Cziffra - the people's Pianist. Not a hint of haughtiness or snobbery, just pure kindness, poetry and soul. Our lovely, noble Maestro.

@voraciousreader3341

2 жыл бұрын

Everything you say is true, and is true despite more suffering, hardships, and misfortunes than the large majority of musicians have ever faced, which culminated in the horrific death of his son (and only child) in an apartment fire. I’m so glad that Cziffra enjoyed so much financial success and public support and adoration from his audiences and peers, bc he was truly a most remarkable man and artist!

@ivanatodorovic8073

2 жыл бұрын

@@voraciousreader3341 Thank you for the complementary words to my spontaneous notion, that’s how I really feel about Cziffra. Some of the unimaginable sufferings he endured in his youth, whose shadows quietly weave certain moments of melancholy that can be seen with the sympathetic eye, to me become tragic when I remember him so fragile and silent after the death of his son. There were great musicians who were not at the same height of their talents as human beings. I live long enough that I'm not surprised by that dichotomy in human nature, not even saddened, not anymore. Cziffra was a musical genius and the most tender human being.

@user-ui8qf8df2u

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely true - hands of iron and a heart of gold.

Cziffra is clearly one of the most resilient people I’ve ever read about! Just get an idea of the unbelievable barriers he had to overcome from childhood by reading his Wikipedia article, and you’ll understand what I mean! It’s amazing that he was ever able to formally studied the piano at all, bc his parents were so poor, and you can see the leather band to support his right wrist after it was damaged in a Hungarian labor camp after WWII. As I look at his beautiful piano in a beautiful room in a gorgeous home, I think to myself that very few people deserve such things more than Cziffra!

@Chopin-Etudes-Cosplay

28 күн бұрын

His autobiography is free online and one of the best books I’ve ever read. You are totally right that his story is unbelievable and he deserves only the best after all that he went through!

I am nearly 70 years old. I knew his name in decades past, but only now have I truly discovered this beautiful artist.

There's plenty of virtuoso pianists these days, but not many have achieved the individual style of guys like Cziffra. To take a piece like grand galop chromatique and play it in such a way that no one has ever come close to rivalling, with the freedom to improvise and embellish the score in a way that's not contrived, but simply the result of putting personality to the notes. As he does with many other liszt pieces. One of a kind!

@alainspiteri502

11 ай бұрын

In the " Crand Galop ' there is France Clidat listen her , unknown j can write great Lizst also !

21:18 "We don't have to seek happiness, happiness is here, around us, inside of us"

11:35 Yes cziffra was such a great man that we could watch him just walk around for one and a half minutes straight

@Dylonely42

9 ай бұрын

Indeed.

Appears (and sounds) effortless. Have not ever heard Schumann’s Symphonic Études played like this. Wow.

Milyen jó, hogy felvették, hogy megmaradt, hogy hallható-látható! épp tegnap volt a 100. születésnapjának emlékére koncert a Müpában.

He had a Jaguar Mk2!! Classy man

@georgeantipov7870

2 жыл бұрын

Deserved!!!

True magician - Cziffra makes everything look so easy! He's so inspiring......

@dominiqueemeriaud2760

6 жыл бұрын

vova47 k

Величайший пианист нашего времени! Добрая,вечная память живёт в его музыке. Спасибо.

so underrated. I don't play the piano, I have listen and deeply appreciate classical music. Never in my life that i heard a pianist play like him. Truly unique.

@voraciousreader3341

2 жыл бұрын

No. Cziffra was NOT underrated; you just didn’t know about him! To be underrated, he would have to have played in obscurity during his lifetime and afterward. Instead, he was internationally celebrated, even lionized, as a classical pianist and a jazz pianist, especially after his final escape from Hungary with his wife and son in 1956. As you can see from this film, his financial success is documented by his huge, beautiful home and his very pricey Jaguar, and still he remained humble and unassuming despite the respect he respect he received from famous musicians and composers such as Marcel Dupre. I won’t go into his life any more, although it is also fascinating in terms of all of the terrible difficulties he faced from childhood onward, but the 100th anniversary of his birth was recently celebrated internationally....all you have to do is look him up online to see that he isn’t underrated at all!

@bludika

Жыл бұрын

he's never been underrated...he's known as one of the greatest virtuoso pianists that has ever lived....

I have seen things now, i can never go back... This is beyond

@pianosenzanima1

3 жыл бұрын

hahahaha indeed

Most abszolút nem gondolok arra rá hogy magyar vagyok hiszen Cziffra György Szerintem a világ legjobb zongoristája volt és az is marad A jó isten nyugtassa őt békében

@sziszi050

Жыл бұрын

Az ilyen virtuóz zseniknek nem is szabadna meghalniuk, hogy minden élő, élőben élvezhesse a zongorajátékát. Mindemellett nagyon kellemes modorát, szerénységét.

Passionnant de voir un tel artiste au travail...Merci ❤

Merçi M. Cziffra pour tout ce que vous avez apporté à la France . A cette chapelle St Frambourg j'y ai vécu des moments inoubliables . Merçi pour cette vidéo

@Will78137

2 жыл бұрын

Vous avez de la chance, j'habitais Chantilly dans les années 2000 et j'ai eu l'occasion de parler à sa femme. Etant fan de Lizst je me rendais souvent à cette chapelle. J'aurais tellement aimé rencontré cet artiste exceptionnel. Savez-vous à tout hasard ou ils habitaient à Senlis ? je me suis souvent posé la question ...

É impossível esquecer este genial pianista. Ficaria horas sem fim , sem fim a ouvi-lo! Como Liszt adoraria ouvi-lo! Deve ser mesmo a reencarnação do próprio Liszt!

Thank you very much for this genuine rarity. Thank you also to MELOCLASSIC for their wonderful film clips of Cziffra. Cziffra is like an addiction for me. Let's hope there are still more treasures hidden away in the French and Hungarian archives.

It is the only video where you can see (10:30) Cziffra playing (in a fantastic way ) Rapsodie Espagnole by Liszt! Thank you

@nihilistlemon1995

3 жыл бұрын

He goes so fast you can't really see it tho hahahaha

@Abuelitaofhvms

3 жыл бұрын

But dam those octaves

@loxpower

3 жыл бұрын

he's playing on a f**king upright piano my God!!! How's that even possibile...

@KenWangpiano

11 ай бұрын

@@loxpower Holy crap! I just realized that. That's absolutely insane

This man is my idol and I have been devoting a lot of my time to the piano thanks to him. So glad to see this video.

@soozb15

Жыл бұрын

Cziffra was amazing. Isn't it wonderful that these recordings endure, to inspire people to play the piano? His countryman Zoltán Kocsis has been my inspiration.

Magnifique cette chapelle , il faut aller la voir . J'y ai vécu des moments inoubliables . Merçi mille fois cher Maître .Je suis heureuse car avec les enregistrements je suis dans le bonheur chaque jour qui passe de ma vie . Le plus grand bonheur de ma vie fut de pouvoir vous écouter jouer et de vous suivre dans bon nombres de concerts

This man is wonderful, thanks for this video, fabulous💗❣❤💗💗💗

Un homme d'une grande bonté, qui donne envie de jouer de la musique. Je l'aime beaucoup, l'homme comme l'artiste.

@Will78137

2 жыл бұрын

Oh que oui un homme au grand coeur trop souvent réduit à sa technique pianistique hors du commun. C'était bien plus que cela Cziffra et certaines de ses interprétations étaient remarquables car empreintes d'un romantisme et d'une sensibilité à fleur de peau. J'ai eu l'occasion de parler à sa femme à Senlis, que n'aurais-je donné pour échanger et écouter cet homme

Incredible. His fingers are like a blur up & down the keyboard

What a force.... I'm convinced that "muscle memory" is a crutch that those with inferior brain speed, memory, and recall must employ. Watching Cziffra play is mesmerizing.

@alwaysacomplicatedaffair2407

4 жыл бұрын

Nofer Trunions It’s not that simple

@NoferTrunions

4 жыл бұрын

@@alwaysacomplicatedaffair2407 But I can say from personal experience it is so with me. EXAMPLE 1: I can play scale crossovers extremely fast when small groups of notes, even 7 notes with a crossover in the middle. But I fail to "reset" for the next crossover quick enough. EXAMPLE 2: I can only sight read so fast with Beethoven probably the easiest. EXAMPLE 3: I can rip a simple 1 thru 5 piece of a scale at correct speed (very fast) and I simply cannot hear the individual notes. NOTE: Interesting phenom with typing: I learned to touch type in high school (without a doubt, most useful course I ever took - maybe in all my education). I quickly learned to type "words" and not "letters". My "vocabulary" has become so great and enhanced with "groups" of letters that I rarely type a "letter." But it has come Full Circle: I have begun to forget where the "letters" are. So to find one, the quickest way is to recall a "word" with that "letter". And yes, I type a "word" as a "single motion" - so I think my "words" have become Muscle Memory.

@alwaysacomplicatedaffair2407

4 жыл бұрын

Nofer Trunions I think you just illustrated what I mean: it’s not that “muscle memory is a crutch” it’s just that the more experience you have with the keyboard, the more specific your muscle memory is. For instance instead of having memory for just one melody in a given key, you have played so many different lines in that key that you have a muscle memory for almost every single minute transition from any one note to any other, and therefore a really observable display of muscle memory seems to recede, but in actuality you have a MORE extensive amount of muscle memory, not less. I think that’s an important distinction, but maybe I’m being semantic. Anyway I’m sure you’re far more experienced than me, but I’m trying to be more fluid and improvisational, so I’ve been thinking about this a lot :)

@NoferTrunions

4 жыл бұрын

@@alwaysacomplicatedaffair2407 I understand what you're saying. I was thinking about my issues, I've learned small "memorization" segments, many up to speed, but I am terrible at transitioning from one to the next - takes my mind an extreme amount of tie to "switch gears." RUSSIAN SCALES drive me nuts so that is what I practice: transitioning to and from contrary motion is a major stumbling block even though I can play motions fast - and these are scales: structures I should have down cold! NOTE: from the violin camp, I'm also playing scales in 10ths instead of octaves too. (Russian 10ths are quite the exercise!)

@alwaysacomplicatedaffair2407

4 жыл бұрын

Nofer Trunions I’ve started doing those as well as canon scales/chords recently, it’s tough! Do you practice improvisation also?

Merci beaucoup pour ces videos. Je suis très toujours ému de revoir ce cher Georges Cziffra qui m'a tant émerveillé.

Thank you so much for sharing!

I was 14 years old when my dearest mother had me write a letter to him. I told her that we didn't know his address! She said... just address to Gyorgy Cziffra Famous Pianist, Paris France. I got a post card from him about a month later. So sad that I lost it!! He wrote, Sok szeretettel , György Cziffra... what a marvelous signature!!

@KenWangpiano

11 ай бұрын

What a lovely and sad story at the same time. At least you have the memories!

@Dylonely42

9 ай бұрын

Wow !

MERCI À CE GÉNIE EXCEPTIONNEL! JAMAIS NE MEURT L'AMOUR. ---

thank you so much for this!!

Thanks for the wonderful upload!!

Thank you for sharing this with us! :D

Thank you for posting

Thank you for posting this!!! Incredible, and most I haven't seen before. Blessings.

And I naively thought I watched them all!!! THANK YOU! I do not want to say that it is the best recording of this piece... There are many excellent ones. But there is no one like Chiffra's. Thanks!

thank you!!

Frightening! Just frightening1 Thank you for posting.

The sound of genius times 10.

I wish I could see him playing the complete Faust Waltz and Paganini Variations…

Завдяки інтернету довелось познайомитись з цим чудовим піаністом з такою драматичною долею. Але зміг подолати всі негаразди. Браво!

Merci beaucoup pour ce vidéo très prenant voire même très poignant !

Does anyone have him playing any of the Liszt Piano Concerti? I heard him do the Totentanz of Liszt and it was mind blowing. Thanks for this upload. Huge fan of Maestro Cziffra. He makes everything 'sing'....

Thank you for sharing it!!!!!!:_))))))))))))))

je ne l'avais pas encore vu , quel bonheur pourtant je faisais parti de la fondation . je suis heureuse .

Mãos leves, dedos ágeis, sensibilidade. exatidão sem ser mecânico, sem dúvida um gênio do piano.

Que maravilla!! Gracias

Thanks

@vine2197

3 жыл бұрын

Denada ojalá te haya servido

um verdadeiro gênio......monstro do piano. Sensibilidade sobrenatural.

@Whaijorhujishkomunyk

3 жыл бұрын

Esse cara foi Liszt encarnado

We tend to forget that artists such as Gyorgy Cziffra are MORE than human. They are quasi-divine beings who have taken on a physical garment we call a body and which perhaps other cultures call a re-incarnation(s). These are advanced souls whose appearance on earth is a manifestation of a spiritual mission, the purposes and goals which are not obvious to others who are observers of these great, noble, and heroic souls. I have always believed,, via my intuition, that the soul and spirit of Franz Liszt came back (reincarnated) again into a Hungarian Roma ethnic individual to uplift the Roma peoples by having one of their own Roma citizens manifest enormous artistic musical talents via the instrument of the piano. Cziffra via the soul, spirit and heart of Franz Liszt, ( who manifested as a type of "saviour" for the ethnic hungarian peoples) demonstrated, by his enormous quasi-divine musical gifts, that humans like Cziffra have spiritual goals and a mission to be accomplished by their earthly but temporary existence. By achieving what he, Cziffra achieved, we, as humans on this planet, can believe what the Lord Saviour Jesus The Christ told us "even greater things than these shall you accomplish."

Cziffra at 9:49 : “hmm thats a pretty neat progression I just came up with” XD

@blonda.bacoviana

3 жыл бұрын

And his hands! They stopped looking human at some point.

@pianosenzanima1

3 жыл бұрын

@@blonda.bacoviana IKR!!!

@pianosenzanima1

3 жыл бұрын

@Felis Skalkotris Sorabjitus always and forever.

@vine2197

3 жыл бұрын

XD

@charlesthomas5956

5 ай бұрын

And then it turned into Spanish Rhapsody XD

I am finished. Thank you.

@pjbpiano

Жыл бұрын

No more words need to be said after.

@ 13:13 we could just as easily be looking at Liszt himself circa 1840..

i am absolutely haunted by his virtuosity at rehearsal and exemplary mankind;

Of the greats... he's probably my favorite

Merci

I'm so glad I can speak french

small thing impresses me, but this is out of this world.

Man that spanish rhap...*chef's kiss

So from 16:12 the journalist explain that Cziffra had dislocated his shoulder and will not play Mephisto waltz... so in that video, that's him playing with a dislocated shoulder😂. Even with 20 fingers I would not even play half of a quarter as well as him! That man was so resilient! 🔥 That's why Yuja Wang or any other pianist who want to play like him today will have the 8 hours of practice but not the will and the life that is feeding his music!

Gigante.

Legend himself.

Don't worry, beginner pianists, the pieces in here are eeeeeeasy. ;)

there will never be another cziffra haha

@pianosenzanima1

5 жыл бұрын

Yup. Don’t think so.

@jackmarentette1302

4 жыл бұрын

pianosenzanima I think so

Cziffra qui parle français, bon dieu ! Que c'est beau !

@Felix_Li_En

2 жыл бұрын

Certainement ! Il a obtenu la nationalité française en 1968.

@voraciousreader3341

2 жыл бұрын

Cziffra’s parents, who were Romani, lived in and were expelled from Paris as “enemy aliens” prior to WWII. Despite this, he became a French citizen in 1968. He spoke several languages.

À 7.00 dans le deuxième vidéo, il me semble reconnaître la voix du narrateur, serait-ce BERNARD GAVOTY ? Le texte est magnifique .Merci pour tous ces vidéos de l'un des plus grand pianiste du XX ième siècle .

Hello, could someone tell me what's the final piece of the video ? (piano & orchestra 26:50) Thank you really much for your responses :)

@blezz9715

6 жыл бұрын

Mark L. Ferrer Thank you !!

at 13'36 I bet he was starting the Liszt Etude in F minor. Hands'position is quite typical :)

@PianoJFAudioSheet

9 ай бұрын

Yes, he was! Here's the video: kzread.info/dash/bejne/fX99o9OIhM7Mfrw.html

Does the Ravel’s Jeux d’eau video played at 20:07 exist un full ? Thank you !

@user-ui8qf8df2u

5 жыл бұрын

Chopin's impromptu no.2, which seems like the other part of the his Jeux d'eau exists on youtube, but unfotunately hard to find full version. Hope to be uploaded in youtube or else soon.

Thanks for sharing. Do you know if Mr. Cziffra ever played the kreisleriana? Thanks again.

@pianisthenics

11 ай бұрын

I’ve never heard him with Kreisleriana and have never seen it on any of his concert programs.

Please add some english or russian subtitles

Track list please anyone ☺

Неумолимо время. Короток человеческий век. Такие величины уходят... Архивный материал, сохранивший потрясающую виртуозную игру Дьёрдь Цифры - венгерского и французского пианиста.

this is like when Cziffra has a youtube account.

@FranzLiszt0904

Жыл бұрын

hello me from almost a year ago

@collinm.4652

Жыл бұрын

@@FranzLiszt0904 epic

so did he just basically look at it and once and then he has it mastered?

@wolfpsx6210

6 жыл бұрын

Of course not..

Great video! But I don't understand French......would be good to have English subtitles!

What is he playing at the 5 minute mark?

It was Cziffra and the others...

Can anyone translate what he is talking about before practicing Symphonique Etudes?

@caleblauber1441

3 жыл бұрын

No. I like the way you look when you’re confused!

à 4:40 il me semble que c'est sa maison à Cormeilles en parisis près de Paris. Cette maison sera rachetée au début 1980 par Bernard Tapie.

did he lose a lot of weight in his later days, during the period when he played the Paganini Variations he was in a bigger size

@pjbpiano

Жыл бұрын

Most humans seem to do so.

Virtuóz.

What is the sound of the minute called 18:37 ??

@GuntherWolfen

2 жыл бұрын

It's one of Liszt's Trancedental Etudes, "Apassionata", in F minor

what is it he's playing at 15:00? anyone know❓

@witsukyai1685

3 жыл бұрын

Brahms variations in a theme by Paganini

@png866

3 жыл бұрын

@@witsukyai1685 thankyou!

Cziffra videos raros buscar

what is it he's playing at 1:13? anyone know?

@vova47

7 жыл бұрын

yutternutterbutter - part of one of the Symphonic Etudes by Schumann. He explains the difficulties bringing out the different parts of left and right hands together.

@liebestraum_

5 жыл бұрын

Posthumous variation I - Andante, Tempo del tema

What is he playing at 20:05 and at 22:25? Thanks for sharing if someone knows.

@piano1500

7 жыл бұрын

20:05 - Ravel "Jeux d'eau" 22:25 - Not sure yet

@db7sib7m

7 жыл бұрын

The Maiden's Wish, a Chopin's lied that has been transcripted for piano by Liszt

@HOUSEfulsoul

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you two, two wonders he is playing there;-)

@micheldavid6139

6 жыл бұрын

sonatine de Maurice Ravel et souhait d'une jeune fille de Chopin

What's that on his wrist at 13:48?

@CatkhosruShapurrjiFurabji

3 жыл бұрын

It's a wrist band, he uses it because of a ligament tear. He got the tear because he was tortured in a prison in Gulag after facing the Soviet Partisans, he supported the Axis powers through Hungarian military...

@vine2197

3 жыл бұрын

@@CatkhosruShapurrjiFurabji p

@voraciousreader3341

2 жыл бұрын

@@CatkhosruShapurrjiFurabji While it’s true that Cziffra originally fought with Germany against the Russians on the Eastern Front, he and many other soldiers were ignorant about Nazi war crimes. He learned enough to desert and was captured by the Russians, spending the rest of the war in a Russian prison camp. He sustained his wrist injury after he was captured as tried to escape communist Hungary in 1950 bc of government abuses; he was in a labor camp until 1953 and severely damaged ligaments in his right wrist from being forced to carry 130 pounds of concrete up six flights of stairs. He, with his wife and son, finally escaped Hungary in 1956.

Can somebody put subtitles in English, please! :(

@pianosenzanima1

4 жыл бұрын

I only understand like half of what he says, I want to understand every single word he says, please...

The dude is so fast that in 10:30 , I can't see how he does the octaves lmaaooo

@gergelycsuzi8763

2 жыл бұрын

Not a Dude, Maestro! Respect him. I am also Hungarian like him, and very proud of it. Respect!

Whats the name of this piece? 10:31

@Epdos

3 жыл бұрын

Spanish rhapsody

@vine2197

3 жыл бұрын

@@Epdos tru

21:20

For all biginners-pianist , take a good look at the position of the hand : the hand accompagnies the fingers , it's the fingers that push the keys and not and not the weight of the hand pressing the keys , very important great mistake of biginners pianists on Y Tube ; also the hand is above the keyboard , the thumb also biginners pianists play often thumb out of the Key-board ; no better with Cziffra to understand what j mean

8:25 ...

@Whaijorhujishkomunyk

3 жыл бұрын

It was Cziffra.. and the others. I just want it

@vine2197

3 жыл бұрын

@@Whaijorhujishkomunyk hi

@ValzainLumivix

2 жыл бұрын

Ok

Is it hungarian he is speaking

@sziszi050

Жыл бұрын

Természetesen. Családon belül mindig. Egy másik portré filmben ez kiderült.

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although a great pianist he seems to have a braggadocio smirk all the time as if 'look at me' i don't find all his interpretations convincing as he seems to add a bit of his showmanship to the score unlike marc andre hamelin whom i find a much more humble and erudite pianist and with a dare i say better technical and mental grasp of the music also playing relatively unknown composers works far exceeding difficulty of the time worn classics that cziffra et al plays

@wolfpsx6210

6 жыл бұрын

This is art, not sports, there's no need for a ranking list.. I'd also have to disagree with your claim of Hamelin not adding his own to compositions.

@gaborcsordas

6 жыл бұрын

it's your preference. Hamelin sometimes sounds boring, Cziffra sometimes too "gypsy". They have a different technique. Hamelin is very soft and even, extremely controlled to the point of boredom, Cziffra has a more aggressive and dynamic touch, which is sometimes getting in the way of the melodical aspect.

@marcelmombeek5247

6 жыл бұрын

I also find hamelin extremely boring... i think you like cziffra much or you dislike him

@gaborcsordas

6 жыл бұрын

actually the piece that made Hamelin really famous was his extended cadenza on the 2nd Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody, which is pure showmanship.

@pianosenzanima1

5 жыл бұрын

I will just say this: the life that Cziffra had...out of curiosity, have you ever bothered to read his memoirs? Actually I will say one more thing, Hamelin ( and Co.) plays like an aristocrat, as someone who lived all his life at the palace. Cziffra, the son of a nobody fucking gypsy cymbalom player, who lived WAR, DEATH, forced labour for 2 years in prison (I wish you to try 1 month of forced labour, the kind of which he experienced, 1 month, talk after about your experience, ok?) extreme poverty and away from his country, yet he achieved levels of playing that Hamelin and Co. will never even dream to accomplish. He always played like his life was at stake and it is my belief that he will be always immortal through his legacy, just like Liszt. In 100 years Cziffra will have statues all over, while Hamelin and Co. will long be forgotten.

For any professional pianist, this is God. Or Liszt reincarnated.