Riddled with arthritis, pretty much dead of cancer and and still grinding it out. Fatty can’t fathom a cunt like Pogorelich taking the piss out of him.
The rach chopson and carnival reissues all seem to be made from suboptimal pressings for that era.
Naxos is predatory with the rights on these weirdly, (they blocked my efforts on the LP reissues even) but I hope someone hunts down some good quality pressings and puts them on a torrent or something.
Yeah would be cool to hear alt takes
Kinda similar to me asking dafug HO was doing in Ann Arbor what the fuck was doing in Kentucky.?
I did learn yesterday da performed a bunch in Ann Arbor, not sure why it took da
until da 70’s to show up there though
There is a secret archive getting put up of wikid broadcasts from mid 40s on taken from michigan radio stations (lots of syndicated stuff but also local).
I bug the guy for piano stuff be he’s mainly doing the orchestral stuff first.
Think detroit thriving back in the day poss cuz auto hadn’t been fucked by globalists.
Hooking up with bitches!
early radio appearances:
1938 February 5 19:15. / Budapest Radio Broadcast
plays piano with pianist Kovács István
1938 April 9 17:00. / Budapest Radio Broadcast
plays piano with pianist Kovács István
1938 June 16. Korona(?) / Live / Guest appearance for “Mariska Komáromi Students’ Competition”
Recital: Bach, Liszt, Chopin, Dohnany
1939 November 18 17:50. / Budapest I Radio appearance
G. Cziffra on piano
1941 October 19 16:00. Zeneakadémia / Live / “military music and song evenings”
1945 October. venue unknown / Guest appearance of “Az Első Hadosztály diákhangversenye”
Scarlatti: Keyboard Sonata, K.30
1947 May 3 22:00. / Budapest II Radio appearance
1947 March 24 16:00. / Budapest I Radio appearance
1947 July 5 20:05. / Budapest II Radio appearance
1947 December 13 16:00. / Budapest I Radio appearance
1948 February 19. 21:30. Hódmezővásárhely / Live
1948 March 19. Ipartestület székházában, Nyíregyháza / Live
1949 January 4 19:00. / Budapest I Radio appearance
1949 March 14 19:45. / Petőfi Rádió
1949 April 21 20:30. / Kossuth Rádió
1949 June 14 20:50. / Kossuth Rádió
1953 October 12. Déryné színházban, Mikolcon / Live
1953 October 31. Május 1 Kultúrotthonban, Komló / Live
1954 June 21 15:40. / Kossuth Rádió
1956 June 22 15:30. / Kossuth Rádió
Fritz Kreisler as violin, and Cziffra as piano
yo
yep that was cuntish
1938 Gilels gives a speech, also shreds fragment of Tchaik 1
Imo he wasn’t nearly the same pianist after 1947 or so cuz da crazy amount of playing in crap conditions he did during WWII fucked him up
Form QE comp stuffs? Oh wow it sound good.
Apparently the Tchaik recorded earlier but around that time
Yo prewar Gilels was legit, sometimes a bit heavy tho