Franz Liszt, Frédéric Chopin, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Ludwig van Beethoven, Robert Schumann, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Domenico Scarlatti, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, François Couperin, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Franz Schubert, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Nepumuk Hummel, Aram Khachaturian, Johannes Brahms, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Christoph von Dohnányi, Johann Sebastian Bach, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Camille Saint-Saëns, Franz Schubert, Sergei Rachmaninov, César Franck, Edvard Grieg, Carl Maria von Weber, Albert Roussel, Louis-Claude Daquin
Featured artists:
Carlo Maria Giulini, Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française, Orchestre National de l’Opéra de Monte Carlo, Orchestre de Paris, Philharmonia Orchestra, André Vandernoot, Pierre Dervaux, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Budapest Symphony Orchestra, Manuel Rosenthal, György Cziffra Jr
The present boxed set brings together all the studio recordings made by the virtuoso pianist Georges Cziffra (1921-1994) for EMI and Philips, from his first 25cm LP released in 1956 when he arrived in Paris, to the last sessions in the Senlis chapel in 1986 a few years before he died.
This thirty-year period covers a consistently varied and thrilling repertoire, the lion share constituted by Liszt and Chopin, but also dazzling improvisations, paraphrases and transcriptions which also bear witness to his mastery, imagination, and musicality.
Along with the test recordings from French archive released in 2008, this collection includes for the first time a studio recital recorded in Tokyo in 1967 and a live performance of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 caught in 1957 with Carlo Maria Giulini.
