Liszt: Oeuvres pour Piano / Piano Works

Georges Cziffra, György Cziffra - Liszt: Oeuvres pour Piano / Piano Works

Liszt: Oeuvres pour Piano / Piano Works
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Artist: Georges Cziffra, György Cziffra
Composer: Franz Liszt
Edition: Music CD
Format: Box set, Import
CD Release Date: 2002-07-29
Music Label: EMI Classics
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Rhaps Hongroises: No.1 in E
  2. Rhaps Hongroises: No.2 in c#
  3. Rhaps Hongroises: No.3 in B flat
  4. Rhaps Hongroises: No.4 in E flat
  5. Rhaps Hongroises: No.5 in e
  6. Rhaps Hongroises: No.6 in D flat
  7. Rhaps Hongroises: No.7 in d
  8. Rhaps Hongroises: No.8 in f# 'Capriccio'
  9. Rhaps Hongroises: No.9 in E flat 'Carnaval De Pesth'
Music CD 2
  1. Rhaps Hongroises: No.10 in E 'Prld'
  2. Rhaps Hongroises: No.11 in a
  3. Rhaps Hongroises: No.12 in c#
  4. Rhaps Hongroises: No.13 in a
  5. Rhaps Hongroises: No.14 in f
  6. Rhaps Hongroises: No.15 in a 'Marche De Rakoczy'
  7. Rhap Espagnole
Music CD 3
  1. Douze Etudes D'execution Transcendant: No.1 in C 'Prld'
  2. Douze Etudes D'execution Transcendant: No.2 in a 'Fusees'
  3. Douze Etudes D'execution Transcendant: No.3 in F 'Paysage'
  4. Douze Etudes D'execution Transcendant: No.4 in d 'Mazeppa'
  5. Douze Etudes D'execution Transcendant: No.5 in B flat 'Feux Follets'
  6. Douze Etudes D'execution Transcendant: No.6 in g 'Vision'
  7. Douze Etudes D'execution Transcendant: No.7 in E flat 'Eroica'
  8. Douze Etudes D'execution Transcendant: No.8 in c 'Wilde Jagd'
  9. Douze Etudes D'execution Transcendant: No.9 in A flat 'Ricordanza'
  10. Douze Etudes D'execution Transcendant: No.10 in f 'Appassionata'
  11. Douze Etudes D'execution Transcendant: No.11 in D flat 'Harmonies Du Soir'
  12. Douze Etudes D'execution Transcendant: No.12 in b flat 'Chasse Neige'
Music CD 4
  1. Mephisto-Valse, D'apres Le Faust De Lenau, 'Der Tanz in Der Dorfschenke'
  2. Annees De Pelerinage, III: L'Italie: Les Jeux D'eau A La villa D'Este
  3. Valse Oubliee No.1 in F#
  4. Valse-Impromptu in A flat
  5. Reve D'amour, Nocturne No.3 in A flat
  6. Grand Galop Chromatique
  7. Grande Etude De Paganini No.3: La Campanella, in E
  8. Grande Etude De Paganini No.5: La Chasse, in E
  9. Etude De Concert No.1: La Ronde Des Lutins
  10. Etude De Concert No.2: Dans Les Bois
  11. Harmonies Poetiques Et Religieuses, No.7: Funerailles
Music CD 5
  1. Ballade No.2 in b
  2. Polonaise No.1 in c
  3. Saint Francois D'Assise: La Predication Aux Oiseaux, Legende No.1
  4. Saint Francois De Paule Marchant Sur Les Flots, Legende No.2
  5. Son in b

Music reviews of Liszt: Oeuvres pour Piano / Piano Works

Music Review: PLAIN MAN'S SUPERSTAR
Rating: 5 Stars

Tamas Vasary tells us how he once overheard what he thought must be a four-handed ensemble, only to find that it was Cziffra on his own. That's the kind of virtuoso Cziffra is. The obvious comparison he invites is with Horowitz, but there is a completely different 'feel' to Cziffra's playing. It does not have the french-polished smoothness that I associate with Michelangeli or Gould or (on the right day) Richter, but Horowitz was not like that either. There is less tension in Cziffra's playing, and a great deal less self-consciousness. Very often indeed I get the feeling that Cziffra does not even know how good he is, something you could never say about Horowitz. In particular he has an endearing way of finishing some mind-numbing exhibition of bravura with a matter-of-fact 'that's that'. The technical quality of his playing, any of it that I know, is invariable. What does vary quite a lot is the sense of motivation in it, and I'm happy to report that on these 5 discs the index of gusto and swagger is very high. In the Hungarian rhapsodies particularly (there are 15 here numbered sequentially 1-15 although I have heard alarming rumours there may be more of them) I get a sense of the fairground entertainer, whereas with Horowitz the impression is always of the concert platform.

The music in this set is the work of a player I like inordinately and a composer I don't like very much. Nowhere at all in Liszt do I sense the divine afflatus that blew so strongly down on half-a-dozen of his contemporaries. He seems to me to try, through aspiration and perspiration and in an ersatz and manufactured way, to emulate what was given to his friends from on high as inspiration. He has a fondness for giving his works titles, sometimes commonplace and boring (paysage, ricordanza, reve d'amour), sometimes high-romantic guff (valse oubliee), sometimes plain presumptuous (eroica, appassionata). The focus throughout the set is on virtuosity, and that is what persuaded me on an impulse to acquire it. As far as virtuosity is concerned, I find myself wondering whether there is some theoretical ceiling on it. These days a very large number of players possess a technique that less than 50 years ago was possessed only by a few. Both Horowitz and Michelangeli complained that it was hard to tell them apart, and I have to confess to an uneasy feeling along the same lines. It's a bit like running a mile or a marathon - will it someday be done at the speed of light, or have we reached the outer limit already? My Liszt collection is mainly from Cziffra himself, with not altogether negligible contributions from Richter, Michelangeli and Ogdon, and my main interest in the music is the opportunity it offers to these great players. I need hardly say that they do not neglect the poetic and inward sides to the composer. In particular Cziffra makes more of that in the sonata than Horowitz does, but I'm pretty sure that's why I continue to prefer Horowitz in this piece. Whether there are performers now with us or yet unborn who can surpass these in Liszt I suspect I shall simply never know, but something makes me doubt it, and if I go to some final reckoning ignorant of the Liszt-playing of Pierre-Yves Chanterelle, Berengaria Eversleigh or Long Sing Tung my conscience will be clear to that extent at least. This is a marvellous set from my beloved Cziffra, a Liszt specialist although not so entirely by his own choosing, and I am not going to tire of it in a hurry.

The liner note is in French, but if you have no French you are not missing much, believe me. Even with no French you can easily count the number of dropped names, which is largely what it is about. The recorded quality is perfectly good without being to the highest modern standard, and the set is an outstanding bargain.
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Description of Liszt: Oeuvres pour Piano / Piano Works

Throughout his long and distinguished career Georges Cziffra arguably has championed Franz Liszt more than any other pianist of the 20th century. Like the composer, Cziffra was a virtuoso who understood that the score is just a point of departure and that the impact of the performance depends more so on the depth of interpreters imagination and skill. While many have performed these seminal works over the years few are as dazzling, insightful, and simply stylish as this fiery Hungarian. Brace yourself.

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