@@Jasongy827 I can't listen to Horowitz and imagine that Liszt would have approved of the interpretative choices. That doesn't stop me from enjoying Horowitz
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Love his rubato and teasing caprice. Nowadays a lost art. To play from the heart to the heart was Cziffra's style and that's why his playing is always memorable.
I've actually lost count.... still no sign of getting tired of it... This piece in this timeless interpretation is in the very epicenter of youtube in my opinion.
Cziffra simply has this way with Liszt's music... which no one else has had since. Liszt is normally not one of my favourite composers but Cziffra plays with such charm and sincerity it's hard not to be moved.
I have *NEVER* heard _anyone_ convince me that Liszt’s music *WAS* music, until I heard Cziffra!! I knew Liszt’s music was great, but I couldn’t abide it….to my ears the great pianists played his pieces as though they were nothing but exercises in amazing technique, with speed their defining characteristic (as played by Yuja Wang and Lang Lang, who to me are performers, not artists), and not at all serious as music, as _ART._ Cziffra completely changed my mind through his confident, ever-present, breathtaking musicality as well as his blistering technique. Is that hyperbolic? Maybe to others, but that’s _exactly_ how it felt to me.
He plays with such joy, spontaneity, and elegance, yet can also be ferocious and overpowering when necessary. You can tell that music flowed through his veins as naturally as blood. Wonderful to watch!
J'ai eu la chance de rencontrer cet homme merveilleux à sa fondation. Il était d'une gentillesse peu commune pour un artiste de ce niveau. Ces enregistrements heureusement nous restent. Un grand échiquier avec Jacques Chancel lui avait été consacré et je me souviens d'une fin d'émission avec le public autour du piano et lui, lui qui jouait si divinement, galvanisé par ce public admiratif et si proche. Un très très grand artiste.
Peu ont pu avoir une telle fortune, je suis très envieux, cziffra est mon pianiste préféré, il est un dieu du piano et de la musique, comment l’avez-vous rencontré?
This piece makes me cry, even though its whismical and almost playful, its genius is so pure and musical that it just hits me on a supra-emotional level. Especially when it's played by the king of all of the virtuosi.
Well, the king of virtuosi was arguably anyone from Beethoven, Liszt, Kalkbrenner, Moscheles, Hummel, Czerny, Alkan, Thalberg, Tausig (who was by Liszt’s students reviewed as having more perfect technique than Liszt), Kocsis, Horowitz, Rachmaninov, Szimanovski, Godovski, Cziffra, Hamelin, Powell, or Pace..... all very subjective; though; all are unique at performing their own repertoire; half of the list we’ve never heard and never will.
I love Cziffra's interpretations of Liszt. Look at his face! You know he loves this. He's such an awesome player. It's a shame we don't hear anyone play anything like this nowadays.
The ending is so beautiful! The whole song is beautiful but the ending arpeggios really sound like they're being played on a harp. It's amazing how master pianists can do that!
So much emotion, perfection and talent concentrated in this genious musician. I consider myself lucky having had the privilege listening to this masterpiece.
You know, this man was known for the thunder and lightening of his technique but just listen to the delicacy and softness at 2.41..there really is nothing to say, except that this is extremely good music. My criteria as to whether I keep a girlfriend is if she is moved by this!
Uhm... there are girls that like that shit u know... hate to be that guy(i am lying) but the fact you are going to die alone isn't cause of music taste.
Horowitz or Kissin has nothing on this one im so sorry to say that. Cziffra was considered thee best interpreter of Liszt. he actually so good that everyone literally thought he was the reincarnation of Liszt. true fact.
There is a massive difference when I listen to Cziffra's recordings of Liszt's works and other recording artists. I feel like Cziffra understood this music so tremendously, the balance between ferocity and gentleness, the light and the dark, where as other artists are a little too literal in their interpretation of the sheet music's instructions, and a little too focused on clarity in musical statements rather than looking at the entirety of the piece's character and what it's trying to do.
I think that thats partly because Cziffra studied at the Franz Liszt Academy and also got teached by István Thomán, who was a favourite pupil of Franz Liszt.
I think Kissin is a good example of contemporary pianism while Horowitz was extremely personal with his playing. I prefer Horowitz just as much as Cziffra but they are for different purposes and moods.
some people may prefer someone else's performance of this piece over Cziffra's but generally for this piece and everything else Cziffra has played, no one will ever come close to playing like him. i couldn't enjoy others playing a piece after i hear Cziffra play it.
This is an excellent piece, very light-hearted and playful. Cziffra plays it especially well, and you can tell he loves the piece. He even goes as far as to add his own details not originally written by Liszt (for example, the very last chord is not notated in the sheet music, but is a great touch added by Cziffra).
Oh god that is simply classical piano heaven. We have 5 senses - sight, taste, touch and smell but there are few better rewards for hearing than this :-)
@libetta LOL! not even 24 hours a day would make anyone play this well and this naturally... it´s intrinsic....either you bring it from birth or you´ll never have that facility...perhaps one out of ten thousand pianists have this gift...... Cziffra certainly was THE chosen one !!! what an extraordinary artist!
Certainly yes we can dream, but Liszt was certainly the best interpreter of himself, By confronting Liszt and Cziffra, I believe that it is Cziffra who would have listened. But in his old age, then yes, Cziffra would have been a true ray of sunshine for the master of the piano of Hungary. We are lucky to be in the time of CDs and records.
this piece is so amazing,when i look that a hungarian genius wrote it,it sounds on a while asian and on a while european romantic,it is so magic and beautiful-plus Cziffra-gipsy hungarian genius virtuos!
Love Cziffra, he could have played for Liszt in those Weimar 'masterclasses' of the early 1880's and Liszt would have no doubt have smiled and encouraged him. And ... if he was so moved - Liszt might go to the piano and play it himself, and all would have gone home not quite believing what they had heard - and maybe write about the experience years later (see August Gollerich and the literally hundreds of others.) Wish I could have been there.
Not True! Come on! Cziffra never was the greatest! Dimitri Bashkirov her teacher Anastasia Virsaladze teach saying to Bashkirov the most important lesson is the love of beautiful colorful piano sound! More colorful beautiful piano sound than Cziffra=Wilhelm Kempff Emil Gilels Radu Lupu Artur Rubinstein Vladimir Ashkenazy Grigory Sokolov! More genius than Cziffra=Sviatoslav Richter Solomon Cutner Grigory Sokolov Maurizio Pollini Stanislav Bunin Maria Grinberg Murray Perahia Alexei Lubimov Dinu Lipatti Stanislav Igolinsky! More powerful louder than Cziffra=Mikhail Pletnev! The Second Loudest ever was Lazar Berman! The 3rd Loudest was Erwin Nyiregyhazi! Beethoven wanted louder instruments piano fortes! Horowitz his technique attack better than Cziffra's technique!! Cziffra not the best genius! Cziffra not the most powerful! Cziffra not the best technique! Cziffra had not the best piano sound!!
Ma che cazzo?? Ma comè possibile di padronare lo strumento così?? È una capacità davanti la quale c'è di stare semplicemente muti, stupiti e meravigliati. Aveva un strepitoso talento conducendo la vita tragica e piùttosto drammatica. Meraviglioso Cziffra..
@sal50811 maybe you did not know this, but during his 3 years in captivity after trying to flee hungary, cziffra was forced to do heavy work, and was tortured. the tendons of his hands were stretched during those torture sessions. in later years, cziffra used to put on a leather strip around his wrists to support his tendons while playing. thats why i find this so absolutely beautiful and amazing. after having suffered those things, to still have such a tremendous technique.
I've never studied piano, but I have a 88 keys keyboard and I've learned this piece at almost full speed (except for some passages, I can't find a comfortable way for the fingers), but he is on a completely different level, his interpretation is my absolute favourite, it's wonderful. I wish I could play like him!
Synthesia is your friend. You would be surprised by the number of pieces I learned that way. I've been playing my keyboard for almost 20 years as an amateur. I deeply regret not having properly learned how to play in a music school, but it is too late for that now.
@@NE0KRATOS The accompanist for my schools choir learned piano at 65, unless you're in your late 100s its not to late to learn piano, do not use age as an excuse for laziness, it gives old people a bad rep.
Quem o ouve a 1a.vez não 0 esquece.ao ouvir as primeras notas não importa hora lugar sem dúvida arrebatara,é ele, o rei da rapsodia de liszt,Nelson freire vivalll José Serra de São Luís Maranhão .
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Cziffra had the perfect balance between being gentle and being ferocious.
loud and soft. Yea, such a virtuoso on the piano for his era. Personally, I prefer his style then horowitz.
FRICTIONLESS
@@Jasongy827 I can't listen to Horowitz and imagine that Liszt would have approved of the interpretative choices. That doesn't stop me from enjoying Horowitz
One best pianist ever
perfectly put
Just the way he enters the phrase at the beginning… so incredibly special
It is regrettable that Liszt never lived to see this man play his work so beautifully.
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And eat fish because its good for brain
Liszt would have played it better?
@@Chris-d1r3q
I think not.
Love his rubato and teasing caprice. Nowadays a lost art. To play from the heart to the heart was Cziffra's style and that's why his playing is always memorable.
Nicely said
I can't stop re-watching.
I've actually lost count.... still no sign of getting tired of it... This piece in this timeless interpretation is in the very epicenter of youtube in my opinion.
The best performance of this brilliant Valse Impromptu.
Cziffra simply has this way with Liszt's music... which no one else has had since. Liszt is normally not one of my favourite composers but Cziffra plays with such charm and sincerity it's hard not to be moved.
I have *NEVER* heard _anyone_ convince me that Liszt’s music *WAS* music, until I heard Cziffra!! I knew Liszt’s music was great, but I couldn’t abide it….to my ears the great pianists played his pieces as though they were nothing but exercises in amazing technique, with speed their defining characteristic (as played by Yuja Wang and Lang Lang, who to me are performers, not artists), and not at all serious as music, as _ART._ Cziffra completely changed my mind through his confident, ever-present, breathtaking musicality as well as his blistering technique. Is that hyperbolic? Maybe to others, but that’s _exactly_ how it felt to me.
Cziffra..... indimenticabile, magico, speciale...immortale!
Légèreté,grâce,finesse,sens inné du rubato,quelle merveilleuse interprétation,divin Cziffra!Merci.
This virtuosity of Cziffra is awe-inspiring. This piece is absolutely sublime when played by Cziffra. Cziffra is out of this world!
This is wonderful - improvisatory, nonchalant and capricious. I wish more pianists today had Cziffra's style.
He plays with such joy, spontaneity, and elegance, yet can also be ferocious and overpowering when necessary. You can tell that music flowed through his veins as naturally as blood. Wonderful to watch!
J'ai eu la chance de rencontrer cet homme merveilleux à sa fondation. Il était d'une gentillesse peu commune pour un artiste de ce niveau. Ces enregistrements heureusement nous restent. Un grand échiquier avec Jacques Chancel lui avait été consacré et je me souviens d'une fin d'émission avec le public autour du piano et lui, lui qui jouait si divinement, galvanisé par ce public admiratif et si proche. Un très très grand artiste.
Peu ont pu avoir une telle fortune, je suis très envieux, cziffra est mon pianiste préféré, il est un dieu du piano et de la musique, comment l’avez-vous rencontré?
Cziffra has the proper balance of soul and precision. Love him.
This piece makes me cry, even though its whismical and almost playful, its genius is so pure and musical that it just hits me on a supra-emotional level. Especially when it's played by the king of all of the virtuosi.
Well, the king of virtuosi was arguably anyone from Beethoven, Liszt, Kalkbrenner, Moscheles, Hummel, Czerny, Alkan, Thalberg, Tausig (who was by Liszt’s students reviewed as having more perfect technique than Liszt), Kocsis, Horowitz, Rachmaninov, Szimanovski, Godovski, Cziffra, Hamelin, Powell, or Pace..... all very subjective; though; all are unique at performing their own repertoire; half of the list we’ve never heard and never will.
@@vnwa7390 There are many kings hehe
It's a pretty nostalgic piece
@@SCRIABINIST Agreed
Knowing his biography, it's a miracle that he's not playing the piano, he is singing through it 🥲
I almost rage at this comment.
@@daniloapostolov-dacatv1536why? 😮😮😮😮
@@riceball4323 on he's not playing piano. I read only that first time.
My favourite perfomance.
리스트를 가장 아름답게 연주하는 사람 , 아니 리스트의 재래.. 눈물납니다.
특히 연주중의 치프라 얼굴표정에 심연의 슬픔이 느껴지고 . 그가 마음으로 연주한다는 느낌입니다
제가 가장좋아하는 리스트의 작품이고 , 치프라는 가장 좋아하는 연주가입니다 .
I love Cziffra's interpretations of Liszt. Look at his face! You know he loves this.
He's such an awesome player. It's a shame we don't hear anyone play anything like this nowadays.
I love his facial expressions! makes it seem so easy..truly one of Liszt's best interpreters!
The ending is so beautiful! The whole song is beautiful but the ending arpeggios really sound like they're being played on a harp. It's amazing how master pianists can do that!
So much emotion, perfection and talent concentrated in this genious musician. I consider myself lucky having had the privilege listening to this masterpiece.
2:49 Quelle tendresse dans le regard, montrant un véritable amour de la musique
Hey, what can I say. Liszt was at one point my favorite composer. Cziffra is still one of my pianist.
Absolutely beautiful. One of the most tranquil pieces I've ever heard
Ouch - the ending is just too good. If I was in the audience I think I would burst into tears!
You know, this man was known for the thunder and lightening of his technique but just listen to the delicacy and softness at 2.41..there really is nothing to say, except that this is extremely good music. My criteria as to whether I keep a girlfriend is if she is moved by this!
Imma die alone too bro...
@Franz Schubert u already dead
Uhm... there are girls that like that shit u know... hate to be that guy(i am lying) but the fact you are going to die alone isn't cause of music taste.
2:41
this piece definitely is one of Cziffra favorite pieces, so many of his recitals included this valse as his encore piece
Horowitz or Kissin has nothing on this one im so sorry to say that. Cziffra was considered thee best interpreter of Liszt. he actually so good that everyone literally thought he was the reincarnation of Liszt. true fact.
I'm not the only one I see! 😊
There is a massive difference when I listen to Cziffra's recordings of Liszt's works and other recording artists. I feel like Cziffra understood this music so tremendously, the balance between ferocity and gentleness, the light and the dark, where as other artists are a little too literal in their interpretation of the sheet music's instructions, and a little too focused on clarity in musical statements rather than looking at the entirety of the piece's character and what it's trying to do.
I think that thats partly because Cziffra studied at the Franz Liszt Academy and also got teached by István Thomán, who was a favourite pupil of Franz Liszt.
@@liquidhead3622 ....exactly! And to top it off, the thick and rich Magyar blood was flowing through his veins!
I think Kissin is a good example of contemporary pianism while Horowitz was extremely personal with his playing. I prefer Horowitz just as much as Cziffra but they are for different purposes and moods.
some people may prefer someone else's performance of this piece over Cziffra's but generally for this piece and everything else Cziffra has played, no one will ever come close to playing like him. i couldn't enjoy others playing a piece after i hear Cziffra play it.
"Mr Cziffra do you curl or stretch the little finger?"
"Yes."
imo the main theme of this piece is one of the most joyous in all of romantic music. Cziffra really brings out the happiness of it
This is an excellent piece, very light-hearted and playful. Cziffra plays it especially well, and you can tell he loves the piece. He even goes as far as to add his own details not originally written by Liszt (for example, the very last chord is not notated in the sheet music, but is a great touch added by Cziffra).
Precision and beauty
Everything about this performance is perfect !
Me too. I do get moved by this and proud of it.
watching his face from 2:30-2:50 you can really tell how deeply he feels the music
And he even kinda looks like oldish Liszt xDD
When Im in feeling down, his extremely beautiful pieces save my heart and then on top of the world, thank you so much for God made him on this earth.
Beautiful. The Best ever
Oh god that is simply classical piano heaven. We have 5 senses - sight, taste, touch and smell but there are few better rewards for hearing than this :-)
For those wondering if there is some kind of recording of this on other more music centered media, there is!
Album: Piano spectacular
G. Cziffra, 2019
What elegance, taste and unlimited technique!Breathtaking!
Virtuoso at his very best
@libetta He's so able, it takes about 10% of his ability to play this sublimey
This music means the world to me x
A stunning interpretation!
Thanks for posting! It is a pleasure to watch and listen to him play...
You can tell he's really enjoying himself :)
So much passion-incredible playing!!!
Prodigieux de musicalité et de virtuosité. Quel chic, quelle classe.
It might be Cziffras best performance all around, on top of this being rhe best performance of valse impromptu for sure.
he loved this piece btw, one of his favorite encore pieces, so it meant a lot to him I'm guessing
A pleasure lisztening to this :).
@libetta LOL! not even 24 hours a day would make anyone play this well and this naturally... it´s intrinsic....either you bring it from birth or you´ll never have that facility...perhaps one out of ten thousand pianists have this gift...... Cziffra certainly was THE chosen one !!! what an extraordinary artist!
Beautiful, beautiful,beautiful..... i love Cziffra. missing you....
I've never heard rubato so spot on...
The sound of genius times 10. Cziffra is in a class by himself.
A fucken GOD! I mean the sound is well balanced and the transition between the gentle and elegant but rough sounds are just fantastic.
A GREAT PIECE!! beautiful, and very well played by cziffra
A superb, graceful and stylish performance!
Beautiful playing ! cziffra is one of the best performers of liszt music :D
Thank you for sharing, so beautifully and passionately interpreted🎶💚☀️ Maestro is truly one of a kind❤️🎶✨
Certainly yes we can dream, but Liszt was certainly the best interpreter of himself, By confronting Liszt and Cziffra, I believe that it is Cziffra who would have listened. But in his old age, then yes, Cziffra would have been a true ray of sunshine for the master of the piano of Hungary. We are lucky to be in the time of CDs and records.
Cziffra is for me the peak of romantic piano interpretation.
The peak of pianistic abilities too.
this is such a lovely piece, excellent played
perfect piano perfect piano player!!!!!!!!!!!
Brilliant....Exceptional!!!!
this piece is so amazing,when i look that a hungarian genius wrote it,it sounds on a while asian and on a while european romantic,it is so magic and beautiful-plus Cziffra-gipsy hungarian genius virtuos!
He's really enjoying this....and so am I *_*
fantastic performance
Love Cziffra, he could have played for Liszt in those Weimar 'masterclasses' of the early 1880's and Liszt would have no doubt have smiled and encouraged him. And ... if he was so moved - Liszt might go to the piano and play it himself, and all would have gone home not quite believing what they had heard - and maybe write about the experience years later (see August Gollerich and the literally hundreds of others.) Wish I could have been there.
How nice is to see Cziffra enjoying his own playing :)
I just loved what he did to the last 3 chords
Nothing compares to his Liszt!
Very nice piano playing, enjoyed tremendously. Thank you. Big thumbs up. :))
Impresionante ejecución....
le plus grand pianiste du monde
Not True! Come on! Cziffra never was the greatest! Dimitri Bashkirov her teacher Anastasia Virsaladze teach saying to Bashkirov the most important lesson is the love of beautiful colorful piano sound! More colorful beautiful piano sound than Cziffra=Wilhelm Kempff Emil Gilels Radu Lupu Artur Rubinstein Vladimir Ashkenazy Grigory Sokolov! More genius than Cziffra=Sviatoslav Richter Solomon Cutner Grigory Sokolov Maurizio Pollini Stanislav Bunin Maria Grinberg Murray Perahia Alexei Lubimov Dinu Lipatti Stanislav Igolinsky! More powerful louder than Cziffra=Mikhail Pletnev! The Second Loudest ever was Lazar Berman! The 3rd Loudest was Erwin Nyiregyhazi! Beethoven wanted louder instruments piano fortes! Horowitz his technique attack better than Cziffra's technique!! Cziffra not the best genius! Cziffra not the most powerful! Cziffra not the best technique! Cziffra had not the best piano sound!!
Ma che cazzo?? Ma comè possibile di padronare lo strumento così?? È una capacità davanti la quale c'è di stare semplicemente muti, stupiti e meravigliati. Aveva un strepitoso talento conducendo la vita tragica e piùttosto drammatica. Meraviglioso Cziffra..
What was his tragedy?
@sal50811
maybe you did not know this, but during his 3 years in captivity after trying to flee hungary, cziffra was forced to do heavy work, and was tortured. the tendons of his hands were stretched during those torture sessions. in later years, cziffra used to put on a leather strip around his wrists to support his tendons while playing.
thats why i find this so absolutely beautiful and amazing. after having suffered those things, to still have such a tremendous technique.
What an astonishing performance :)
Happy & Lovely
Love the coda of this piece. It’s beautiful.
Cziffra is really a genius. A haven't seen a better performer of Liszt
His 10th transcendental etude is really good too
I've never studied piano, but I have a 88 keys keyboard and I've learned this piece at almost full speed (except for some passages, I can't find a comfortable way for the fingers), but he is on a completely different level, his interpretation is my absolute favourite, it's wonderful. I wish I could play like him!
Neokratos do not believe you
Synthesia is your friend. You would be surprised by the number of pieces I learned that way. I've been playing my keyboard for almost 20 years as an amateur. I deeply regret not having properly learned how to play in a music school, but it is too late for that now.
why don't you publish a video?
@@NE0KRATOS The accompanist for my schools choir learned piano at 65, unless you're in your late 100s its not to late to learn piano, do not use age as an excuse for laziness, it gives old people a bad rep.
Best!I wish I could press the like button more than one.
such clarity :')
Wonderful!
Pure magic!
so good‼️
Quem o ouve a 1a.vez não 0 esquece.ao ouvir as primeras notas não importa hora lugar sem dúvida arrebatara,é ele, o rei da rapsodia de liszt,Nelson freire vivalll José Serra de São Luís Maranhão .
Magnifique !
ein tolles Stück!!
Perfection!
i love it and him.........
It's such a fun piece to play
with ease one of the best technique
Amazing!!!
quel GENIE! ♥♥♥
A mi gusto zcifra interpreta en un ritmo perfecto,ni rápido ni lento.mi opinión cziffra es uno de los mejores pianistas..siempre lo veo y disfruto.
Ya man
Cziffra inmortal!!!!!!!!!!!!
What a genius: after hearing that, everyone else playing this seems to be a doughnuts sailor on the beach.