This recording demonstrates the artistic maturity Georges Cziffra finally reached. His 1984 Liszt is without the blazing fire and demonic speeds he displayed in his younger days, but it is the playing of an intellectual. He still uses of plenty of rubato, some of which may strike the listener as inappropriate (as in the first Chopin Nocturne) but it is always perfectly controlled, flawlessly balanced, and, coupled with a warm and deep sonority not generally associated with Cziffra, it makes his playing truly magnificent.This set is not for those who are looking for the show-man side of Cziffra but for his more shapely, structured and thoughtful playing.