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| 1. No. 2 in C sharp minor |
| 2. No. 6 in D flat major |
| 3. No. 8 in F sharp minor (Capriccio) |
| 4. No. 9 in E flat major (Carnival in Pest) |
| 5. No. 10 in E major (Preludio) |
| 6. No. 11 in A minor |
| 7. No. 12 in C sharp minor |
| 8. No. 13 in A minor |
| 9. No. 14 in F minor |
| 10. No. 15 in A minor (Rákóczy) |
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CZIFFRA - Hungarian Rhapsodizing.,
By A Customer
This review is from: Liszt - Hungarian Dances Nos. 2, 6 & 8-15 (Audio CD)
This selection of Liszt's exciting Hungarian Rhapsodies is a re-packaging of EMI's 1997 'Centenary Bestsellers' but with the addition of Rhapsodies No: 8, 10, & 11 [all recorded between 1972-1975]. It is now re-issued as part of EMI's 'Great Recordings of the Century' edition. Way back in 1956 with the first issue in the West of an LP of the Hungarian Rhapsodies No: 2, 6,12 & 15 [Rakoczy March] Cziffra's phenomenal pianism first took the musical world by storm and for a short time at least made the names of Rubinstein & Horowitz et al pale into insignificance. Here was a no holds barred authentic virtuoso - a descendant of the 'Golden Age of Pianism' - a pianist of temperament and sheer style that set the keyboard alight with fiery passion and poetry in equal measure. At times it seemed as if the pianist, piano, or both would spontaneously combust. 'Greater than Horowitz' ran one of the reviews - 'he has the precision of a metronome with the electrical discharge of a thunderstorm'. Cziffra went on to complete his recording of the Rhapsodies [1-15 plus the Rhapsodie espangnole] at the Salle Wagram in Paris in 1957. This now legendary recording[Rouge et Noir] has rarely been equalled let alone surpassed. With Cziffra we can take the astounding virtuosity for granted but here there is also a transcendental variety of touch, tone and nuance where hardly two bars are the same. Just listen to the sadness of the funeral lament in No: 5 in E minor and contrast this with the dazzling finger work of No: 8 'Cappriccio' or the fantastically delicate gypsy 'cimbalom' tremolandos in No: 11 in A minor. The double octaves in No: 15 'Marche de Rackoczy' are mind - blowing and the Rhapsodie Espangnole receives one of its greatest performances ever. Could Cziffra ever hope to improve on this his first version of Liszt's Rhapsodies or find anything new to say about them? I think that is asking the impossible; however, in the selection under review it is obvious that in the 1970's Cziffra had lost none of his technical facility; infact the virtuosity is still as spellbinding as ever although some of the delicacy and the kaleidoscopic variety of touch are not so much in evidence. The infamous 'Tom & Jerry' second Rhapsody is just as hair-raising as ever and although Cziffra isn't quite so fearless as he was in 'live' performances he still goes at the 'Friska' with all guns blazing; his famous crescendos and diminuendos within the bar giving a very agitated effect. No: 8 'Capriccio' has that wonderful requisite improvisatory feeling and the brilliant cadenza-like scale passages are tossed off with great abandonment. Rhapsody No: 9 'Carnaval in Pesth' has some of Cziffra's unique 'foot stamping' accents. The music soars ecstatically like a man possessed and after Cziffra has played the main themes final return with triumphant grandeur the coda sounds as if someone has thrown a lighted match into a box of fireworks, such is the pyrotechnical display. All in all then this CD is a 'Great Recording of the Century' and a fitting tribute to Cziffra - perhaps the greatest virtuoso since Liszt.
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