Christiane Edinger
While she has often been associated with the standards of the violin repertory, particularly those from the German School, Christiane Edinger has played a variety of works throughout her career, including concertos by Tchaikovsky, Saint-Saëns, Elgar, Prokofiev, Bartók, and Khachaturian, as well as several by contemporary composers like Penderecki, Bernd Alois Zimmermann, Boris Blacher, Howard Blake, and Cristobal Halffter, who wrote two concertos specifically for her. Though she has lacked the superstar status of modern string players like Anne-Sophie Mutter, Edinger was and still is recognized as one of the finest German violinists of her generation. She has performed with the leading orchestras in Europe and the Americas and has collaborated with such conductors as Herbert von Karajan, Neville Marriner, Kurt Masur, Christoph Eschenbach, and many others. She has also regularly performed chamber music, notably in her ensemble, the Edinger Quartet. Her recordings are still widely available on a range of labels, including ASV, Arte Nova, Audite, Naxos, Orfeo, and others.
Christiane Edinger was born in Potsdam, Germany, on March 20, 1945. Her father was the virtuoso pianist Gerhard Puchelt. Edinger began studying the violin at five and her advanced studies were at the Berlin Hochschule fur Musik and Juilliard School of Music. Her list of teachers is impressive: Vittorio Brero (Berlin), Nathan Milstein (Switzerland), and Joseph Fuchs (Juilliard).
At 19 Edinger appeared at the Berlin Festival playing works by Boris Blacher, risky repertory at the time. Her performances were so impressive, though, that she was immediately invited to appear with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, with whom she played the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto.
Edinger was soon an imposing presence on the international scene, regularly performing at the major concert venues across the globe. She has appeared with the Berlin Philharmonic more than a dozen times, in concerto repertory by Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Blacher, Zimmermann, and many others.
From the 1990s Edinger began making more frequent chamber music appearances. The Edinger Quartet has garnered much critical acclaim, notably from recordings on the Audite label of music by Eduard Franck, which feature the Opp. 54 & 55 quartets (2001) and the Op. 49 quartet and string quintet (2002). Edinger has also collaborated in concert and on recordings with American pianist James Tocco. Its recording of four violin sonatas by Eduard Franck was issued on Audite in 2008. Edinger plays a 1623 Amati.
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Eduard Franck: Sonatas for Violin & Piano
Christiane Edinger, James Tocco
Chamber Music - Released by audite Musikproduktion on 1 Dec 2007
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Bach: Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin, Vol. 1
Classical - Released by SMOOTH CLASSICAL on 17 Oct 2016
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String Quintets, Opp. 15 & 51 (Eduard Franck)
Classical - Released by Audite on 2 Jan 2012
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Bach, J.S.: Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin, Vol. 2
Classical - Released by Amadis on 19 Oct 2016
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Penderecki: Violin Concerto No. 1 & Cello Concerto No. 2
Christiane Edinger, Boris Pergamenschikow, Bamberger Symphoniker, Krzysztof Penderecki
Classical - Released by Orfeo on 1 Jan 2016
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Mendelssohn: Violinsonaten
Christiane Edinger, Gerhard Puchelt
Classical - Released by Thorofon Records on 31 Jul 2015
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Adagios | Classical Music
Classical - Released by Halidon - Lanzetta - Musical Dorica - Balzaretti - Battel - I Virtuosi del Teatro alla Scala on 11 Oct 2017
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BACH, J.S.: Violin Sonatas and Partitas, Vol. 2
Classical - Released by Naxos on 16 Apr 1992
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BACH, J.S.: Violin Sonatas and Partitas, Vol. 1
Classical - Released by Naxos on 1 Jan 1991
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Copland: Violin Sonata
Christiane Edinger, Konrad Richter
Chamber Music - Released by SWR Mediaservices GmbH on 7 Feb 2017
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Howard Blake: Violin Concerto "The Leeds"; A Month in the Country Suite; Sinfonietta
Christiane Edinger, The Orchestra Of Opera North, Paul Daniel
Classical - Released by Decca (UMO) on 20 Sep 1994
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SPOHR: Violin Concertos Nos. 2 and 9
Christiane Edinger, Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Frank Cramer
Concertos - Released by Marco-Polo on 13 Jul 1993
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Fauré: Sonata No.1 In A Major Op. 13 - Sonata No.2 In E Minor Op.108
Christiane Edinger, Gerhard Puchelt
Classical - Released by Baroque Records on 2 Sep 1976
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Lazarof: Chamber Music
Christiane Edinger, Marcos Fregnani-Martins, Quartet Sine Nomine, Klaus Hellwig, Lukas Maria Kuen
Chamber Music - Released by Centaur Records, Inc. on 1 Oct 2003
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The Most Beautiful Trios Of Viennese Classical
Carmen Daniela, Christiane Edinger, Barbara Marcinkowska
Classical - Released by G & J Records on 28 Mar 2007
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Franck: The Sonatas for Violin and Piano (Eduard Franck)
Classical - Released by Audite on 1 Dec 2007
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Bach, J.S.: Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin, Vol. 1
Classical - Released by Amadis on 17 Oct 2016
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Lazarof, H.: Violin Concerto / Viola Rhapsody / Partita Di Madrigali (Henri Lazarof)
Classical - Released by Centaur Records, Inc. on 1 Jan 2006
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Verborgene Landschaften
Christiane Edinger, Hartmut Leistritz
Classical - Released by 2021 Deutschlandradio & Kreuzberg Records on 29 Oct 2021
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Bach: Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin, Vol. 2
Classical - Released by SMOOTH CLASSICAL on 19 Oct 2016
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Happy Classical Music
Classical - Released by Halidon - Lanzetta - Musical Dorica - Battel on 14 Oct 2017
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