Cziffra "Tritsch-Tratsch Polka" Transcription Audio + Sheet Music

[Henry1993bc]

ANYONE GOT THE MIDI ?? 

[dchneric]

Hey just look ahead...Cziffra is dead. He is dead. That's why we are now looking at the sheetmusic, not a pianist playing it alive. You need to accept other pianist playing this piece... why being so stingy in giving approval to a young chhinese girl!

[s1earle]

Ever heard of composers having a less polished technique to perform their own pieces; I prefer the performance by Wang...

[hjiuhfhrehui]

@s1earle

these were actually improvs. he and his son whrote them down ^^

[AttemptingToBeBusy]

@hjiuhfhrehui That explains the random Bb acciaccatura at the end!

[Jim0734]

If Cziffra was a lion, you would be dead before you even contemplated the situation.

[Jim0734]

All budding piano genii aspire to Cziffra. Why? Because there is no higher mountain.

[preposterous3637]

why the rivalry between Yuja Wang and Cziffra on this page? both are great performers...

[dommboi69]

the ending is so cool!

[cowzilla8]

Actually, Yuja Wang skips the part at 2:32 - 2:42 that I don't know why.

[tomekkobialka]

@cowzilla8 Errr...because she can't play it, perhaps? ;D

[MrSebas56]

@tomekkobialka

she can.

[tomekkobialka]

@MrSebas56 Video or it never happened. :D

[MrSebas56]

@tomekkobialka

/watch?v=Yl5lf_NxVjQ& , i see it, she doesn't skip anything..

[tomekkobialka]

@MrSebas56 Yes, she does, at 2:34.

[123mazeppa]

@cowzilla8 Yeah, Yuja Wang is a flipping noob.. Nuff said.

When she played Liszt's Erlkonig, she didnt play the octaves most of the time,so you can see why she skipped that part when she played Cziffra's transcription.

But now I listened to this, WOW!! I just LOOOVE it!! =D

Yuja = noob -.-"

[XiaoYun101495]

yuja wang actually plays a shitload of notes wrong when she plays it lol

[sercerch]

I didn't realize there were such pieces out there...crazy.

[yvesguilland]

Das IST WUNDERSCHÖN 1 Musikant ZU SEIN | Wer hat so schön , wunderschön gespielt ? Ich sage : Viele viele DANKE ' noch etwas = noch Noten sehen = das ist auch 1 gescheckt , weil Musik MIT FOLGEN | eine Glück . Yves Rene Guilland | Ich LIEBE Wiener Musik ' meine Droge

[ieronim2003]

this is insaaaaaaane ! :)

[horatiodreamt]

Fantastic playing! I wonder how Horowitz in his 20s would play this!!

[Colinyoungjunjang]

2:55.. impossible

[Jim0734]

Just been listen to Charles Rosen. Not bad...

[cowzilla8]

Synthesia, please?

[MrLieblingsessen]

Kicks Richter's ass. And just about everyone else's.

[coolsnak3]

this guy can type like 2000 wpm

[stuffclusters]

he must have had fixed fingers

[Jim0734]

I love the way the score has fingering (very optimistic)

[huzzzzzzahh]

listen to 0:48 of this and then 2:37 of alkans concerto for solo piano op 39 no 10. I think Cziffra stole a little bit!

[RicAbapo]

@huzzzzzzahh Well, if you listen to Chopin's Piano concerto no.2 (first movement) and Schumann's Aminor (3rd movement) there's a passage there that really sounds the same, the chord progression and stuffs, but that doesn't mean one copied the other's one work.

[RicAbapo]

@huzzzzzzahh OMG!!!!! I have just listened to Alkan's Concerto! I mean i have to listened to it before, but i wasn't able to recognize it but now, the passage that's similar to Chopin's and Schumann's was present in his concerto too!!!!! Alkan's first movement of his concerto, that chord progression is present too, i will try to analzye it now, i am just confused whether the concerto is in A major or F# minor, becuase it started on a D major chord then to Amaj but on the F#minor mood aftewards..

[Choltik]

Why there is always someone that don't like it! WHY?! This isimpossible to dislike

[tomekkobialka]

@Choltik Because some people are just stupid attention-seeking TROLLS who have nothing better to do than go on as many Youtube videos as possible and press the dislike button. Or they're just Yuja Wang fans.

[Choltik]

@tomekkobialka LOL, couldn't agree more

[recojocarton]

WTF DID I JUST HEAR

[hotuser2]

This is just sick.

[alinursache]

:O.....no words......

[f1f1s]

What the hell... Why has a newer video with a Chinese pianist Yuja Wang messing up the whole thing got more views than this paragon of transcription brilliance?

Native producer preferences, my brothers. They are overcoming us, European heirs of noble Austro-Hungarian traditions.

And this intolerant comment of mine will be thumbed down by Wang's fans.

Do thumb this up if Cziffra's version of Strauss-Cziffra Polka is better that Wang's one!

[looorinc]

HAHAHA! THIS IS VERY FUNNY! :DDDDDDDD

WOW :DDD

[Drahthaar422]

Strauss was just fucking with people when he wrote this. I'm sure he was like, "No one is going to be nutty enough to try and play this..." Well, he never met Cziffra.

[tomekkobialka]

@Drahthaar422 Strauss never wrote this, this is a transcription by Cziffra.

[EliteOfTheRad]

@tomekkobialka A transcription of what? Do you mean he himself wrote it?

[ChopinLiszt82]

i believe cziffra has four hands. (joking)

[Oistrakhfollower]

I am kinda sure Cziffra was a pure Bohamian!

[TheDustinnguyen]

omg cziffra is such a genius, he simply arranges the easiest songs ever and look wat it turns out to be!

[stuffcluster]

with some months of practice i could play this

[Laudan08]

This score is full of "Loco". Really, u can see always tempo indications, with a "Loco" nearby.

[Quasaur]

Jaw-Droppin' SLAMMIN!

[katkula]

What's yuja wang compared to this? Absolutely nothing.

[tombennettpiano]

@katkula She is amazing...but Cziffra is the beginning and the end of this style of technique. Just amazing.

[marcphilos]

Reminds me of the "Tiger Rag" by Art Tatum.

[BMX90]

That's a lot of hours spent studying chopin and liszt!!!

[juufa72]

There we went!

[andynater890]

Played this in an orchestra. Not as insane as this mind.

[Zodiarkz]

This must have been a lot of fun to compose. It's very high spirited and cheerful and the virtuosity doesn't diminish the fun of the piece. It would sound great in a Tom & Jerry episode.

[stuffcluster]

i should be very curious about how liszt would react hearing that stuff; i think he inevitably would speak about cziffra as a great genius

[Larousse27192]

There is a moment when the virtuosism takes the control and the beauty of a piece dissapears. Many of the Cziffra's transcription have this characteristic. I must say that is an impressive tecnique, but the final piece is not pretty... and I'm a pianist...

[MrSupershadows]

wow i feel like i am listening to an episode of Tom and Jerry

[Gargantupimp]

meh horowitz stars and stripes is harder than this

[jaapaap5]

Listz would have like this stuff!

[chopinsky1810]

This is great fun!

It's a pity Cziffra didn't play Alkan. He probably spend a lot of time making this kind of transcriptions and like many others forgot about the great French master.

[caffeininja]

Oh my god what the holy sh- there go my dreams.

[piano345]

Cziffra performs his own creation better than anyone else. He has style, energy and effortless virtuosity. It is intended as an Etude and not as a work with deeper meaning. Again it is the 'green-eyed monsters' who criticise rather than sitting back and enjoying a keyboard lion at the height of his powers.

[Piggywarz]

this might be technically really wonderful and difficult, but on musical expression and organization wise... OUT!

[StarWarseu]

insane!!!

[44STYLE187]

most difficult peace i've ever seen

[VCube100]

@44STYLE187 not as hard as the metal riffer sorabji's pieces

[xXCroChrisXx]

just crazy

[TripleRhu]

Here we go!!!

:)

2:57

[cammywatt95]

Cziffra had more music in his toenail than all of today's shitty mainstream pop "artists" combined. Here, is a real artist.

[cowzilla8]

Lol, "Here we go."

[111RaginCajun]

the scary thing is that Cziffra's Bumblebee is much easier.

[777mrpiano777]

thats one way to own the piano... lol The guy was fing amazing! my god! hes better than agerich!

[moneyjr1122]

i always thought polkas were hard :P

[plerimest]

his transcription is too much a copy of Liszt techniques.

[sattvicwarrior]

I dont know where you live BUT . a LIBRARY that has a sheet music section can often locate it for you . I have found works from all over the US after they Its usually sent on “loan” and is a WONDERFUL resource for difficult music to find. ALSO . get a simplified version and CREATE YOUR OWN . [ it’s a lot of fun to do. ] the only other source would be GOD. as I'm sure he's the only one that can play that masterpiece in such a fashion. [ but he's not all that reliable] .

[openmindspace]

Where can i find the sheet music to this little diddy?

[edtskyline]

Who is the performer??? =S!!

...hahah just kidding =D!! Awesome! thanks for posting!

[Starbirdy9999]

...:-O...

I'm speechless...

[agent224ru]

a little bit reminds me Offenbach's cancan.. just some notes/passages, not more :)

BTW, where is sheet music?

[Jim341046]

Anyone who thinks they can play that at the same speed without mistakes needs to see a shrink!

[mozart1986mozart]

I like to play this polka and the last page makes me sick

[AttemptingToBeBusy]

Okay, I'm going to pose the question... Who is (or was) the better pianist: Marc-André Hamelin or Cziffra? They are certainly comparible; tireless, machine-gun technique, musically just top of their league, and they've both done their fair share of virtuoso transcriptions... So who is better?

[Messiaen]

@AttemptingToBeBusy

Hamelin would sure put up a fight, but just as the match would s e e m like a tie... Cziffra would, seemingly effortless, put in a higher gear and CRUSH his opponent!

[Jim341046]

@Messiaen Correct. The best Pianist alive versus the best who ever lived!

[AttemptingToBeBusy]

@Messiaen Hmm I can't help but think that if I were to post the question on a Hamelin vid I might get a different response :P

But yes, I think I must agree with you - Cziffra was the ultimate superhuman piano technician :)

[aardvaark069]

@AttemptingToBeBusy In my opinion Cziffra plays this type of stuff with much more flair and panache than Hamelin. I tend to think that Hamelin is the better musician in the standard rep. and things like the Godowsky/Chopin have never been played better but Cziffra has such wildness and craziness going on sometimes that i I would chose him in many cases. It's just preference and personal.

[nleguellec]

The main idea is very interesting, but he's just trying too hard. Also if ever you look at Carl Czerny's school of velocity, Cziffra is using every study in that book in just this one piece.

[POPYLOLY8]

That Sucks! Try Yuja!

[thisismymoniker]

Check out the young British lad Benjamin Grosvenor playing this at age 15...with tremendous panache and musicality, he's a rising star no doubt about it! He's got a web page with audio clips on (search Benjamin Grosvenor).

[thisismymoniker]

Check out the young British lad Benjamin Grosvenor playing this at age 15...with tremendous panache and musicality, he's a rising star no doubt about it! Just go to his site (google Benjamin Grosvenor).

[Jim341046]

It is highly unlikely to be anyone other than Cziffra playing this for obvious reasons.

[mozart1986mozart]

yes

[OrbiliusMagister]

Would you like to see someone's hands actually playing this monsterpiece? Yuja Wang gives a very powerful demonstration of it: watch?v=Yl5lf_NxVjQ

[tomekkobialka]

You've got to be kidding me...

[tomekkobialka]

Yes...in the info it says: pf: Georges Cziffra which means played by Cziffra. And anyway I wouldn't post this piece without Cziffra playing it :)

[shaylen911]

@tomekkobialka well, Yuja Wang does a pretty good job of it.

[MrZnoo]

lol

[tommy9882]

@tomekkobialka lmao cant stop laughing

[ReturnOfTheStienway]

@tomekkobialka lol

[philorgue]

CZIFFRA .... l' incroyable Pianiste trop meconnu... qualité du son... de l'engagement, ....du risque... et un poete...

[telephilia]

Cziffra - what a technic and every note so crystal clear!

[mozart1986mozart]

cziffra is a monster

[ga199337]

Monster of Piano !! Bravo

[palpitamento]

Brilliant!!!

[Jim341046]

This is just unbelievable. If you were a fly on the end of his fingers, you would be suffering some massive g-forces! - especially in the left hand..

[edtskyline]

/watch?v=Yl5lf_NxVjQ

YUJA WANG PLAYING THIS AWESOME PIECE, YOU HAVE TO SEE HER!!!!!!!  =D Cziffra ♥ He's the one xD!!

[plerimest]

sorry but Cziffra raped this fine polka by Strauss with his hyper-virtuosity.

[Jim341046]

He needed something to get his teeth into. Also the usual concert pieces - Listz etc are simply too easy.

[plerimest]

sorry but Liszt ist not so easy, also for a virtuoso

[Jim341046]

Go and cry into your porridge.

[f1f1s]

Those little 00:46-00:47 right hand passages just remind me of Alkan, Symphony Finale 'Brilliant' Part, right as 01:33-01:37. These are the easiest hands movements, I've tried. =)

02:48-02:50 - Liszt, Rhapsody 6 - those damn faraway single octaves make me angry in both pieces, aaargh, very hard to hit correctly.

The hardest is possibly is 01:21-01:31. 10th interval chord in left a huge jumps are more difficult than those heavy octaves in the coda. The right hand is doing yoga simultaneously!

[chutdigadut]

OMG that does NOT look easy at ALL......

[camilli1739]

Try the Yuja Wang YouTube of this piece, as well as some of her other postings here. She's beautiful and the "complete package!"

[Alban165]

Here we go 2:56 :) :) :)

[KeithWhalen11]

Coasterman, I completely disagree with you, although at least you are eloquent in your presentation. Vapid? How could the piece be lacking liveliness or spirit? Mindless? You'd need a pretty brilliant mind to notate something this insane. 99 times out of a 100 I will prefer something a little more pensive and passionate but music is so vast and this sort of creative adventure is part of the puzzle. Cziffra is a genius and I find this entertaining and still highly musical. To each his own.

[Jim341046]

Cziffra is the the most technically advanced Pianist on You Tube. I love Hamelin but this is probably even harder than Alkan along with the Sabre Dance and William Tell.

[f1f1s]

@Jim341046

6 months ago you haven't probably heard Alkan's Hands Reunited or Concert for Solo Piano (Op. 76 No. 3 and Op. 39 No. 10 correspondingly). Cziffra, Liszt and Dohanyi are probably the only famous representatives of the Hungarian piano school that orders pianists to play everything as if it were a bravoura (crush those son-of-a-bitching keys!). Hamelin has borrowed everything from every school - Neigauzian, Russian, French, and even that monodynamic monorhythmic pure techical Japanese!

[Jim341046]

OMG! That was unbelievable. It was like rag time at triple speed.

[MEpianist]

This is not amusing. My 4th and 5th fingers hurt just watching this score.

[HomelyCooking]

The little "Here we go!!!!" at 2:56 made my day.

[jazzlover06]

perhaps the best encore piece ever?

[sal50811]

i saw Yuja Wang yesterday and she played it as first encore

as second her turkisch march

[orgelfan]

Wer das übt ist selber schuld^^

[TheJgutierrez]

what the heck

[hotuser2]

ab 2:57: die linke Hand ist so krass...

[Reaper978]

Thanks for posting!

[BNM321zxy]

So hARD!!!!! I can't play It!!!!

[mrchopin89]

Wow Wow.. amazing.. cziffra can played this piece even faster and faster than this perfectly !! I believe he can do it..hahaha

[SordidGuy]

First of all, please forgive my "bluntness", but this piece is freaking IMPOSSIBLE!!!!!! Absolutely amazing!!!

[sattvicwarrior]

its brilliant and TOTAL GENIUS. you people who "fault find" are nothing but simple intellectual sycophant WORMS who have NOTHING better to do than to tear it down cause your control freaks your missing the whole point of theater and entertainment on a level that is beyond your pathetic comprehension of what this man is all about .

[AnAmericanComposer]

@sattvicwarrior Well that about summed up my rant to jerks today...thanks!

[LetTheMusicFlow1]

has anyone noticed that he spends the majority of the piece on flourishes and crazy ascending and descending passages, and not really a lot of time on the actual melody of the piece?

[tomekkobialka]

That might be the point of the etude; to be able to 'sing-out' the main melody while playing all those scales and arpeggios.

[coasterman16]

I completely agree with LetTheMusicFlow. Even Liszt's etudes don't sacrifice melodic and harmonic expansion for the sole purpose of extra technical fireworks. This piece is virtuosic for virtuosity's sake, and the "polka" is reduced to one melodic phrase thrown about like a ragdoll amidst a sea of extraneous notes. I'm not saying that you can't like this music; I'm just saying that I find it vapid and mindless, as there are many more challenging pieces that retain more musical qualities.

[sirvio666]

Your point?

[LetTheMusicFlow1]

I dont really have a point.....just thought i'd point that out......i love this piece tho, dont get me wrong.

[piano345]

Enjoy it for what it is - a great klavier tiger revelling in his own special brand of keyboard virtuosity.

[LetTheMusicFlow1]

oh i absolutely do enjoy it. i never meant any negativity with my comments :P

[PugzM]

Forgot about Cziffra's virtuosity. Just listen to the feeling of the music in comparison to the original.

[ReturnOfTheStienway]

They are harmonies of the melody.

[hungarianguy]

@LetTheMusicFlow1 That my friend has been the main criticism of his playing by his critics.

[slothvader]

@LetTheMusicFlow1 ?? melody??

[kastlesucks]

I dont know why, but i shiver when i watch the jumps, 3:00

[GavMasterD]

I loved the "Here We Go" - I shat bricks.

Cziffra, what an absolute legend.

[Summelduple]

I could never spend so much time on something with such little emotional content.

[yellingLoL]

Emotion or no emotion, good luck trying to bring out his ridiculous melody lines.

[MeLoDyOfHaTrEd]

i agree with you

[yellingLoL]

I don't know how he comes up with this stuff

[AminelikesStephanie]

i don't knows how anyone plays this

[edtskyline]

No me gusto, me parecio horrible hasta el minuto 3, fuera de eso y en cuanto a la tecnica pues es Cziffra, que puedo decir=D

[f1f1s]

That's the very tricky part, the coolest fragment of the piece! =) It's almost impossible to perform it as mr. Cziffra does, so bow down you head.

[ironspokes]

genius genius genius genius genius genius genius genious genious...

[grampasso1989]

:O

Oh my god... maybe the most difficult piece I've never heard....

[kastlesucks]

His fantasy on william tell is probably 50 times harder, check it out.

[moneyjr1122]

it needs to be more simple XD and less crazy but a neat tune

[ThaSchwab]

Well, the performance is good, but the transcription is horrible. Waaaay too flashy.

[f1f1s]

You should have listened to more of Cziffra, and then changed your opinion. All of his transcriptions are insanely difficult, but highly appreciated.

[ThaSchwab]

I have ... this is why I don't really enjoy listening to them. He's a great pianist, but not so much a composer/transcriber

[ReturnOfTheStienway]

What is particular things about his transcriptions and compositions are not great?

[shubus]

Just one more reason to buy that new Cziffra box set.

[demosj]

1:39 reminds me of a different piece, but for the life of me I can't attach a name to it. :/ Does anyone have the same feeling?t

[Wmuscatt]

Is is perhaps Liszt's la campanella etude?

[coaster1000]

I think it's Cziffra Il Travatore paraphrase! :)

[GustavMinski]

The left hand on the 'here we go' part was... Impossible! Possibly...

[cerzule]

Unbelievable.

[Rheesoman]

one word, wow

[busterkeys25]

BEH!!!