More Liszt

Sometimes you may have two versions of title and you may of spotted my previous post around the Georges Cziffra Liszt box and wondered what this is about?

The first recording of the Hungarian Rhapsodies I encountered was this in its three lp box set form from 1973.

While I love the one in the box set, it is the case that set of recordings from 1957 and 1958 are in monophonic sound so you don't get the sense of the piano sounding quite as if it is the room with the ambience in stereo.

This was for a long time a leading recommendation and had been remastered from the analogue tapes in the 1990's to great effect now compiled over two generously filled cds.

Moreover this has all nineteen works rather than the fifteen Cziffra recorded back then so it is more complete.