@@rrrrrr-kb9sb kinda agree with you. his playing of this piece is interesting and impressive but his articulation is a bit "clumpy" at times...i am not cutting him down, just my 2 cents worth
good point---so many pianists use pedal to hide things, but Cziffra has revealed the spectacularness of his technique by using his fingers instead of the pedal
in my opinion, hes not trying to play this piece "by the rules". Therefore comments such as "his speed varies" etc, doesnt make sense. He is playing this piece the way he wants and feels like in the moment. To me it feels like he is playing around with this etude in his own way and brings out a lot of beautiful music with his own style of playing.
exactly there is a great room in the Chopin Etude for rubato… only idiots would think that a metronomic pure version is the way… Etude Chopin is called "etude" but it s a real concert piece and not Hanon exercises off course, indeed
113 thumbs down amounts to this: "Cziffra should have set his metronome to 176 and played the Etude exactly as written with no personality, interpretation, or unscored expression." That's just what Chopin would have wanted, right?
For me it is a superb performance. I love the sound and the tempo too. I don't feel it shallow, it's bright and invigorating. Like a burst of morning air.
Cziffra is and will be the best pianist ever. He has the best technic ever. This etude is normally played with a pedal. The genius of cziffra make that he can play that without pedal. more!! he can play it with emotions!! nobody can do that!!
@@ethanl.1699 If we regard his technical skill, influence, as well as widespread appreciation & respect, he was certainly one of, if not the greatest pianist who ever lived.
As an Italian, I have always considered Maurizio Pollini to be the best performer of this study by Chopin. But, after listening to Cziffra, I was speechless ... its speed is incredible ... unattainable ... CHAPEAU ... BRAVO !!! 👏👏👏
The most stormy and turbulent performance of this Etude ever recorded. This was Cziffra's vision of the piece. Others have equally valid views on how to play it. It's not only technique but also imagination. Pollini has plenty of technique but his recording lacks both fantasy and imagination.
to Chopinko - good point Chopinko! So many absurd rankings can be red about great soloists.Each one has his own way and approach to the score. Let's enjoy music beyond a stiff personal taste and avoid biased behaviours. It's not a competition: that's music.
I agree. I haven't heard anyone challenge that other than mentioning Alkan, but that's piure conjecture. Had Alkan been in fashion when Cziffra was around I'm sure he would of nailed every note. I can't believe anyone alive can play like this or the Sabre Dance, Blue Danube etc as he does.
You may be right that Cziffra "is just having fun" with this piece :) With an etude, I think there is some liberty to determine what elements will be studied and accented (speed, dynamics, clarity, rythme, melodic lines, drama...)
He did use pedal, but not for for slur, He use it for his sound some efects (like the last octave, if you play that without pedal it wouldn't sound so powerfull like that)
And playing this study very slow is STILL far more difficult,cos then you immediately hear the holes you can fall into.(comp.David Saperton or Robert Goldsand)
@0aethyr0 you have a point. They never discuss what they like or don't like. you see comments like "this guy sucks", "this an easy piece", "Horowitz is way better". They don't explain why. I don't even think they know. point taken.
This is after all, and Etude and not a Nocturne. As such it is an excercise or study meant to demonstrate a particular technique to its full mastery - and such does Cziffra accomplish!
@@AppaLV6 everyone had their own way to play a song with or without the recommended temp mbrah. La Campanella is allegretto but almost no one plays at that speed everyone plays faster
If you play it at tempo (176 bpm) you finish this in 1:51 so his tempo is actually spot on. I like this but it's not as precise as the best modern pianists -- slow it down to 0.25 speed and you'll hear it. Then do the same thing for Kissin, Trifinov, and Seung-Jin Cho for instance. Kissin and Trifinov play it at the same speed too.
Hear the Moriz Rosenthal recording. Rosenthal uses the semi-detached touch for the whole etude, yet plays it remarkably fast. DePachmann has a recording of this where he brings out a tenor line in the middle of the piano (on 2nd beat of each upward broken chord).
@rekab7070 theres no speed contest, i read in one of the comments that this is not an actual performance but it's what he played before a performance just to warm up. thats cziffra..
@RediForKing well, there are several good interpretations, my personal favorite is always different,. Richter, Argerich, Cortot, Cziffra are the tops, But the "best" always changes with my mood. certainly not disappointing.
Chopin said he envied the way Liszt played his etudes. Op 10 set is dedicated to Liszt. Artists are interpreting music with the knowledge of the composer in mind and Chopin would have played his works very differently from performance to performance. Cziffra was a great artist. Chopin had great troubles writing down his compositions...why? Because when you compose you come up with many options and facets and versions. He was a great improviser. Cziffra always presented Chopin beautifully.
Cziffra is amazing! In his version of Rachmaninov's concerto he plays a little bit like that... He plays slow and after fast... He can do everything with a piano :-)
To play this quickly and this cleanly is so absurd it's scary. I would have loved to have a super piano "cutting contest" between Cziffra, Richter, Art Tatum, Oscar Peterson, Horowitz, Argerich, Gould, and Hamelin. Just imagine all those giants in the same room at the same time! ❤️
@DeteTheMagnificent I've got a page on Facebook called 'I love Cziffra' - so I'm trying!! In my view he was the messiah of piano. It's important to remember he chose his style - nobody else could 'choose' his ability.
Cecile Licad is one of my favorite artists and most complete musicians of all times!! She possesses one of the most incredible, mind blowing talent and musicianship, found today, and has an amazing technique to couple and top all the above, but even after all that said...I still do not find her at the superhuman facility that Argerich, Cziffra, Horowitz (in his young years), Freire, or Gould had/has. She is CLOSE...but not quite up there.
For any talented pianist this etude is hard enough to get up to 176 or 184...Cziffra plays it way above that.... I don´t care if he sat at the recording studio all day to get it that fast, but for sure there are less than 5 pianists in the world that get near his technical facility
The greatest pianists of All Time Are really Artur Rubinstein ( The God) Grigory Sokolov ( The Titan The Giant of The piano piano) Emil Gilels ( The King!!) Wilhelm Kempff Radu Lupu Mikhail Pletnev Maurizio Pollini Sviatoslav Richter Vladimir Ashkenazy Alexei Lubimov Stanislav Igolinsky ( better than Lipatti and Joseph Hofman) Solomon Cutner Maria Grinberg Natalia Trull Rosa Tamarkina Ekaterina Novitskaya Dimitri Bashkirov Andrei Gavrilov Victor Eresko Lubov Timofeeva ( much Better Chopin etude than Cziffra)
Lubov Timofeeva her The piano sound better than Cziffra's Chopin etude! Radu Lupu Brahms piano concerto no 1 with The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra video RUclips! Lupu a class of his own playing Brahms piano concerto no 1! Lupu The Best perfect piano sound! Dimitri Bashkirov Mendelssohn piano concerto no 1 with The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra video RUclips! Bashkirov a class of his own playing Mendelssohn piano concerto no 1! The Best piano sound! The melodies Are rolling! Bashkirov The Best tempos! Grigory Sokolov Brahms piano concerto no 2 playing with The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra video RUclips! Sokolov The most vital rhythmic vitalness! Sokolov The most Titanic! Stanislav Igolinsky his Schubert Erlkönig is better than Joseph Hofman's! Emil Gilels The Best Beethoven Waldstein sonata! Sviatoslav Richter The King playing Rachmaninoff concerto no 2! i You can Check All These RUclips! Go and listen!!
Which note did he miss? So hard to name it? Well the truth is he does not miss a single note in this piece. I have played it myself and I can recite the whole piece if I want to. In fact this fast version is way clearer than many of the slower versions by other performers. The fact that the pedal here is not overused certainly helped the individual notes to stand out. But one also needs courage to do so, lest bad things happen. I would say this is better than his improvised version.
@Jim341046 listen to any number of michelangeli recordings and you might change your mind. IMHO, ABM's technique was the best ever because it was directed towards the composers intentions first. He is not as flashy as cziffra or horowitz and so i feel he is greatly understood. compare ABM's Chaccone with Hamelin's and you will see a HUGE difference. He does things in that piece that frankly leave my jaw agape. A wizard with the pedal, the most sensitive ear, his depth of reflection-unparalled.
What I noticed is that it's of great advantage to have above average finger strength. In many of those fast pieces, Cziffra and Argerich play with far better confidence than the other great players. It appears from a lay point of view that their hands don't get burnt out easily after going through lots of fast notes. I suggest taking a look at Martha's prelude no. 16 and compare with other players like Evgeny Kissin and Rafael Blaczes (mispelled).
You're damn right he is. His combination of technique and emotion is second to none. Gilels, Richter, Horowitz, Backhaus, Argerich, Hofmann, Bolet, Pollini, Wild, Van Cliburn, Lhevinne, Brendel, Lipatti, Godowsky, they all pale in comparisson. Perhaps the only one who comes close is the younger Arrau...
you are wrong. chopin was more of a composer than pianist, chopin was envious on liszt's technique and on the other side, liszt was envious on chopin's ability to compose emotional music. there is a huge difference between piano composer and piano performer
@fredericfranc The challenge was to identify who was who after they played the same thing.Have in mind that in the public where present people who often listened to both of them and knew very well how each one of them.So after they played they opened the door and asked the audience who was Chopin (I don't remember who played first,let's say Chopin) and the answer was that Chopin was the second.So you can see that the "ideal Chopin",recognized by Chopin himself, was Liszt's playing. ;)
@FearRain IMHO that makes no sense. I can't paint but i recognize the beauty in Van Gogh's paintings. I can't sculpt but I am moved by Rodin. I am not an actor but i know what constitutes a great piece of acting. Etc.,etc. That's why i adore RUclips. It's an open forum and i enjoy reading others' comments. I have learned a great deal from many people and would like to think it is reciprocal. And yes I am a pianist and enjoy reading others comments on my performances. It has enriched my life.
Every artist has his own way in music. I recomend you to listen to Rubinstein,Horrovitz,Ashkenazy,Howard,or similar artists. I believe that every piece is meant to be played in a correct way the composer wanted to. Cziffra was of course a master indeed. But had his own way of music. For beeing in a Gipsy family myself I know what makes his heart beat :-) For Liszt you have to be an european and learn in schools the correct way of history to even understand his music. No wonder -6 thumbs ;-D
It's an Etude, Ok ? So the mechanic shows through the music and romanticism, and he is the only one who gives it that character as an etude, which can be listened to.
Actually speed is directly connected to sustain. You can check Rubinstein's most famous interpretation of the Fantaisie Impromptu, it's faster than the average interpretations and with less sustain usage, and it sounds perfect.
Guys this etude isn't one of Chopins beautiful and intricate ones... it's just a technical exercise for the right hand. Not sure why you expect melodrama
Dude, I'm sorry, but reducing this to "just a technical exercise for the right hand" is crazy to me. Yes it's meant to teach the right hand how to sweep the keyboard extremely fast, but it is also a beautiful piece on its own. Saying something like this doesn't have beauty and intricacy is tantamount to saying Bach's Prelude No.1, which it is extremely similar to when you break down the music.
He is playing so close to the key and have you noticed,,,he does not use pedal much, may be 1%. His rubato can be used as recovery time in my opinion. Cziffra does not like metronome. A very unique interpretation.
Anyone who has tried this piece will know that playing at this speed is almost inhuman.
Ruins the piece ; no dynamic contrast whatsoever
@@rrrrrr-kb9sb you have some sh.....t in your ears then?
@@rrrrrr-kb9sb you must be deaf my man
@@rrrrrr-kb9sb kinda agree with you. his playing of this piece is interesting and impressive but his articulation is a bit "clumpy" at times...i am not cutting him down, just my 2 cents worth
and almost without pedal.... Mindblowing
good point---so many pianists use pedal to hide things, but Cziffra has revealed the spectacularness of his technique by using his fingers instead of the pedal
my teatcher is making me do it without pedal, i'm dying lol
in my opinion, hes not trying to play this piece "by the rules". Therefore comments such as "his speed varies" etc, doesnt make sense. He is playing this piece the way he wants and feels like in the moment. To me it feels like he is playing around with this etude in his own way and brings out a lot of beautiful music with his own style of playing.
Actually, this piece is from the Romantic period, so technically paying rubato would be playing it by the rules.
exactly there is a great room in the Chopin Etude for rubato… only idiots would think that a metronomic pure version is the way… Etude Chopin is called "etude" but it s a real concert piece and not Hanon exercises off course, indeed
Exactly right.
@@aliochadimkova2950 Yes,Chopin studie are not meant to learn pianoplaying but to perfect it.
That's why he's known as one of the wizard pianists ever live
Played with surging passion and frenetic bravura. A fearless performer.
wherever I look for cziffra, your comments are always there
He is my family's ancestor, the brother of my great grandmother :)
Really!!
@@mingzelipiano0920 no
Any cool inside stories I know I am 9 years late
Woah, so you're directly related to Yolande cziffra ! whom, baby gyorgy watched and got inspired !
113 thumbs down amounts to this:
"Cziffra should have set his metronome to 176 and played the Etude exactly as written with no personality, interpretation, or unscored expression."
That's just what Chopin would have wanted, right?
he was warming up this is pre show
People these days seem to have grown accustomed to what I feel to be the stale "competition sound".
Cziffra was really the naughty boy on the piano but bloody the hell he knew a lot about technique.....
I love the tempo cziffra takes here. Makes the line in the left hand sing much more
For me it is a superb performance. I love the sound and the tempo too. I don't feel it shallow, it's bright and invigorating. Like a burst of morning air.
Cziffra took this piece to just another level of fluency and bravura.
Cziffra is and will be the best pianist ever. He has the best technic ever. This etude is normally played with a pedal. The genius of cziffra make that he can play that without pedal. more!! he can play it with emotions!!
nobody can do that!!
Liszt...
Ludwig van Beethoven we don’t have any recordings of Liszt, so unless we invent a time machine we will never know
@@ethanl.1699 If we regard his technical skill, influence, as well as widespread appreciation & respect, he was certainly one of, if not the greatest pianist who ever lived.
Quelle interprétation extraordinaire ! Sa conception est prodigieuse.
As an Italian, I have always considered Maurizio Pollini to be the best performer of this study by Chopin. But, after listening to Cziffra, I was speechless ... its speed is incredible ... unattainable ... CHAPEAU ... BRAVO !!! 👏👏👏
His subtle Rubato gives me the shivers. Genius.
Thank you for the post, thanks RUclips and BRAVO MAESTRO CZIFFRA!
What the - heck!? Wow! Not even sure people can tremble this fast. Talk about piano super powers.
The most stormy and turbulent performance of this Etude ever recorded. This was Cziffra's vision of the piece. Others have equally valid views on how to play it. It's not only technique but also imagination. Pollini has plenty of technique but his recording lacks both fantasy and imagination.
It's people like Cziffra that make me believe there is a God.
I like this very much, despite the speed, he brings out the harmonies very well.
i like the powerful sound behind it, the left hand might sound too rough for some people but i really like it
to Chopinko - good point Chopinko!
So many absurd rankings can be red about great soloists.Each one has his own way and approach to the score.
Let's enjoy music beyond a stiff personal
taste and avoid biased behaviours.
It's not a competition: that's music.
He beat up the piano!
Destroyed i would say
Yup
I agree. I haven't heard anyone challenge that other than mentioning Alkan, but that's piure conjecture. Had Alkan been in fashion when Cziffra was around I'm sure he would of nailed every note.
I can't believe anyone alive can play like this or the Sabre Dance, Blue Danube etc as he does.
You may be right that Cziffra "is just having fun" with this piece :)
With an etude, I think there is some liberty to determine what elements will be studied and accented (speed, dynamics, clarity, rythme, melodic lines, drama...)
GREATEST PIANIST EVER!!!!
no pedal
damn!
He did use pedal, but not for for slur, He use it for his sound some efects (like the last octave, if you play that without pedal it wouldn't sound so powerfull like that)
And playing this study very slow is STILL far more difficult,cos then you immediately hear the holes you can fall into.(comp.David Saperton or Robert Goldsand)
infatti i ond t like this performance
There's pedal, but more for effect and not to connect notes.
I love it. It makes my head spin and my soul swirl.
@0aethyr0 you have a point. They never discuss what they like or don't like. you see comments like "this guy sucks", "this an easy piece", "Horowitz is way better". They don't explain why. I don't even think they know. point taken.
he's like part pianist part swordsman, flashing blades glittering in the sunlight.. it's brilliant.. what a musician.
ciffras technique was the most astonishing which ever existed....
Shhhhh! Liszt is playing!
Yes!
This is after all, and Etude and not a Nocturne. As such it is an excercise or study meant to demonstrate a particular technique to its full mastery - and such does Cziffra accomplish!
Amazing! sends shivers down my spine.
cziffra was actually my grandmothers brother inla
bela farkas ha! nahát! :O
;)
Hát én szerencsés vagyok +ichabe dichlieb
bela farkas True? And what had your family told you about him?
Excellent !!🎵🎶🎵🎶🎶
its too fast but his technique, timing and precision is absolutely unreal.
Who says its too fast?
@@bigPianist99 According to Chopin's tempo marking, too fast. Any problem ?
@@AppaLV6 everyone had their own way to play a song with or without the recommended temp mbrah. La Campanella is allegretto but almost no one plays at that speed everyone plays faster
If you play it at tempo (176 bpm) you finish this in 1:51 so his tempo is actually spot on. I like this but it's not as precise as the best modern pianists -- slow it down to 0.25 speed and you'll hear it. Then do the same thing for Kissin, Trifinov, and Seung-Jin Cho for instance. Kissin and Trifinov play it at the same speed too.
And according to Cziffra, the right tempo ;)
I like how he like. staccatos.? some of the note progressions! it sounds freaken amazing :D
Hear the Moriz Rosenthal recording. Rosenthal uses the semi-detached touch for the whole etude, yet plays it remarkably fast.
DePachmann has a recording of this where he brings out a tenor line in the middle of the piano (on 2nd beat of each upward broken chord).
@rekab7070 theres no speed contest, i read in one of the comments that this is not an actual performance but it's what he played before a performance just to warm up. thats cziffra..
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BRAVO BRAVISSIMO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@RediForKing
well, there are several good interpretations, my personal favorite is always different,. Richter, Argerich, Cortot, Cziffra are the tops, But the "best" always changes with my mood. certainly not disappointing.
I really love his piano!
Some may not like his eccentricity, but I do. It's new and refreshing.
Mad, mad... Unbelievable Genius
I'm new to the piano world, how is this genius exactly?.
MAGNIFICENT !!!!
Chopin said he envied the way Liszt played his etudes. Op 10 set is dedicated to Liszt. Artists are interpreting music with the knowledge of the composer in mind and Chopin would have played his works very differently from performance to performance. Cziffra was a great artist. Chopin had great troubles writing down his compositions...why? Because when you compose you come up with many options and facets and versions. He was a great improviser. Cziffra always presented Chopin beautifully.
@chipncharge94 watch his liszt transcendental etudes, he turns those into music like no other pianist in history.
Cziffra is amazing! In his version of Rachmaninov's concerto he plays a little bit like that... He plays slow and after fast... He can do everything with a piano :-)
wow great. thank you George.
To play this quickly and this cleanly is so absurd it's scary. I would have loved to have a super piano "cutting contest" between Cziffra, Richter, Art Tatum, Oscar Peterson, Horowitz, Argerich, Gould, and Hamelin. Just imagine all those giants in the same room at the same time! ❤️
Safe to assume he passed his grade 8 arpeggios.
@DeteTheMagnificent I've got a page on Facebook called 'I love Cziffra' - so I'm trying!! In my view he was the messiah of piano. It's important to remember he chose his style - nobody else could 'choose' his ability.
Very, very nice... and also a more or less rare recording.
Cecile Licad is one of my favorite artists and most complete musicians of all times!! She possesses one of the most incredible, mind blowing talent and musicianship, found today, and has an amazing technique to couple and top all the above, but even after all that said...I still do not find her at the superhuman facility that Argerich, Cziffra, Horowitz (in his young years), Freire, or Gould had/has. She is CLOSE...but not quite up there.
For any talented pianist this etude is hard enough to get up to 176 or 184...Cziffra plays it way above that.... I don´t care if he sat at the recording studio all day to get it that fast, but for sure there are less than 5 pianists in the world that get near his technical facility
surprise and fantastic
Cziffra is my favorite interpreter... but i don´t want to play like Cziffra... i would like to have his technique.. and make my own sound... :)
the way the line goes, cziffra plays chopin like liszt and liszt like chopin.
not necessarily a bad thing
Doing a live like this, he will be got a lot of applause!!
amazing
Cziffra IS The KING!
The greatest pianists of All Time Are really Artur Rubinstein ( The God) Grigory Sokolov ( The Titan The Giant of The piano piano) Emil Gilels ( The King!!) Wilhelm Kempff Radu Lupu Mikhail Pletnev Maurizio Pollini Sviatoslav Richter Vladimir Ashkenazy Alexei Lubimov Stanislav Igolinsky ( better than Lipatti and Joseph Hofman) Solomon Cutner Maria Grinberg Natalia Trull Rosa Tamarkina Ekaterina Novitskaya Dimitri Bashkirov Andrei Gavrilov Victor Eresko Lubov Timofeeva ( much Better Chopin etude than Cziffra)
@@RaineriHakkarainen
Are you joking?
@@andrasmagyar6908 Emil Gilels is The King of The pianists not Cziffra!
@@RaineriHakkarainen
Can you explain why they are better?
Lubov Timofeeva her The piano sound better than Cziffra's Chopin etude! Radu Lupu Brahms piano concerto no 1 with The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra video RUclips! Lupu a class of his own playing Brahms piano concerto no 1! Lupu The Best perfect piano sound! Dimitri Bashkirov Mendelssohn piano concerto no 1 with The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra video RUclips! Bashkirov a class of his own playing Mendelssohn piano concerto no 1! The Best piano sound! The melodies Are rolling! Bashkirov The Best tempos! Grigory Sokolov Brahms piano concerto no 2 playing with The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra video RUclips! Sokolov The most vital rhythmic vitalness! Sokolov The most Titanic! Stanislav Igolinsky his Schubert Erlkönig is better than Joseph Hofman's! Emil Gilels The Best Beethoven Waldstein sonata! Sviatoslav Richter The King playing Rachmaninoff concerto no 2! i You can Check All These RUclips! Go and listen!!
Very speed ♥️👑❣️❣️❣️❣️👑
Here's another version. Using it as a warm up ruclips.net/video/2RsS5EnX76E/видео.html
Which part of this piece is uneven? The whole thing is musical to my ears.
It’s just a matter of taste dude
He plays it fast because he’s warming up in the original video you’ll see he play multiple pieces at faster tempo as a warm up.
NEL VIDEO DI CZIFFRA CRAZY IMPROV WITH ETUDE COME SECONDA COMPOSIZIONE SUONA QUESTA ETUDE IN 1.15 SECOND INCREDIBILE NESSUN ALTRO PUO'GUARDATE
Very nice
Brilliant.
Which note did he miss? So hard to name it? Well the truth is he does not miss a single note in this piece. I have played it myself and I can recite the whole piece if I want to. In fact this fast version is way clearer than many of the slower versions by other performers. The fact that the pedal here is not overused certainly helped the individual notes to stand out. But one also needs courage to do so, lest bad things happen. I would say this is better than his improvised version.
@Jim341046 listen to any number of michelangeli recordings and you might change your mind. IMHO, ABM's technique was the best ever because it was directed towards the composers intentions first. He is not as flashy as cziffra or horowitz and so i feel he is greatly understood. compare ABM's Chaccone with Hamelin's and you will see a HUGE difference. He does things in that piece that frankly leave my jaw agape. A wizard with the pedal, the most sensitive ear, his depth of reflection-unparalled.
actually, the name of the pianist is Cziffra György
GREAT!!!!
What I noticed is that it's of great advantage to have above average finger strength. In many of those fast pieces, Cziffra and Argerich play with far better confidence than the other great players. It appears from a lay point of view that their hands don't get burnt out easily after going through lots of fast notes. I suggest taking a look at Martha's prelude no. 16 and compare with other players like Evgeny Kissin and Rafael Blaczes (mispelled).
The best!
@junghesse Sorry, but one thing's wrong : Liszt played them the first time he saw them... And that's the reason they are dedicated to him...
holy cziffra!!
You're damn right he is. His combination of technique and emotion is second to none.
Gilels, Richter, Horowitz, Backhaus, Argerich, Hofmann, Bolet, Pollini, Wild, Van Cliburn, Lhevinne, Brendel, Lipatti, Godowsky, they all pale in comparisson.
Perhaps the only one who comes close is the younger Arrau...
this piece can be found within his improv video.
God
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD !!!!!!
He was GOOD !!!
@RediForKing in other words, rhythmic accord is to be disregarded when listening to romantic music?
you are wrong. chopin was more of a composer than pianist, chopin was envious on liszt's technique and on the other side, liszt was envious on chopin's ability to compose emotional music. there is a huge difference between piano composer and piano performer
@amiropiano Cziffra is using plenty of pedal. This etude is not so hard to play prestissimo if it is secure at allegro.
Esto si es velocidad!!!! Jueepuchaa...........!
@fredericfranc The challenge was to identify who was who after they played the same thing.Have in mind that in the public where present people who often listened to both of them and knew very well how each one of them.So after they played they opened the door and asked the audience who was Chopin (I don't remember who played first,let's say Chopin) and the answer was that Chopin was the second.So you can see that the "ideal Chopin",recognized by Chopin himself, was Liszt's playing. ;)
@FearRain IMHO that makes no sense. I can't paint but i recognize the beauty in Van Gogh's paintings. I can't sculpt but I am moved by Rodin. I am not an actor but i know what constitutes a great piece of acting. Etc.,etc. That's why i adore RUclips. It's an open forum and i enjoy reading others' comments. I have learned a great deal from many people and would like to think it is reciprocal. And yes I am a pianist and enjoy reading others comments on my performances. It has enriched my life.
check the other Ciffra videos, he can play in any rythm and speed :)
Every artist has his own way in music.
I recomend you to listen to Rubinstein,Horrovitz,Ashkenazy,Howard,or similar artists. I believe that every piece is meant to be played in a correct way the composer wanted to. Cziffra was of course a master indeed. But had his own way of music. For beeing in a Gipsy family myself I know what makes his heart beat :-) For Liszt you have to be an european and learn in schools the correct way of history to even understand his music. No wonder -6 thumbs ;-D
Wow like i am running in the middle of wind........rushing to my loved one....
@dancersover40 On a piano with very light action.
For 'Very fast Tempo' read 'Correct and common-sense Tempo'.
It's an Etude, Ok ? So the mechanic shows through the music and romanticism, and he is the only one who gives it that character as an etude, which can be listened to.
Actually speed is directly connected to sustain. You can check Rubinstein's most famous interpretation of the Fantaisie Impromptu, it's faster than the average interpretations and with less sustain usage, and it sounds perfect.
Темп превосходный.Хороший пример для тех,кто собирается сыграть этот этюд.
Guys this etude isn't one of Chopins beautiful and intricate ones... it's just a technical exercise for the right hand. Not sure why you expect melodrama
Dude, I'm sorry, but reducing this to "just a technical exercise for the right hand" is crazy to me. Yes it's meant to teach the right hand how to sweep the keyboard extremely fast, but it is also a beautiful piece on its own. Saying something like this doesn't have beauty and intricacy is tantamount to saying Bach's Prelude No.1, which it is extremely similar to when you break down the music.
Actually I like his performances, the end result is always (here too) much more than the sum of all those notes, imo.
you re god damn right!!!!
Amen
what a man
I think this was the tempo actually prescribed by Chopin, believe it or not.
Chopin's speed is a bit slower, at his tempo the piece will be exactly 2 minutes long.
He is playing so close to the key and have you noticed,,,he does not use pedal much, may be 1%. His rubato can be used as recovery time in my opinion. Cziffra does not like metronome. A very unique interpretation.