CZIFFRA - Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody #2

[muzykcezar98]

great <3



[doriii8hungaria]

<3 Cziffra and Liszt - perfect

[seti010894]

Best interpretation ever... Whatever Liszt's intentions were.

[TherionLemuria1]

Progressive metal in clasical music!!

[toraousama5726]

素晴らしいです！！何も言えません。CDとても大切にしています­。これぞLISZTです。Horowitzとはまた別です。暑い­血！感性そのもの！です。才能です。言葉じゃ言えません、そうい­うものです。どきどき　どきどき、はあ～～～～～～～

[davidsoncuber]

Sorry, this version is beautiful, but nothing is equal the Horowitz's graves of his interpretation.

[alexandros789]

cziffra is definitively the best liszt's interpreter i ever heard

[al25200]

I have listened to a lot of different versions of HR2, including Hamelin, Jung Lin and Horowitz, and this one stays my favourite of all times, next fav being Hamelin (didn't really like Jung Lin, find her too "dry")

[tierzuchtZentral]

I must say I find this one lets say "maximal-interpreted".

I like that one more: Karl Gaspar

Read his comments

That is the right Liszt sense one to one!!! YES U can hear and see Hungary!! Although Cziffra is a master and that's a difference.

[oGoSsSo]

THIS IS how this piece of art needs to be played !!

Can't listen to any other version now!

[arenadri7]

Wonderful video with such a passionate interpretation of LISZT'S Rhapsody! Among the best interpreters of Liszt and Chopin is Genial Pianist GEORG CYIFFRA! Temperament performance suits both - Hungarian Artists! 5.November 1921 was born so beloved GEORG CZIFFRA

[poymanjoe]

Of all the interpretations i've heard, this the one that makes me feel more music than the others. Music flows in my ears, and I could (almost) forget technique.

No need to play it (and others Liszt marvels) fast, loud, passionate, fight the keyboard or whatelse if emotion (not admiration) doesn't come out in the end of it. Won't give you names.

This is a musician.

[kzelmer]

I love the first theme on C sharp minor. So melodic and tragic...

[tierzuchtZentral]

This is played with your whole soul. Remarkable according.

The definition of rhapsody does not include rubato at all. Not in wikipedia.

It's a hungarian taste. You can quarrel on taste.

[wonderfog]

@tierzuchtZentral

"- MGIMO finished?

 - Ask!"

[tierzuchtZentral]

@wonderfog I don't understand your question! Sorry!

[kakamaka13]

I just can't believe, that Cziffra has only 48 thousand views, and lang lang has 780 thousand...People!!! Don't be stupid!

[lilytoka]

@kakamaka13 Please do not judge people! Thanks to YouTube in years to come many people will discover Cziffra!!! I did discover Cziffra on YoTube :-) and created playlist on my channel for his immensely beautiful performances! I love Jung Lin's HR2 interpretation a lot too!

[TeoVincent4]

Thanks googols for sharing this!

[MrMrMikayel]

BRAVO!!!

[jaygross803]

Wow. Unbelievable. -J:

[LadyElisabethx]

CZIFFRA is "THE MASTER"

[gunyor111]

Rubato is the heart of a rhapsody. (a hungarian's note)

[lePistolero]

i love cziffra but i think i put to much rubato for my taste in this piece.

[TaterGumfries]

Nice. This guy really gets inside it.

[MrLieblingsessen]

I think that Cziffra does the best job of presenting this song to its full potential.

[whk14]

hungarian ss



[JLKnight77]

Very hard to find the BEST interpretation of this song. There are some parts that I love from Cziffra but there are other parts by Josef that I prefer more. But this interpretation is very nice to listen to nonetheless.

[Jim341046]

I wish people would stop complaining about him slowing down and speeding up - I love it. I'm sure many people here would do anything to be beside the piano with him playing that.

[Kostandinpiano]

this is good but marc Andre Hamelin is Fantastic

[Lehel3d]

This is false version. I have the real one. So this is not that. Sometimes something wrong with the speed also.

[MeliXdupraeX]

@Lehel3d Something different with the speed? sure. Something wrong? no. I believe artistry, originality or uniqueness would suffice for describing his manipulation of the piece.

[Kylymageeli]

i didnt like the beginning, he plays it like in a rush. and does he play it with such a weird rhytm on purpose? it was hard to listen to

[tajniak4]

This is why Richard Kastle can go fuck himself.

[kasyapa]

@tajniak4 kastle=klown

[josephtsai331]

After listening this,I'm going to buy Cziffra's EMI complete set........

[ChopinLiszt82]

If Liszt heard Cziffra playing this, he would have died smiling.

[Ardenis9]

Gosh...

[001ArtistJoker]

Magyar Vér!:) Hungarian Blood:)

[Axotrotl]

I LOVE THIS PIECE!! especially part from 5:10 !!

[Magyari1]

Cigány tehetség! Zseniálissan játszik, ezt senki nem tudja így ... vérében van!

[janisYAjanis]

great interpretation..

[OldTrancer]

Clearer than Hamelin's. Awsome pianist but the much lauded "emotion" was just a lot of slowing down and speeding up as far as I was concernd. Felt like driving a straight road full of traffic lights, occasional pedestrian zones intermixed with the odd race track stretch.. Bloody annoying to listen too after a while if you know the piece. I just didn't get the emotion he was trying to convey. Cazenza was hardly worth bothering with.

Sorry to disagree on this piece but agree, superb pianist.

[sammarco02]

@OldTrancer Clearly this is an extraordinary interpretation.

Sorry but clearly Hamelin does not belong in the same conversation with Cziffra.

[Raymondbl]

6 people are out of their minds

[fredericfranc]

During the first half, he lies in wait for you, but then, you figure ain't nothing happening, he nails you in the ass. For a different distribution of all that, try Cortot.

[libetta]

the initial part of this work fascinates itself as a bold, bravura statement, which pianists pull off as is. i like very much how cziffra brings more haunting mystery to the theme of the following melody beginning @ :41. there's just more drama and tragedy to it than mere fabulous playing

[tombennettpiano]

@libetta AMEN. 

[Arpimagyar89]

wow

[ClassicMusicOnly]

the purity of the chords and the simply breath taking momment. While the Friska is flaw less , without one mistake. Not to mention its the original with minature "improvments" adding. While the ending octaves are amazing. Every octave crystal clear.

Amazing! Cziffra WAS the best pianist of the 20th centry.

[ldhmage]

@ClassicMusicOnly Cziffra was the top Liszt interpreter and one of the best, right you are! Even the casual classical piano fan can hear that.

After Cziffra I think Jung Lin is tops amongst all of those playing now. Can't stand Hamelin's strange version, whatever that passes for, a good jazz pianist he would make. :D

[ClassicMusicOnly]

This, for sure is the best performance of the Hungarian Rhapsody #2 that has been ever recorded.

The lassan , one of the most amazing and emotional things I have heard in my life! Such passion , such feeling. Its like Liszt himself would be playing!

While , from 5:09 (Where the Friska begins partly) , theres no time to pause in between passages. While the theme (Or , "The famous part" as people call it) , is simply amazing. I was pushing in my headphones as much as I could so I could hear

[dniworrom]

who the hell pressed dislike??? lol...

[OptoOcto]

@dniworrom Stupid people.

[Jusuph]

mapearce Tom an Jerry plays the same too. isnt it? :) but they arent hungarians like Liszt so they never feel how to play this "song" from their heart

[choopmac]

It is indeed the original version by Franz Liszt, but Cziffra made some small changes, that are almost not noticeable. And by the way, Horowitz isn't bad at all, his version his at some points easier, but there are parts, that are even worse than the original. And the coda of Horowitz' version definitly more difficult.

[AmericanCars101]

And plus it's the original version, not the horowitz easy version.

[SpecialAPB]

@shadecross Fuck Horowitz? Fuck u! Dont be so close minded. Although you do not like an enterpretation doesnt mean you should completely reject it as there is usually something to appreciate in it. My enterpretation of this piece is influenced mostly by horowitz and Cziffra (more so by horowitz)

[shadecross]

@SpecialAPB :D <<---- do you know what this means?

[bojajchris]

@SpecialAPB i cant say that Horowitz doesnt play this piece gorgeous, but don't forget that Cziffra is the best Liszt performer.

[ClassicMusicOnly]

@SpecialAPB

No need to use such words.

Horowitz was in fact a bad interpreter. He strove for a technical show off; rather then for a musical interpretation. Everyone has the right to completely reject a interpretation or piece. Its the right of opinion and taste; while in the Horowitz, there's nothing to appreciate.

Your interpretation can be influenced by Horowitz, but don't come and tell us it as by Cziffra as well. Both of these interpretations are completely contradictory to each other.

[Raymondbl]

@ClassicMusicOnly oy Horowitz DOES have a musical interpretation! It's just he doesn't use his technique to express it. He's not a bad interpreter, just lots of people don't understand him! Yeah, i don't like his mozart too much... but still, his other interpretations are fabulous! That's MY opinion, but I just don't understand you... Cziffra IS a better interpreter, though...

[ClassicMusicOnly]

@Raymondbl

I will never accept Horowitz's interpretations has musical, no matter what you say. He uses to much technique to express things too strongly, which simply does not work for my personal taste. It might be that I just do not understand him, or his musicality does not touch my heart as it should, but I still enjoy many Horowitz interpretations, besides HR/Legend 2

You do not understand me like I do not understand Horowitz. We vary in opinion and we shall never understand each other.

[Raymondbl]

@ClassicMusicOnly I know that you mean. what do you have to say about george lit's interpretation?

[ClassicMusicOnly]

@Raymondbl

I've never heard of a pianist named that way, maybe you might be speaking of George Li, I believe that is his name, he is a child prodigy which I sometimes enjoy listening too.

[ClassicMusicOnly]

@Raymondbl

I've never been a fan of child prodigy's as I believe they might not understand the complex music they are playing ,correctly. That's a personal statement actually, hence being one myself, I never took things to my heart as I do now being a professional.

I enjoy the version he plays, but in some recordings he tends to struggle in the Friska. He still is a great child pianist and has a bright future in front of him, so I shall wish him the best.

[royo90]

Horowitz' interpretations are quite musical. His style just doesn't appeal to you. Just because you don't like something doesn't mean it's bad.

[ClassicMusicOnly]

@royo90

Sometimes I strongly think we have some people that like to act stupid, or just are.

Did you miss all the points were I stressed so strongly that it is only my, opinion on Horowitz? "He uses to much technique to express things too strongly, which simply does not work for my personal taste". That is a direct quote from my comment. Did you miss the "Personal Taste"? Please.

[bets36]

@ClassicMusicOnly Horowitz was a great interpreter, he interprets each piece like he feels it and after a profound reflection; he never plays a piece by a composer before he reads all about the composer. And he did on this rhapsody arrangement by himself so it is why his interpretation is very different.

But you are right, it is difficult to appreciate the very russian playing of Horowitz.

[Cancrizans]

@bets36 I don't actually like Horowitz's "transcription"...I can't even understand why you would want to "transcribe" a piece that was written as a virtuoso piece to start with. Honestly it probably doesn't qualify as a transcription at all, more like a kind of reworking. Anyway I think it is overdone to the point of tackiness...but that doesn't make Horowitz's plaything anything less than phenomenal. I agree with others that Cziffra is just an elemental force though hehe.

[Cancrizans]

@ClassicMusicOnly I sometimes think though that a lot of people either haven't seen or listened to enough of a musicians recordings or aren't paying enough attention. Horowitz definitely did things for effect over the years...but a lot of it was because he was thrown into a position of popularity which at times forced him to play it a bit sideshow. I honestly can't imagine anyone who has listened to a volume of his recordings not recognizing the depth of feeling and passion.

[WonderfulManga]

@SpecialAPB Why trying to compare these giants ? Cziffra like play quickly and Horowitz strongly. We need all good interpretations. Observe than it's alway's the sames names who comeall the time...Horowitzs, or Cziffra. I think, it's a good. We have two mens stand on the same podium

[Cancrizans]

@shadecross Why if you find something you prefer to something else do you have to "fuck" the other thing. I have a hard time understanding how people can have interest in something like classical music and yet think like that. o.O

[shadecross]

@Cancrizans come on man... why the hell do you take this post seriously??? :D----> this smiley has a meaning, it means joke, irony what ever. I dont have to fuck Horowitz to like Cziffra, both are amazing pianists. Its really absurd that i have to explain this to you :-I

[Cancrizans]

@shadecross Ya sorry dude I've just been reading too much stupid crap on Youtube lately. On the other hand, we do kind of at least owe great music the best of our attentions.

[shadecross]

@Cancrizans Yes i understand what you mean. I want to put it in more sophisticated words. This interpretation is the most splendid ive ever heard and surpasses any other imhp... even bulva ^^

[theanguished1]

@shadecross hey hey hey best interpretation or not you give horowitz respect!

[Alanpini]

Diabolical..brutal...mad...bea­utiful...who else should understand the suffering of the Hungarian people but maestro Cziffra ?

[KaDkA20]

@Alanpini Yea this is the truth... watch Lang Lang ... he's kinda good piano player but such a horrible version he played when tried to play this masterpiece.

[JupiterIV]

@Alanpini True, both he and Liszt were Magyars.

[CaptainEze]

@Alanpini bugs bunny

[Industrialz]

amazing performance....

[dniworrom]

The best perfomrmance at all....nobody, no any foreign artist can play like that...

[libraryisfun]

UNPARALLELED interpretation & performance. Really the first person to listen to if you want to get to know this song

[tommy9882]

Sad

[DURound]

I have listened to several versions of this tonight. Horowitz was good, but I think this fellow is best of all and has the most soulful interpretation. He makes you listen and hear the piece without pushing it too hard. He seems interested in the music rather than showing off. He is great at this piece.

[emliebediemusik1]

es stellte sich heraus,dass der lieber florian ein rumäne ist.well,die rumänen,da sie ja keine zuverlässigen identität haben, versuchen es immer wieder denunzieren leistungen anderen nationen herunterzuspielen,gar verfälschen,damit sich vielleicht besser darstellen zu können.da spricht einer von hoher kunst, dessen vorfahren durch einhundert jahren mit unterdrückung von siebenbürgen sachsen und ungarn in einem geraubtem land sich ausgezeichnet hatten.

[emliebediemusik1]

most latom kiskomam,hogy te bizony egy roman koma vagy.hat matyas kiraly akkor mi volt,te gyönyörü diszpeldanya a nagy roman kulturnemzetnek.tan a ceaucesku kishuga.szegyeldd magad te csibesz, hat nem okoztatok mar eleg bajt a magyaroknak?most meg liszt ferencböl is nagy roman müveszt akartok faragni?ejnye-ejnye.

[emliebediemusik1]

well,liszt ferenc is hungarian,anyway he has spoken very best french,not german and also italianas well. look if you like this music,better if you just hearing,and be very quiet,because are people on this channel,their brain not such a little as yours.

[brainwasher9876]

I love it when people call others dumb but can't even use grammar correctly. Just enjoy this video, would you? Stop making a scene out of yourself.

[fl0ryan]

it's amazing!!! Liszt's great music with a pianist made for this music...

The problem is that Liszt was everything, but Hungarian... he barely could speak 2-3 Hungarian words... his normal language was German... in all his memories, one can read that Hungary was always a disappointment for him, he had hopes, but.... and after his death, the Hungarian consul refused to receive his ashes in Hungary... of course, now they praise him.

[emliebediemusik1]

you are very dumb.listen.i tell you very slowly,that you just can understand.if a horse ll born in a piggery,is this a horse or a pig?franz liszt was born in austrian-hungarian kingdom.1811.of course is he hungarian.11 years old franz had a concert in sopron,still hungary and after that he was sponsoring of hungarian high noble.

[emliebediemusik1]

with sponsoring of high hungarian noble he went to vienna,to studying by carl cerny.carl cerny was a student of beethoven.i ask you little dumb friend again.if you born in marokko,you speak spanish,french and arabian language.are you than from marokko, spain, or france?

[emliebediemusik1]

maybe has liszt forgat hungarian language,but his heart,soul and spirit was still hungarian.maybe think german people,their "führer"was a german,not as real adolf schicklegruber from braunau,austria.you borring me.

[mariscsuri]

I dont know who do you think you are i dont think its your business to care about it. I dont think your Hungarian or German anyway.

[Alanpini]

Well...Cziffra is the true master of Liszt...

[dilibau]

what else to expect from IL MAESTRO than pure perfection? gosh, THIS is how small we are...

[givemetime123]

Véritablement une excellente interprétation, ce n'est pas une exécution virtuose, tout au contraire c'est une version très introvertie, pleine de passion jouée sans artifice...

[funfor1life]

If I had to choose one word to describe it I would say : undisputably HUNGARIAN! ;-)

Gosh..so moving

[astinus007]

Dam his part on Lassen is good, just... DAM

[msandcoop]

when i asked my teacher whose recording i should listen to she said cziffra so here i am checking it out....he is definitely THE BEST

[17mathieu]

Just when you think a piece like this has become "overplayed" or "hackneyed", a genius like Cziffra makes you feel like you're hearing it for the first time.

[emmiban]

the best variation...

[massy1111]

cziffra the best ever!!!!!!!!1

fantastic.....exellent...magni­fique

[bobon47]

One of the best renditions...

[mikeee32]

definitely

[alekrussote]

I think Liszt would have played it practically exactly same !! So great to heard the composer and best pianist in the world : THE pianist : Liszt

[matatakakiban]

hugnarian composer

hungarian piece

hungarian artist

[thege6]

and unfortunately all in France...

[nairdaleo]

hahaha nicely put

[Phenstyle]

CZIFFRA IS THE BEST!!!!!!!!! =) =)