Astrid Varnay
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Wagner: Siegfried
RecommendedWolfgang Windgassen (Siegfried), Astrid Varnay (Brünnhilde), Hans Hotter (Der Wanderer), Gustav Neidlinger (Alberich), Paul Kuen (Mime), Maria von Ilosvay (Erda)
Bayreuth Festival Chorus and Orchestra, Joseph Keilberth
Time and again, as I listened enraptured to this overwhelming performance, I felt as though as I was sitting in the Bayreuth stalls. …Keilberth's… command of every aspect of this vast score... — More…
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Building a Library, January 2008, First Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Gramophone Awards, 2006, Winner - Historical Recording
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Wagner: Götterdämmerung
RecommendedAstrid Varnay, Brünnhilde, Bernd Aldenhoff, Siegfried, Hermann Uhde, Gunther, Elisabeth Höngen, Waltraute, Heinrich Pflanzl, Alberich, Ludwig Weber, Hagen, Martha Mödl, Gutrune et troisième Norne, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Woglinde, Hanna Ludwig, Wellgunde, Hertha Töpper, Floßhilde, Ruth Siewert, Première...
Testament awakened this sleeping Brünnhilde after half a century in Decca's vaults, held there because of an age-old dispute over rights between that company and EMI. This is a fitting memorial,... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2000, Special Achievement Award
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Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer
Ludwig Weber (Daland), Astrid Varnay (Senta), Wolfgang Windgassen (Erik), Elisabeth Schärtel (Mary), Josef Traxel (Der Steuermann) & Hermann Uhde (Der Holländer)
Chorus & Orchestra of the Bayreuth Festival, Hans Knappertsbusch
Maestro Knappertsbusch is on the concentrated form of his 1951 Munich Tristan. …all is steely strength, realised through dynamic sensitivity and spacious tempi… Any suspicion that Astrid Varnay…... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2010, Editor's Choice
2 CDs
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The Very Best of Montserrat Caballé
Arias and songs by Bellini, Puccini, Montsalvatge, Verdi, et al
Montserrat Caballé (soprano)
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Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer
George London (Dutchman), Astrid Varnay (Senta), Josef Traxel (Erik), Arnold Van Mill (Daland), Jean Cox (steersman) & Elisabeth Schärtel (Mary)
Bayreuth Festival Orchestra, Joseph Keilberth
2 CDs
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Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer
Hertha Glaz, Thomas Haysward, Hans Hoffer, Set Svanhlom, Astird Varnay
New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Fritz Reiner
...a searingly dramatic performance under Fritz Reiner with a cast as starry as one could imagine. Reiner's conducting is urgent and intense from start to finish, with Hans Hotter in his prime... — More…
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Wagner: Lohengrin
Sándor Konya (Lohengrin), Leonie Rysanek (Elsa), Astrid Varnay (Ortrud), Ernest Blanc (Telramund), Keith Engen (King Henry) & Eberhard Waechter (herald)
André Cluytens
3 CDs
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Wagner: Lohengrin
Wolfgang Windgassen (Lohengrin), Birgit Nilsson (Elsa), Astrid Varnay (Ortrud), Hermann Uhde (Friedrich von Telramund), Theo Adam (König Heinrich), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Herald)
Bayreuth Festival Orchestra, Eugen Jochum
3 CDs
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Wagner: Lohengrin
Wolfgang Windgassen (Lohengrin), Eleanor Steber (Elsa), Hermann Uhde (Telramund), Astrid Varnay (Ortrud), Josef Greindl (King Heinrich), Hans Braun (Herald)
Chorus and Orchestra of the Bayreuth Festival, Joseph Keilberth
[The cast includes] Hermann Uhde's cleanly sung Telramund, Astrid Varnay's autocratic, beautifully studied Ortrud, and the interesting outsider casting of Eleanor Steber opposite a dynamically... — More…
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Wagner: Die Walküre
Astrid Varnay (Brünnhilde), Birgit Nilsson (Sieglinde), Georgine von Milinkovic (Fricka), Ramon Vinay (Siegmund), Hans Hotter (Wotan), Josef Greindl (Hunding), Paula Lenvhner (Gerhilde), Gerda Lammers (Ortlinde), Elisabeth Schärtel (Waltraute), Maria von Ilosvay (Schwertleite): Hilde Scheppan (Helmwige),...
3 CDs
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