Bill Cziffra in Winnipeg, MB (Manitoba)

György Cziffra at 100 - The Piano Files • thepianofiles.com

Cziffra with Alfred Cortot, who coached and greatly admired him. He was a great hit in London soon after, and did a series of appearances at the Hollywood Bowl in the summer of 1957 that were, according to the press, quite stupendous, but unfortunately no recordings of those performances have been found.

Lost his son, could never move on: an astonishing and tragic life • arthereartnow.com

The György Cziffra Memorial Year, launched in February under the artistic direction of János Balázs, Kossuth Prize-winning pianist, features more than 100 concerts in 15 countries and 40 cities, showcasing the world's most prominent orchestras and artists. Besides the music programmes, exhibitions, conferences, competitions and courses are ...

György Cziffra: One of the Greatest Pianists of the ... - Interlude • interlude.hk

György Cziffra Plays Schumann's Faschingsschwank aus Wien, Op. 26. Cziffra's incredible talent initially puzzled his first teachers at the Academy. As he wrote, "my talent was a form of bond with my instrument that permitted my manual skills to make sense of and straightway put into practice all I learnt from the sort of methodical ...

Cziffras rehearsing Grieg Concerto (1970) - YouTube • youtube.com

György Cziffra and his son rehearsing the Piano Concerto by Edvard Grieg and being interviewed in 1970.

Gyorgy Cziffra - Piano Street • pianostreet.com

Cziffra was among other things, a boxer, bouncer at a nightclub (as well as the pianist there) and a tank commander. A thoroughly researched biography of his fascinating life (he had to learn to play the piano all over again after his fingers were broken in a concentration camp) is LONG overdue.

Great Pianists of The 20th Century Volume 23: György Cziffra • classicstoday.com

Sometimes Cziffra will leave well enough alone, spinning out Liszt's lyrical "Un Sospiro" with unmannered simplicity, or he'll face the gothic grandeur of the B.A.C.H. fugue or Second St. Francis legend head on. Cziffra fidgits too much with the basic Poloniase rhythm in Liszt's E Major and Chopin's "Heroic." Conversely, his ...

György Cziffra - Performance Chronology - Classical Pianists • classical-pianists.net

Cziffra recalled working on it nearly drove him mad, but the concerto was conquered and the performance a resounding success. In the revolutionary spirit already hovering over the city the audience left the hall singing the national anthem and teared down anything bearing emblems that crossed their path.

György Cziffra - Cziffra György Fesztivál • cziffrafesztival.hu

György Cziffra. World-renowned Hungarian-born pianist and virtuoso (5 November 1921., Budapest - 15 January 1994., Longpont-sur-Orge) We can reminisce in many different ways - but remembering György Cziffra, the pianist who would break out from completely hopeless situations time and again during his life and who finally and deservedly accomplished worldfame is only possible in a single ...

György Cziffra/Franz Liszt - Works - pianistdiscography.com • pianistdiscography.com

György Cziffra ( 1921 - 1994 ) was born in Budapest, Hungary. He was well known for his fast, passionate, but sensitive recordings of Liszt. His own transcriptions of Chopin and Rachmaninov placed him as one of the greatest piano virtuosos. His son was a conductor and together they recorded and performed concertos, but his son's premature ...