Albums by Christian Elsner
ALBUMChristian Elsner: Urgedanken (Beethoven, Mahler, Wagner, Brahms)Christian Elsner & Burkhard Kehring
ALBUMWalter Braunfels: Große Messe, Op. 37Simone Schneider, Gerhild Romberger, Christian Elsner, Robert Holl, Konzerthausorchester Berlin & Jorg-Peter Weigle
ALBUMSchubert: Lieder (Orch. by Max Reger & Anton Webern)Christian Elsner, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin & Marek Janowski
ALBUMSchubert: Mass No. 6 in E-Flat Major, D. 950Berlin Philharmonic, Bernarda Fink, Christian Gerhaher, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Jonas Kaufmann, Dorothea Röschmann, Christian Elsner & Rundfunkchor Berlin
ALBUMWagner: SiegfriedRundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Christian Elsner, Stephen Gould, Marek Janowski, Tomasz Konieczny, Matti Salminen, Jochen Schmeckenbecher & Violeta Urmana
Artist Biography
Tenor Christian Elsner has a large repertory that has shifted toward heldentenor roles. He also sings lieder and performs in concert works, and he is an important educator. In addition to a long list of operatic credits, Elsner has released more than ten solo albums. These include a 2015 album of Schubert lieder orchestrations by Max Reger and Anton Weber. In 2021, with Marek Janowski as conductor, he appeared in a new recording of Beethoven's Fidelio, opposite soprano Lise Davidsen. Elsner began teaching at the Hochschule für Musik Würzburg in 2006 and then at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe in 2017. Among his other educational activities are three children's books based, respectively, on Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, Weber's Der Freischütz, and Wagner's Ring cycle.
Hometown
Freiburg, Germany
Genre
Classical