I thought Kissin's Campanella was the best I'd ever heard, until I heard this! Cziffra brings out nuances in this piece I never even knew existed! It was like hearing it for the first time, but this time with real emotions. Kissin sounds cold and mechanical in comparison. It seems like I've found a new favorite pianist!
Agreed. Kissen plays it perfectly. Cziffra plays it better than perfect. Ive listened to this pieces hundreds of times but this just takes the ultimate cake.
@@golden-63 That was almost a good reply, but you can barely tell the diference between those two La Campanella. Lang Lang can be such a technical player, as much as Kissin, and at the same time, heartfull and harmonical. Kissin is good, I know, but my personal opinion goes to Lang Lang.
In terms of accuracy and of an intellectually meaningful interpretation Michelangeli was unique. Even Svjatoslav Richter and many other great pianists admired him. Don´t get me wrong - Cziffra was a great pianist. No doubt about it, but most of the time he chose his repertoire just as a showcase of his technique. Michelangeli just wasn´t in need to do so - his technique was flawless and it was only his tool for his interpretations. That´s how it should be, because if we go to the converse direction we end in a circus show.
Andras Schiff speaks of watching Cziffra play a piece with which Schiff was familiar and remarked that Cziffra's hands and fingers were moving so fast that he could not actually tell what he was doing. I had not realized that Cziffra played this version live until we hear the audience at the end. Cziffra never got the kind of attention that Horowitz or Richter got, but his technique is every bit as good and when he plays Liszt, he is amazing. Franz himself would have approved.
I just love his UNORTHODOX method of playing music that have been so familiar to us. Every bar is a box of surprises. He's what I call a genuine Maverick of the Piano. Truly excellent genius!
I do believe that György Cziffra is Liszt reincarnate. His rubato and phrasing have deep Hungarian gipsy roots. He doesn't just play the notes like everyone else, but plays the spaces between them with a strong Austro-Hungarian accent. His recordings are as close as we can, be at a live Liszt performance.
Good observations on the Gipsy and Austro-Hungarian nuances. A lot of Western conductors and performers who play music from the region seem to miss and not understand this.
@@vetlerradio No, he wasn't: Liszt died 35 years before Cziffra was born. However, he was a student of István Thomán (one of the greatest Hungarian piano educators, Béla Bartók was also his student) and Thomán was Liszt's student (a favourite one at that) and he definitely carried on Liszt's legacy and playing style.
Indeed. In the 19th century improvisation was expected and even demanded: Many pieces had a 'cadenza' which was an improvised section. It was only later that a recommended cadenza was added to scores and became a standard feature of performance. Liszt was as famous for improvisation as he was for performing the compositions of others.
The best version I have heard of this piece. Something special that I find difficult to express in words. It's not just about the technique but the lovely sound he produces. This is a real gem.
I know!!!! Was thinking, well yeah, it’s, wow, ‘better’ (for my taste) than the even the Kissin Albert Hall epic-epic, “but that’s ok, this is Cziffra in a studio”. Mind. Blown.
you know as a kid of 10 years old in the 90's, I always used to fall asleep at piano concerts, they were just so boring. One day I heard Cziffra's recording of this piece and suddenly I got it, I understood it, the composer, the legacy, the history... imbued in 88 keys and some writing is the fire of the soul of the man known as liszt, probably enough to melt the most stubborn metal known to man, yet gentle enough to just keep you warm on a cold winter's day. It occurred to me that all the pianists that played this piece either didn't understand that or didn't have the technical capacity to deliver that, but Cziffra... Truly legendary.
Many great pianists whom I adore have similarly spectacular technique...but this man delivers the passion he was born with and that his amazing life magnified.
Bilal Jan He faced all the horrors of war and discrimination as well, then when his life got back on track he lost his son. That is when he started drinking. A great loss for art & for all of us.
Cziffra was an extraordinary pianist and I fail to see how he can be compared to other pianist of his genre. Unique in every way. This was one of his great performance of La Campenella as only Cziffra knows how.
La Campanella or in English "The Bell." Ever since I've come to know this piece, I do not really get my this is called such. But having heard this, it's quite clear now to me why it's called La Campanella. You could hear "the bell" in his performance with how brilliantly he played it. Truly amazing interpretation!
Hey Raymund, if I may, campana (italian) means bell, but campanella means "tiny little bells". Small bells, like those put on sheep for instance, have a much higher tone than regular bells. Now listen to this piece again and imagine each note being a little bell of its own. You should enjoy "campanella" with the dimension you've been missing because of some uncomplete dictionary
If you listen to the original, as in Paganini's violin concerto No.2 movement 3, which this piece is based off of, it'll be extremely obvious for the name "La Campanella" :)
C'est sublime !! J'ai eu la chance d'écouter un récital en plein air à Gémenos en 1972 au théâtre. Une cigale a chanté tout le temps qu'il a joué. Inoubliable !!!
in fact, no one is better that the other. Its just opinion from bunch of people that can't see longer that ther nose. Every pianist have something to bring to other people.
@@jeremiebazinet As human beings we are same (no one is worthy then the others), but talking of anything such as professions, hobbies .. etc, or piano playing we are not same at all and in piano playing or professions there are levels which levels are generally determined by knowledge, experience, spirit, habit and so on .... and these levels gives the spice of the life. Without these levels we would live in a very grey and boring world. :-)
I agreed with you 100%, but oh my God… Who are these beings. Who were George C. teachers? Do we know? Kissin's performance of this work was beyond anything I've ever heard related to this terrible old dragon (La Campanella). He not only slayed the work he slayed the audience. Yes. Sent with love. CVD
Kissin has a fantastic technique (just lookin up to his transcendental etude no.5 and mephisto waltz no.1) but no, no he is far away from czyffra on the interpretation level OMFG 2:52 is fantastic
György Cziffra is one if the finest pianists of all time. This Campanella is awesome. But I invite you all to listen to his Brahms and Schumann. You will be genuinely amazed.
I can't hardly believe that there was such a 'thing' in our world as a Cziffra. I understand he liked playing jazz. I wonder if there are any recordings of him playing jazz?
Find Cziffra in another live video to see his 4,5 and 3,4 trills with no rotation of his hand!! High technique and musicality make his recordings eternal!
He takes a piece, not just a piece, an almost unplayable score and he owns it. He just absorbed the work and made it work for him. I cannot say that of another pianist. I've heard fantastic, utterly fantastic recordings, but if you want to know how it should be played...Cziffra.
Donald Lee In the grand, long term scheme, virtually everything is technically "playable". But I'm sure you know a piece can be called unplayable if it isn't very practical to learn, that's what I'm referring to
Definitely so! I made my comment because El Contrabandista is extremely difficult, but the patterns and virtuosic elements it contains are very logical and practical. It's just because Liszt has the pianist doing so much of it during the piece that it has an infamous reputation.
Cziffra è stato uno dei grandi pianisti del XX secolo, e merita di essere ricordato come un grande artista, non come un recordman. La musica non è uno sport.
Wow.....that was wonderful. Liszt wrote music to show off his magnificent and grand ability to play the piano. He truly was a virtuoso, and it has been the challenge of every virtuoso since to show that they also can play as well as Liszt. Cziffray and Kissin are both magnificent and equals to Liszt, when it comes to playing the piano.
Wow! Maintaining that smooth speed with dynamics is SFD. -And you can hear that he's the full-possible dynamic range of that piano. And that's amazing.
hey guys if you look closely, he is not moving oh my gosh it's 100% sure, and he doesn't have any shade he is a vampire, but don't tell anyone about this or you will get arrested by the police
The shade actually goes under the piano, penetrates it from below and triggers the strings. The pianist is in deep meditation, his breathing and even heart stopped because it takes full concentration to pull this off.
The Lang Lang of his day. Technique to burn but this was done completely for audience appeal. For a completely more authentic reading of this, see the Zoltan Kocsis version available on TH-cam.
Si dovrebbe dare credibilità a Cziffra sul modo di suonare Liszt , avendo studiato con un allievo di Liszt , dal quale certamente avrà ascoltato suonare qualche composizione di Franz Liszt che l'allievo avrà ascoltato suonare dallo stesso Franz Liszt.
O cara bota uma pressão absurda na música. Virtuosidade e potência. Pqp, veio. Já escutei La Campanella dezenas de vezes e por vários pianistas, mas essa é a mais fantástica e absurda de todas.
If you like Cziffra, just listen to Beethovens variation of God Save The King. After years of torture by the soviets where they tried to crush his hands; he came to England and his debut at the Festival Hall was the Beethoven Var.
his interpretation of listz is so brilliant and unique. thinking of listz's life and style(through stories and articles), gyorgy cziffra perfectly fits on listz i guess.
visto e ascoltato dal vivo a Roma, un grnde veramente, un interprete di grande prestigio, ebbi la fortuna di sedere sul palco a due metri da lui mentre suonava, perchè la sala era piena e non c'erano più posti. Non ricordo il teatro ma non era molto grande
how very different than what I heard before. It feels like he's doing what he wants to it. I liked it. i think it was awesome. however I love the interpretation of Evgeny Kissin. I'm no music expert, but I think Cziffra thought that changing the speed (faster in some measures slower at others) was a nice experience, the harmony is there, the showiness as well, but not as liszt has written.
yes yes yes, this is the No 1 version i think this was a Belgium concert in 1965 tell me if i am wrong by the way this is the version i heard first in my life, after this, when i heard other interpretations too, i thought the pianists are kidding, all other versions sounded so so so pooooooooooooor after this...
I THINK CZIFFRA'S PLAYING IS D MOST EQUAL TO LISZT,BUT STILL D PIONEER OF SUCH VIRTUOSITY CANT BE COMPARED,LISZT WILL ALWAYS BE THE GREATEST PIANIST THAT EVER EXISTED.
![ILLSLICK - THE KING'S LANDING [Freestyle]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/feIJJnNkTfk/mqdefault.jpg)
Damn! He can play the whole thing without even moving his hands!
Ah ah ah
Hahahahahahaha
@@oliachen3374 hahahahahahahahahahaha
This made me laugh more than I had expected.
@@GeodesicBruh he can play ( eh eh eh eh ) the whole thing With...( Ah ah ah ah ah) .... out ( eh eh eh) even moving.... His ( ah ah ah ah) hands
I was listening to this already mind-blown and then the applause started at the end...
THIS WAS LIVE???
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I thought Kissin's Campanella was the best I'd ever heard, until I heard this! Cziffra brings out nuances in this piece I never even knew existed! It was like hearing it for the first time, but this time with real emotions. Kissin sounds cold and mechanical in comparison. It seems like I've found a new favorite pianist!
no comparison possible here
Have you heard Lang Lang's? Probably better than Kissin.
@@ArthurLima-mc4lq Lang Lang doesn't deserve to be in the same sentence as Kissin.
Agreed. Kissen plays it perfectly. Cziffra plays it better than perfect. Ive listened to this pieces hundreds of times but this just takes the ultimate cake.
@@golden-63 That was almost a good reply, but you can barely tell the diference between those two La Campanella. Lang Lang can be such a technical player, as much as Kissin, and at the same time, heartfull and harmonical. Kissin is good, I know, but my personal opinion goes to Lang Lang.
this picture is fake. He actually had 4 hands with 20 fingers each.
AHUAHUAHUAHUAHUHAUAHUAHUAHUAHUHAUHAU
His right hand was so damaged from his time in a gulag he had to wear a wrist strap when he played. Freaken remarkable man.
damn
imagine what he could do with that
Also no head ...
One of the clearest most sensitive interpretations that I've ever heard of this piece.
Discover France Clidat as a song of bells on Y T
Totally agree! Also check out his live performance!!
There are great pianists,
and then there's Gyorgy Cziffra.
+gerald moore Well - I guess you forgot the great A.B. Michelangeli and some others.
+anonymusum cziffra is as fantastic as Michelangeli
I don´t agree.
+anonymusum why?
In terms of accuracy and of an intellectually meaningful interpretation Michelangeli was unique. Even Svjatoslav Richter and many other great pianists admired him. Don´t get me wrong - Cziffra was a great pianist. No doubt about it, but most of the time he chose his repertoire just as a showcase of his technique. Michelangeli just wasn´t in need to do so - his technique was flawless and it was only his tool for his interpretations. That´s how it should be, because if we go to the converse direction we end in a circus show.
Andras Schiff speaks of watching Cziffra play a piece with which Schiff was familiar and remarked that Cziffra's hands and fingers were moving so fast that he could not actually tell what he was doing. I had not realized that Cziffra played this version live until we hear the audience at the end. Cziffra never got the kind of attention that Horowitz or Richter got, but his technique is every bit as good and when he plays Liszt, he is amazing. Franz himself would have approved.
I've not heard a better interpretation of this. Crystal clear flawless technique. Cheeky rubato and flourishes so smooth it sounds like liquid silver.
I just love his UNORTHODOX method of playing music that have been so familiar to us. Every bar is a box of surprises.
He's what I call a genuine Maverick of the Piano.
Truly excellent genius!
I do believe that György Cziffra is Liszt reincarnate. His rubato and phrasing have deep Hungarian gipsy roots. He doesn't just play the notes like everyone else, but plays the spaces between them with a strong Austro-Hungarian accent.
His recordings are as close as we can, be at a live Liszt performance.
Good observations on the Gipsy and Austro-Hungarian nuances. A lot of Western conductors and performers who play music from the region seem to miss and not understand this.
아하..역시 같은 민족
.그래서 치프라가 리스트와 가장닮아있고. 다른 피아니스트들과는 차별된 감성이 느껴지는구나!
He was a pupil of Lizst.
I know exactly what you mean! I felt it the first time I listened to him.
@@vetlerradio No, he wasn't: Liszt died 35 years before Cziffra was born. However, he was a student of István Thomán (one of the greatest Hungarian piano educators, Béla Bartók was also his student) and Thomán was Liszt's student (a favourite one at that) and he definitely carried on Liszt's legacy and playing style.
I love how he modified the end at his taste. More people should embrace that freedom at their own show.
The woke purists would literally murder you if you try something like that today
Agreed
He modified a LOT throughout the whole piece!
Indeed. In the 19th century improvisation was expected and even demanded: Many pieces had a 'cadenza' which was an improvised section. It was only later that a recommended cadenza was added to scores and became a standard feature of performance. Liszt was as famous for improvisation as he was for performing the compositions of others.
Cziffra has too many fingers.
Yes, he has eleven fingers. Just count backward… 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, and five more make 11. He is unbelievable. Blessings, CVD
are you sure it wasn't closer to 21 fingers?
@@StavrosKor he had a broken finger during his time in prison....
2:54 is out of this world
OMFG HOW COULD HE DO THAT
Start slow and very gradually speed up over 10,000 hours.
@@temperateortropical161 100.000***
@Brian Andersen I’ll take you up on that challenge
i could not have said it better, as if your heartbeat stops for a second then it comes back to life…
The best version I have heard of this piece. Something special that I find difficult to express in words. It's not just about the technique but the lovely sound he produces. This is a real gem.
That’s his perfect musicality combined with speed = harmonics!!
OMG. This was a live recording. No way.
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Wow. Usually great performances recorded live sound like they were made in a tuberculosis ward.
I know!!!! Was thinking, well yeah, it’s, wow, ‘better’ (for my taste) than the even the Kissin Albert Hall epic-epic, “but that’s ok, this is Cziffra in a studio”. Mind. Blown.
you know as a kid of 10 years old in the 90's, I always used to fall asleep at piano concerts, they were just so boring.
One day I heard Cziffra's recording of this piece and suddenly I got it, I understood it, the composer, the legacy, the history... imbued in 88 keys and some writing is the fire of the soul of the man known as liszt, probably enough to melt the most stubborn metal known to man, yet gentle enough to just keep you warm on a cold winter's day. It occurred to me that all the pianists that played this piece either didn't understand that or didn't have the technical capacity to deliver that, but Cziffra... Truly legendary.
Ah yes, it was an awakening.
Maybe you should listen to a Liszt concerto. The concerto is my favorite form of music, expecially piano and violin.
@@1940limited Liszt's Violin Concerto is fire
Many great pianists whom I adore have similarly spectacular technique...but this man delivers the passion he was born with and that his amazing life magnified.
The rhythmic pulse of the trills, the rubato, and the absolute precision of the playing are all beyond my comprehension! It's so beautiful!
Impeccable performance. He could actually play this good even when he had drinking problems and I am very diplomatic here. A true master.
dprezzz he spent 10 years in prison and had a broken finger too
Bilal Jan He faced all the horrors of war and discrimination as well, then when his life got back on track he lost his son. That is when he started drinking. A great loss for art & for all of us.
dprezzz absolutely agreed! this shows what music really means.
I believe on top his amazing technical skills it’s actually his super difficult life that gives so much extraordinary depth and meaning to his music.
Cziffra was an extraordinary pianist and I fail to see how he can be compared to other pianist of his genre. Unique in every way. This was one of his great performance of La Campenella as only Cziffra knows how.
La Campanella or in English "The Bell." Ever since I've come to know this piece, I do not really get my this is called such.
But having heard this, it's quite clear now to me why it's called La Campanella. You could hear "the bell" in his performance with how brilliantly he played it. Truly amazing interpretation!
Hey Raymund, if I may, campana (italian) means bell, but campanella means "tiny little bells". Small bells, like those put on sheep for instance, have a much higher tone than regular bells. Now listen to this piece again and imagine each note being a little bell of its own. You should enjoy "campanella" with the dimension you've been missing because of some uncomplete dictionary
That makes sense! It always sounded like bells to me. Not just one bell, but a collection of bells in various sizes and tones.
Yes! :)
If you listen to the original, as in Paganini's violin concerto No.2 movement 3, which this piece is based off of, it'll be extremely obvious for the name "La Campanella" :)
Yes, it's true. Those are bells. I also hear those. Beautiful performance.
I don't think any other pianist can come even close to this version. It is unbelievable!
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@@willemeret2398 they are good pianists but Cziffra is in the top 5 best pianist ever
@@willemeret2398 not even in the same league
for Liszt, Cziffra is the best, no one can compare with!!
Lang Lang plays everything better
stefnasty I don't like Lang Lang's interpretations of many of Liszt's pieces.
stefnasty Haha! c'est une blague? ^^
shut up people lang lang is the best!!!!!!
shut up i sayed !!!!
I like how Cziffra can play this without making us feel like he's not in a hurry even though there are quick passages.
The Father: Liszt
The Son: Cziffra
The Holy Spirit: You decide
Volodos, without a doubt
ANDREI GAVRILOV
Francesco Libetta Is Better
@@czeynerpianistproducercomp7155 I entirely forgot about Shura Cherkassky.
paganini
C'est sublime !!
J'ai eu la chance d'écouter un récital en plein air à Gémenos en 1972 au théâtre.
Une cigale a chanté tout le temps qu'il a joué.
Inoubliable !!!
The bell rings out in the upper register as it should.
No one can beat Cziffra!!!
in fact, no one is better that the other. Its just opinion from bunch of people that can't see longer that ther nose. Every pianist have something to bring to other people.
Definitely agreed. :)
cziffra was really old in this video, he probably died of extreme joint pain
@@jeremiebazinet As human beings we are same (no one is worthy then the others), but talking of anything such as professions, hobbies .. etc, or piano playing we are not same at all and in piano playing or professions there are levels which levels are generally determined by knowledge, experience, spirit, habit and so on .... and these levels gives the spice of the life. Without these levels we would live in a very grey and boring world. :-)
Only Franz Liszt
Every time I listen to Cziffra, I have a shift in my values for the best ever performers... He is / was so good !
Genius...
genius... plain and simple...
No practice...
@@isayawhaat1634 both :)
And then you hear the applause at the end and realize that this was actually LIVE.
Very rare are those who can give such a thrilling and flowing performance of Liszt's Campanella !!!
I hear bells!
Amanda Oktaviari very good. That's the point of the piece.
Amanda Oktaviari la Campanella means “little bell”
Cziffra is genius! Love him endlessly!🔥💖
I thought Kissin's Campanella was the best - until I heard this!
Kissin is all technique, but Cziffra makes the work exciting.
That's exactly what the difference is about. Cziffra followed only his inner ear, his inner voice.
try yundi li's version, my favourite by far
i love Cziffra but in my honest opinion kissin played the best la campanella ever, its clearly not all technique
I agreed with you 100%, but oh my God… Who are these beings. Who were George C. teachers? Do we know? Kissin's performance of this work was beyond anything I've ever heard related to this terrible old dragon (La Campanella). He not only slayed the work he slayed the audience. Yes. Sent with love. CVD
Kissin has a fantastic technique (just lookin up to his transcendental etude no.5 and mephisto waltz no.1) but no, no he is far away from czyffra on the interpretation level OMFG 2:52 is fantastic
This guy is simply unbelievable!
I think he was the best virtuoso pianist of all time! He is a real genius!!!
grande virtuoso, si, ma anche un meraviglioso musicista!!!!
it is quite possible that Liszt himself was better. We don't have recordings but we have anecdotes of the extraordinary reaction he caused.
to listen Liszt
sellin my house
????? never heard the campanella played like this, this is just so awsome
Unbeatable clarity, precision and musicality. Incredible!
God I love the interpretative talents of the old greats, cziffra and horowitz didn't shy away from the bass by any means, amazing recording !!
cziffras total control over the piano unrivalled. the world never produced a better pianist then georgy.
Some pianists just get that bell sound so absolutely right.. Its lovely to hear
György Cziffra is one if the finest pianists of all time. This Campanella is awesome. But I invite you all to listen to his Brahms and Schumann. You will be genuinely amazed.
Also the hungarian rhapsodies and Chopin polonaises!
yes he plays amazing Chopin too!
Busoni's modified ending . . . much preferred than Liszt's own ending !
Csodálatosan játszik Cziffra györgy. Öröm hallgatni. A La Campanella is nagyon szép.
I can't hardly believe that there was such a 'thing' in our world as a Cziffra. I understand he liked playing jazz. I wonder if there are any recordings of him playing jazz?
someone needs to help me my phone is on fire
Ah ah ah ah
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@@marktomas5245 you're so very right, my friend. It's not his phone at all on fire, but his heart and his brain - as is mine.
Quick, play chopin op 10 no 1
昔シフラの演奏でカンパネラを聴いて、「絶対に到達不可能」と思い、ずっと封印して弾いたことがなかった。その後アンドレ・ワッツの演奏を聴き、「あんなに速く弾かなくていいんだ」と知った。しかし最初にシフラを聴いたせいか、ありきたりのパッセージまで途方もなく冴え切っているので、恐ろしくなり、なかなか近寄りがたい曲だった。いわゆるリスト的効果さえ、相対的に見られることが必要だ。シフラの域までいくと、もはや演奏会と演芸会の区別がつかない。いわゆる聴衆の度肝を抜くというやつだ。
Find Cziffra in another live video to see his 4,5 and 3,4 trills with no rotation of his hand!! High technique and musicality make his recordings eternal!
He takes a piece, not just a piece, an almost unplayable score and he owns it. He just absorbed the work and made it work for him. I cannot say that of another pianist. I've heard fantastic, utterly fantastic recordings, but if you want to know how it should be played...Cziffra.
pianistajs Lol this is far from unplayable... so far from unplayable... you want unplayable, check out El Contrabandista - Liszt
+Gabriel Maisonet El Contrabandista is quite playable. Bartok 2nd Concerto and Ligeti etude 1 are quite unplayable.
Donald Lee In the grand, long term scheme, virtually everything is technically "playable". But I'm sure you know a piece can be called unplayable if it isn't very practical to learn, that's what I'm referring to
Definitely so! I made my comment because El Contrabandista is extremely difficult, but the patterns and virtuosic elements it contains are very logical and practical. It's just because Liszt has the pianist doing so much of it during the piece that it has an infamous reputation.
maybe try come le vent or less festin d'esope by Charles alkan
I'm proud of to be Hungarian when i hear like this!!!!! Brilliant!
Cziffra è stato uno dei grandi pianisti del XX secolo, e merita di essere ricordato come un grande artista, non come un recordman. La musica non è uno sport.
best version I've heard
If you liked Cziffra's "La Campenella," try listening to Yundi Li's and tell me what you think. Sent with love. CVD
mhm, you compare ants with gods.
Lang lang better
@@AJ-bu5ow i beg to differ
@@AJ-bu5ow lol
Second to none, Maestro Cziffra
By far the best version ever
This was beautiful. Wonderful performance.
2:59 cziffra...
Wow.....that was wonderful. Liszt wrote music to show off his magnificent and grand ability to play the piano. He truly was a virtuoso, and it has been the challenge of every virtuoso since to show that they also can play as well as Liszt. Cziffray and Kissin are both magnificent and equals to Liszt, when it comes to playing the piano.
+Mike White I honestly...could not be able to agree with you more, a hundred percent!
you just made Kissin equally with Cziffra, and with..Liszt??? man...what a strange world with strange creatures we live in.
Sorry mate. Kissin is my favourite living pianist but you simply cannot compare him to Cziffra.
Шикарное исполнение!!!
Doctor: u have 4 minutes and 25 seconds to live
Me:
Wow! Maintaining that smooth speed with dynamics is SFD. -And you can hear that he's the full-possible dynamic range of that piano. And that's amazing.
Exquisitely done. An interpretation with much more emotion than other artists....
I agree Pedro I am new to Cziffra's interpretations and am finding them wonderful.
Fantastic dynamic and free tempo. Cziffra catch the fine details with virtuosity.
That''s what Liszt intended! Just incredible!
Beautiful and great performance!
hey guys if you look closely, he is not moving oh my gosh it's 100% sure, and he doesn't have any shade he is a vampire, but don't tell anyone about this or you will get arrested by the police
HOLY SHIT YOU'RE RIGHT
thanks for the support, I appreciate
The shade actually goes under the piano, penetrates it from below and triggers the strings. The pianist is in deep meditation, his breathing and even heart stopped because it takes full concentration to pull this off.
Augustin That went dark real quick there. But I can't say I disagree with your opinion.
Those specific chromatic glissando-s of Cziffra... The most gripping part takes place about 2:40. However the whole piece is marvellous.
very difficult to say this is the best version since I also liked Horowitz Valentina and Sara Ott but this is one of the best!!!
言葉を失うほどの超絶技巧のシフラは、詩情に溢れ、豊かな音楽を奏でる。現代にはいない。
+武田康弘 You got that right mister chao
日本人がいて良かった。
フジコ・ヘミング至上主義の方々にも一度は聞いてもらいたい。
Incredible,by FAR the best version i heard
Imagine the kind of music Liszt could've written for Cziffra had he heard him.
Liszt's playing was reported to make people faint.
The best ever! love u so much!
How many hands does he have?!?! Such exciting playing.
Hannah about 79 hands but he was showing off here and played it all with his pinky toe
The Lang Lang of his day. Technique to burn but this was done completely for audience appeal.
For a completely more authentic reading of this, see the Zoltan Kocsis version available on TH-cam.
it was Cziffra, and the others.
Si dovrebbe dare credibilità a Cziffra sul modo di suonare Liszt , avendo studiato con un allievo di Liszt , dal quale certamente avrà ascoltato suonare qualche composizione di Franz Liszt che l'allievo avrà ascoltato suonare dallo stesso Franz Liszt.
The work or a true virtuoso!!!
...et, en plus, c'était un LIVE. Gosh!
Wait. This is a LIVE recording? DAMN
O cara bota uma pressão absurda na música. Virtuosidade e potência. Pqp, veio. Já escutei La Campanella dezenas de vezes e por vários pianistas, mas essa é a mais fantástica e absurda de todas.
Cziffra plays well beyond virtuosity and brilliance as most other top pianists do. Only he brings out the spirit as if he wrote the piece.
There are fast pianists.
And then there's Gyorgy Cziffra.
Fabuleuse version ! Bravo !
Probably the closest humanity were to Ling Ling
If you like Cziffra, just listen to Beethovens variation of God Save The King. After years of torture by the soviets where they tried to crush his hands; he came to England and his debut at the Festival Hall was the Beethoven Var.
his interpretation of listz is so brilliant and unique. thinking of listz's life and style(through stories and articles), gyorgy cziffra perfectly fits on listz i guess.
How coud every bit be so perfect. Can't jmagine such a god has ever lived on the planet with us..
The best ever
Ha ha ha, I love the title, the 4:25 version :) :) :) Actually it was the 4:09 one!
visto e ascoltato dal vivo a Roma, un grnde veramente, un interprete di grande prestigio, ebbi la fortuna di sedere sul palco a due metri da lui mentre suonava, perchè la sala era piena e non c'erano più posti. Non ricordo il teatro ma non era molto grande
how very different than what I heard before. It feels like he's doing what he wants to it. I liked it. i think it was awesome. however I love the interpretation of Evgeny Kissin. I'm no music expert, but I think Cziffra thought that changing the speed (faster in some measures slower at others) was a nice experience, the harmony is there, the showiness as well, but not as liszt has written.
Hardly the most difficult piece in the world, but still you have a valid point. Cheers!
yes yes yes, this is the No 1 version
i think this was a Belgium concert in 1965
tell me if i am wrong
by the way this is the version i heard first in my life,
after this, when i heard other interpretations too, i thought the pianists are kidding,
all other versions sounded so so so pooooooooooooor after this...
Liszt would truly be proud and amazed of this fellow hungarian of his
I loved this version of it.
I THINK CZIFFRA'S PLAYING IS D MOST EQUAL TO LISZT,BUT STILL D PIONEER OF SUCH VIRTUOSITY CANT BE COMPARED,LISZT WILL ALWAYS BE THE GREATEST PIANIST THAT EVER EXISTED.
Brolivit xasxasa bgeraa, genialuria, brckinvalea.....bravissimo....
I’m gay for Cziffra
everyone is, even me
カンパネラ
色んな人が弾いてるけど
私の中では一番