Browse: Astrid Varnay (soprano)
This page lists all recordings performed by Astrid Varnay.
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Strauss, R: Salome
RecommendedTeresa Stratas (Salome), Bernd Weikl (Jochanaan), Astrid Varnay (Herodias), Hans Beirer (Herodes), Wieslaw Ochman (Narraboth), Hanna Schwarz (Ein Page)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Karl Böhm
Stratas's sinuous child-woman comes close to the ideal in Friedrich's glitzy but unnerving film, strongly cast throughout and superbly conducted. — More…
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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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
$22.25Downloads
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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
4 CDs
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The Very Best of Montserrat Caballé
Arias and songs by Bellini, Puccini, Montsalvatge, Verdi, et al
Montserrat Caballé (soprano)
2 CDs
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Cavalleria Rusticana & I Pagliacci
Leonie Rysanek (Santuzza), Plácido Domingo (Turiddu, Canio), Astrid Varnay (Mamma Lucia), Teresa Stratas (Nedda), Wolfgang Brendel (Silvio) & Benito di Bella (Alfio, Tonio)
Bavarian State Opera, Nello Santi
Domingo is magnificent as both Turiddu and [Canio]. Rysanek is a brooding, dark-toned Santuzza, but Stratas's Nedda too much the waif and stray. — More…
2 CDs
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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
4 CDs
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Verdi: Simon Boccanegra
Frank Guarrera (Boccanegra), Giorgio Tozzi (Fiesco), Ezio Flagello (Paolo), Norman Scott (Pietro), Renata Tebaldi (Maria), Richard Tucker (Adorno), Rovert Nagy (Capitano) & Athena Vicos (maid)
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, New York, Nino Verchi
2 CDs
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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: Lohengrin
Hans Hopf (Lohengrin), Ingrid Bjoner (Elsa von Brabant), Hans Günter Nöcker (Friedrich von Telramund), Astrid Varnay (Ortrud), Josef Metternich (Der Heerrufer des Königs), Gislinde Skroblin (Herzog Gottfried, Elsas Bruder)
Chor der Bayerischen Staatsoper & Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Hans...
the basic sound of this preservation is poor - an unresonant and tubby brass timbre and relatively overloud timpani...There are rewards: the rare chance of hearing the Norwegian Ingrid Bjoner... — More…
3 CDs
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