CHOPIN WALTZES 1-14 GYORGY CZIFFRA 1962 

Beautifully put.

"He has me tasting every note" - that's exactly how I feel when I hear Cziffra playing!!! ❤

TOTALLY agree!

Denis Kaplan

Bar none!

u need to listen the Arthur Rubinstein's interpretation :)

@Dilettante yeah... But for me Lipatti is a king

@@asdfasdf-gm5uk Lipatti was a metromoronic mechanical idiot!

11:05 Waltz in A minor Op.34n.1 Here the error should be corrected as follows: 11:05 Waltz in A minor Op.34n.2

@@user-sd6xg1ge4j done, thank you!

@@Sky84rm Please and thank you for your comment on Chopin's waltzes))

I LOVE YOU

Wow...very profound.

Thank you Odile - please have a look at my most recent Cziffra upload -

Totally agree with you Odile - each Waltz characterized with Cziffra's unique style.

Have a nice Sunday evening dear piano 345 .

Thank you Odile - just relaxing and listening to beautiful music.

Agreed.

I concur....forever immortal this man.

Anca Balian I agree with you totally - a personal response to every Waltz not just notes on the printed page. The light and shade and colourings he brings to these pieces is remarkable. Also at this time in his career Cziffra played a Steinway piano.

piano345 I have the 40 CD box set that contains all of his studio recordings between 1956-1986. Cziffra is the best!

MrClassicalMusic1 I have the box set too - wonderful!

piano345 Do you know which CD's are the Phillip recordings, and which are the EMI? I also have a few of his LP's.

piano345 Les enregistrement de ces Valses ont été réalisés en 1962 au Studio des Dames sur piano Gaveau, comme toute la série Phillips de 1962 et 1963. Aucun Steinway ne peut rivaliser avec la rondeur de son de ces magnifiques instruments, notamment dans les basses. Ce sont les plus belles valses de l'histoire de l'enregistrement ! Certaines des photos de ces vidéos ont été faites par Roger Pic au domicile de Cziffra à Cormeilles en Parisis (visibles sur BNF Gallica : gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b9001739w) The registration of these Waltz was made in 1962 at the Studio des Dames in Paris onGaveau piano, like all Phillips series 1962 and 1963. No Steinway can compete with the roundness of sound of these magnificent instruments, including the bass. These are the most beautiful waltzes of the history of the recording ! Some of the photos of these videos were made by Roger Pic's home Cziffra in Cormeilles en Parisis (visible in BNF Gallica:gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b9001739w)

+Odile Reneleau Yes Odile a performance full of charm, colour, character and brilliance. I hope that you enjoy my other uploads of Cziffra, Cherkassky and other favourite works.

Good evening dear Alan , always happy about all your choices ! Thanks again and again dearest !

+piano345 Later , I'll listen to Cherkassky and others !

+Odile Reneleau Many thanks Odile.

True indeed. Így van, ez nem is lehet kérdéses.

Sim - muito bonito. A wonderful pianist.

Mostly unimaginative boring critics.

You are welcome - I am happy that you enjoy my uploads.

Jeongeun Kim be with me

Please listen to my other Cziffra uploads of Chopin, Liszt and Tchaikovsky etc.

WalyB01 Yes - Rubinstein was a wonderful pianist and artist. I heard him twice play the Brahm's B flat concerto with Barbirolli and the Halle.

***** Couldn't agree more

+WalyB01 Rubinstein discovered Arrau, all pupils of pupils of Liszt

+Emiliano Dean Atran (L'haflack) Lets pupil this a bit further. Cause they were actually the pupils of pupils of the pupil of Czerny, how incidentally was a pupil of Beethoven, who was a pupil of Haydn. Lest just say Haydn ws the boss, but their was no doubt about that.

WalyB01 Yes but the fact that Liszt was their grand master and not other pupils of Czerny is what makes their sense of technique so good. I have trained under a pupil of Cziffra, and what I've been shown is what Liszt has shown next geberation with his bear hands. I have the Cziffra's fingering on the Chopin Etudes...=) (and no-one else does muahahaha except for like 10 souls in the universe)

+Erika Pollák You might be surprised to know that when this recording was first reviewed by one well known magazine in 1962 it received negative comments. The critic said that Cziffra 'invented counter subjects' and that the playing was,'mannered.' So much for insensitive unmusical reviewers.

+Erika Pollák ehi, nice to meet you. I'm from Italy and my last name is the same as yours. you're welcome.

+piano345 thank You. It is interesting. I think he plays so differently from the others, mainly at that periode. His interpretation is not "classic", sure, but very strong. Those people who had the chance to be at his concerts saying that he had an extreme radience, force what they could feel. He almost never struck a false note and was able to play the impossible. He played during many years in bars under the communist repression. Once a famous pianist went to hear Cziffra, entering, he asked: " But where is the seconde pianiste? " He was the only one...The music is somthing very personal, I feel the message of Cziffra.

agreed, only Glenn Gould can achieve that sound too.

Glenn, strangely enough, really didn't like music. He was more like that guy in "Rain Man". A savant ... and really not a ...... God bless him where ever he is. CVD

Critics often have a fixed idea about how certain pieces should be played. They leave out imagination, individuality and style. Photocopy artists often please critics but Cziffra was never that dull. How fortunate we are to have great artists such as Cziffra, Horowitz and Cherkassky et al

Euro Oscar Sorry I had to remove these Waltzes for copyright reasons.

ok, thanks, I understand.

I had to remove some Waltzes because of copyright issues - sorry.

Recorded in 1962. Received negative reviews at the same time as the Etudes Op. 10 and 25 were praised.

Yes of course. One of my favourite pianists.

Not better or worse but different. That's why interpretation is so interesting.

@@piano345 Which one do you prefer

Horowitz knew he couldn't really play Chopin. He said his fingers turned into glass and then began to brake. Horowitz couldn't sustain the emotional control related to the full content of most of Chopin's major works. Few actually can. Ivan Moravec did. In fact, I'm not so sure, Ivan Moravec wasn't Chopin (reincarnated) . Interesting comment. Thanks, CVD

Classical Music Remixes 432hz Rubinstein version his boring, only "élégante"

+piano345 Of course my dear Alan !

Oh good i thought i was the only one LOL