: I love nationalistic expression in other orchestral and chamber music. I'd love to hear a symphony, piano sonata, or string quartet that exudes Indian, Japanese, or Peruvian musical 'coloration'. The "Yellow River" Concertois awful.

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This is actually entertaining in how bad it is

I also became curious about this piece following Dave Hurwitz. Well , in classical world I have heard worst than this ! I think part of the problem that Hurwitz had might be the direction of Louis de Froment who sometimes was awful.

Exquisite way of wasting time!

To cxc190 : what a malicious expression you gave.

It sounds like the music of someone who hasn't fully integrated all their influences into a coherent style, and who has a terrible sense of timing.

I don't dislike it, but I wouldn't pay cash money for it. Reminds me of a play review by Samuel Johnson - Worth seeing, but not worth going to see.

Ok first few seconds seem to promise something but then you realize it is an ostinato with a groove and a strange Mozartean tag which dulls one to death. Just seems like a ridiculous copy of Bolero done by some high school composer in love with loops.

Who knows the naionality of this composer?

In the first movement, the piano rarely gets the melody. Odd. And the solo part is so simple.

OMG this sounds so bad...

Pas genial!

Sounds like a lot of the cheesy rubbish Classic fm put out most of the time. Inspiration for Michael Nyman? I'm surprised if they haven't given it an airing!

The world nitpicking championship must be held here, powered by hilariously geopolitically and culturally ill-informed opinions. Even in the unbelievably diverse and magical world of Classical music, we still choose to follow the impulse to collectively hate something as if there wasn't anything more meaningful to do. It's kinda sad.

Pretty dreadful.

For me really bad piano concertos: Menotti Piano concerto (1945) and Ernest Bloch Concerto Symphonique for piano and orchestra (1948)

Very colorful and entertaining, but lacking depth. Khachaturian did this sort of thing far better.

It's also very badly played especially from the pianist side. I wonder what a decent pianist and conductor would make of this work, although that is not very liikey to happen.

In my entire lifetime of Classical music, this is by far the worst piano concerto I've ever heard.

Worst theme ever.