Beethoven Flute Sonatas by Raymond Honing

Raymond Honing

Beethoven Flute Sonatas

Price: € 19.95
Format: CD
Label: Aliud
UPC: 8717775551119
Catnr: ACDBN 0922
Release date: 05 May 2017
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Label
Aliud

UPC
8717775551119

Catalogue number
ACDBN 0922

Release date
05 May 2017

"A surprising CD, on which we meet great interpreters."

Kerk & Leven, 20-12-2017

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About the album

The Franco-Dutch flutist and conductor Louis Drouet (1792-1873) was one of the great soloists of his day. Born in Amsterdam, he began his career at the court of Louis Bonaparte, then king of Holland. The King was so impressed with the 15-year-old flutist that he presented him with a crystal flute by the famous Parisian maker Claude Laurent, a flute which today belongs to the permanent collection of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Drouet was later appointed to the court of Napoleon in Paris. Drouet quickly developed an international solo career, performing in much of Europe and even in the United States. With his friend, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, he made concert tours to London and Paris in 1828 and 1829.

The rich depth of Beethoven‘s music is truly a gift for life, since, just as with the sonatas of Bach, there is always something new left to discover. Each interaction with Beethoven‘s music reveals a new part of his musical imagination.

As it should. Never a dull moment with Beethoven!

Die reiche Tiefe von Beethovens Musik ist wirklich ein Geschenk für das Leben, denn wie bei den Sonaten von Bach gibt es immer noch etwas Neues zu entdecken. Jede Interaktion mit Beethovens Musik zeigt einen neuen Teil seiner musikalischen Phantasie.
So wie es sein sollte. Niemals ein langweiliger Moment mit Beethoven! Hierr arrangiert für Flöte von Louis Drouet.
Der französisch-holländische Flötist und Dirigent Louis Drouet (1792-1873) war einer der großen Solisten seiner Zeit. Geboren in Amsterdam, begann er seine Karriere am Hof von Louis Bonaparte, dann beim König von Holland. Der König war so beeindruckt von dem 15-jährigen Flötisten, dass er ihm eine Kristallflöte des berühmten Pariser Schöpfer Claude Laurent schenkte, eine Flöte, die heute zur ständigen Sammlung des Rijksmuseums in Amsterdam gehört. Drouet wurde später an den Hof von Napoleon in Paris gerufen. Er entwickelte schnell eine internationale Solokarriere, trat in Europa und sogar in den Vereinigten Staaten auf. Mit seinem Freund Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy machte er 1828 und 1829 Konzertreisen nach London und Paris.

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Ursula Dütschler (piano)

A native of Thun, Switzerland, began playing harpsichord at the age of five. She studied with Jörg Ewald Dähler at the conservatory of Bern and with Kenneth Gilbert at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. In 1990 she moved to the United States to pursue fortepiano studies with Malcolm Bilson at Cornell University.

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Raymond Honing (flute)

belongs to a new generation of musicians that devotes itself to both early and contemporary music. Having attained three separate degrees from the Conservatory of Amsterdam, namely in flute, traverso and chamber music, he has pursued a career that embraces three centuries of music, performing everything from Baroque music on the one-key traverso to early Romantic music on the eight-key traverso to contemporary music on the modern Boehm flute, including the alto and bass flutes. His relentless exploration of new repertoire is driven by his strong sense of curiosity. What did a composer have in mind while writing,whether it was yesterday or 200 years ago? How will a piece impact the audience?

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Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential of all composers. His best-known compositions include nine symphonies, five piano concertos, one violin concerto, 32 piano sonatas, 16 string quartets, his great Mass the Missa solemnis, and one opera, Fidelio. Together with Mozart and Haydn, he was part of the First Viennese School. Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of the Holy Roman Empire, Beethoven displayed his musical talents at an early age and was taught by his father Johann van Beethoven and by composer and conductor Christian Gottlob Neefe. At the age of 21 he moved to Vienna, where he began studying composition with Joseph Haydn, and gained a reputation as a virtuoso pianist. He lived in Vienna until his death. By his late 20s his hearing began to deteriorate, and by the last decade of his life he was almost totally deaf. In 1811 he gave up conducting and performing in public but continued to compose; many of his most admired works come from these last 15 years of his life.

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