Chopin: Oeuvres Pour Piano - Georges Cziffra / EMI Classics 5x Audio CD 2003 Stereo 

UPC 724358501223

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 Ernő Dohnányi, a pupil of István Thoman, 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.

He died in Senlis in 1994 aged 72.

Tracklist:

CD 1     59.42

19 Valses    

CD 2    61.55

1  Polonaise Op.53 « Héroique »    6.54

2  Polonaise Op.40 n°1 « Militaire »    5.58

3  Polonaise Op.40 n°2    7.22

4  Polonaise Op.44   10.19

5  Polonalse-fantalsie Op.76   12.01

6  Boléro Op.19   7.15

7  Tarentelle Op.43   3.20

8  Barcarolle Op.60   8.24

CD 3    76.38

1  Impromptu n°1 Op.29   3.48

2  Impromptu n°2 Op.36   5.27

3  Impromptu en n°3 Op.51    4.38

4  Fantaisie-impromptu Op.66   4.57

5  Ballade n°4 Op.52   10.06

6-10 Sonate n°2 Op.35   22.25

11-14 Sonate n°3 Op.58   24.38

CD 4   57.38

1-12 12 Etudes Op.10   21.37

13-24 12 Etudes op.25   29.38

CD 5    12.57

1-3 Concerto pour plano n°1 Op.11   37.52

4    Krakowiak 0p.14   15.22

5-6  2 Chants polonais (trans. Liszt)    6.54

7  Fantaisie 0p.49    12.30

• Piano - Georges Cziffra
• Orchestra - Orchestre Philharmonique de l'Opera de Monte Carlo