Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven, Felix Mendelssohn, Günther Franz Kasseckert
Performer: Gerlint Böttcher
Orchestra: Südwestdeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim
Conductor: Timo Handschuh
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Hänssler
Catalogue: HC21021
Release: 2021
Size: 289 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major, Op. 15 (Live)
01. I. Allegro con brio
02. II. Largo
03. III. Rondo. Allegro
Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto No. 2 in D minor, Op. 40 (Live)
04. I. Allegro con brio
05. II. Andante
06. III. Allegro vivace
Kasseckert: Musikalische Erinnerungen
07. Nachtkrapp
Kasseckert: Waldfantasie
08. Marschierende Waldameisen
Kasseckert: Ring der Dunkelheit
09. Waldfantasie
10. Kasseckert: Graf Pückler Limpurg Walzer in D major
Kasseckert: Charakterstücke
11. Feuertanz
Her playing may aptly be described as emotional and intense : displaying “amazing expressiveness and brilliance” (Westfalenpost) and “an empathy that touches one deep inside” (Märkische Allgemeine), Gerlint Böttcher fascinates her audiences in Europe, Asia, America and the Middle East. She makes solo appearances with such celebrated orchestras as Berlin’s Konzerthaus Orchestra, the South-West German Chamber Orchestra of Pforzheim, the Berlin Symphony, the Ryazan Philharmonic in Russia, the Philharmonic State Orchestra in Halle and the Brandenburg State Orchestra of Frankfurt an der Oder under such conductors as Sergey Oselkov, Heribert Beissel, Timo Handschuh and Nicholas Milton.
The pianist is a regular performer at major festivals; in cooperation with the Bayreuth Festival, she has repeatedly played at Haus Wahnfried in Bayreuth. Many of the compositions that she has premiered were written expressly for her by composers of the first rank. Alongside the solo repertoire, which takes first place in her artistic life, she takes part in programmes of genuine rarities together with such partners as Echo Klassik prizewinners Bassiona Amorosa and actor Hans-Jürgen Schatz.