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... —
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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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Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana, etc.
RecommendedRenata Scotto, Jose Carreras, Kari Nurmela, Thomas Allen
Philharmonia Orchestra, Riccardo Muti
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Building a Library, April 2001, First Choice
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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…... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2010, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
Astrid Varnay (Isolde), Set Svanholm (Tristan), Jerome Hines, Georges Thebom, Josef Metternich
Metropolitan Opera, Rudolf Kempe
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Special offer. Wagner: Die Walküre
Lauritz Melchior (Siegmund), Astrid Varnay (Sieglinde), Helen Traubel (Brünnhilde), Friedrich Schorr (Wotan), Kerstin Thorborg (Fricka)
New York Metropolitan Opera and Chorus, Erich Leinsdorf
an electrifying performance, starrily cast, with radio sound giving clear focus to the voices...[Melchior] is in heroic voice...Varnay is a warm Sieglinde...Traubel sings with a rock-like firmness... —
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Special offer. Wagner: Lohengrin
Lauritz Melchior (Lohengrin), Astrid Varnay (Elsa), Kerstin Thorborg (Ortrud), Alexander Sved (Friedrich von Telramund), Mack Harrell (Der Heerrufer des Königs), Norman Cordon (König Heinrich)
Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera, New York, Erich Leinsdorf
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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,... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2000, Special Achievement Award
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Orff: Oedipus der Tyrann
Gerhard Stolze (Oedipus), Willy Domgraff-Fassbaender (Ein Priester), Hans Baur (Kreon), Fritz Wunderlich (Tiresias), Astrid Varnay (Jokasta)
Chor und Orchester der Württembergischen Staatsoper Chorleitung, Ferdinand Leitner
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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
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Special offer. Wagner: Die Walküre
Régine Crespin (Sieglinde), Fritz Uhl (Siegmund), Gottlob Frick (Hunding), Astrid Varnay (Brünnhilde), Jerome Hines (Wotan), Regina Resnik (Fricka)
Orchester der Bayreuther Festpiele, Rudolf Kempe
