HA! exactly! He is just looking for another opportunity to worship Cziffra in another thread. I tell you, the guy's obsessed!
1 - i got the cziffra EMI DVD as soon as it came out, and i realised just how f*cking awesome his chopin is, and just how INSANE his LH octz were.3 - the legendary koji sourced LIVE RECS, which are often 10 times as good as his studio recs, i remember being particularly floored by the TOTENTANZ, and his grieg concerto renewed my interest in the piece's possibilities
4 - the improv recordings i have obtained, which truly are the most stunning things i have ever heard come out of a piano.
I have that EMI DVD and enjoy it also. I really liked his performance of Gnomenreigen. (spelling?) The Chopin was ok I guess. But I also really enjoyed the HR and the Franck.About those live recordings of the Totentanz and the Grieg, where can I find them?Thanks.
ill upload an improv laterbut first, here is my fave cziffra recording of all, and id venture to say this is my favourite piano recording of all timehttps://s56.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0HLPG5AAE2D9R0QYB6VTUWKA4D
Cziffra was the first man ah ever watched play piano who gave me a boner. ah wasn't his looks. Just his playing was so *** sexy. ah had to take a shower after watching his gnomenreigen. ah was making love with the speakers when I first heard his Transcendental appassionata.Ah'd kiss the man, had Ah the opportunity to meet him.Yes, Ah am a hetersexual male.
hahah you sho?
Czriffra sucks. He could play anything, but he was bad at everything. He just forgot that there was music beneath the notes on the page. Entertaining to watch, but you couldn't pay me to listen to it for more than a minute.
Just curious.....Does anyone here have a recording of Cziffras version of Flight of the Bumblebee??? I saw the sheet music on someones web-site and it has me very curious as to see how good he was at arranging (sort of). If anyone has a recording, I would love to hear it. I haven't heard any of his recordings.
yep, i have that too, INSANE playing, i mean literally INSANE, randomly.i also have a couple more unreleased jazz improv recs.
I love Cziffra.but I find his op 10 no 4 far too slow for my taste.
which rec?
There is talk of Cziffra the jazz pianist, for instance Tamas Vasary's recollection in the "Art of the Piano" vid; does anyone have any recorded examples of this facet of his playing, or know where to find it? Ah would like to know....
Any chance anyone can upload the recordings of Cziffras Flight of the Bumblebee... Any recording is fine... I'm dying to hear the difference...
I live in more than one musical world, I play classical and jazz piano. I was interested to hear Cziffra's jazz to see if it was real or just a classical pianist screwing around with jazz as an amusement. Well, Cziffra was a jazz pianist, not a faker. The only faults are that his swing feeling could be more swinging but he makes up for it with his own Czardas style of stride swing; and after all self expression and individuality are a big part of jazz, and he has these in abundance.
He was clearly influenced by Tatum, who he exceeds in digital dexterity but not in jazz style, and suprisingly Cziffra's LH was not as astonishing as I though it would be in jazz. But this is looking for spots on the sun...
Cziffra is as or more inventive than many modern jazz pianists; his renditions of "Sophisticated Lady" "Blue Skies" "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" and "Honeysuckle Rose" look back to the 1930's but are very modern in conception, frequently avoiding tonality or obscuring it ala Cecil Taylor or Lennie Tristano.
Oh yeah, the technique ... scary . He seems to enjoy a certain Tatum device, that of passagework running up or down in a wall of sound on a transitional or "weak" harmonic progression, followed by a restatement of the tune. What he does with this is astonishing, it's like Tatum with 3 or 4 hands.
true, but his 80s rec is very slow compared tobhis previous recs, i have one from the 40s i think, at around 1 46 or so, and the famous 50s rec - part of the complete set - comes in at 1 40