Les rendez-vous de Senlis

Georges Cziffra, on the advice of the French minister of culture, acquired in 1974 a beautiful gothic chapel in Senlis, Picardy. After a thorough refurbishment, Saint-Frambourg became a popular concert hall, in which Cziffra performed and recorded intensely until his last public appearances in 1991. Les rendez-vous de Senlis captures the best of Cziffra’s sensitivity and virtuosity in these late accounts, highlighting his favorite composers Liszt and Chopin but also Schubert, Saint-Saëns, and a version for solo piano of Brahms’ Hungarian Dances transcribed by Cziffra himself.