György Cziffra - Portrait: Cziffra Plays Liszt (2022)

György Cziffra was one of the most celebrated and individual piano virtuosos of the postwar decades in Europe, especially noted for his powers of improvisation and as a Liszt pianist. He was born in a shantytown called Angels Court on the outskirts of Budapest to a family of gypsy musicians. The family was desperately poor, and ultimately both his father and a sister died of starvation. He learned piano by watching an older sister's lessons. By the age of five, he was improvising requests from the audience at a circus. At ten, he was sent to the conservatory in Budapest.
Tracklist
CD1

01. Hungarian Rhapsodies, S. 244 (Excerpts): No. 1 in C-Sharp Minor
02. Hungarian Rhapsodies, S. 244 (Excerpts): No. 2 in C-Sharp Minor
03. Hungarian Rhapsodies, S. 244 (Excerpts): No. 3 in B-Flat Major
04. Hungarian Rhapsodies, S. 244 (Excerpts): No. 4 in E-Flat Major
05. Hungarian Rhapsodies, S. 244 (Excerpts): No. 5 in E Minor :Héroïde-élégiaque
06. Hungarian Rhapsodies, S. 244 (Excerpts): No. 6 in D-Flat Major
07. Hungarian Rhapsodies, S. 244 (Excerpts): No. 7 in D Minor
08. Hungarian Rhapsodies, S. 244 (Excerpts): No. 8 in F-Sharp Minor
09. Hungarian Rhapsodies, S. 244 (Excerpts): No. 9 in E-Flat Major :Pesther Carneval

CD2

01. Hungarian Rhapsodies, S. 244 (Excerpts): No. 10 in E Major :Preludio
02. Hungarian Rhapsodies, S. 244 (Excerpts): No. 11 in A Minor
03. Hungarian Rhapsodies, S. 244 (Excerpts): No. 12 in C-Sharp Minor
04. Hungarian Rhapsodies, S. 244 (Excerpts): No. 13 in A Minor
05. Hungarian Rhapsodies, S. 244 (Excerpts): No. 14 in F Minor
06. Hungarian Rhapsodies, S. 244 (Excerpts): No. 15 in A Minor :Rákóczi March
07. Rhapsodie espagnole, S. 254