Georges Cziffra plays Beethoven Sonata in F minor Op. 57 "Appassionata"

1. Allegro 00:00
2. Andante con moto 10:27
3. Allegro ma non troppo - Presto 17:39
rec. 1965

[@vova47]

Good example for those who think of Cziffra only as a performer of his super-virtuosic paraphrases. Cziffra can be as profound and poetic as anybody! Thanks, gullivior!

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[@giorgiociomei5030]

Bellissima interpretazione

[@13orith]

Thanks for putting this video. It was Gyorgy Cziffras birthday today!

[@Highinsight7]

JUST LOVE this guys playing...

[@elmiramuradova561]

Грандиозно! Циффра может исполнять совершенно разных композиторов разных эпох с необычайной эмоциональностью ,не говоря уже о технике владения инструментом. Потрясает его исключительная индивидуальность. Преклоняюсь!!!перед его Талантом !!! So Great performance!Thank you,Great musician!

[@perreperre2884]

Un artiste à la virtuosité et au cœur d’exception . Une bien belle âme à ressusciter ...

[@stevepeszlen9107]

GREAT afternoon in Philadelphia, listening to Beethoven Sonata...

[@piano345]

Puzzling as Cziffra once said during an interview, 'I can't play Beethoven so leave it to those who can.' To my ears, Cziffra's Beethoven is stylish and straight forward compared to say his teacher at the Liszt Academy Dohnanyi. His recording of Beethoven suggests an earlier style of playing when it was acceptable to change tempo within a sonata movement.

[@Markinsky]

I heard him live play a sonata and he did exactly that and made so much musical sense,

[@MusicalMissCapri]

He does a great job on the second movement of this.

[@tommasomarino1575]

@@Markinsky Was it the Waldstein Sonata? He played it with Schumann, Bach-Busoni and Liszt. Luckly for me I have the complete recital.

[@Markinsky]

@@tommasomarino1575 Was this one of his San Francisco recitals because that's where I heard him?

[@adrianoauguadri9373]

semplicemente straordinario!!!

[@lorenzodaponte2827]

Straordinario come sempre.

[@SmeagolTheBeagle]

That was fucking unbelievable. Cziffra performing one of the most unusual Beethoven sonatas - wow

[@dustovshio]

well said

[@sanjai_s]

What's usual there?

[@Arobamod]

@@sanjai_s The sonata is very impressionist and forward thinking, especially for its time.

[@GouganeBarra-u4t]

For a man who says he can't play Beethoven, he does a damn good job on the Pathetique and Appassionata Sonata. Not forgetting Op.27 No.1. What a shame he never recorded the Moonlight and Hammerklavier Sonatas ! Or even the Pastoral Sonata, a personal favourite of mine.

[@carmenrubio3786]

Increíble CZIFFRA

[@michaeloleary1867]

Great!

[@Marinavalerevna]

Великолепно!

[@X.00896]

What is that tiny pre-emptive echo that can be heard at 9:28?

[@EmdrGreg]

No one has ventured a guess. I think it is an artifact of the old vinyl disks, or possibly an artifact of the original tape recording from which the disk was made. There may have been a kind of 'leak through' of the magnetic charges from one part of the tape to another as it was rolled and stored. the pick-up used for the current digital mastering of the recording may have been sensitive enough to pick this up. The same can happen when the recording is first put down to disk. There is a kind of bleed through from one groove to the adjacent groove. The old days of analog recording were interesting indeed. I'm only guessing about this.

[@X.00896]

@@EmdrGreg Wow, I really didn't expect a reply after four years, so thank you! Even if your educated guess is wrong, it seems a lot more plausible than anything I could come up with, but I know very little about old recording technology!

[@joemcdonald1085]

Hello

[@parhamnrn3839]

dosent sound like Cziffra though

[@markswanson549]

It says Richter in the credit.

[@samthepianoman]

It does?

[@johnspradling7906]

@@markswanson549 This not Richter. Although Richter did change tempi in the first movement, he did not pedal through rests the way this pianist does. On top of that, there is a proliferation of pedal I never heard in any Richter performance of this piece. The overall approach to the pedal seems to say that he regards the pedal in the way it is used in the Waldstein, Op. 53. This person allows his lyricism to bend tempi, whereas Richter's tempo changes seemed to spring out of almost a bi-polar view of this music. This is a very high level professional performance of a person who seems unbeholden to usual views of Beethoven in his time--AND.......this person has facility and technique to burn. Cziffra recorded fabulous performances of other "non-Cziffra" repertoire, such as the Schumann Symphonic Etudes and other works. If this indeed is Cziffra, I disagree with his own statement about not being able to play Beethoven. My hat is off!

[@sashole1]

@@markswanson549 Not Richter. Richter has totally butchered this sonata.

[@frankromano9064]

@@sashole1 The Blacksmith Of Odessa butchers almost every piece he plays.