Ludwig van Beethoven: Early Works for Flute and Piano Johannes Hustedt & Sontraud Speidel

• Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827): Sonata in G Major after String Trio No. 3, Op. 9 No. 1:
• 1 Beethoven: Sonata in G Major after String Trio No. 3, Op. 9 No. 1: I. Adagio - Allegro con brio (Arr. for Flute and Piano by Friedrich Hermann) 13:32
• 2 Beethoven: Sonata in G Major after String Trio No. 3, Op. 9 No. 1: II. Adagio, ma non tanto, e cantabile (Arr. for Flute and Piano by Friedrich Hermann) 07:10
• 3 Beethoven: Sonata in G Major after String Trio No. 3, Op. 9 No. 1: III. Scherzo. Allegro (Arr. for Flute and Piano by Friedrich Hermann) 02:50
• 4 Beethoven: Sonata in G Major after String Trio No. 3, Op. 9 No. 1: IV. Presto (Arr. for Flute and Piano by Friedrich Hermann) 06:33
• Serenade in D Major, Op. 41:
• 5 Beethoven: Serenade in D Major, Op. 41: I. Entrata. Allegro 03:51
• 6 Beethoven: Serenade in D Major, Op. 41: II. Tempo ordinario d'un Menuetto 05:13
• 7 Beethoven: Serenade in D Major, Op. 41: III. Allegro Molto 02:28
• 8 Beethoven: Serenade in D Major, Op. 41: IV. Andante con Variazioni 06:02
• 9 Beethoven: Serenade in D Major, Op. 41: V. Allegro scherzando e Vivace 02:22
• 10 Beethoven: Serenade in D Major, Op. 41: VI. Adagio - Allegro vivace e Disinvolto 05:17
• Serenade in D Major, Op. 8:
• 11 Beethoven: Serenade in D Major, Op. 8: I. Marcia. Allegro (Arr. for Flute and Piano by Friedrich Hermann) 02:17
• 12 Beethoven: Serenade in D Major, Op. 8: II. Adagio (Arr. for Flute and Piano by Friedrich Hermann) 06:45
• 13 Beethoven: Serenade in D Major, Op. 8: III. Menuetto. Allegretto (Arr. for Flute and Piano by Friedrich Hermann) 02:16
• 14 Beethoven: Serenade in D Major, Op. 8: IV. Adagio - Scherzo. Allegro molto (Arr. for Flute and Piano by Friedrich Hermann) 03:52
• 15 Beethoven: Serenade in D Major, Op. 8: V. Allegretto alla polacca (Arr. for Flute and Piano by Friedrich Hermann) 03:39
• 16 Beethoven: Serenade in D Major, Op. 8: VI. Thema con variazioni. Andante quasi allegretto (Arr. for Flute and Piano by Friedrich Hermann) 08:21
• 17 Beethoven: Serenade in D Major, Op. 8: VII. Marcia. Allegro (Arr. for Flute and Piano by Friedrich Hermann) 01:10
• Sonatina in C Major, WoO 44a:
• 18 Beethoven: Sonatina in C Major, WoO 44a: Allegro (Arr. for Flute and Piano by Johannes Hustedt) (Bonus Track) 03:03
• Total Runtime 01:26:41

Info for Ludwig van Beethoven: Early Works for Flute and Piano

Following the late works (aud 97822), the early treasures now take centre stage: pieces from Beethoven’s first Viennese period place the flute in the spotlight – ranging from an authorised version by the composer himself to later adaptations by others. Together, these releases provide a comprehensive panorama of Beethoven’s oeuvre for flute and piano.

With "Beethoven for Flute and Piano - Part II", audite continues its series exploring the composer's contributions to this instrumentation. While the first release, "But in my style!", focused on the late works, this new double album turns to the composer's early Viennese period.

Here, the flute does not appear merely as an ad libitum instrument, but takes centre stage as the tonal focus of both original compositions and arrangements. The spectrum ranges from a version revised and authorised by Beethoven himself to adaptations by Friedrich Hermann. In this way, the selection also offers a glimpse into the historical reception of his music. Together with the first volume, it presents a richly varied panorama of Beethoven's oeuvre for flute and piano.

Johannes Hustedt, flute
Sontraud Speidel, piano

Johannes Hustedt
studied music pedagogy and flute in Bremen with Renate Ruge-von Rohden and in Karlsruhe with Renate Greiss-Armin, where he passed the concert examination with honours in 1990 as a scholarship holder of the Richard Wagner Scholarship Foundation in Bayreuth. Master courses with Aurèle Nicolet, Alain Marion, Paul Meisen and András Adorjan rounded off his studies. Deeply involved in musical-cultural exchange, he concertises worldwide as soloist and chamber-music partner, also participating in world premieres, radio and television productions. His playing is inspired by a lively interaction with music from all cultural groups, especially Asia, South America and Eastern Europe. Projects in historical performance practice with the baroque flute, interdisciplinary dance, music and theatrical projects as well as border-crossings between improvisation and composition enrich his artistic expression.

Johannes Hustedt is a frequent guest at renowned music festivals including the Ludwigsburg Castle Festival, Cultural Summer Hohenlohe, Rheinland-Pfalz and Nordhessen, the Frankfurt/Oder Music Festival, the festival of the Centro para la Difusión de la Música Contemporánea in the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid, ProBaltica Warsaw, the Thomas Mann Festival Nida in Lithuania, the GAIDA New Music Festival in Vilnius, as well as at the New Opera Toronto, California State University in Los Angeles and the New York City Series. His CDs issued by audite, Animato/Harmonia Mundi, ebs records, RBM, Guild-Music London/Zürich, SwissPan, Koch International and Sargasso London have met with major international recognition. His premiere recording of all flute concertos by Georg Metzger with the Southwest Chamber Orchestra Pforzheim and Sebastian Tewinkel was nominated for selection for the German Record Critics‘ Award in 2022.

There are radio and television productions with him on almost all ARD stations, ZDF, the experimental studio of the Heinrich Strobel Foundation of SWR, Deutsche Welle, DRS Zurich, Radio France, Radio Español Madrid, Radio National de España, Lithuanian Radio and television, as well as numerous concert recordings for TV and radio stations in Poland, Georgia, Ukraine, the Baltic States, South East Asia, Australia, North and South America.

Within the scope of his diverse soloistic activity, he can be heard with the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, the St. Christopher Chamber Orchestra of Vilnius, the Baden-Baden Philharmonic, The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and the Southwest Chamber Orchestra Pforzheim, among others.

Johannes Hustedt was a founding member of the Gamelan Orchestra of the Overseas Museum in Bremen, Artistic Director of the Baltic Days during the Hermann Hesse Year 2002 in Calw and Cultural Ambassador of the Province of Baden-Württemberg during the German-Canadian cultural exchange in 2006. In 2015 he founded the new Jugend musiziert regional committee for Karlsruhe City. Since 2023, he has been responsible for the artistic direction of the largest classical open-air concert in Baden-Württemberg: Mount Klassik as part of DAS FEST in Karlsruhe attracts up to 20,000 listeners.

Hustedt is the dedicatee of numerous works by contemporary composers. As part of the Reger Year 2016, Hustedt was entrusted by the Max Reger Institute in Karlsruhe with the posthumous premiere of Reger’s Scherzo in G minor for flute and string quintet. He also performed the posthumous premiere of Felicitas Kukuck’s 3rd flute sonata on behalf of the Archive Women and Music in Frankfurt as well as the world premiere of Wolfgang Rihm’s authorized new trio version of Über die Linie VI in 2025.

Johannes Hustedt has been teaching at the Karlsruhe University of Music since 1990 and is in international demand as a guest instructor, e. g. at the Hindemith Foundation in Blonay, the Bremen Academy of the Arts, the Universities of Rio de Janeiro, Salvador da Bahia and Los Angeles as well as the National Music Academies in Kiev and Vilnius. From 1996 until 2005 he also taught at the University of Music in Basle. He is a juror at national and international competitions such as the regional, state and federal competitions Jugend musiziert, the International Competition for Chamber Music with Guitar Aschaffenburg 2010 and the 40th European UGDA Competition for Young Soloists Luxembourg 2024. Hustedt is the author of scholarly articles, the focus of which, aside from methodical-didactical subjects, is presently on the music of the Baltic region and the composers of the Mannheim Court.

Together with his wife, the artist Chai Min Werner, he founded the Kunsthaus-Durlach in 2006, the chief concern of which is to enable people to directly experience spirituality, music and the visual arts. From 2020 to 2023, the Kunsthaus events will be supported by the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Science, Research and Art as part of the Art despite distance impulse program. Since 2022, they received the Green Event BW award from the state of Baden-Württemberg several times. The duo querhorn with Chai Min Werner, alphorn, was selected by a expert jury for the ensemble funding 2022/23 of the German Music Council and the Neustart Kultur program. Being chairman of the regional Association Karlsruhe from 2013 to 2019, Johannes Hustedt also has been vice-president of Tonkünstlerverband Baden-Württemberg from 2015 to 2021.

Sontraud Speidel
joined the class of exiled Russian Irene Slavin at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe at the age of eleven. After graduating from high school, she studied with Irene Slavin and Yvonne Loriod-Messiaen in Karlsruhe, Branka Musulin in Frankfurt, Stefan Askenase in Brussels and Géza Anda in Lucerne. She has won prizes at national and international competitions (1st Prize at the Schools of the Federal Republic of Germany at the age of 16, 1st Prize at the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition in Washington D.C. / USA, Jackson Prize of the Boston Symphony Orchestra for New Music, etc.). Concerts, radio and CD recordings, television appearances and masterclasses have taken her to Europe, the USA, Canada, Israel, Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Brazil and Morocco.

Speidel is a professor of piano at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe. She has been a guest professor at universities and conservatoires in Europe, the USA, Canada, Israel and Asia and is a regular judge at national and international competitions.

Several contemporary composers have dedicated works to her and entrusted her with premieres. She was the soloist at the world premiere of David Winkler’s "Concerto for Piano and 13 Instruments" in Tanglewood / USA and in 1979, at the invitation of German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, she gave a piano recital at the Palais Schaumburg Bonn. In Thessaloniki she played the Greek premiere of Alexander Scriabin’s Piano Concerto and in Karlsruhe the world premiere of Robert Schumann’s "Variations on a Nocturne by Chopin", newly discovered by Dr Joachim Draheim. In Solingen, she was the soloist at the world premiere of the piano concerto "Kristallspiele", dedicated to her by Violeta Dinescu.

Speidel heads the Piano Podium Karlsruhe for the promotion of young musical talent and is co-founder and artistic director of the Musikforum Hohenwettersbach concert series. The Elisabeth Speidel Fund, which she initiated, supports talented musicians. She has been awarded the Silver Medal of Honour for Services to the State of Vienna, the Golden Josef Dichler Medal and the Federal Cross of Merit. In 2011, the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe awarded her the first-ever Eugen Werner Velte Prize. The Echo Klassik prize winner was honoured with the City of Karlsruhe’s Medal of Honour in 2024 and with the Order of Merit of Baden-Württemberg in 2025. She is a Steinway Artist, an honorary member of the Werner Trenkner Society Solingen, the Baden-Württemberg Tonkünstlerverband and Inner Wheel Nordschwarzwald.

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