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The following is a list of the recordings of the pianist György Cziffra.

In addition to those, there are many non-commercial recordings freely circulating online There are also several releases by the small label Zenith Classical, featuring items from private collections, never-before-available in any format.

Studio recordings (audio)

Johann Sebastian Bach

• Bach/Busoni: Chorale Prelude, BWV 645 (EMI)
• Bach/Busoni: Das Orgel-Büchlein – In dir ist Freude, BWV 615 & Erschienen ist der herrliche Tag, BWV 629 (EMI)
• Bach/Busoni: Prelude and Fugue, BWV 532 (1968 & 1981 EMI)
• Toccata and Fugue, BWV 565 (EMI)

CPE Bach

• Sonata, H.245 (ICA, EMI)

Mily Balakirev

• Islamey, Op.18 (1956 & 1970 EMI, Hungaroton)

Ludwig van Beethoven

• Für Elise, WoO 59 (EMI)
• Piano Sonata, Op.13 (EMI)
• Piano Sonata, Op.14 No.2 (EMI)
• Piano Sonata, Op.26 (EMI)
• Piano Sonata, Op.27 No.1 (EMI)
• Piano Sonata, Op.53 (EMI)
• Piano Sonata, Op.54 (EMI)
• Piano Sonata, Op.57 (EMI)
• Polonaise, Op.89 (EMI)
• Rondo a capriccio, Op.129 (EMI)
• Variations on 'God Save the King', WoO 78 (EMI)
• Variations on the Russian Dance from the Ballet 'Das Waldmädchen', WoO 71 (EMI)
• Variations, WoO 80 (EMI)

Georges Bizet

• Bizet/Rachmaninoff: L'Arlésienne – Acte II – Deuxième Tableau – Intermezzo (Minuetto) (EMI)

Johannes Brahms

• Brahms/Cziffra: Hungarian Dances (Nos. 1–17, 19, 21), WoO 1 (EMI)
• Variations on a Theme by Paganini – Heft I & Heft II, Op.35 (EMI)
• Waltz, Op.39 No.15 (EMI)

Frédéric Chopin

• Andante spianato et Grande polonaise brillante, Op.22 (Philips) with Manuel Rosenthal
• Ballade, Op.52 (EMI, Philips)
• Barcarolle, Op.60 (EMI)
• Berceuse, Op.57 (Philips)
• Bolero, Op.19 (EMI)
• Etudes, Op.10 (Philips)
• Etude No.3, Op.10 (1958 & 1974 & 1981 EMI)
• Etudes (Nos. 4, 5, 12), Op.10 (EMI)
• Etude No.10, Op.10 (1974 & 1981 EMI)
• Etudes, Op.25 (Philips)
• Etude No.1, Op.25 (1974 & 1974 EMI)
• Etude No.2, Op.25 (EMI)
• Fantaisie-Impromptu, Op.66 (1974 & 1974–1975 EMI)
• Fantaisie, Op.49 (EMI)
• Impromptu, Op.29 (1968 & 1974 & 1974–1975 EMI)
• Impromptu, Op.36 (1974 & 1974–1975 EMI)
• Impromptu, Op.51 (Philips, EMI)
• Krakowiak, Op.14 (EMI) with Georges Cziffra Jr.
• Nocturne, Op.9 (EMI)
• Nocturne, Op.9 No.2 (EMI)
• Nocturne, Op.27 No.2 (Philips)
• Piano Concerto, Op.11 (Philips, 1968 & 1976 EMI) with Georges Cziffra Jr., Manuel Rosenthal
• Piano Sonata, Op.35 (Philips, EMI)
• Piano Sonata, Op.58 (EMI)
• Polonaise-fantaisie, Op.61 (EMI)
• Polonaise, Op.26 (Philips)
• Polonaise, Op.40 (Philips, EMI)
• Polonaise, Op.40 No.1 (EMI)
• Polonaise, Op.44 (Philips, EMI)
• Polonaise, Op.53 (Philips, EMI)
• Prelude, Op.28 No.16 (EMI)
• Scherzo, Op.31 (Philips, EMI)
• Variations brillantes, Op.12 (EMI)
• Waltz, B.21 (EMI)
• Waltz, B.44 (EMI)
• Waltz, B.46 (EMI)
• Waltz, B.56 (Philips, EMI)
• Waltz, B.133 (EMI)
• Waltz, B.150 (EMI)
• Waltz, Op.18 (Philips, EMI)
• Waltz, Op.34 (Philips, EMI)
• Waltz, Op.42 (Philips, EMI)
• Waltz, Op.64 (Philips, EMI)
• Waltz, Op.64 No.1 (EMI)
• Waltz, Op.64 No.2 (EMI)
• Waltz, Op.69 (Philips, EMI)
• Waltz, Op.70 (Philips, EMI)

François Couperin

• Pièces de clavecin – Book 1 : Ordre II No.23 & Ordre V No.8 (EMI)
• Pièces de clavecin – Book 2 : Ordre VI – No.1(1969 & 1981 EMI, ICA)
• Pièces de clavecin – Book 2 : Ordre VI – No.5 (EMI)
• Pièces de clavecin – Book 3 : Ordre XIII No.10-11 (EMI)
• Pièces de clavecin – Book 3 : Ordre XVIII No.6 (1956 & 1981 EMI)
• Pièces de clavecin – Book 4 : Ordre XVII No.2 & Ordre XXII No.5 (EMI)

György Cziffra

• Fantaisie roumaine (EMI, Hungaroton)
• Improvisation sur des themes de Gulliaume tell (EMI)
• Reminiscences de Johann Strauss (1956 & 1956 EMI)

Louis-Claude Daquin

• Pièces de Clavecin – Second Livre : L'Hirondelle (EMI)
• Pièces de Clavecin – Troisième Livre : Le Coucou (1956 & 1981 EMI)

Claude Debussy

• Clair De Lune (EMI)
• La plus que lente (EMI)
• Pour le piano (EMI)
• Preludes, Vol.1 No.8 (EMI)

Ernő Dohnányi

• Konzertetüde, Op.28 No.6 (EMI)

Manuel de Falla

• Falla/Cziffra: El amor brujo(revised) – No.8 Danse Rituelle du Feu (EMI)

John Field

• Piano Sonata, Op.1 No.1 – 2nd movement (Hungaroton)

César Franck

• Prélude, Choral et Fugue (EMI)
• Variations symphoniques (1961 & 1969 EMI) with André Vandernoot, Georges Cziffra Jr.

George Gershwin

• Rhapsody in Blue (Hungaroton) with Zoltán Rozsnyai

Charles Gounod

• Gounod/Liszt: Faust – Act 2 : Waltz (EMI)

Edvard Grieg

• Lyric Piece, Op.43 No.1 (EMI)
• Piano Concerto, Op.16 (1958 & 1969 EMI, Hungaroton) with Georges Cziffra Jr., André Vandernoot, Zoltán Rozsnyai

Johann Nepomuk Hummel

• Rondo, Op.11 (1956–1957 & 1969 EMI, Hungaroton)

Aram Khachaturian

• Gayane – Danse du sabre (1956 & 1956 & 1956 EMI, Hungaroton)

Johann Ludwig Krebs

• Bourrée

Franz Liszt

• Tarantelle di bravura d’après la tarantelle de La muette de Portici, S.386 No.1 (EMI, Hungaroton)
• Polish Songs (Nos. 1, 5), S.480 (EMI)
• Le rossignol, S.250 No.1 (EMI)
• Liszt/Cziffra: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 16 S.244(EMI)
• Liszt/Cziffra: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 19 S.244 (EMI, Hungaroton)
• Ballade, S.171 (EMI)
• Concert Etudes, S.144 No.2 & No.3 (Philips)
• Concert Etudes, S.145 (EMI, Hungaroton)
• Fantasie über ungarische Volksmelodien, S.123 (1957 & 1964 & 1968 EMI) with André Vandernoot, Georges Cziffra Jr., Pierre Dervaux
• Gaudeaums Igitur, S.509 (EMI)
• Grand galop chromatique (EMI)
• Grandes études de Paganini, S.141 No.3 La Campanella (1959 & 1975 EMI)
• Grandes études de Paganini, S.141 No.5 La Chasse (EMI)
• Harmonies poétiques et religieuses III, S.173 – No.7 (EMI)
• Hungarian Rhapsodies (Nos. 2, 6, 12, 15), S.244 (Hungaroton)
• Hungarian Rhapsodies (Nos. 1, 3–5, 7–11, 13–14), S.244 (EMI)
• Hungarian Rhapsodies (Nos. 1–15), S.244 (EMI)
• Hungarian Rhapsody, S.244 – No.2 (ICA)
• Legend, S.175 No.1 (EMI)
• Legend, S.175 No.2 (EMI, Philips)
• Liebesträume, S.541 – No.3 (1957 & 1977 EMI)
• Mephisto Waltz, S.541 (1957 & 1985–1986 EMI)
• Piano Concerto, S.124 (1957 & 1961 & 1969 EMI, Hungaroton) with André Vandernoot, Georges Cziffra Jr., Gyorgy Lehel, Pierre Dervaux
• Piano Concerto, S.125 (1958 & 1969 EMI) with André Vandernoot, Georges Cziffra Jr.
• Piano Sonata, S.178
• Polonaise, S.223 – No.1 (EMI)
• Polonaise, S.223 – No.2 (Philips, EMI)
• Rhapsodie espagnole, S.254 (EMI)
• Soirées de Vienne, S.427 – No.6 (EMI, Hungaroton)
• Totentanz, S.126 (1964 & 1968 EMI) with André Vandernoot, Georges Cziffra Jr.
• Transcendental Etudes (Nos. 1–11), S.139 (Hungaroton)
• Transcendental Etudes, S.139 (EMI)
• Transcendental Etude, S.139 – No.9 (EMI)
• Transcendental Etude, S.139 – No.10 (1956 & 1981 EMI)
• Trascendental Etude, S.139 – No.12 (EMI)
• Valse-Impromptu, S.213 (1956 & 1957 & 1977–1978 & 1985–1986 EMI, Hungaroton)
• Valses oubliées, S.215 – No.1 (1957 & 1977–1978 EMI, Hungaroton)
• Années de pèlerinage I, S.160 (EMI)
• Années de pèlerinage II, S.161 (EMI)
• Années de pèlerinage II, S.161 – No.6 (Philips)
• Années de pèlerinage II, Supplément, S.162 (EMI)
• Années de pèlerinage II, Supplément, S.162 – No.3 Tarantella (Philips)
• Années de pèlerinage III, S.163 (EMI)
• Années de pèlerinage III, S.163 – 4 (EMI)
• Konzertparaphrase über Mendelssohns Hochzeitsmarsch und Elfenreigen aus der Musik zu Shakespeares Sommernachtstraum, S.410 (EMI, Hungaroton)
• Ouvertüre zu Tannhäuser, S.442 (EMI, Hungaroton)
• Paraphrase de concert sur Rigoletto, S.434 (EMI, Hungaroton)
• Präludium und Fuge über den Namen BACH, S.529 No.2 (Philips)

Jean-Baptiste Lully

• Gavotte (1956 & 1969 & 1981 EMI)

Felix Mendelssohn

• Mendelssohn/Rachmaninoff: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op.61 – No.1 (EMI)
• Lieder ohne Worte, Op.62 – No.6 (EMI)
• Lieder ohne Worte, Op.67 – No.4 (EMI)
• Piano Concerto, Op.25 (EMI) with Georges Cziffra Jr.
• Rondo Capriccioso, Op.14 (1968 & 1968 EMI)
• Fantaisie, Op.16 – No.2 Scherzo (EMI)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

• Piano Sonata, K.310 (EMI)
• Piano Sonata, K.311 – 3rd movement (EMI)

Sergei Rachmaninoff

• Piano Concerto, Op.18 (EMI) with Georges Cziffra Jr.
• Prelude, Op.23 – No.5 (EMI)

Jean-Philippe Rameau

• Dardanus – Rigaudon (1969 & 1981 EMI)
• Nouvelles suites de pièces de clavecin – No.12 & No.16 (EMI)
• Pièces de clavecin – Suite II No.4 (EMI)
• Pièces de clavecin – Suite II No.7 (1959 & 1981 EMI)

Maurice Ravel

• Jeux d'eau (EMI)
• Le tombeau de Couperin – No.6 (EMI)
• Sonatine (EMI)

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

• Rimsky-Korsakov/Cziffra: The Tale of Tsar Saltan – Act III Flight of the Bumblebee (1956 & 1956 EMI, Hungaroton)

Gioachino Rossini

• Rossini/Cziffra: La Danza (EMI)

Camille Saint-Saëns

• Étude, Op.52 – No.6 (EMI)

Domenico Scarlatti

• Keyboard Sonata, K.96 (EMI)
• Keyboard Sonata, K.101 (EMI)
• Keyboard Sonata, K.159 (1956 & 1969 EMI)

Franz Schubert

• Schubert/Tausig: Marché militaires, D.733 – No.1
• Impromptu, D.899 – No.4 (1969 & 1981 EMI)
• Impromptu, D.935 – No.1 (EMI)

Robert Schumann

• Carnaval, Op.9 (1957 & 1968 EMI)
• Fantasiestücke, Op.12 (EMI)
• Fantasiestücke, Op.12 – No.1 (EMI)
• Fantasiestücke, Op.12 – No.7 (Hungaroton)
• Faschingsschwank aus Wien, Op.26 (EMI)
• Kinderszenen, Op.15 – No.7 (EMI)
• Novellette, Op.21 – No.8 (EMI)
• Symphonic Etudes, Op.13 (EMI)
• Toccata, Op.7 (EMI)

Johann Strauss II

• Strauss/Cziffra: An der schönen blauen Donau (Hungaroton)
• Strauss/Cziffra: Der Zigeunerbaron (Hungaroton)
• Strauss/Cziffra: Die Fledermaus (Hungaroton)
• Strauss/Cziffra: Le beau Danube bleu (EMI)
• Strauss/Cziffra: Tritsch-Tratsch Polka (Hungaroton, EMI)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

• Tchaikovsky/Liszt: Eugene Onegin, Op.24 – Act III No.19 (EMI)
• Piano Concerto, Op.23 (1956 & 1957 EMI)

Giuseppe Verdi

• Verdi/Cziffra: Il trovatore (Hungaroton)

Franz von Vecsey

• Vecsey/Cziffra: Valse triste (EMI, Hungaroton)

Carl Maria von Weber

• Konzertstück, Op.79 (EMI) with Georges Cziffra Jr.

Live recordings (Audio)

Liszt

• Concert Etudes, S.145 No.2 (Aura Music, Archipel)
• Fantasie über ungarische Volksmelodien, S.123 (ICA) with André Cluytens
• Grand galop chromatique (Ermitage, Hungaroton, Medici Masters)
• Harmonies poétiques et religieuses III, S.173 – No.7 (ICA, Aura Music)
• Hungarian Rhapsody, S.244 – No.2 (Aura Music)
• Hungarian Rhapsody, S.244 – No.6 (Medici Masters, Ermitage)
• Liebesträume, S.541 – No.3 (Aura Music, Ermitage)
• Piano Concerto, S.124 (ICA, Archipel) with André Cluytens, Fulvio Vernizzi
• Piano Concerto, S.125 (Archipel) with Bernard Conz
• Polonaise, S.223 – No.2 (Medici Masters, Ermitage)
• Präludium und Fuge über den Namen BACH, S.529 No.2 (ICA)
• Rhapsodie espagnole, S.254 (ICA, Medici Masters, Ermitage)
• Totentanz, S.126 (IDIS) with Umberto Cattini
• Transcendental Etude, S.139 – No.5 (Archipel)
• Transcendental Etude, S.139 – No.10 (Aura Music, Archipel)
• Valse-Impromptu, S.213 (Ermitage)
• Années de pèlerinage II, S.161 – No.7 (Archipel)
• Années de pèlerinage III, S.163 – 4 (Archipel)

Bach

• Bach/Busoni: Prelude and Fugue, BWV 532 (Ermitage)

Bartók

• Piano Concerto, Sz.95 (EMI) with Mario Rossi

Beethoven

• Piano Sonata, Op.53 (Ermitage)

Chopin

• Ballade, Op.52 (Medici Masters, Aura Music)
• Etudes (Nos. 3, 10, 12), Op.10 (Aura Music)
• Etude No.1, Op.25 (Aura Music)
• Fantaisie-Impromptu, Op.66 (Aura Music)
• Fantaisie, Op.49 (Medici Masters, Ermitage)
• Impromptu, Op.51 (Medici Masters)
• Piano Concerto, Op.11 (claves) with Georges Cziffra Jr.
• Piano Sonata, Op.35 (Ermitage)
• Polonaise, Op.26 No.2 (Ermitage)
• Polonaise, Op.53 (Medici Masters, Ermitage)
• Scherzo, Op.31 (Medici Masters, Ermitage)
• Waltz, Op.18 (Medici Masters)
• Waltz, Op.34 No.3 (Medici Masters)
• Waltz, Op.42 (Aura Music)
• Waltz, Op.64 No.1 (Aura Music)
• Waltz, Op.64 No.2 (Aura Music)

Grieg

• Piano Concerto, Op.16 (ICA) with Georges Tzipine

Lully

• Gavotte (ICA)

Scarlatti

• Keyboard Sonata, K.96 & K.159 & K.284 & K.446 & K.533 (ICA)

Schumann

• Carnaval, Op.9 (Ermitage)

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