Thank you for posting this! I love Cziffra's versions of Liszt...at least he allowed some personality to show in his playing, instead of just dry, mechanically-perfect exhibitions.
While certainly intriguing, this performance has a few too many quirks as Cziffra liked to do eary and later in his career (but not in the early 1960s).
He is not afraid of breaking the rules to make it alive. With that kind of sensitivity he can't reach everybodys heart in cold times like we have today.
Cziffra is a genius. We all can see the centre of the target after his hits. A talent strikes the targets wich we all have known before. Thats the difference. Thanks to everybody who made Cziffra possible and that he was born in times of recording.
Brilliant!
Ivan85504 9 months ago
Thank you for posting this! I love Cziffra's versions of Liszt...at least he allowed some personality to show in his playing, instead of just dry, mechanically-perfect exhibitions.
ChrisLasegue 1 year ago
Oh my god, how the hell did he play the beginning so perfectly without practically any sustain
ToxicLabProductions 1 year ago
This, along with Richter's, are my favorite interpretations of this lively short piece.
TheOutcome7 1 year ago
While certainly intriguing, this performance has a few too many quirks as Cziffra liked to do eary and later in his career (but not in the early 1960s).
PIanoReview 2 years ago
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He is not afraid of breaking the rules to make it alive. With that kind of sensitivity he can't reach everybodys heart in cold times like we have today.
Cziffra is a genius. We all can see the centre of the target after his hits. A talent strikes the targets wich we all have known before. Thats the difference. Thanks to everybody who made Cziffra possible and that he was born in times of recording.
barakjoe 2 years ago 10