Received: by 10.68.236.170 with SMTP id uv10mr9826810pbc.4.1332792669383; Mon, 26 Mar 2012 13:11:09 -0700 (PDT) Path: z9ni4843pbe.0!nntp.google.com!news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!m10g2000pbk.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: td Newsgroups: rec.music.classical.recordings Subject: Re: Evelyne Brancart's Chopin Etudes? Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 12:54:48 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 46 Message-ID: References: <40ebc9e7-5d3f-4de7-8840-65d5a06a9287@hs8g2000vbb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.118.28.186 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1332792664 24945 127.0.0.1 (26 Mar 2012 20:11:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 20:11:04 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: m10g2000pbk.googlegroups.com; posting-host=64.118.28.186; posting-account=M5fBUwkAAADTqhNWocsITCQ6ZEuDpB52 User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:11.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/11.0,gzip(gfe) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mar 26, 2:57=A0pm, td wrote: > On Mar 26, 2:36=A0pm, laraine wrote: > > > On Mar 26, 12:17=A0pm, MIFrost wrote: > > > > Has anyone here heard Ms. Brancart's recording of the Chopin Etudes? > > > An article in the current Gramophone by Bryce Morrison mentions this > > > recording, calling it "fearless to the point of aggression." =A0I've > > > never even heard of her. > > > > MIFrost > > > I believe she was a Queen Elisabeth > > prizewinner long ago. > > Correct. 1971. Sorry. 1975. Here is the info from the QEB Competition archives. Evelyne BRANCART 8th prize, Piano 1975 Jury member, Piano 1999 Evelyne Brancart was born in Belgium and studied with the renowned teacher Eduardo del Pueyo. She is a laureate of numerous international competitions, including those of Montr=E9al (1976), Munich (1984) and Gina Bacchauer (1986). She had her London debut in 1976 to stunning critical acclaim. Since her arrival in the United States in 1980, in addition to a host of concerts as soloist and in recital, Evelyne Brancart has devoted a good deal of her time to chamber music, collaborating with a great many artists and participating in numerous festivals in Europe, the United States, Canada and Mexico. She has taught at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, the Eastman School of Music, Rice University and the Aspen Summer Music School. Since 1991, she is a professor at the Jacobs School of Music (University of Indiana). TD