This is the best visual performance of cziffra on youtube. He's like a bugatti veyron supercar. This is him cruising at about 200mph. Crushingly fast but very much in control. I'd love to SEE his performance of Islamey which must be about 250mph. Since he designed his scary transcriptions, they'll be at 268mph. No wonder audiences clapped for 20 minutes.
This was Stalin & Lennin's regime, just like hitler. Sad nothing has changed. Great people are tortured for the sake of greed and ignorance. He left Hungary very sadly, not because of his own people but of the russians.
To quote from the movie "A Beautiful Mind", one of John Nash's fellow mathematicians asks, "John, what is the difference between 'genius' and 'most genius'?", to which J.N. replies, "QUITE A LOT!" All of which is my way of saying that Cziffra certainly qualifies as "Most Genius"!!
As a prisoner in Hungary from 1950-1953 he was made to carry masssive blocks of marble to build a university staircase which stretch the ligaments in his right hand. His captures knowing he was a pianist also tortured his hands. The heavy lifting also damaged the ligaments in his back and as a result he wore a surgical corset for many years. Wonderful that he was then able to play so effortlessly after suffering mans inhumanity to man.
@97boskeys, read his momoirs "Cannons and Flowers" It was the Communists who jailed him for trying to escape from Hungary. They made him carry rocks, until his wrists nearly fell apart :-( Nevertheless, he practiced and built back his piano playing, but had to use leather bands to hold his joints together for a long time :-( If you read his memoirs, you will love him even more as a person.
nine hours a day is bullshit. if you want to get to a high level, you should start out with a fuckload of hours and as you get more stamina and technique you play more and more until you're playing up to twenty two hours a day. a third year piano major should be practicing their own music for one hundred and fifty hours a week. along with an additional eighteen hours for accompanying other people.
four hours a day is bullshit. if you want to get to a high level, you should start out with a few hours and as you get more stamina and technique you play more and more until you're playing up to nine hours a day. a third year piano major should be practicing their own music for sixty hours a week. along with an additional seven hours for accompanying other people.
Just answer the question "how many years do I have to practice to run as fast as Usaine Bolt". And he doesn't even have to know how to read music while he is running/
He plays if "so fast" because he can. As for Liszt, he was a showman, who also was a brilliant, possibly the most brilliant technical virtuoso ever, and if he could play this fast, I:m sure he did.
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Why so fast! it is like he couldn't get self control... his technique impressive, Ok he is an incredible virtuoso!! but it doesn't represent the spirit of Liszt.-
I dont even know to read music but have saved up enough money to rent a piano...I want to play these pieces. Can anyone tell me how long it will take for me to come to this level...if ever??Also is reading this sort of music very difficult or what???
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First if all you need a teacher. There's no possible way you could learn something like this without directation from a pianist. Before your able to play these things it will take years. It also depends how old you are , really if your somewhere around the age of 12 you can still make it. Anything above 16 is not worth it. By the time you will be able to play something like this you would be in your mid 20's. I've been playing for about 13 years since I was four and I did not even bother to try
With a teacher directing you , you should be OK. But you cannot expect playing this from the first day. You first need to know how to read music..which is the easiest part of music in all. Then comes technique and playing pieces.
I don't think that reading music is the easiest part. For me it's like it takes a long time to read that stuff and then i got it in my mind and don't need the sheet music anymore. The fun and easy part for me is to interpret pieces and work on dynamics and articulation.
@LazyBastard69 Agreed. From my experience, there are two types of musicians: the readers and the memorizers. The readers never learn to memorize because reading is easier, and the memorizers never learn to read because memorizing is easier. This of course does not even take into account those who can figure out music by ear.
It depends how quickly people learn. You still started at a young age. I'm not saying you can't play anything if your above the age of 16. You can of course, but it takes hard work. You , sir , know nothing about the piano. Your very lucky that you learn quickly but others dont swallow things like you apperantly do.
I may not be a professor, but you can't say I know nothing about about piano since the fact that you don't even know anything about me... And what do you know that I don't, your one year older than me!! -.-
Hmm, a video? This is just a audio recording with some scores since I haven´t got anything good to film with, sure I got a phone to film with and I have tried but the audio did really suck you could barley hear something...
@nanotechxe without a teacher you will need about two years if you play as much as me ^^ i do it by this way and i learnd reading sheets well and gnomenreigen to 1:30 ^^ a teacher tells you what you are doing wrong and can give you tips so tahat it doesn´t take so long but it´s possible. good luck
Cziffra dazzles no matter how many times. such lughtness, quick three fingered repeated chords. He had it plus style yet they say his Mozart was irst clas too.God i wish i could have attended.Volodos is great Lisztian and he speaks SCHUBert's language like a RICHTER . What makes these men?
Practice, practice, and more practice. You have to reach a point where playing those notes is like instinct, because Liszt really does leave NO room or error. Just keep a loose wrist with a firm 5th finger to bring out the melody, and with enough time, you can make it sing too.
Do you note the black band he wears on his right wrist? It is to remember how he was caged as a Hungarian Roma in Hitler's concentration camps. His hands were crush but amazingly he worked until he could fill the world with his wonderful playing. Fasinating story!!!!!
Your story is almost true. He was enlisted into Horthy's army in the 2nd world war, he was a prisoner of war, but he was not in Hitler's KZ. He was imprisoned from 1953 to 1956 by the communists. After the second world war he played in bars in Budapest as the communists did not let him to live a life he wanted and deserved... The Hungarian communists imprisoned him after an unsuccesful trial to escape from stalin's red block...
@97boskeys You are wrong! He hasn't ever been in a Hitler's concentration camp. Were the damned communists that tortured him after taking power over Hungary. His son György Jr. almost died due to the infra-human treatment they suffered.
@mugargusci ... I went to music school with Gyorgy Jr. and always wondered, why the teachers asked him to play after class :-) He was a genius as well. He conducted many of his father's concertos later. (see: Toten Tanz) ... About history: Yeah, President Roosewelt gave Hungary to Stalin, 45 years of occupation followed, socialist-communist experience :-( Few of Cziffra's family members starved to death ... Sad story, but they successfully defected in 1956 and had a fantastic carrier abroad :-)
This is the best recording of this piece that I've ever heard, but if you listen to Arrau's version, I think the last twenty seconds of his version is better. Cziffra was smooth throughout the piece then becomes a little overpowering and too quick at the end.
Cziffra is by far, by an incomparable margin, better. I know, its not always fair, each context is different, pace, tempo and so on...but please, in this one instance, Cziffra has the hand's down best recording of Gnomengreigen. Technically, he is by far the finest who ever lived. If you disagree, put it up...show me. It's not out there.
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The best recording of this piece is by Claudio Arrau. By far. Cziffra's, is very impressive..he learned it well.. but it's not all about speed, you can't sacrifice speed for sound quality.
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i'm gonna play it for my UH audition. Cziffra plays it WAAAAAY too fast, it's really not as hard as he makes it look... i've been working on it for a few months, can play all of it with a few mistakes here and there
The point is to not make mistakes here and there. Your UH audition is going to suck because Gnomenreigen isn't a piece you audition with after playing it for only a few months.
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Cziffra was certainly one of the best, but Alkan's technique was most likely better (although we can't be sure, as he died before recording technology was invented)
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he inspires me
Choltik 2 months ago
Liszt playing Liszt.
Chopininoff 3 months ago
wat
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xorganizationxvx 3 months ago
100 percent speed hack...
deathelnater 3 months ago
Here's a tip, if you ever want to learn a piece, don't watch a Cziffra performance of it. Your self esteem will never recover
flicfan416 4 months ago 5
Is that speed POSSIBLE?
0530pianist 4 months ago
The one who came up with the idea to turn the video upside down during the theme have earned himself a beating though...
Padachan 5 months ago 3
@Padachan This is just Cziffra showing off how he can play just as good upside down.
samtheman264 4 months ago
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@Padachan This is just Cziffra showing off how he can play just as good upside down.
samtheman264 4 months ago
nothing more simple...
noratranvouez 5 months ago
This is just so ridiculous. I don't even know how this is possible. How, Cziffra, how!?
joumenpoonk 5 months ago
My god, it's tickling my ears!
MrLieblingsessen 7 months ago
2.02 - 2.12. He needs a little extra concentration to play about 10 notes a second in his right hand.
Jim0734 7 months ago
CZIFFRA LOOKS LIKE FRANKENSTEIN FROM 1:55
hdetli 7 months ago
Liszt knows i only have 10 fingers yet , he likes composing pieces for 20 fingered person...like the guy called Cziffra!
johlo05 8 months ago
absolutely incredible...
awesomekapownoises23 9 months ago
This is the best visual performance of cziffra on youtube. He's like a bugatti veyron supercar. This is him cruising at about 200mph. Crushingly fast but very much in control. I'd love to SEE his performance of Islamey which must be about 250mph. Since he designed his scary transcriptions, they'll be at 268mph. No wonder audiences clapped for 20 minutes.
Jim341046 9 months ago
This was Stalin & Lennin's regime, just like hitler. Sad nothing has changed. Great people are tortured for the sake of greed and ignorance. He left Hungary very sadly, not because of his own people but of the russians.
TheCourtwick 9 months ago
Gnomes Gonzaless !.... :p
scarbolaught 9 months ago
- ARRAU -
jujuijoel 10 months ago
Hes a Super Ninja.
Chaguarama75 11 months ago 3
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While he has an excellent technique, I personally find him boring as a musician and overrated, actually.
AfroPoli 1 year ago
When he looks up into the camera at the end after that performance...
fayemarilynh 1 year ago
I was considering to try learning this piece, but then I saw this video... Cziffra plays this so well, it's almost depressing!!
drhlarsen 1 year ago
Gnomenreigen is the worst dungeon ever!
aroundtheworls 1 year ago
To quote from the movie "A Beautiful Mind", one of John Nash's fellow mathematicians asks, "John, what is the difference between 'genius' and 'most genius'?", to which J.N. replies, "QUITE A LOT!" All of which is my way of saying that Cziffra certainly qualifies as "Most Genius"!!
CLASSICALFAN100 1 year ago
I can't believe this technically hard piece could be played so light and delicate touch, even if he woluld have had not only ten fingers
fpetya314 1 year ago
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jbriguel18 1 year ago
fuck these damned little gnomes!!! I can see them everywhere now!! O_O
great playing! :D
newFranzFerencLiszt 1 year ago
Why does watching Cziffra make me crack up unfailingly?? he's just too good...
zhangensprachen 1 year ago
An extremely lyrical interpretation. Lovely!!
trschaefer 1 year ago
Limpide.
Folbold 1 year ago
Nothing boring in his playing, not just fast but full of character and energy, indeed a monster!!
gimaru1 1 year ago
I can see the gnomes dance so cheerfully! :) What an interpretation...
Would send Bolet back to school (no disrespect btw, I'm talking about this very piece).
funfor1life 1 year ago
wooaaah it's upside down!
Crunkmastaflexx 1 year ago
As a prisoner in Hungary from 1950-1953 he was made to carry masssive blocks of marble to build a university staircase which stretch the ligaments in his right hand. His captures knowing he was a pianist also tortured his hands. The heavy lifting also damaged the ligaments in his back and as a result he wore a surgical corset for many years. Wonderful that he was then able to play so effortlessly after suffering mans inhumanity to man.
piano345 1 year ago 3
What Grade is this piece in?
Just want to know
123mazeppa 1 year ago
@123mazeppa Very, very advanced
Phi1618033 1 year ago
5 people failed to learn this piece...
iWillBlockYou 1 year ago 5
Dexterity..
lovethepiano 1 year ago
@97boskeys, read his momoirs "Cannons and Flowers" It was the Communists who jailed him for trying to escape from Hungary. They made him carry rocks, until his wrists nearly fell apart :-( Nevertheless, he practiced and built back his piano playing, but had to use leather bands to hold his joints together for a long time :-( If you read his memoirs, you will love him even more as a person.
GeorgeOfZala 1 year ago 3
Such technique. Him and horowitz are two of the best modern time pianist.
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nine hours a day is bullshit. if you want to get to a high level, you should start out with a fuckload of hours and as you get more stamina and technique you play more and more until you're playing up to twenty two hours a day. a third year piano major should be practicing their own music for one hundred and fifty hours a week. along with an additional eighteen hours for accompanying other people.
N33dM04rM3t4l 1 year ago
God
GONZOftw2k 1 year ago 9
four hours a day is bullshit. if you want to get to a high level, you should start out with a few hours and as you get more stamina and technique you play more and more until you're playing up to nine hours a day. a third year piano major should be practicing their own music for sixty hours a week. along with an additional seven hours for accompanying other people.
ifreshwater 1 year ago
@ifreshwater non sense-stop with the shoulds
Bruce88keys 1 year ago
W O W
ollie3003 1 year ago
...delicato e maestoso...
NuovoCurioso 1 year ago 3
omg (Y)
beccay19 1 year ago
1:30-1:33..CRISPY!!!
mrchopin89 1 year ago 2
this is totally orgasmic
claudeleason 1 year ago
Uncanny connection with his instrument, the like of which us mortals can only ever dream of.
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I had always thought that Cziffra was a Hungarian, but this video is of a negro playing it. What the hell?
LeroyJacksonJones 1 year ago
@LeroyJacksonJones go visit a fucking eye doctor
LazyBastard69 1 year ago
I don't think you know what "negro" means
aurexvorshade 1 year ago
Such sensational hands!!
choppinliszt 1 year ago 6
cziffra is one of the true liszt masters...superb technique and expression
Deredbaron 2 years ago 23
Just answer the question "how many years do I have to practice to run as fast as Usaine Bolt". And he doesn't even have to know how to read music while he is running/
starborg9 2 years ago 5
He plays if "so fast" because he can. As for Liszt, he was a showman, who also was a brilliant, possibly the most brilliant technical virtuoso ever, and if he could play this fast, I:m sure he did.
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Why so fast! it is like he couldn't get self control... his technique impressive, Ok he is an incredible virtuoso!! but it doesn't represent the spirit of Liszt.-
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this motherfucker's got CHOPS
DyingSoliloquy 2 years ago 18
haha made me laugh :P
literalprofanit 2 years ago 4
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GeorgeOfZala 1 year ago
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too fast
alcoholicass 2 years ago
i agree, the speed of murray perahia's version is perfect
fayemarilynh 2 years ago
That's about the best performance I've ever heard of this piece. I don't think it can get any better than that.
2young2fallinlove 2 years ago 15
Mercy.
Not a single note was "banged" in this. -Impossible-.
otonanoC 2 years ago 3
He's not THAT good.
Oh wait. He is.
schema45 2 years ago 7
HIs articulation is incredible. But he brings sounds out of the piano that are inhuman.
But he is is so gentle with the music too. It never sounds forced, even when played fast.
Pianists like him come around a generation or so.
maxscriptguru 2 years ago 9
I dont even know to read music but have saved up enough money to rent a piano...I want to play these pieces. Can anyone tell me how long it will take for me to come to this level...if ever??Also is reading this sort of music very difficult or what???
nanotechxe 2 years ago 3
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First if all you need a teacher. There's no possible way you could learn something like this without directation from a pianist. Before your able to play these things it will take years. It also depends how old you are , really if your somewhere around the age of 12 you can still make it. Anything above 16 is not worth it. By the time you will be able to play something like this you would be in your mid 20's. I've been playing for about 13 years since I was four and I did not even bother to try
Airliners101 2 years ago
Thanks for your reply...I have booked a teacher, but I am over 20...I did find my fingers stiff...but I will still give it a try...
nanotechxe 2 years ago
With a teacher directing you , you should be OK. But you cannot expect playing this from the first day. You first need to know how to read music..which is the easiest part of music in all. Then comes technique and playing pieces.
Good luck!
Airliners101 2 years ago 3
I don't think that reading music is the easiest part. For me it's like it takes a long time to read that stuff and then i got it in my mind and don't need the sheet music anymore. The fun and easy part for me is to interpret pieces and work on dynamics and articulation.
LazyBastard69 2 years ago
@LazyBastard69 Agreed. From my experience, there are two types of musicians: the readers and the memorizers. The readers never learn to memorize because reading is easier, and the memorizers never learn to read because memorizing is easier. This of course does not even take into account those who can figure out music by ear.
pookiehohn 1 year ago 6
@nanotechxe LOL
8aetroya8 2 years ago
laugh loud.....one day ill shuv the laughter up yours!!!
nanotechxe 2 years ago
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Lol... I´m 16 and have played for 5-6 years. I play a lot of Alkan and have always done. Wtf are you talking about? :S
addeex1 2 years ago
It depends how quickly people learn. You still started at a young age. I'm not saying you can't play anything if your above the age of 16. You can of course, but it takes hard work. You , sir , know nothing about the piano. Your very lucky that you learn quickly but others dont swallow things like you apperantly do.
Airliners101 2 years ago
I may not be a professor, but you can't say I know nothing about about piano since the fact that you don't even know anything about me... And what do you know that I don't, your one year older than me!! -.-
addeex1 2 years ago
Show us! Surely you've got a video phone to take to your raves. Let's see a bit of Alkan please.
Jim341046 2 years ago
@Jim341046
Sure, I uploaded yesterday actually!! just check my profil
addeex1 2 years ago
Wow that's great. I had a look on your profile and didn't see it. Send me a link to the video if you can.
Jim341046 2 years ago
Hmm, a video? This is just a audio recording with some scores since I haven´t got anything good to film with, sure I got a phone to film with and I have tried but the audio did really suck you could barley hear something...
addeex1 2 years ago
How old are you?
AttemptingToBeBusy 2 years ago
still it will take years for u to get to this technical level, unless ur like ray charles and just know the game
snipee911 2 years ago
@nanotechxe without a teacher you will need about two years if you play as much as me ^^ i do it by this way and i learnd reading sheets well and gnomenreigen to 1:30 ^^ a teacher tells you what you are doing wrong and can give you tips so tahat it doesn´t take so long but it´s possible. good luck
Bananenkoenigshatz 1 year ago
@nanotechxe If you want to get to a high level do an hour a day and you'll get there.
Haydenbrooks83 1 year ago
@Haydenbrooks83 an hour a day is a joke for a high level. you need to practice about 4 hours. and i mean concentrated practice. not diddling around.
LazyBastard69 1 year ago 2
Wow, that was an amazing display of virtuosity.
Zebeldarebel 2 years ago 4
Cziffra dazzles no matter how many times. such lughtness, quick three fingered repeated chords. He had it plus style yet they say his Mozart was irst clas too.God i wish i could have attended.Volodos is great Lisztian and he speaks SCHUBert's language like a RICHTER . What makes these men?
lovesGenet 2 years ago 2
sagol toooooooo
vakho87 2 years ago
Can someone tell me how to develop technical delicacy in this etude?
Do I have to be very accurate in the beginning? (because it sounds like broken chords in most parts.)
jasonextreme 2 years ago
everyone has his own style
BaneLord333 2 years ago
Practice, practice, and more practice. You have to reach a point where playing those notes is like instinct, because Liszt really does leave NO room or error. Just keep a loose wrist with a firm 5th finger to bring out the melody, and with enough time, you can make it sing too.
Good luck! :)
sirvio666 2 years ago 3
Thanks, that helps... A LOT. Flicking the wrist makes it easier.
jasonextreme 2 years ago
really slow really slow and watch your fraising and articaultion
crackapolo 2 years ago
Yes, absolutely. It's insanely difficult to make it sound like actual chords instead of a mess, but once you pull it off it sounds beautiful.
bloodl3tt3r 2 years ago 2
awesome
jasonextreme 2 years ago 3
Do you note the black band he wears on his right wrist? It is to remember how he was caged as a Hungarian Roma in Hitler's concentration camps. His hands were crush but amazingly he worked until he could fill the world with his wonderful playing. Fasinating story!!!!!
97boskeys 2 years ago 36
Thank you so much for that information!
No question he's been there...
Stukov16 2 years ago 2
It was not a concentration camp.
kastlesucks 2 years ago
Your story is almost true. He was enlisted into Horthy's army in the 2nd world war, he was a prisoner of war, but he was not in Hitler's KZ. He was imprisoned from 1953 to 1956 by the communists. After the second world war he played in bars in Budapest as the communists did not let him to live a life he wanted and deserved... The Hungarian communists imprisoned him after an unsuccesful trial to escape from stalin's red block...
zsb64 2 years ago
@97boskeys hahaha where did you pick that story up?
Tetanus512 1 year ago
@Tetanus512 its on wikipedia..
hageagga 1 year ago
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@Tetanus512 its on Wikipedia ^_^
hageagga 1 year ago
@97boskeys Actually, he served for axis military and was even a tank commander briefly.
alvasch 1 year ago
@97boskeys You are wrong! He hasn't ever been in a Hitler's concentration camp. Were the damned communists that tortured him after taking power over Hungary. His son György Jr. almost died due to the infra-human treatment they suffered.
mugargusci 1 year ago
@mugargusci ... I went to music school with Gyorgy Jr. and always wondered, why the teachers asked him to play after class :-) He was a genius as well. He conducted many of his father's concertos later. (see: Toten Tanz) ... About history: Yeah, President Roosewelt gave Hungary to Stalin, 45 years of occupation followed, socialist-communist experience :-( Few of Cziffra's family members starved to death ... Sad story, but they successfully defected in 1956 and had a fantastic carrier abroad :-)
GeorgeOfZala 1 year ago 2
@97boskeys so saaad :(
Natenoooo16 1 year ago
@97boskeys FasCinating spelling, too : )
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hartmuthopp 1 year ago
@97boskeys An attempted escape from Soviet-dominated Hungary led to imprisonment and communist forced labour in the period 1950–1953.
hartmuthopp 1 year ago
@97boskeys it's not to remember... he still had problems on his tendons and articulations... amazing : i know!
unetotaleincognito12 1 year ago
@97boskeys
Sorry to disppoint you. The communists mistreated him and he flew with child and wife in 1956
, therefore he stole a steam locomotive !
garstigzwerg 10 months ago 2
@97boskeys Sure, blame the germans!!!
He was caged by the communists!!!
38 idiots
GermanoDeppe 9 months ago
This is the best recording of this piece that I've ever heard, but if you listen to Arrau's version, I think the last twenty seconds of his version is better. Cziffra was smooth throughout the piece then becomes a little overpowering and too quick at the end.
magior329 2 years ago
LOOK AT THE LITTLE GNOMES RUNNING AMOK
mdoub 2 years ago 76
lol
LetTheMusicFlow1 2 years ago
Wonderful hands...such an aestethe!
Thank you for the emotion you never fail to convey Mr Cziffra.
funfor1life 2 years ago 8
THIS IS THE BEST!!! 5/5
mdeonx16 2 years ago 9
On ESPN.
swojnicz 2 years ago
thank you for the best interpretation of this wonderful piece. such BEAUTIFUL feeling & slender playing ... he truly was a virtuoso
thank you virtuoso pianist for making my day. Cziffra truly was something else..
THANK YOU MR.CZIFFRA
ccen1 2 years ago 12
best recording of gnomenreigen ever i've heard! I love it
sanghyun199 2 years ago 9
Lol I feel high listening to the treble hahaha
PeiD0nG 2 years ago 5
very creative shot from under the piano. Disorienting view of Cziffra's upside-down hands really gives a flavor to this piece and the video.
FrankMazeppa 2 years ago 3
I can see the gnomes dancing :)
spartan1081990 2 years ago 9
I love it, it shows another side to virtuosity. In many ways this delicate, fleeting touch is more impressive than thunder.
demosj 2 years ago 7
one of the few people worth envying...his left hand omfg^^
ShearZone101 2 years ago
Where music stops and sports starts? ;)
christophleipzig 2 years ago
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what is Cziffra???
newventuresband 2 years ago
A Hungarian name :)) type it in google, I dont think there are too much pianists with this (nice) name.
korszet 2 years ago 4
I think this the most impressive performance of this piece, but listen to the ending of Arrau's version, just that portion I think is better.
magior329 2 years ago
Virtuosoooooooooooooooooo
Ellinidara 2 years ago 7
Very impressive. I agree, Cziffra is the best with this piece. The beginning is so smooth...
magior329 2 years ago 9
Claudio Aru?
uhhhhhhh
no.
Cziffra is by far, by an incomparable margin, better. I know, its not always fair, each context is different, pace, tempo and so on...but please, in this one instance, Cziffra has the hand's down best recording of Gnomengreigen. Technically, he is by far the finest who ever lived. If you disagree, put it up...show me. It's not out there.
shirtbrigade 2 years ago 6
Amazing, Murray P is wonderful on this too.
hammerax1 2 years ago
Yes but rather polite in Liszt . He is better in the more classical style.
piano345 2 years ago
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i should agree that so far, this is the best gnomenreign interpretation..
i still prefer hamelin and michelangeli in terms of technique.
but the 3 are maybe the best pianists in the world
rvn10rvn17 2 years ago
Liszt himself was better :)
ShadowMissrouti 2 years ago 2
are yu sure ? :D
maalga2008 2 years ago
i don't understand people who criticize this brilliant performances.. i bet they can't play it as well and with the huge expression as cziffra does
jimenezpianoforte 2 years ago 6
wrong note at 1:26, i think [the E]
lol it's supposed to be an E flat on my music at least
lisafannypack 2 years ago
I think you're right, sounded odd to my ear too.
ShadowMissrouti 2 years ago
yes true!
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umm okay no offense monkeymaddie12, but five years of playing is NOTHING!
lisafannypack 2 years ago
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The best recording of this piece is by Claudio Arrau. By far. Cziffra's, is very impressive..he learned it well.. but it's not all about speed, you can't sacrifice speed for sound quality.
multiplebogey 2 years ago
No way. He didn't sacrifice speed for sound quality. He plays it fast but with tons of expression...
cfwpiano 2 years ago 4
phew!
oodoo79 2 years ago
1:24
cuntytube 2 years ago
1.24
cuntytube 2 years ago
la reincarnazione di Liszt!
lisztbest 2 years ago 4
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I have played piano for 5 yrs and i cant even play that!
monkeymaddie12 2 years ago
Me too............
lol
MatteoTessarolo 2 years ago
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lisafannypack 2 years ago
5 years? you're kidding right?
amazingorange 2 years ago
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lisafannypack 2 years ago
fuk me that gys insane
cuntytube 2 years ago
It is not too fast! This fast tempo gives it special spark...I truly like it!
LadyofMetal16 3 years ago 2
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Amusing to see the grate czifra playing this in an irregular tempo and a 13 y.o Enzo kid who plays it in the right tempo. ...
konzolmester 3 years ago
It's called rubato.
jernqvist 2 years ago
He plays everything rubato without exception. Speeding up at places making it unconfortable to listen. for me that is :-)
konzolmester 2 years ago
Fabulous!
pianolover1004 3 years ago 4
my piano teacher has been working on this piece for 2 years now o_O
one day i will play this as well!!!
oldgrannycatari 3 years ago 3
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rvn10rvn17 3 years ago
well ur an idiot
this piece is VERY hard to play....did U ever try it?
NO!
so hah!
it takes a LOT of practice, as u can see!
oldgrannycatari 3 years ago
Are you retarded?
Good luck learning a measure in a few days..
Booger308 3 years ago 5
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i'm gonna play it for my UH audition. Cziffra plays it WAAAAAY too fast, it's really not as hard as he makes it look... i've been working on it for a few months, can play all of it with a few mistakes here and there
vaelrix 3 years ago
This isn't too fast, watch any recording, any decent recording is played only a little slower if not the same speed.
Booger308 3 years ago 2
The point is to not make mistakes here and there. Your UH audition is going to suck because Gnomenreigen isn't a piece you audition with after playing it for only a few months.
shoesfordancing 3 years ago 3
Prouvez-le!Vous ne devez commetrre aucune faute!Jamais vous n'arriverez à la cheville d'un Cziffra!
Katiuszkasanda 2 years ago
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lisafannypack 2 years ago
hi Narutard! =D
oldgrannycatari 3 years ago
What a deep play...one of the best pianist of all time
LeGaveau2 3 years ago 2
notice the singular form of the word "pianist". This means Cziffra is indeed the best pianist of all time. $10 million prize for a counterexample.
nileinafrica 3 years ago
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Cziffra was certainly one of the best, but Alkan's technique was most likely better (although we can't be sure, as he died before recording technology was invented)
llamasownyou 3 years ago