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Topic: Video of Cziffra playing his own transcriptions  (Read 1732 times)

Offline sevencircles

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Are there any videorecordings of Cziffra playing  Fantaisie Roumaine, Rigoletto, Paraphrase De Concert or Improvisation Sur Les Themes De Guillaume Tell ?

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Re: Video of Cziffra playing his own transcriptions
Reply #1 on: May 06, 2007, 07:20:14 PM
Just the BBC warmup improvisation is widely available, but besdes the most comon ones, some AWESOME vids are to be found here -

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Re: Video of Cziffra playing his own transcriptions
Reply #2 on: May 07, 2007, 12:21:12 PM
Checked the videos and the pianos were so out of tune in some of the videos that I can´t understand how would want Cziffra would play on them.

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Re: Video of Cziffra playing his own transcriptions
Reply #3 on: May 07, 2007, 02:47:46 PM
It's not the pianos, but the bad quality of the recordings that make them sound out of tune. Sadly it is so much that I am unable to watch most of the videos.
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