What do you mean by playing it with two hands xd, that at least explains why it felt so hard to play it with only one hand. This comment is not meant to brag about my skills, that part sucks when I play it with one hand, I just never knew it was possible to play it with both hands, I will try it next time I am re-learning this rhapsody, thanks for enlightenment.
@@tomowenpianochannel Everything he did became his specialty! That he was ever able to play again with his right hand after what he endured, I do not know….what guts this man had, in addition to his epic musicality! He endured such pain and heartache in his life, from the beginning through to the end.
Liszt as a travelling virtuoso had felt a temperamental affinity with the wandering gypsy settlers of his native land, Hungary. His aim in writing a series of Hungarian Rhapsodies was to preserve in permanent form some of the wild melodies he'd heard the gypsies play. Cziffra ends his recital with one of the most exciting and difficult of the Rhapsodies.
@@Ace-dv5ce Na, I couldn't be bothered to come up with my own fancy essay bout some dude's greatness. But I'd waste a good portion of my day trying to transcribe a person talking with a decently thick accent and mediocre audio quality.
New videos: Everything else: 99.9 percent Talent: almost none I mean Live performance: suck AutoTune: 100000000000000000000000000% Midi post editing: infinite
To me, Cziffra always makes Liszt sound exciting and fun, with a fair dose of danger, and the unexpected! The chances he takes - so wild and daring! And the slow sections are so tender, too. He is the perfect Liszt performer, imo. He had it all.
also Actually the right answer. Liszt was constantly evolving, constantly writing new pieces, and the Hungarian Rhapsodies went through many versions (previously Magyar Rhapsodiak), so they are the essence of improvisation and jazz, they could also be chamber music with double bass, violin, drum and piano, similar to a jazz quartet.
Cziffra played that music as it should be. Many others, including Argerich played it, there’s no one like Cziffra. Go to Hungary and listen to the local music and you’ll hear that no one plays the slow parts as musically as Cziffra does. Listen to 2:18 many great technicians fail to capture the true spirit of the music
@@zsuzsannakovacs1116 But Barere played such monster pieces as the Godowsky Passacaglia, that requires both a massive technique and great musicality. His Liszt Sonata is unmatched. Cziffra was mainly flash.
His RH cadenzas are out of this world; and the double octaves (LH supporting RH) in the last section, at that speed, are unbelievable. What a performer Liszt must have been!
Cziffra was actually the Pianist Whom His teacher Actually said Sounded like Franz Liszt Himself (One of His teachers Was taught by Liszt Himself And actually was a favorite student Of the composer) And further took on Cziffra for a period of years I'm not sure if anyone here Is aware of that...
After 6:30 I thought he was going to break the piano in half. They say Liszt broke plenty of strings, I think Lizst played like this. AMAZING Czyffra !!!
Actually liszt only broke on piano. In Ireland the movers dropped his Erard grand into a bog, so he had to play a square Thompson piano designed for accompaniments rather than concert performances and it couldn't take the force.
I just love this artist and his epic talent and musicality, which he managed to hone and regain despite absolutely heartbreaking circumstances in his life. My heart breaks and soars when I hear him play.
@@wnsbug I need to check them out then. I also just wanted to say my comment left a bad taste in my mouth, and I think it was a bit unecessary. On another note, YOU RESPONDED AFTER 11 YEARS!? wow Edit: he looks kind of crazy and there are so few videos of him that I am wondering if I fell for a joke, were you being serious? Or were you messing with me? Edit 2: I think you were messing with me (;
@@wnsbug I listened to Liszt rhapsody by Kastle, is good but nothing special. Considering that he has basically no classical repertoire, he shouldn't even be put in any list.
Это грандиозно!!! И ,есть ли какие то ,правильные слова ,которыми можно было бы оценить этот невероятный талант Циффра . Браво! Спасибо ,что делитесь такими шедеврами!
I wished i knew the notation he used from 1:40-1:50. I think it was beautiful. So what if it's not the way others believe it should be. Only the best can play at this level. He earned the right to do it his way.
@@jesemepardens9151 Argerich played this way too safe and starts off boring. Grynyuk is impressive, but he's just playing the piece, that's all he did... he didn't really immerse the piece like Cziffra did here.
@@mazeppa1231 no, argerich's hr6 didin't star safe and boring, reverse, it stared with so much energy and passion by her part. also, argerich captures the spirit of the piece, even if u don't want to accept it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I love this spontaneous playing. his cimbalom effects are different from the 'live' French performance also on this site. terrific octaves. exciting as Liszt Rhapsodies should be.
What Cziffra does at 6:35 makes this interpretation unique from others, because the sheet music asks that the left hand jump between the chord and bass octave.. However, Cziffra adds in the extra bass melody as well, and still keeps the pace!
@@niccolopaganini4268 what I meant is that in the second last display of the main theme regarding the baseline, usually the octave jump is met with a small (there's no other way to put this lmao) Du du Du and then bang the octave ( bang Du du Du bang Du du Du) and the last reiteration of the melody is supposed to be just (Bang Du Bang Du bang Du) [I bet I sound a bit crazy a this point lol] However when I listen closely, Cziffra in the last reiteration still does (bang Du du Du) whilst keeping the faster pace in the base (im sorry) ua-cam.com/video/Z3V2g5kqdM4/v-deo.html This is another, more clear recording of his playing. Of course I could be wrong, but I don't just hear the simple two step leaps that others play in the baseline
I believe some of Rosseau's performance is actually inspired by Cziffra's performance. Most notably 6:02, this is very identical to what Rosseau does. Both are splendid pianists. It's almost as if Rosseau is some sort of robot for how good he is, yet his pieces have so much style and flair to them which draw him to the human side.
it looks like his fingers just live on their own.I wish I could have fingers like that.flying over the piano with such a confedence. like liszt's hands were reborn in cziffra...hahaha
You people that negatively criticize this performance are trying to turn art into science, GIVE IT UP! This performance was incredible. Apparently with hyper critical piano critics perfection is in the eye of the beholder; though I think a lot of people would agree with me and say that there really isn't a perfect performance, so leave it alone. :)
What did you mean cheat? Your supposed to play every black note octave with 1-4. And if your good enough like Cziffra, he can do 1-4 on white notes perfectly also, (and faster). When I used to play this piece, I would play it slower then build up to presto. But Cziffra does like double presto lol
If somebody...some scholar or musicologist...tries to question Liszt's Hungarian nationality, they're morons lol. I have been convinced that Liszt's 'percussive' approach to the piano is something distinctly Hungarian. You don't have to look into his family background, etc. to find out. Go look at other Hungarian pianists - Kocsis, Nyireghazi, CziffraTheThird, Peter Bence...they ALL have that rhythmic sound!
All the improvisation is great, too bad it's not at all practiced by today's pianists. I think it really adds a lot of excitement to a piece like this.
reductivecat: you have made some excellent points. It's all preference people. Why compare anyway? Enjoy what you like. Live and let live. Rachmaninoff once said that Moiseivitsch played his music even better than he himself did.
Is, not 'has'. Something wrong with you? Forgotten how to respect another language? Nice try at trolling. Now go back to your sad little pathetic bitter life.
If you want to listen to a "master record" just search for one. You can find enough. Its special and uniqui because he was Cziffra. Just listen how he gives the real hungarian gypsy effects in the piece. That is why its so goooood.:)
So much heart on sleeve! Cziffra at 1.38 plays the first cadenza impossibly well with RH only! then doubles down the LH surge up several times. Perhaps he loved this this moment so much - little trills and shifts in harmony suddenly lead to an almost unrivalled explosion of virtuosity, colour and sound. 1.50 onwards - Cziffra plays 2nd little dance section with flair. But he omits the repeat. Not sure the 2nd section adds anything at all to the 1st... 2.13: Cziffra emotes fully in 3rd section; wonderful sense of improvisation. There is a massive RH run at 3.36 which expands the moment again... fully Lisztian 4.37 again Cziffra unleashes an impossible RH for the next cadenza (two hands make this easier)! 5.30 to end (4th section); hyperspeed octaves, beyond belief. In this video you can see however that Cziffra alternates the RH octave fingering between 1-5 and 1-4, essential to make it through this extended passage. Can't pretend to approach Cziffra's technique but agree with decision to shorten 2nd section, in fact cut - interferes with the flow of this immensely enjoyable piece. ua-cam.com/video/pCkm0uk-1o0/v-deo.html
In the 1930es, as a wunderkind, Cziffra was taught piano, among others, by an old master, Istvan Thoman, who, in turn, had been the student (and pallbearer) of the old Liszt himself. And it shows.
Это про № 6 венгррапс Листа. Не возразить: исполнение прекрасное. И что особенно: левая рука звучит так как требует композитор. Т.е. совершенство в норме присутствует, брак отсутствует.
@itsjustnopinionok well a lot of liszts rhapsodies are improvisational in nature esp runs like that one so Cziffra was just doing something quite natural. I think it sounds great.
@MEPLUSMEEQUALSME I think that conventionally, you usually use that particularly with black notes - 4 plays black keys, 5 plays white keys. Quite helpful.
![Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6, S. 244 [Horowitz 1947]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/BZnW3Y70dl0/mqdefault.jpg)
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4:37 absolutely love how, unlike any other pianist, cziffra choses to play that part with only one hand, such a flex of his amazing technique
What's funny though is that he hated the word "technique".
@@aozorah05 idk il go with dexterity then
Totally agree, although reckon Cziffra made this a speciality
What do you mean by playing it with two hands xd, that at least explains why it felt so hard to play it with only one hand. This comment is not meant to brag about my skills, that part sucks when I play it with one hand, I just never knew it was possible to play it with both hands, I will try it next time I am re-learning this rhapsody, thanks for enlightenment.
@@tomowenpianochannel Everything he did became his specialty! That he was ever able to play again with his right hand after what he endured, I do not know….what guts this man had, in addition to his epic musicality! He endured such pain and heartache in his life, from the beginning through to the end.
I just love watching Cziffra play - there's nothing as beautiful as someone who loves the music. You can just feel that he does.
How are you, my friend? It's been 13 years.
@@ckchang-wg2lw damn he is part of some of the oldest comments of UA-cam really... first ever UA-cam comment was in 2005
@@Ethan-ib5hk Jesus that’s the same year it was made right?
I was born when you made your first yt comment 🤣
That is true with every second!
Liszt as a travelling virtuoso had felt a temperamental affinity with the wandering gypsy settlers of his native land, Hungary. His aim in writing a series of Hungarian Rhapsodies was to preserve in permanent form some of the wild melodies he'd heard the gypsies play. Cziffra ends his recital with one of the most exciting and difficult of the Rhapsodies.
thank you for captions.
@@despaiirx5487 Cheers mate, took me forever to figure out exactly what he was saying.
@@thenotsookayguy Lol I thought you were doing a random speech about Liszt
@@Ace-dv5ce Na, I couldn't be bothered to come up with my own fancy essay bout some dude's greatness. But I'd waste a good portion of my day trying to transcribe a person talking with a decently thick accent and mediocre audio quality.
@@thenotsookayguy strange, I seemed to understand perfectly well, maybe it’s the accent 🤷♂️
Old videos:
Video Quality: 10%
Sound Quality: 80%
Talent: 100000000000000000000000000000000000%
New videos:
Everything else: 99.9 percent
Talent: almost none
I mean
Live performance: suck
AutoTune: 100000000000000000000000000%
Midi post editing: infinite
The "talent" does not exist, it's an impression, only work matters.
To me, Cziffra always makes Liszt sound exciting and fun, with a fair dose of danger, and the unexpected! The chances he takes - so wild and daring! And the slow sections are so tender, too. He is the perfect Liszt performer, imo. He had it all.
This is so clean, it's almost too perfect.
I love how Cziffra uses Liszt's score as the starting point for his interpretation. Breathtaking.
Yes, kinda like a little-known pianist by the name of Horowitz.....
@@sparkydogsparky2992yeah. Horowitz is 100% little-known.
P.s. of course not! Cziffra is less popular than him! What are you talking about?
also
Actually the right answer. Liszt was constantly evolving, constantly writing new pieces, and the Hungarian Rhapsodies went through many versions (previously Magyar Rhapsodiak), so they are the essence of improvisation and jazz, they could also be chamber music with double bass, violin, drum and piano, similar to a jazz quartet.
He made it like a beginner-level piece for him, look so easy and effortless hahaha. Superhuman pianist. Bravo!
i loves how he switchin finger is from 1-5 ,1-4 feels so nice
Feels so nice to see
That's how I play it. lol
my teacher suggest me to do it like this, feels strange
its actually hard to do that , it depends on ur hand span
if ur handspan is good it is ok
if not then its not ezy at all
Agree
The best performance of Hungarian rhapsody no. 6 no one can beat this!
check out his performance in the live 1964 recital. The best of all!
I like Martha Argerich version better.
I feel like her ending lacks the same energy Cziffra has
Martha Argerich.
Those octaves are cleaner than heaven.
Cziffra - one of the history's giant here proves it!
Perfection!
Simon Barere had a greater technique.
Cziffra played that music as it should be. Many others, including Argerich played it, there’s no one like Cziffra. Go to Hungary and listen to the local music and you’ll hear that no one plays the slow parts as musically as Cziffra does. Listen to 2:18 many great technicians fail to capture the true spirit of the music
@@zsuzsannakovacs1116 But Barere played such monster pieces as the Godowsky Passacaglia, that requires both a massive technique and great musicality. His Liszt Sonata is unmatched. Cziffra was mainly flash.
@@franksmith541 you changed the topic. I was referring to Rhapsody #6. Unquestionably there’s no one like him.
@@franksmith541 You talk about music like sport, Cziffra had something else to give than pure virtuosity...
The strength Cziffra has in his 4th & 5th RH just blows me away. An absolute class act
His RH cadenzas are out of this world; and the double octaves (LH supporting RH) in the last section, at that speed, are unbelievable. What a performer Liszt must have been!
How are those octave runs even physically possible. That's the most insane piece of piano playing I've ever watched.
Go watch volodos Hungarian rhapsody 13 and 15 lol
You have to work out your wrist muscles to play those notes that quickly. His hands were a blur in that section.
I was able to reborn by his performance of this tune when he played in Tokyo in 1964. I am extremely grateful to him.
lol, i have to perform this piece next week, and watching this made me feel like a piece of... crap.
It's been 13 years. I wonder how good you must be playing now. 🤔
Raj Sadaye 😂😂👍
Bhim Sen Hansda Bruh he might’ve stopped using UA-cam. He could be gone forever. 13 years is a long-ass time
Calamity In Action if you’re 13, yea
@@kevinhartmemes3821 😂😂😂
I LOVE YOU CZIFFRA.
MORE CZIFFRA!!!
I CANT HAVE ENOUGH OF YOU
popololopopolo you still active on this account
Are u alive? 😳
@@Alin71718 Yes.
@@simpyoungyuk3885 No one asked you.
@@nazomius7033 Do I care? Also, no one asked you, too.
impossible to count how many times i rewatched this masterpiece....
No wonder nineteenth century audiences were utterly astounded. Still impressive.
He is superhuman.No question about e that.And we have him on film,amazing.
OH my goodness. He's doing for 4-5 on those repeated octaves! That's insane!!!
Il massimo dell'interpretazione di questo difficile brano
This is only way to play it fast with ease.
You’re right, I never noticed that before.. Holy shit
@@FutureAbe that's how you play octaves though...
Dude! This is really hard to do!
Cziffra was actually the Pianist
Whom His teacher
Actually said Sounded like
Franz Liszt Himself
(One of His teachers
Was taught by Liszt Himself
And actually was a favorite student
Of the composer)
And further took on Cziffra for a period of years
I'm not sure if anyone here
Is aware of that...
Good comment... there is a connection for sure, although Liszt was many things at many times.
After 6:30 I thought he was going to break the piano in half. They say Liszt broke plenty of strings, I think Lizst played like this. AMAZING Czyffra !!!
Makers' techniques improved hugely because of him.
Actually liszt only broke on piano. In Ireland the movers dropped his Erard grand into a bog, so he had to play a square Thompson piano designed for accompaniments rather than concert performances and it couldn't take the force.
He’s the greatest that ever played
And Liszt himself I suppose
What a brilliant virtuoso and refined musician!
This is my favorite piece ever because its so epic.
I just love this artist and his epic talent and musicality, which he managed to hone and regain despite absolutely heartbreaking circumstances in his life. My heart breaks and soars when I hear him play.
This is raw talent!!!!!
You can just tell he really enjoys what he's playing, nothing more beautiful than that.
i will argue that he was the greatest pianist in all of history.
You could argue that he was the greatest technichian, but greatest interpreter is entirely subjective.
@@jameslorenz3718 the greatest technician is Richard Kastle! 🤯
@@wnsbug I need to check them out then. I also just wanted to say my comment left a bad taste in my mouth, and I think it was a bit unecessary. On another note, YOU RESPONDED AFTER 11 YEARS!? wow
Edit: he looks kind of crazy and there are so few videos of him that I am wondering if I fell for a joke, were you being serious? Or were you messing with me? Edit 2: I think you were messing with me (;
@@jameslorenz3718 i pride myself on quick replies.
And yea Mr Kastle is a god isn’t he?! Lang Lang is a joke compared to him!
@@wnsbug I listened to Liszt rhapsody by Kastle, is good but nothing special. Considering that he has basically no classical repertoire, he shouldn't even be put in any list.
Это грандиозно!!! И ,есть ли какие то ,правильные слова ,которыми можно было бы оценить этот невероятный талант Циффра . Браво! Спасибо ,что делитесь такими шедеврами!
I wished i knew the notation he used from 1:40-1:50. I think it was beautiful. So what if it's not the way others believe it should be. Only the best can play at this level. He earned the right to do it his way.
WOOW!!! That's impossible (or even not), he starts the octaves with highspeed 120 and goes up to 130!!! I can't have enough of cziffra...
Go check Argerich or Grynyuk on this rhapsody, they play even faster those octaves.
@@jesemepardens9151 Argerich played this way too safe and starts off boring. Grynyuk is impressive, but he's just playing the piece, that's all he did... he didn't really immerse the piece like Cziffra did here.
The octaves...awesome!!
There is no better performer than this man right here for almost anything Liszt.
argerich
@@nozomi696 Argerich's HR 6 started off safe and boring. Cziffra is so much better and more exciting. He even captures the spirit of the piece.
@@mazeppa1231 no, argerich's hr6 didin't star safe and boring, reverse, it stared with so much energy and passion by her part. also, argerich captures the spirit of the piece, even if u don't want to accept it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
yes.
its good to be cziffra plays every thing
That was breathtaking! His skill with octaves is amazing!
His skill with every piano technique that exists is amazing
I love this spontaneous playing. his cimbalom effects are different from the 'live' French performance also on this site. terrific octaves. exciting as Liszt Rhapsodies should be.
What Cziffra does at 6:35 makes this interpretation unique from others, because the sheet music asks that the left hand jump between the chord and bass octave.. However, Cziffra adds in the extra bass melody as well, and still keeps the pace!
He doesn't add any melody, but he plays the jumps one octave apart as in the score which is extremely hard
@@niccolopaganini4268 what I meant is that in the second last display of the main theme regarding the baseline, usually the octave jump is met with a small (there's no other way to put this lmao) Du du Du and then bang the octave ( bang Du du Du bang Du du Du) and the last reiteration of the melody is supposed to be just (Bang Du Bang Du bang Du) [I bet I sound a bit crazy a this point lol]
However when I listen closely, Cziffra in the last reiteration still does (bang Du du Du) whilst keeping the faster pace in the base (im sorry) ua-cam.com/video/Z3V2g5kqdM4/v-deo.html
This is another, more clear recording of his playing. Of course I could be wrong, but I don't just hear the simple two step leaps that others play in the baseline
It’s not my favorite recording, but wow, I have never heard the faster section played like a dance before.
What is your favorite racording of Hr 6?
Kofi ljunggren - Has to be Martha Argerich. I love that Cziffra is very straight to the point here, but Argerich’s build up is fantastic.
Thats true
Friska you mean.
MyNameIs3ama - I wasn’t aware there was a term for the fast sections. Thanks! Makes the listening more interesting.
Cziffra- wonderful playing.
6:57 The Last Chord is from Cziffra, and Rousseau did it!! 🤣
There is something known as inspiration!
I believe some of Rosseau's performance is actually inspired by Cziffra's performance. Most notably 6:02, this is very identical to what Rosseau does. Both are splendid pianists. It's almost as if Rosseau is some sort of robot for how good he is, yet his pieces have so much style and flair to them which draw him to the human side.
6:52 to 6:57 is BRILLIANT!
@Schuyler Bacn ok
6:43 Best musician ever!
I’ve never heard anybody play this better than Cziffra-this is only my opinion-it isn’t just virtuosity, it’s consummate musicality.
FINALLY! I found the version where they play the extra notes 6:01. Apart from Rousseau of course.
I really love those extra notes
Ok
it looks like his fingers just live on their own.I wish I could have fingers like that.flying over the piano with such a confedence. like liszt's hands were reborn in cziffra...hahaha
I even think Cziffra might be better than Liszt technically
5:29 and onward always makes me so happy fsr. Not just the music, but the video as well. Even the framing helps lol.
Egi csoda cziffra gyorgy, soha senkit nem hallottam igy jatszani ,,, koszonom
A virtuoso performance, by all means.
You people that negatively criticize this performance are trying to turn art into science, GIVE IT UP! This performance was incredible. Apparently with hyper critical piano critics perfection is in the eye of the beholder; though I think a lot of people would agree with me and say that there really isn't a perfect performance, so leave it alone. :)
semplicemente una meraviglia!!!!!!!
I'm playing this piece for a competition. The octaves are the BEST part!
how did it go?
Mans better have won
Simply impressive 💕
A unique, skilled and elegant musician
What did you mean cheat? Your supposed to play every black note octave with 1-4. And if your good enough like Cziffra, he can do 1-4 on white notes perfectly also, (and faster). When I used to play this piece, I would play it slower then build up to presto. But Cziffra does like double presto lol
Ok
@@Mereaux Ok
@@Mereauxagree
Amazing😂😂😂
I'll listen this video again and again!
Now I know where Rosseau got his octave part from
6:05
beautiful tune miraculously played and looks very difficult
If somebody...some scholar or musicologist...tries to question Liszt's Hungarian nationality, they're morons lol. I have been convinced that Liszt's 'percussive' approach to the piano is something distinctly Hungarian. You don't have to look into his family background, etc. to find out. Go look at other Hungarian pianists - Kocsis, Nyireghazi, CziffraTheThird, Peter Bence...they ALL have that rhythmic sound!
A GREAT PERFORMANCE.
Those hands move like a tarantula
Phenomenal. We have posted the entire recital on our channel.
Great!
All the improvisation is great, too bad it's not at all practiced by today's pianists. I think it really adds a lot of excitement to a piece like this.
This is the way Liszt would have played it.
Well, he's the student of Liszt's student afterall...
Search up Roseau’s rendition of this. I’m sure you’ll be pleased!
@@789armstrong Exactly
@@micheldraybi3159 Wow?
"With these four cords, even you can play this piece after only three months of using this revolutionary new method"
I play the way I play. This song has feeling and depth...not just play as fast as you can. If you like that, then like I said before to each his own.
Tottaly agreed
here is what we (hungarians) were, and what we will be again soon, hopefully
reductivecat: you have made some excellent points.
It's all preference people. Why compare anyway? Enjoy what you like. Live and let live. Rachmaninoff once said that Moiseivitsch played his music even better than he himself did.
He has the greatest pianist ever
Is, not 'has'. Something wrong with you? Forgotten how to respect another language? Nice try at trolling. Now go back to your sad little pathetic bitter life.
I love how the friska theme in octaves looks as easy to him as the theme with single notes.
i like his improv-ish section at 1:37+
and his ending haha
beyond9001 That’s called a cadenza, and I think it sounds good as well
Calamity In Action same
It was Cziffra, and the others.
5:38 his right hand looks like an alien spider devouring its victim happily. And he's only looking at his left hand.
He’s looking at his left hand because there are jumps and chords that have to be done correctly, while the right hand mostly does scales.
Damn I enjoy Cziffra a lot. If we only had perfect audios...
BEST EVER VERSION
If you want to listen to a "master record" just search for one. You can find enough. Its special and uniqui because he was Cziffra. Just listen how he gives the real hungarian gypsy effects in the piece. That is why its so goooood.:)
神
神
神
Quelle rêve !!! 🥰😍🤩
So much heart on sleeve!
Cziffra at 1.38 plays the first cadenza impossibly well with RH only! then doubles down the LH surge up several times. Perhaps he loved this this moment so much - little trills and shifts in harmony suddenly lead to an almost unrivalled explosion of virtuosity, colour and sound.
1.50 onwards - Cziffra plays 2nd little dance section with flair. But he omits the repeat. Not sure the 2nd section adds anything at all to the 1st...
2.13: Cziffra emotes fully in 3rd section; wonderful sense of improvisation. There is a massive RH run at 3.36 which expands the moment again... fully Lisztian
4.37 again Cziffra unleashes an impossible RH for the next cadenza (two hands make this easier)!
5.30 to end (4th section); hyperspeed octaves, beyond belief. In this video you can see however that Cziffra alternates the RH octave fingering between 1-5 and 1-4, essential to make it through this extended passage.
Can't pretend to approach Cziffra's technique but agree with decision to shorten 2nd section, in fact cut - interferes with the flow of this immensely enjoyable piece.
ua-cam.com/video/pCkm0uk-1o0/v-deo.html
I'm convinced that Cziffra is a reincarnation of Liszt.
I think his teacher's teacher was liszt. So 2 generations away from liszt
alucinanteeee!!!!!!
In the 1930es, as a wunderkind, Cziffra was taught piano, among others, by an old master, Istvan Thoman, who, in turn, had been the student (and pallbearer) of the old Liszt himself. And it shows.
Это про № 6 венгррапс Листа. Не возразить: исполнение прекрасное. И что особенно: левая рука звучит так как требует композитор. Т.е. совершенство в норме присутствует, брак отсутствует.
The cadenza starting at approximately 1:40 blows me away.
wow, just wow
Amazing
4:57 Just marking for myself
@itsjustnopinionok well a lot of liszts rhapsodies are improvisational in nature esp runs like that one so Cziffra was just doing something quite natural. I think it sounds great.
i like the piece its good
5:30 Can't believe he's doing 5-4-5-4 for the repeated octaves 😳
can't believe no one's talking about the lassan, every performance he plays it uniquely.
5:30～右オクターブ345指で引き分けている。6:20～左オクターヴもキレイに入っている。コーダはおまけに一音多く弾いてサービスしている。貴重な映像。
omg...that looks like it would kill the wrist >.
he was lang lang's inspiration for that hand-raise after the piece.
Besides, since 4th finger is longer, when playing octaves on black keys, you can hold thekeys easier.
@MEPLUSMEEQUALSME I think that conventionally, you usually use that particularly with black notes - 4 plays black keys, 5 plays white keys. Quite helpful.
I love the trill at 01:32
je suis sans paroles.......trop beau....
His hands were just like *SNAP* !!!
great