It was something like a dream, a marvellous dream ... he played 9th transcendental tudy and Barcalrolle by Chopin ... if I remember correctly, it was announced that he would play the first mephisto waltz by Liszt (or the second Rhapsody by Liszt) ... he came and said he was really too tired but he agreed to play something more and it was that piece !!!
Insane! He's just getting faster and faster! 😮 This is wild even compared to his other performances of this piece! Cziffra could make anything sound epic and is a true BAMF!
Desde que lo vi por primera vez tuve la sensación de que Cziffra era la viva reencarnación de Liszt. No tengo argumentos, podría haber pensado en otro gran pianista como Chopin, pero no es así. Siento que fue el mismísimo Franz Liszt. Si alguien más tuvo esa sensación déjemelo saber.
This was hard to watch, nothing wrong with his playing- just that I could see grief manifest so transparently in his face and hear it transformed in the music.
He's having so much fun, but when he performs with pain and intensity, it is very believable as well. Cziffra is not only incredible talented, but is also mature and extremely virtuosic. This is deliciously post modern and perfectly suits the music and art post WWII. It's angry, it's sad, it's passionate, it's desperate, and it is pure self expression.
I love the constant high arch presentation of his hands…. HIS technique is legendary. Here in this piece he shows his creative and interpretive side: Liszt did not know his compositions could be played so well. On a different tangent… what would Liszt say about playing a modern BOSENDORFER 😃🥹😆😇
Good example of the "ego dissolution" in a true artist. His soul is wide open and unprotected with nothing but the piano. Cziffra is one of the most undervalued and overcritized pianist of the past.
