Word: andrzej
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Claude Frank, 32, John Browning, 24, Eugene Istomin, 32, Leon Fleisher, 31, and Canada's Glenn Gould, 25, who has played widely in the U.S. By contrast, Europe has a small handful of young pianists -Austria's Friedrich Gulda and Paul Badura-Skoda, Poland's Andrzej Czajkow-ski. and France's Phillipe Entremont-who are in the same class. The younger pianists are hitting their stride just in time to fill the places being left by an older generation. Some of the Americans are almost sure to step into the shoes of the Backhauses, the Rubinsteins...
...played less well than I could." The second, Vladimir Ashkenazy, 18, who "stupefied" a critic with his technique and profound insight and his colleagues by memorizing the Defossez in two days. Other front-runners in the final twelve were Denver-born John Browning, 23, and Poland's Andrzej Czajkowski (pronounced Tchaikovsky), 20. On the advice of Manhattan's Leon Fleischer, who won the last piano Concpurs, Browning chose Brahms's Concerto No. 2 for his big selection, playing it stunningly, and he was the first finalist to bring order out of the Defossez chaos. Czajkowski reminded observers...