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György Cziffra (Georges Cziffra) - Cziffra Plays Chopin (2021/2024) Music

Posted by delpotro at March 22, 2024

György Cziffra (Georges Cziffra) - Cziffra Plays Chopin (2021/2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 1,17 Gb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 668 Mb | 04:49:39
Classical | Label: Warner Classics, Erato Records

If the name of György Cziffra remains unswervingly associated with Liszt, Frédéric Chopin’s music was the pianist’s true love from his very childhood. Cziffra’s mastery and sensitivity works wonders, either in the waltzes, the impromptus, the études or the first piano concerto conducted by his son, all gathered in this superb collection.

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Georges Cziffra - Frédéric Chopin: Waltzes, Impromptus (2002) Music

Posted by ArlegZ at Jan. 6, 2021

Back in the fifties my music master took me to the Royal Festival Hall to hear Georges Cziffra. This momentous occasion was as much a political event as a musical one. Having recently breached the 'iron curtain' in a dramatic escape to the West from his native Hungary (where he had recently been imprisoned) in the aftermath of the 1956 revolution, the press had hyped him up into a newly discovered world class virtuoso cum freedom fighter. He fell into the role with much aplomb.

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György Cziffra (Georges Cziffra) - Cziffra Plays Beethoven, Schumann & Brahms (2024) Music

Posted by delpotro at June 14, 2024

György Cziffra (Georges Cziffra) - Cziffra Plays Beethoven, Schumann & Brahms (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 661 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 445 Mb | 03:12:39
Classical | Label: Warner Classics, Erato Records

This album contains 57 tracks/3 hours and 13 minutes of masterpieces by Georges Cziffra. Brahms: Hungarian Dances (arranged by Cziffra), Schumann: Carnival, Toccata, Symphonic Etudes, Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 8 "Pathetique", No. 21 "Waldstein", No. 23 "Appassionata", and more. Recorded 1956-1983.

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Great Pianists: Gulda, Backhaus, Serkin, Cherkassky, Berman, Gilels, Anda, Małcużyński, Cziffra, Canino [10CDs] (2005) Music

Posted by ArlegZ at June 16, 2022

This 10 CD set offers 11 live recitals given by 10 famous pianists in Switzerland from 1953 to 1993. Each pianist is credited by a single CD. Only Backhaus CD contains fragments from two different programs (1953 and 1960), all the other pianists are represented by a single program.

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György Cziffra - The Masters Collection: György Cziffra (2019) Music

Posted by Pisulik at Jan. 4, 2019

György Cziffra - The Masters Collection: György Cziffra (2019)
WEB FLAC (Tracks) - 862 MB | Digital Booklet | 03:43:52
Classical, Piano | Label: Hungaroton

The Masters Collection compiles the iconic recordings of some of the most renowned artists of Hungaroton. The collection features recordings which define an oeuvre, a specific era and which will be an unforgettable experience for all listeners. Gyorgy Cziffra is hailed as one of the most remarkable pianists of the 20th century. His aastounding technique, artistic approach, and impassioned interpretations have earned him widespread acclaim. His effortless, almost ethereal virtuosity, his brilliant 16th and 32nd rhythms and superb ornamental passages render him one of the last representatives of the Great Classics of the 19th century.

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Georges Cziffra - Cziffra Plays Liszt (2021) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Oct. 31, 2021

Georges Cziffra - Cziffra Plays Liszt (2021)
FLAC tracks | 4:29:53 | 820 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Warner Classics

The name of Georges Cziffra is unswervingly linked to Franz Liszt, an exiled Hungarian as he was himself. Cziffra was a passionate and tireless advocate of Liszt’s music, which he would record and tour all along his career: in 1956, having just fled the repression in Budapest, Cziffra won the French public’s heart performing the first concerto. This compilation gathers the most beautiful of Cziffra’s many Liszt recordings, from absolute hits such as the Hungarian Rhapsodies, to the Études d’exécution transcendante, and the piano concertos, both being digital premieres (under the batons of Pierre Dervaux and André Vandernoot respectively).

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György Cziffra - Chopin: Piano Works (2019) Music

Posted by varrock at April 6, 2019

György Cziffra - Chopin: Piano Works (2019)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 616 MB | Tracks: 39 | 149:15 min
Style: Classical | Label: Urania Records

The present release presents one of the twentieth century’s most virtuosic performers in a programme of works by Chopin. The noted Hungarian-born French pianist, Georges Cziffra, was a son of Hungarian Romas. He became noted at the age of 5, improvising on popular tunes in bars and circuses. His teachers at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest included Ern? Dohnányi. His education was interrupted by World War II, when he served in the Hungarian army. After the war he continued his studies at the Franz Liszt Academy with Ferenczi, but was once more distracted from music when he was arrested in 1950 for his rebellious political views, and was held under forced labor. He was released from jail in 1953, but was again endangered by the abortive Hungarian revolt in 1956. He went on to escape with his wife and son to Vienna, where his career skyrocketed. He became best known for his interpretations of works of the Romantic repertoire, most notably those of Liszt, Chopin, and Schumann.

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Georges Cziffra - Cziffra Plays Chopin (2021) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Jan. 2, 2022

Georges Cziffra - Cziffra Plays Chopin (2021)
FLAC tracks | 2:57:45 | 725 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Warner Classics

If the name of György Cziffra remains unswervingly associated with Liszt, Frédéric Chopin’s music was the pianist’s true love from his very childhood. Cziffra’s mastery and sensitivity works wonders, either in the waltzes, the impromptus, the études or the first piano concerto conducted by his son, all gathered in this superb collection.

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György Cziffra - Portrait: Cziffra Plays Liszt (2022) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Sept. 24, 2022

György Cziffra - Portrait: Cziffra Plays Liszt (2022)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 2:10:31 | 492 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Urania Records

György Cziffra was one of the most celebrated and individual piano virtuosos of the postwar decades in Europe, especially noted for his powers of improvisation and as a Liszt pianist. He was born in a shantytown called Angels Court on the outskirts of Budapest to a family of gypsy musicians. The family was desperately poor, and ultimately both his father and a sister died of starvation. He learned piano by watching an older sister's lessons. By the age of five, he was improvising requests from the audience at a circus. At ten, he was sent to the conservatory in Budapest.

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György Cziffra, Andre Vandernoot, Philharmonia Orchestra - Liszt: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 by György Cziffra (2023) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at May 31, 2023

György Cziffra, Andre Vandernoot, Philharmonia Orchestra - Liszt: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 by György Cziffra (2023)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 1:10:27 | 160 / 314 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label:Alexandre Bak - Classical Music Reference Recording

yörgy Cziffra was one of the most celebrated and individual piano virtuosos of the postwar decades in Europe, especially noted for his powers of improvisation and as a Liszt pianist. He was born in a shantytown called Angels Court on the outskirts of Budapest to a family of gypsy musicians. The family was desperately poor, and ultimately both his father and a sister died of starvation. He learned piano by watching an older sister's lessons. By the age of five, he was improvising requests from the audience at a circus. At ten, he was sent to the conservatory in Budapest. He was able to stay there only briefly, taking lessons from György Ferenczi and composition with Ernst von Dohnányi, supporting himself playing in nightclubs. He began to establish a recital career in Hungary, Holland, and Sweden. He married Zuleika shortly before he was drafted into the Hungarian army in 1941.

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