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Gyorgy Cziffra - Virtuoso - Liszt, Ravel, Saint-Saëns, Bach, Rossini, Mendelssohn, Balakirev, Bizet, Schumann, Dohnányi, Chopin / EMI Classics 2x Audio CD 2000 Stereo
UPC 724357378024
!!! Condition of CD is OPEN BOX - LIKE NEW !!!
Christian Georges Cziffra (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈɟørɟ ˈt͡sifrɒ]; born Cziffra Krisztián György; 5 November 1921 – 15 January 1994) was a Hungarian-French virtuoso pianist and composer. He is considered to be one of the greatest virtuoso pianists of the twentieth century. Among his teachers was István Thomán, who was a favourite pupil of Franz Liszt.
Born in Budapest, he became a French citizen in 1968. Cziffra is known for his recordings of works of Franz Liszt, Frédéric Chopin and Robert Schumann, and also for his technically demanding arrangements or paraphrases of several orchestral works for the piano, including Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee and Johann Strauss II's The Blue Danube.
Cziffra left a sizeable body of recordings. In recent years, dozens of private recordings from various sources have surfaced online, on YouTube. The non-profit short-run record label Zenith Classical is in the process of making Cziffra's private recordings available on CD.
He died in Senlis in 1994 aged 72.
| Label: | EMI Classics – 724357378124 |
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| Format: |
2 x CD, Compilation
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| Country: | France |
| Released: |
2000 |
| Genre: | Classical |
| Style: | Baroque, Romantic, Impressionist |
Tracklist:
| 1-2 | Rhadsodie Hongroise No 2 En Ut Dièse Mineur |
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9:01
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| 1-2 | Mephisto-Valse En La Majeur |
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12:02
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| 1-3 | Sur Le 104o Sonnet De Pétrarch |
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5:41
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| 1-4 | Chasse-Neige, Etude D'exécution Transcendante No 12 En Si Bémol Mineur |
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5:35
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| 1-5 | Appassionata, Etude D'exécution Transcendante No 10 En Fa Mineur |
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4:56
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| 1-6 | Funérailles, Harmonies Poètiques Et Religieuses, No 7 |
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11:54
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| 1-7 | La Campanella, Grande Étude De Paganini No 6 |
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4:09
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| 1-8 | Jeux D'eau À La Villa D'Este, Années De Pélerinage, III: L'Italie |
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6:14
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| 1-9 | Jeux D'eau |
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5:23
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| 1-10 | Toccata, Extr. Du Tombeau De Couperin |
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4:05
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| 1-11 | Etude En Forme De Valse, Op. 52 No 6 |
| 6:37 | ||
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Prélude & Fugue En Ré Majeur, BWV 532 |
| 2-1 | Prélude | 4:49 | |
| 2-2 | Fugue | 6:10 | |
| 2-3 | La Danza |
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3:13
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| 2-4 | Andante & Rondo Capriccioso |
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6:14
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| 2-5 | Scherzo, Extr. Du Songe D'une Nuit D'été |
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4:46
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| 2-6 | Islamey |
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8:20
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| 2-7 | Menuet, Extr. De L'Arlésienne |
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3:22
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| 2-8 | Toccata En Ut Majeur, Op. 7 |
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4:50
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| 2-9 | Capriccio En Fa Mineur, Op. 28 |
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2:20
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| 2-10 | Ballade No 4 En Fa Mineur, Op. 52 |
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10:06
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| 2-11 | Etude En Fa Mineur, Op. 25 No 2 |
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1:25
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| 2-12 | Etude En La Bémol Majeur, Op. 25 No 1 |
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2:37
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| 2-13 | Etude En La Bémol Majeur, Op. 10 No 10 |
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2:18
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| 2-14 | Impromptu No 1 En La Bémol Majeur, Op. 29 |
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3:46
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| 2-15 | Scherzo No 2 En Si Bémol Mineur, Op. 31 |
| 9:38 |
