{"id":189,"date":"2012-06-27T20:31:54","date_gmt":"2012-06-27T19:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/?p=189"},"modified":"2012-06-27T20:31:54","modified_gmt":"2012-06-27T19:31:54","slug":"french-virtuoso-pianist-brigitte-engerer-dies-at-59","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/?p=189","title":{"rendered":"French virtuoso pianist Brigitte Engerer dies at 59"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;\">PARIS \u2014 French virtuoso pianist Brigitte Engerer, known for her brilliant interpretations of French and Russian repertoire, died in Paris on Saturday at the age of 59, her agent said in a statement. <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;\">Engerer &#8220;played with some of the very best&#8221;, said Concerts de Valmalete, and &#8220;brought all of her talent to what was a continual quest for musical truth&#8221;. <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;\">French President Francois Hollande said in a statement he was &#8220;saddened&#8221; by the news of her death and said Engerer&#8217;s &#8220;talent&#8230; honoured France&#8221;. <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;\">Engerer always &#8220;supported young musicians&#8230; while pursuing a remarkable international career&#8221;, he said. <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;\">&#8220;We will all remember her great personal bravery&#8221; in &#8220;fighting the illness that took her from us.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS \u2014 French virtuoso pianist Brigitte Engerer, known for her brilliant interpretations of French and Russian repertoire, died in Paris on Saturday at the age of 59, her agent said in a statement. Engerer &#8220;played with some of the very &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/?p=189\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}