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 Format: 2 x CD, Compilation Country: France Released: 2000 Genre: Classical Style: Baroque, Romantic, Impressionist Tracklist: 1-2 Rhadsodie Hongroise No 2 En Ut Dièse Mineur Composed By – Franz Liszt 9:01 1-2 Mephisto-Valse En La Majeur Composed By – Franz Liszt 12:02 1-3 Sur Le 104o Sonnet De Pétrarch Composed By – Franz Liszt 5:41 1-4 Chasse-Neige, Etude D'exécution Transcendante No 12 En Si Bémol Mineur Composed By – Franz Liszt 5:35 1-5 Appassionata, Etude D'exécution Transcendante No 10 En Fa Mineur Composed By – Franz Liszt 4:56 1-6 Funérailles, Harmonies Poètiques Et Religieuses, No 7 Composed By – Franz Liszt 11:54 1-7 La Campanella, Grande Étude De Paganini No 6 Composed By – Franz Liszt 4:09 1-8 Jeux D'eau À La Villa D'Este, Années De Pélerinage, III: L'Italie Composed By – Franz Liszt 6:14 1-9 Jeux D'eau Composed By – Maurice Ravel 5:23 1-10 Toccata, Extr. Du Tombeau De Couperin Composed By – Maurice Ravel 4:05 1-11 Etude En Forme De Valse, Op. 52 No 6 Composed By – Camille Saint-Saëns 6:37 Prélude & Fugue En Ré Majeur, BWV 532 Composed By – Johann Sebastian Bach 2-1 Prélude 4:49 2-2 Fugue 6:10 2-3 La Danza Arranged By – Gyorgy Cziffra Composed By – Gioacchino Rossini 3:13 2-4 Andante & Rondo Capriccioso Composed By – Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy 6:14 2-5 Scherzo, Extr. Du Songe D'une Nuit D'été Arranged By – Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff Composed By – Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy 4:46 2-6 Islamey Arranged By – Gyorgy Cziffra Composed By – Mily Balakirev 8:20 2-7 Menuet, Extr. De L'Arlésienne Arranged By – Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff Composed By – Georges Bizet 3:22 2-8 Toccata En Ut Majeur, Op. 7 Composed By – Robert Schumann 4:50 2-9 Capriccio En Fa Mineur, Op. 28 Composed By – Ernst von Dohnányi 2:20 2-10 Ballade No 4 En Fa Mineur, Op. 52 Composed By – Frédéric Chopin 10:06 2-11 Etude En Fa Mineur, Op. 25 No 2 Composed By – Frédéric Chopin 1:25 2-12 Etude En La Bémol Majeur, Op. 25 No 1 Composed By – Frédéric Chopin 2:37 2-13 Etude En La Bémol Majeur, Op. 10 No 10 Composed By – Frédéric Chopin 2:18 2-14 Impromptu No 1 En La Bémol Majeur, Op. 29 Composed By – Frédéric Chopin 3:46 2-15 Scherzo No 2 En Si Bémol Mineur, Op. 31 Composed By – Frédéric Chopi
