Brahms - Variations on a Theme of Paganini,

Georges Cziffra, piano Recorded in Tokyo, 1968 Book 1 - 00:00 Book 2 - 11:44 This work is in two sets or books, each of which presents the theme and then 14 variations, with the last in each set being a somewhat expanded finale. In Book 1 we have, in successive variations, sixths against thirds, in sixteenth notes (0:25); high-register octaves and chords against low-register sixths (00:50); Polyphony in contrary motion with wide-interval leaps over the keyboard (01:19); chords topped by trills in one han