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Cziffra - Liszt-Wagner Tanhauser part 1

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  • Are you kidding? This is one of Liszt's greatest transcriptions, in my opinion.

  • To the last commenter. He is taking Wagner's tempos and playing the piano as if it were the Berlin Philharmonic orchestra. Listen to a number of otrchestra recordings and you will see that these are absolutely authentic tempos. Even on You tube one can hear the shadings he got out of the piano to give more of an orchestral effect. I heard Cziffra a long time ago in San Francisco and his command of color and sonority was even more impresive than his finger technique.

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  • I like this interpretation, it has a lot going for it in it's use of tempo, that puts in in a completely different light to other performances. All equally brilliant, but in differing manner.

  • There's nothing wrong with these tempos... Who knows what kind of acustics he was in. Only he will have known. And when you can play like that, you can do what you want...

  • @venusmephisto you obviously have not heard other recordings of slow pieces by Cziffra when you posted this. He usually plays slow pieces even slower and fast pieces faster, in my opinion.

  • Wonderful !!!

  • @venusmephisto It's him,I have got the CD but if he copies the berlin tempo,it's bad indeed^^

  • @NOSEhow2LIV You may know how to live, but you don't know how to listen.

  • Couldn't believe this was cziffra....until 5:50....from there on there's absolutely no doubt.....just like a racehorse....only performs when it's needed ;-)

  • well I didn't mean to sound rude :-)! because this is still a great performance, considering the difficulty of the piece!

    I just cannot believe it's Cziffra playing here. He was much bigger than that!

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