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I must have very poor tastes in music but I quite like it.

It might not be one of the great piano concertos but it would make great film music . I am enjoying listening to it.

"Une barque sur l'océan" is one of Ravel`s phenomenal and technically difficult pieces that Henri Goraieb performs majestically.

Sublime performance by Henri Goraieb this heavenly concerto of Beethoven where one can hear almost every single note played with an exceptional musicality.

Sublime ❤❤❤

Great❤🎉

Very good❤️

Thank you ARA for keeping this heritage alive.

Wow such an amazing work! I myself am not an expert but through my common sense and humble opinion, I allow myself to say that for me as a Lebanese, this work not only technically marries classical music composition and Levantine songs, but it much more importantly really conveys a certain Lebanese/Levantine modern spirit. To avoid falling into generalizations about the Lebanese/Levantine culture and to be precise, maybe this thing I'm calling "Levantine modern spirit" dates back to the musical/cultural heritage the Rahbanis and other prominent musicians and composers of the 50's of the last century left us. This work is way impressing than many more recent attempts of fusing classical music and Lebanese music.

In this recording (Radio Munich, 1963), Henri Goraieb gives a brilliant interpretation of Chopin’s Introduction and Variations on the German Air "Der Schweizerbub", often referred to as 'Variations sur un Air National Allemand', in 1826/27. It was first published in 1851, two years after Chopin's death.

Une superbe technique mise au service d'une sensibilité qui ne laisse pas indifférent dans ce concerto somptueux. S.D 🎻

In 1962, Henri Goraieb is the first Franco-Lebanese artist to be invited as a soloist to the prestigious “Théâtre des Champs-Elysées” in Paris where he majestically performed the Shostakovich Piano Concerto No. 1 with the “Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion-Television Francaise” with the world-famous conductor, Georges Sebastian.

Amazing performance.

That was stunning. Etherial. Perhaps my favorite rendition of that song I've ever heard. Bravissimo!!!!

Quel ténor et quelle belle personne !

Wonderfull

even if you don't love the musical material, you kind of have to respect, nay, stan mr. djabadary for the sheer audacity. plus it has some really cool moments! had he workshopped this with a couple different pianists he could have come up with a more polished result, but instead we get the historical relic of a piano concerto that's fun to listen to both in spite of and because of its jankiness. and for that i am grateful. it's not every day that you hear a large work by a fine composer that contains some major L passages.

A marvelous performance by Henri Goraieb in perfect harmony with Louis de Froment.❤

Salute to a wonderful person from a wonderful country ,one of our ambassador 💕

Magnifique voix d'Alain Vanzo ! Merci pour le partage.

Sounds better to me than most of the atonal and minimalism stuff that's supposed to be so clever.

This exceptional performance, praised by many critics and musicians, is a perfection by the magnificent dialogue between the piano and the orchestra.

This is actually a quite lovely piece of what the British call "light music" and the Americans call "middle-of-the-road." It reminds me a great deal of Albert W. Ketèlbey, a British composer from around the same time (1875-1959) who similarly got savaged by overly "serious" music critics for not writing at the level of Mozart, Beethoven or Wagner.

This sounds better than anything Boulez wrote.

It’s unfair to say this as the “worst piano concerto ever written”

For me, I won't say it's the worst piano concerto. There are some memorable melodies, and while the first movement may feel clunky and the second movement has nothing memorable at all (again, for me), the 2nd half of the third movement is fine, and some parts of the first movement are good too. There are plenty of concertos which only just wasted time, nothing memorable, not even enjoyable. Here, this concerto I can listen to every now and then, this concerto I can enjoy, maybe not one of my favourites, but it certainly stuck out, partly because of it's reputation of being deemed as "the worst piano concerto". Also, it seems that someone has written an English Wikipedia article for this composer, which is great, although it does not seem to mention Hurwitz's criticism of the concerto, which is probably the biggest reason why this composer is getting any attention at all. If I remember too, I will add it myself. I have done some research of the composer some time ago, of which I remember very little. However, he wrote 3 concertos, and after a quick check, Chotha Djabadary (a sibling of Heraclius) made a 2 piano reduction of the 2nd concerto (in F major), published it in France in 1976 (?). From my memory, I think I checked through worldcat, and saw only the 1st and 2nd concerto being held in some university libraries, the 2nd being in 2 piano reduction form. Interestingly from this quick research, I found this: www.google.ca/books/edition/Life_Streams/8jpfaEkcAHoC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=heraclius+djabadary&pg=PA262&printsec=frontcover which seems to be some guide for meditation? Uh, do what you will with that information LMAO

An impeccable performance by a wonderful person!

Fabuleux de revoir Henri

Aria de la ópera Gli tre cicisbei ridicoli (estrenada en Londres 1749) Tre giorni son che Nina, in letto se ne sta. Il sonno l'assassina svegliatela per pietá. Pifferi e timpani,e cembali, svegliate mia Ninetta, svegliate mia Ninetta, acció non dorma piú. E mentre il sior dottore a visitarla va Ninetta per amore in letto se ne sta. Hace ya tres días que Nina está en la cama. El sueño la está matando, despiértenla, por favor. Flautas, tambores, címbalos despierten a mi Ninetta para que ya no duerma más. Y mientras el médico va a verla, mi querida Nina en la cama está..

What a beautiful and comfortable and inspirational song she sings ❗

It's not the worst Concerto, it just isn't the greatest.

The "Polish Divertimento for two pianos" is the first recording of Milosz Magin's work of the early 1980s. It is a very interesting composition with beautiful harmonious melodic and, rhythmic Polish influence perfectly performed by Milosz Magin and Henri Goraieb.

Merci de nous présenter cette pépite interprétée par deux géants du Piano et de la Musique !

Yes. She had very little hands and it's a miracle that she played this concerto with such a facility. Very lyric. I like it.

Thank you for this discovery ! I hope that one day you will have the opportunity to make us discover the symphonies n° 1 "Brève" (ORTF chamber orchestra André Girard, 5.4.1973) and n° 3 "Shiva Nataraja" (national orchestra of the ORTF directed by the composer).

An exceptionally talented pianist with a dazzling technique that is well-balanced and rich in expression and musicality.

DIVINO divino divino sem palavras e muita emoção 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿

Live recording of Alain Vanzo at 58 years old with his unique musicality full of emotion.

Beautiful interpretation of Chopin's Famous Fantaisie Impromptu by Henri Goraieb. 💐💔💐

Well, I like it...

My favourite piece of music

Une version superbe. Mille mercis.

Magnifique interprétation de ce magnifique morceau!

One of the best versions, I think, brilliant. Thank you.

Very nice smooth and stable voice and nice color. It just needs a bit more "operatic ring". Listen to Cornell Macneil in his glory days for that ring. It's not necessary to change eu and e to â. it's not that high, and we want to make it as "French" as possible. Don't loosen the jaw too much in performance. On the other hand, your ou (ex. sourire, nous) is too tight and we don't hear it, so make it a bit ô/â. Not because they are high, it's just intrinsic to that vowel. Short notes: "TES yeux", "REvoir", "LE ciel": slow them down, do a rit on tes, re, le, even if it's not written. Work it out with the pianist, it's not anti-musical, they do it even in baroque and classical opera. Even "ton souriRE et dans tes yeux", stretch the re a bit, take a quick but comfortable breath, the pianist will wait for you for an extra half beat, it's not "illegal". This is one of the reasons LL said "don't sacrifice the song on the altar of breath". Listen to José Van Dam, Ernest Blanc, Jean Borthayre, Gabriel Bacquier for this particular aria.

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

Adorable voice and piano. Thank you.

In all honesty, it is terribly difficult to write a "good" piano concerto, not to mention a great one. Liszt had probably the most extensive piano technique of anyone in history. Yet his piano concertos are mostly sophomoric. His own Piano Sonata is a truly great work, not his piano concertos. Difficulty does not equate to a masterwork. The Grieg Piano Concerto is still truly a masterpiece and loved by hundreds of millions (Yes, I play it). It is his best work. So rather than criticize this work, I will simply say that it is not a masterpiece, and it is unfair to attack it because it is not. There are only a small handful of truly great ones. Rach 2,3. Beethoven #4, Brahms #2. Mozart's, Gershwin F, Barber, Prokofiev #2,3 and a few more. Sanjosemike (no longer in CA)

I LIKE THIS SINGER OPERATIC ANGEL VOICE

Absolutely enchanting! Feb.16/22. Burlington ON Canada