Transcriptions, paraphrases et improvisations

Virtuoso Georges Cziffra excelled at improvising after famous classical or popular tunes, for the greatest delight of his concert audience. This collection of his earliest French recordings contains a florilegium of his finest arrangements and improvisations (after the Flight of the Bumblebee, the Tritsch-Tratsch-Polka etc.) and are an obvious nod to the tutelary figure of Liszt. It also includes a short improvisation after the popular French tune Le pont d’Avignon, recently exhumed from the archive!