Cziffra-Liszt Les Jeux d'eau a la Villa d' Este -1957.

[maxscriptguru]

Why are there pictures of fish in the middle of the video?

[cygnusne]

@maxscriptguru I didn't know that about Kissin. B ut I have read that M. Argerich and Nikita Magaloff where close friends of his. I also know that he went often to other pianists recitals and he enjoyed listening to good piano playing even if it wasn't him playing. Strangely I know of other pianists that only like their own playing and avoid going to other's recitals...

[Szhenrik94]

This is the BEST VERSION ever.

[cygnusne]

@Szhenrik94 Glad you enjoyed it. :-)

[maxscriptguru]

What a beautiful clear tone, it doesn't sound rushed either.Of course in the hands of the maestro it is a work of art.

I wish I had this recording on CD.

[cygnusne]

@maxscriptguru

1957 was his first year out of Hungary. Cziffra often rushes less than many other pianist even if people wanted to believe otherwise. He had and has many detractors. Alas this is the nature of envy !! Glad you liked it !! :-))

[maxscriptguru]

@cygnusne I have read interviews by Kissin where he said that he likes listening to Cziffra. He is truly in inner circle of the truly great pianists.

[mvolkov11]

Yes, soogoonu, Arrau was a great Liszt player, and the epic sweep of his music combined with an ardent depth of emotion somehow overcame Arrau's German pedagogical influences to sometimes turn into a "pianist-librarian". This occasional stuffy bookishness is nowhere evident in Arrua's Liszt playing. The Hungarian's oeuvre seems to give him a freedom of

concept and an elan of execution often lacking in his Chopin performances.

[MISHA1119]

This is the version I grew up listening to and is also my favorite. Although it is slower than Cziffra's other performances, it has a crystalline pointilistic perfection that is breathtaking. This is also the most spiritual performance of the piece, embodying the image Liszt had in mind when he quoted from the Gospel of St. John (missing in most editions) "...and the water that I shall give him will be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life."

[soogoonu]

@MISHA1119 agree - the point of this piece is to visualize, in the listener's mind, the flow, the dripping the playing of fresh clear water and playing this piece too fast and not enough clear, as we see in dozens of other performances here around, it ruin its poetry. Anyhow, IMHO the top performer of this piece is Claudio Arrau - he's the one it give me shivers the most.

[felix0911176727]

The BEST version of this piece for me!

[cygnusne]

@felix0911176727

I am glad you liked it !! :-)

[arturon111]

after arrau's version this is the best version,...