# Christian Tetzlaff, violin > Christian Tetzlaff, violin – 23 recordings on Ondine. Christian Tetzlaff has been one of the most sought-after violinists and exciting musicians on the… Source: https://ondine.eyelabel.com/artists/tetzlaff-christian - **Role:** violin - **Photo:** © Giorgia Bertazzi ## Biography Christian Tetzlaff has been one of the most sought-after violinists and exciting musicians on the classical music scene for many years. “The greatest performance of the work I’ve ever heard,” Tim Ashley wrote in the Guardian about his interpretation of the Beethoven Violin Concerto with Daniel Harding. In the Frankfurter Rundschau Hans-Klaus Jungheinrich called it virtually a “rediscovery” of this frequently played work. Concerts with Christian Tetzlaff often become an existential experience for interpreter and audience alike; old familiar works suddenly appear in an entirely new light. In addition, he frequently turns his attention to forgotten masterpieces like Joseph Joachim’s Violin Concerto, which he successfully championed, and attempts to establish important new works in the repertoire, such as the Violin Concerto by Jörg Widmann, which he premiered. He has an unusually extensive repertoire and gives approximately 100 concerts every year. Christian Tetzlaff served as Artist in Residence with the Berlin Philharmonic, participated in a concert series over several seasons with New York’s Metropolitan Opera Orchestra under James Levine and appears regularly as a guest with such ensembles as the Vienna and New York Philharmonic Orchestras, the Concertgebouw Orchestra and London’s leading orchestras. Essential to Tetzlaff ’s approach are the courage to take risks, technical brilliance, openness and alertness to life. Significantly, Christian Tetzlaff played in youth orchestras for many years. His teacher at the Lübeck University of Music was Uwe-Martin Haiberg, for whom musical interpretation is the key to violin technique. Christian Tetzlaff founded his own string quartet in 1994, and chamber music is still as important to him as his work as a soloist with and without orchestra. The Tetzlaff Quartet has received such awards as the Diapason d’Or, and the trio with his sister Tanja Tetzlaff and pianist Lars Vogt was nominated for a Grammy. Christian Tetzlaff has also received numerous awards for his solo CD recordings. He plays a violin made by the German violin maker Peter Greiner and teaches regularly at the Kronberg Academy. www.christiantetzlaff.com ## Discography on Ondine (23) - [Edward Elgar & Thomas Adès: Violin Concertos](https://ondine.eyelabel.com/catalogue/ode-1480-2.md): Christian Tetzlaff, violin · BBC Philharmonic Orchestra · John Storgårds (ODE 1480-2, 2025) - [Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 5 · Two Serenades · Two Serious Melodies · Swanwhite](https://ondine.eyelabel.com/catalogue/ode-1468-2.md): Christian Tetzlaff, violin · Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra · Nicholas Collon, conductor (ODE 1468-2, 2025) - [Johannes Brahms: Piano Quartets Nos. 2 & 3 · (Lars Vogt's last recordings)](https://ondine.eyelabel.com/catalogue/ode-1448-2d.md): Christian Tetzlaff, violin · Barbara Buntrock, viola · Tanja Tetzlaff, cello · Lars Vogt, piano (ODE 1448-2D, 2024) - [Witold Lutoslawski: Concerto for Orchestra · Partita for Violin and Orchestra · Novelette](https://ondine.eyelabel.com/catalogue/ode-1444-2.md): Christian Tetzlaff, violin · Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra · Nicholas Collon (ODE 1444-2, 2023) - [Johannes Brahms · G. B. Viotti · Antonín Dvorák: Double Concerto · Violin Concerto No. 22 · Silent Woods](https://ondine.eyelabel.com/catalogue/ode-1423-2.md): Tanja Tetzlaff, violin · Christian Tetzlaff, cello · Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin · Paavo Järvi, conductor (ODE 1423-2, 2023) - [Franz Schubert: Piano Trios · Notturno · Rondo · Arpeggione Sonata](https://ondine.eyelabel.com/catalogue/ode-1394-2d.md): Christian Tetzlaff, violin · Tanja Tetzlaff, cello · Lars Vogt, piano (ODE 1394-2D, 2023) - [Johannes Brahms · Alban Berg: Violin Concertos](https://ondine.eyelabel.com/catalogue/ode-1410-2.md): Christian Tetzlaff, violin · Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin · Robin Ticciati (ODE 1410-2, 2022) - [Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonatas Op. 30](https://ondine.eyelabel.com/catalogue/ode-1392-2.md): Christian Tetzlaff, violin · Lars Vogt, piano (ODE 1392-2, 2021) - [Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartets Opp. 132 & 130/133](https://ondine.eyelabel.com/catalogue/ode-1347-2d.md): Tetzlaff Quartett · Christian Tetzlaff, violin · Elisabeth Kufferath, violin · Hanna Weinmeister, viola · Tanja Tetzaff, cello (ODE 1347-2D, 2020) - [Ludwig van Beethoven · Jean Sibelius: Violin Concertos](https://ondine.eyelabel.com/catalogue/ode-1334-2.md): Christian Tetzlaff, violin · Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin · Robin Ticciati, conductor (ODE 1334-2, 2019) - [Antonin Dvorák: Piano Trios Nos 3 & 4 "Dumky"](https://ondine.eyelabel.com/catalogue/ode-1316-2.md): Christian Tetzlaff, violin · Tanja Tetzlaff, cello · Lars Vogt, piano (ODE 1316-2, 2018) - [Béla Bartók: Violin Concertos Nos 1 & 2](https://ondine.eyelabel.com/catalogue/ode-1317-2.md): Christian Tetzlaff, violin · Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra · Hannu Lintu, conductor (ODE 1317-2, 2018) - [Ludwig van Beethoven: Triple Concerto · Piano Concerto No. 3](https://ondine.eyelabel.com/catalogue/ode-1297-2.md): Christian Tetzlaff, violin · Tanja Tetzlaff, cello · Royal Northern SInfonia · Lars Vogt, piano & conductor (ODE 1297-2, 2017) - [Johann Sebastian Bach: Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin](https://ondine.eyelabel.com/catalogue/ode-1299-2d.md): Christian Tetzlaff, violin (ODE 1299-2D, 2017) - [Franz Schubert · Joseph Haydn: String Quartet in G Major · String Quartet in G minor, Op. 20 No. 3](https://ondine.eyelabel.com/catalogue/ode-1293-2.md): Tetzlaff Quartet · Christian Tetzlaff, violin · Elisabeth Kufferath, violin · Hanna Weinmeister, viola · Tanja Tetzlaff, cello (ODE 1293-2, 2017) - [Johannes Brahms: Sonatas for Violin and Piano · Scherzo](https://ondine.eyelabel.com/catalogue/ode-1284-2.md): Christian Tetzlaff, violin · Lars Vogt, piano (ODE 1284-2, 2016) - [Josef Suk · Antonin Dvořák: Fantasy in G minor, Op. 24 · Violin Concerto in A Minor, Op. 53 · Romance, Op. 11](https://ondine.eyelabel.com/catalogue/ode-1279-5.md): Christian Tetzlaff, violin · Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra · John Storgårds, conductor · PDE 1279-5 (ODE 1279-5, 2016) - [Johannes Brahms: The Piano Trios](https://ondine.eyelabel.com/catalogue/ode-1271-2d.md): Christian Tetzlaff, violin · Tanja Tetzlaff, cello · Lars Vogt, piano (ODE 1271-2D, 2015) - [Dmitri Shostakovich: Violin Concertos Nos 1 & 2](https://ondine.eyelabel.com/catalogue/ode-1239-2.md): Christian Tetzlaff, violin · Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra · John Storgårds, conductor (ODE 1239-2, 2014) - [Robert Schumann: Violin Sonatas](https://ondine.eyelabel.com/catalogue/ode-1205-2.md): Christian Tetzlaff, violin · Lars Vogt, piano (ODE 1205-2, 2013) - [Jörg Widmann: Violin Concerto · Antiphon · Insel der Sirenen](https://ondine.eyelabel.com/catalogue/ode-1215-2.md): Christian Tetzlaff · Swedish RSO · Daniel Harding (ODE 1215-2, 2013) - [Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Sonatas for Piano and Violin](https://ondine.eyelabel.com/catalogue/ode-1204-2.md): Lars Vogt, piano · Christian Tetzlaff, violin (ODE 1204-2, 2012) - [Mendelssohn & Schumann: Violin Concertos](https://ondine.eyelabel.com/catalogue/ode-1195-2.md): Christian Tetzlaff, violin · Frankfurt RSO · Paavo Järvi, conductor (ODE 1195-2, 2011) ## Links - [Official Website](http://www.christiantetzlaff.com)