Christian Elsner
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Special offer. Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1-9
RecommendedAnnette Dasch (soprano), Eva Vogel (mezzo), Christian Elsner (tenor), Dimitry Ivashchenko (bass)
Berliner Philharmoniker, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Sir Simon Rattle
These performances are intensely alive and immensely invigorating. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 13th May 2016
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2016, Disc of the month
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2016, Winner - Musique Symphonique
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Special offer. Beethoven: Fidelio
Lise Davidsen (Leonore), Christian Elsner (Florestan), Georg Zeppenfeld (Rocco), Johannes Martin Kränzle (Don Pizarro), Christina Landshamer (Marzelline), Cornel Frey (Jaquino), Günther Groissböck (Don Fernando), Dresdner Philharmoniker, Marek Janowski
it’s the orchestra which catches attention, with Janowski coaxing heartfelt playing from the strings and above all the horns, who somehow come to signify all that is most hopeful in this great... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, July 2021
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Opera
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Special offer. Wagner: Parsifal
RecommendedEvgeny Nikitin (Amfortas), Christian Elsner (Parsifal), Franz-Josef Selig (Gurnemanz), Michelle DeYoung (Kundry/Stimme aus der Hohe), Dimitry Ivaschenko (Titurel), Eike Wilm Schulte (Klingsor)
Rundfunkchor Berlin & Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Marek Janowski
It has spontaneity of something which has sunk so deeply into the performers' minds and souls that they can throw caution to the wind and still be accurate...Elsner is a wonderfully sensitive... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th March 2012
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2013, Award for Technical Excellence
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Opera, August 2012, Recording of the Month
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Special offer. Late Stravinsky Masterworks
Christian Elsner (tenor), Rudolf Rosen (baritone), Stella Doufexis (mezzo)
Vocal Ensemble Stuttgart & SWR SO Baden-Baden, Michael Gielen
The biggest challenge is surmounted in Canticum Sacrum, a work conceived for the ample acoustics of St Marks Church in Venice. In this performance its austere beauty and grandeur really come... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2010, Choral Finalist
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Special offer. Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphonies 1-9
Dimitry Ivashchenko (soloist), Christian Elsner (soloist), Annette Dasch (soloist), Eva Vogel (soloist), Berliner Philharmoniker, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Sir Simon Rattle
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Special offer. Wagner: Das Rheingold
Tomasz Konieczny (Wotan), Christian Elsner (Loge), Iris Vermillion (Fricka), Günther Groissböck (Fasolt), Timo Riihonen (Fafner), Jochen Schmeckenbecher (Alberich), Ricarda Merberth (Freia), Andreas Conrad (Mime), Maria Radner (Erda), Julia Borchert (Woglinde), Katharina Kammerloher (Wellgunde),...
This is superbly recorded, mainly wonderfully played , interestingly conducted and reasonably well sung...dramatically gripping as only a well-conducted Rheingold can be...The best reason for... —
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Special offer. Beethoven: Missa Solemnis in D major, Op. 123
Regine Hangler (soprano), Elisabeth Kulman (alto), Christian Elsner (tenor) and Franz-Josef Selig (bass)
MDR-Rundfunkchor Leipzig & Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester, Marek Janowski
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Record Review, 29th July 2017, Recording of the Week
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Special offer. Beethoven: The Symphonies
Annette Dasch (soprano), Eva Vogel (mezzo-soprano), Christian Elsner (tenor), Dimitry Ivashchenko (bass)
Rundfunkchor Berlin, Berliner Philharmoniker, Sir Simon Rattle
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Special offer. Dvořák: Stabat Mater
Hanna-Elisabeth Müller (soprano), Roxana Constantinescu, Christian Elsner (tenor), Tareq Nazmi (bass), Leipzig Radio Choir, Dresdner Philharmoniker, Marek Janowski
this recording has its own value, not least for its slow-burn intensity but also for transmitting an occasion of palpable sincerity and conscientious preparation. —
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Mariss Jansons conducts Schubert and Gounod
Live-Recording, Munich, Herkulessaal, 27.-29.03.2007
Luba Orgonášová (soprano), Christian Elsner (tenor) & Gustáv Beláček (bass)
Chor und Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Mariss Jansons
splendidly controlled by Mariss Jansons. There is also a fine tenor solo from Christian Elsner in the 'Sanctus', and both performance and recording do well with the three soloists in 'et incarnatus',... —
