György Cziffra 6 /19/1960 Strasbourg Recital

No copyright infringement is intended, if any still exists. Posted solely for the artistic exposure of György Cziffra in recital June 19th 1960 Strasbourg.
( radio broadcast )
0.00-5.08 C.P.E. Bach: Andantino, B minor
Scarlatti: 3 Sonatas:
5.09-9.39 A major, K.101 (L.494)
9.40-12.04 C major, K.159 (L.104)
12.05 - 16.15 D major, K.96 (L.465)
16.16 - 18.52 Lully: Gavotte en Rondeau, D major
18.52 - 20.29 Couperin: Tic Toc Choc
20.30 - 24.49 Hummel: Rondo, Eb major, Op.11
24.50 - 34.07 Beethoven: Sonata No.22, F major, Op.54
34.09 - 38.43 Schumann: Toccata, C major, Op.7
38.44 - 44.54 Liszt: Jeux d'Eau a la Villa d'Este
44.55 - 50.38 Liszt: Valse-Impromptu
50.40 - 53.28 Liszt: Gnomenreigen
53.32 - 58.45 Liszt:Transcendental Etude No.10, F minor
58.46- end Liszt:Hungarian Rhapsody No.6, Db major

[@ugo957]

Циффра- великий чародей фортепианной игры! Волшебник! Браво! Исполнение феноменальное!❤🎉👌🙏🙏

[@Marinavalerevna]

Ах, Дьёрдь Циффра! Спасибо за доставленное наслаждение. Моё цыганское сердце берётся в такт с твоей музыкой.

[@eloipimor8925]

I never thought I will listen to his CPE Bach in a recital

[@smalin]

Is his version of it in print? I'd not known the piece before, and thought the piece was unusual for CPE Bach, so I got the score, and saw that Cziffra had composed his own ornate (and much more highly chromaticized) version. I wonder if Cziffra wrote it down (or if somebody has transcribed it).

[@slawomirzygmanowski1746]

What a repertoire - beautiful variety. Lully, Couperin, Beethoven, Hummel, Liszt, Schumann. Perfection, mastery and huge imagination

[@MrPrestoconfuocco]

Absolutely free at the keyboard. He could do that. A miracle

[@steveegallo3384]

What a Feast! How did you ever acquire this? Huuuuuge! Am I the only one who never heard Beethoven's Sonata 22 ? .....not even to mention the riveting Lizst that closed.....Breathtaking!

[@RandomButBeautiful]

I don't recognize the Beethoven either! just researching it, it was 'surrounded and overshadowed' by the Waldstein and Appassionata (21 and 23) which we hear all the time.

[@carrotvevo]

(reposting timestamps cuz they dont work for me) 0:00 C.P.E. Bach: Andantino, B minor Scarlatti: 3 Sonatas: 5:09 A major, K.101 (L.494) 9:40 C major, K.159 (L.104) 12:05 D major, K.96 (L.465) 16:16 Lully: Gavotte en Rondeau, D major 18:52 Couperin: Tic Toc Choc 20:30 Hummel: Rondo, Eb major, Op.11 24:50 Beethoven: Sonata No.22, F major, Op.54 34:09 Schumann: Toccata, C major, Op.7 38:44 Liszt: Jeux d'Eau a la Villa d'Este 44:55 Liszt: Valse-Impromptu 50:40 Liszt: Gnomenreigen 53:32 Liszt:Transcendental Etude No.10, F minor 58:46 Liszt:Hungarian Rhapsody No.6, Db major

[@RandomButBeautiful]

Thank you!!

[@cziffrathegreat666]

1:00:20 That improvisation is fantastic!!! I just love the grace note at 55:47 !

[@RandomButBeautiful]

aside from the wild improvisations he was known to add a single note here and there. :) There's a recording of Chopin revolutionary etude where he adds one extra grace note and it is similarly choice!

[@Varooooooom]

This is an extraordinary selection of pieces for a recital. And Cziffra’s musicality in these is so rich.

[@usshackman]

Amazing simply amazing! Executed with unbelievable accuracy.

[@palmaiattila3288]

A zongora legnagyobb varázslója... felülmúlhatatlanul mindörökké! The greatest wizard of the piano ... unsurpassed forever!

[@RaineriHakkarainen]

NOT TRUE! Cziffra his playing Mendelssohn piano concerto no 1 is The most crazy Mad Roar fashion bashing playing ever! Dimitri Bashkirov With The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra video KZbin from 1989 Bashkirov ( The Best piano sound Ever for Mendelssohn piano concerto no 1) Cziffra The raw rough cool piano sound Ever! The greatest Best pianists Are really Artur Rubinstein ( The GOD) Grigory Sokolov ( The Titan of The piano The Giant of The piano) Emil Gilels ( The most beautiful piano sound Ever) Sviatoslav Richter Mikhail Pletnev ( The most Powerful Ever) Alexei Lubimov ( The Genius no 1 Mozart piano concerto no 27!) Maurizio Pollini ( The Genius no 2) Solomon Cutner ( The perfect structure of music! Solomon Cutner The highest IQ points Ever) Proffesor Malinin Mozart playing is difficult to play! The Mozart piano concertos players Are really=Mozart 17 Dezo Ranki Mozart 18 Vladimir Ashkenazy Mozart 19 Radu Lupu Mozart 20 Vladimir Ashkenazy Mozart 21 Radu Lupu ( others The Good=Artur Rubinstein Murray Perahia Vladimir Ashkenazy Maurizio Pollini Stanislav Bunin) Mozart 22 Laura Mikkola Natalia Trull Jörg Demus Robert Casadesus Mozart 23 Solomon Cutner ( others The Good=Vladimir Horowitz Radu Lupu Grigory Sokolov Wilhelm Kempff Maurizio Pollini Stanislav Bunin Maurizio Pollini Vladimir Ashkenazy) Mozart 24 Grigory Sokolov Maria Grinberg ( others The Good=Wilhelm Kempff Mikhail Pletnev Gina Bachauer) Mozart 25 Murray Perahia Mozart 27 Alexei Lubimov ( others The Good=Emil Gilels Vladimir Ashkenazy Natalia Trull Stanislav Bunin)

[@palmaiattila3288]

@@RaineriHakkarainen Thank you for your really valuable summary from your point of view. What I remarked about Cziffra came from my heart, not my head.

[@kennethdower7425]

@@RaineriHakkarainen Please stop trolling every single classical piano upload with the same obnoxious "comment". Your opinion is only meaningful to yourself, so stop putting others down that have differing tastes and get over yourself.

[@fiokomjutub972]

@@RaineriHakkarainen poor man. Sorry for you. Better if you drink something.

[@SELMER1947]

By far the most fabulous Liszt player of all time

[@benjaminsawyer1292]

The freedom in which Cziffra plays makes me think of Liszt to be quite honest with you. And not surprising, Cziffra's teacher was Liszt's favourite pupil. This is how music should be played, and this is what I am learning in my "old" age after having studied at the College of Music. I find that I have learnt a lot more by just listening to Cziffra playing piano and reading up about the approach to music Cziffra and the piano greats had. That is probably the best education I have gotten all in all.

[@fiorellabrancacci1921]

Very beautiful and elegant selection. of authors. Thanks! Cziffra always the best ❤️

[@philorgue]

MERCI !!! Cziffra dans CPE Bach ... quelle classe !

[@frankromano9064]

Extraordinary and sublime!

[@mwworkman]

I'm telling ya. The build up of that melody from 55:12 to 55:25 in the 10th etude just kills me. Intense! The way he always plays that part is incredible. The build up! The clarity. I always try to visualize something when I hear certain passages in a piece. This part makes me think of a struggle, scuffle maybe between two people in a suspenseful scene in a movie or something. The intensity in the buildup seems triumphant. Almost like Cziffra is reflecting upon his own life, things he went through and how he overcame and conquered. Man, I have to lay off the Nyquil, ha. All joking aside. Thank you for sharing these rare, live Cziffra performances.

[@emilgilels]

Tremendous playing. Thank you for sharing this wonderful musical gift!

[@GlendaMitchell-ti7hb]

My new favourite pianist!

[@mwworkman]

Interesting selection of pieces Cziffra chose for this recital.

[@LukeWelchPianist]

What an unbelievable performance - except that there's nothing less to expect from this amazing pianist! By the time his Liszt performances were played, we were already settled into what we know and expect with his masterful fingers flying though I must admit his CPE Bach had me captivated from the very first note too!!! BRAVO!

[@algonzalez6805]

Much oblige to you. Just 200-ish likes! I feel privileged

[@bharatc.sampat6406]

Wonderful Wonderful

[@alexalexy9358]

le plus grand : brillant et limpidite

[@valentinarelton5412]

Thank you so much for this!

[@salt_cots]

Some nice little finishing touches to Liszt's Valse Imprmptu!

[@pietroblumetti3678]

♥️TOCCATA ♥️ ASSOLUTA

[@1947laurence]

Wonderful

[@barakjoe]

This is unhuman must be an angel or somewhere elese in heaven.

[@zvezdinki7998]

Very good recital

[@lePistolero]

TIc toc choc shocked me wow

[@RandomButBeautiful]

Really liked the Hummel. My wild guess is that in this recital Cziffra might have been doing something that Liszt himself did: Liszt was regarded as the only performer of his time who had a repertoire spanning the entire history of the keyboard. Liszt revived "lost" music such as the Scarlatti 'Cat fugue' which had already been forgotten and was considered archaic by his day. He would perform a diverse classical recital with his own pieces as encores. And here we have Couperin b. 1668, Scarlatti b. 1685, C.P.E. Bach b. 1714, Beethoven b. 1770, Hummel b. 1778, Schumann b.1810... before finishing with several Liszt pieces.

[@chaussonaph]

It's extraordinary how he manages to get out of a little memory gap at 31'10 !!

[@MusicalMetamorphosis-]

I always wondered why that section sounded a little odd - but it still worked!

[@giovannibaldini5398]

I want to know, in person, the fool that dislikes this video. Cziffra "IS" a virtuoso.

[@arturofabianzeballos844]

Cziffra ha sido un pianista estrella en su tiempo con un sentido musical extraordinario y un virtuosismo único. Es Martha Argerich en masculino con un amplio reoertorio pero sin dudas el.mejor de los interpretes en las obras de Liszt....

[@fiokomjutub972]

Luego escuche a la violenta y agresiva Martha, que siempre toca el piano de tal manera que puede tocar el piano más rápido y más fuerte que los hombres. Sin embargo, nada más aburrido y violento.

[@keybawd4023]

I think that he was ahead of his time in concert programming. Perople have become bored with the bach piece, the Mozart piece , a sonata by Beethoven, then Chopin. That program would draw me to the recital. I don't want to hear Carnaval again for the next five years.There are wonderful composers for the piano who are never included in programs: Grainger, Cyril Scott, Rawsthorne, Ireland....

[@RandomButBeautiful]

hear hear. They say that it's repertoire that sorts 'the men from the boys' at the end of the day.

[@jamianmateja5574]

Is the first piece also the song that Oscar Peterson mentions here as sounding similar to the song “You Look Good to Me”? kzbin.info/www/bejne/m2jboJeNr7GVedE

[@Fritz_Maisenbacher]

Schumann's Toccata ............. not amateurish ...

[@EmptyVee00000]

Why 55 different tempi in the Transcendental Study?

[@cziffrathegreat666]

Because that’s cziffra’s style. Tempo that pulls at your heart. Makes his renditions all the more fantastic