Daniel Ericourt

              INTERNATIONAL APPLAUSE FROM PRESS AND PUBLIC FOR THE 
Celebrated
 FRENCH PIANIST

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Daniel
 ERICOURT




THE CONTINENTS OF EUROPE — U. S. AND LATIN AMERICA SALUTES A GREAT ARTIST TRAIL-BLAZING 30,000 MILE AIRPLANE CONCERT TOUR — 1943


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Daniel
 ERICOURT


THE BRILLIANT PIANIST, DANIEL ERICOURT, is known as one of the most accomplished of younger contemporary French musicians.  Born near Paris, he has lived surrounded by music from an early age.  He began to play the piano when he was six, and at nine had been admitted to the Paris Conservatoire.  There he studied with Santiago Riera, Roger Ducasse and Nadia Boulanger.  When Ericourt was sixteen, he was graduated from the Conservatoire with the First Grand Prize.  He won the Diemer Award, one of the highest distinctions that can come to a pianist of any nationality.




Ericourt made many enriching contacts with famous musicians while he was still very young, contacts such as many musicians wait years to acquire.  At thirteen he played with Debussy himself in a two-piano recital in Paris.  Ravel, Stravinsky, Prokofieff, Roussel and Honegger are among the other composers whom Ericourt has known personally.




Shortly after graduating from the Conservatoire, the young artist commenced a tour of Europe that brought him renown and insistent demand for return engagements.  Concert engagements have taken him many times to Paris, London, Berlin, Brussels, Monte Carlo, Vienna, Budapest, The Hague, and other important musical centers.  He has played also under the batons of such famous conductors as Pierne, Wolff, Monteux, Reiner, Kolar, Barlow, Goossens, and Fritz Busch.




Ericourt has appeared with the Detroit, Cleveland, Cincinnati, San Francisco, Portland, and New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestras.  In the spring of 1939 he was featured with Lily Pons at the opening of the French Pavilion of the New York World's Fair.  The pianist now makes his home in the United States where he is in growing demand on the country's concert courses.




BALDWIN PIANO USED




Europe:



PARIS .... Ericourt has taken his place without effort amongst the best masters of the keyboard.


Courier Musical
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.... An interpreter of great style.


Monde Musical
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LONDON .... His temperament is a priceless possession.


Daily Telegraph
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.... Ericourt knows how to produce a beautiful tone.


Times
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.... A musician with a vivid imagination.


Morning Post
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BERLIN .... Ericourt is all that a pianist should be.


Morgen Post
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.... He is a masterly cultivated pianist.


Tageblat
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.... The artist exhibited the finest art of touch.


Allgemeine Musik Zeitung
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VIENNA ... A master of details.


Oest Gewerbzeitung
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.... A master of elegance, grace and finely chiselled virtuosity.


Allgemeine Zeitung
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BUDAPEST .... An exceptionally well equipped artist gifted with high intelligence.


Neuizeti Ujsag
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.... Played with elan, fantasy and imagination, and attained great plasticity of interpretation.


Pesti Naplo
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United States:



NEW YORK—
TOWN HALL
 .... 
A pianist of the first rank.  Extraordinary technical attainments and ardor.  Interpretations consistently arresting and individual in approach.


J. D. B., New York Herald-Tribune
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.... 
Highly perfected performances.  Keenly communicative.  Brilliant and colorful playing.


Noel Straus, The New York Times
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CHICAGO—
ORCHESTRAL HALL
 ... 
Ericourt possesses the type of imagination and has developed the kind of technique which the music of the great French impressionist requires.... 'Le Tombeau de Couperin' Ericourt played with a purity and delicacy that sufficed to put the piece before the audience in its true character.


The Chicago Tribune
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CLEVELAND SYMPHONY (Schumann Piano Concerto) ... 
Daniel Ericourt won an ovation with his performance with the orchestra of the familiar and beautiful Schumann piano concerto.  A magnificent touch.  In two encores, Ericourt showed a brilliance and sense of time described, as one young member of the audience put it, as a 'wow.'


Cleveland Plain Dealer
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CINCINNATI SYMPHONY (Ravel Piano Concerto) ... 
Magnificent performance.  The audience registered very evident delight by prolonged applause.


Cincinnati Times-Star
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.... 
Astonishing performance—clarity and translucence—impressive talent.


Cincinnati Enquirer
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DETROIT SYMPHONY (Mozart D Minor Piano Concerto) ... 
A tremendous talent.  Had a definitely successful debut in Detroit and is sure of a rousing reception when he returns.


Detroit News
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Fifty-five Concerts in South America:



RIO DE JANEIRO ..... Ericourt is a very fine artist.  His performance was extraordinary, his phrasing intelligent, sensible, and of uncommon elegance.  An artist of the best French characteristics by his spirit and by his sensibility.


Jornal do Commercio
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..... A virtuoso of the very first rank.  Endowed with a fine and delicate temperament.  In the music of the French masters he was clearly incomparable and innate interpreter.


Correo de Manha
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BUENOS AIRES ..... An instrumentalist of splendid gifts, both as regards his mechanism, which is of extreme clearness, and neatness, Ericourt ignores the most complex difficulties.  His executions are serious and decorous in style and he interprets with equal exactness the romantic and modern spirit of the French school.


La Nacion
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..... The distinguished French artist Ericourt placed at the service of a series of significant works the sure technique, the seducing sonorousness—with the delicate note—and the purified style which combined to obtain the most just translation of many a page, particularly from Ravel and Debussy.  For too long these illustrious creators did not receive here the precious homage of an interpretation so plain and masterful as offered us by Daniel Ericourt.


La Razon
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..... Endowed with perfect fingering, Ericourt had complete command of the variations on a theme of Bach by Liszt.  In the 
Aurora Sonata
 of Beethoven, Ericourt offered a serious, sober and expressive interpretation.  It was clear that he is an artist who shuns cheap success and who endeavors to discover and interpret the most secret intentions of his authors.


La Prensa
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SANTIAGO DE CHILE ..... Ericourt is not an ordinary virtuoso; he commands attention, first of all, by his fine sensibility and because he has an artistic culture controlled by the purest esthetic ideology.


La Nacion
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..... Ericourt possesses the typical qualities of the Gallic spirit:  equilibrium, clearness, dignity, finesse.  He is the cultured pianist in whom all the innate virtues of the artist have been carefully sifted by a fine discriminating mind.


La Prensa
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..... Throughout all his program, Daniel Ericourt showed that he is a pianist of exceptional understanding, possessing the spirit of the authors he interprets.  He is gifted with an exquisite sensibility and possessor of a magnificent technique.


El Diario Ilustrado
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MONTEVIDEO ..... An artist and a fine interpreter of intense personality, Ericourt possesses a sure technique, fully developed.  He is singularly limpid in diction, clear, sober and elegant in his style as a player, he has no affectations, he commands attention, and the result is truly seductions in the most delicate shades of expression.


El Dia
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..... Daniel Ericourt is a pianist of rare sense and fine taste who knows the secrets of his art and a complete and exact understanding of the author he plays.


El Diario Espanol
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..... During the second part we listened to the Concerto in G-major, composed by Ravel for piano and orchestra, played by the pianist, Daniel Ericourt.  His playing was magnificent.  He knew how to get over all the difficulties of the score, particularly those of the first and third movements showing a perfect fingering, great purity of sound and interpretative talent.


La Razon
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LIMA ..... The transparency of a fine execution, an interpretative conduct of great equilibrium, full of naturalness and revealing the purest musical education.


El Comercio
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..... The French pianist, Ericourt, who yesterday appeared at the Municipal, commanded the attention of the audience for the quality of his fine temperament, gifted with a subtle sensibility incorporated to his instrumental technique which produces a richness and ductility which very few pianists have.


El Mercurio
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..... Daniel Ericourt possesses all extraordinary agility, fingering and neatness of notable virtuosos, but with all those qualities his musical message is refined, as very few could do it.


La Cronica
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SAO PAULO ..... Deeply musical, richly emotive, owner of a notable personality, Ericourt imposed himself at once as a pianist of great value and most subtle artistry.


Estado de Sao Paulo
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