Bayreuth Festival

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Wagner: Siegfried

Wagner: Siegfried


Astrid Varnay (Brünnhilde); Bernd Aldenhoff (Siegfried); Sigurd Björling (Wanderer); Paul Kuen (Mime); Heinrich Pflanzl (Alberich); Friedrich Dalberg (Fafner); Ruth Siewert (Erda); Wilma Lipp (woodbird)

Bayreuth Festival Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan

Bayreuth 1951

Walhall - WLCD0096

(CD - 3 discs)

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Wagner: Lohengrin

Wagner: Lohengrin


Wolfgang Windgassen, Eleanor Steber, Hermann Uhde, Astrid Varnay, Josef Greindl, Hans Braun,

Chorus and Orchestra of the Bayreuth Festival, Joseph Keilberth

Recorded 1953

Naxos Historical Great Opera Recordings - 8110308-10

(CD - 3 discs)

$15.99

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Wagner: Tannhäuser

Wagner: Tannhäuser


Gre Brouwnstijn, Herta Wilfert, Ramon Vinay, Josef Traxel, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Josef Greindl

Bayreuth Festival Chorus & Orchestra, Joseph Keilberth

Recorded Bayreuth 1954

Archipel Records - ARPCD0280

(CD - 3 discs)

$16.49

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Wagner: Lohengrin

Wagner: Lohengrin


Birgit Nilsson, Astrid Varnay, Wolfgang Windgassen, Hermann Uhde, Theo Adam

Bayreuth Festival Chorus & Orchestra, Eugen Jochum

Recorded Bayreuth 1954

Archipel Records - ARPCD0281

(CD - 3 discs)

$16.49

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Wagner: Die Walküre

Wagner: Die Walküre


Martha Modl, Astrid Varnay, Birgit Nilsson, Max Lorenz, Hans Hotter, Josef Greindl

Bayreuth Festival Chorus & Orchestra, Joseph Keilberth

Recorded Bayreuth 1954

Archipel Records - ARPCD0282

(CD - 3 discs)

$16.49

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Wagner: Tannhäuser

Wagner: Tannhäuser


Josef Greindl; Wolfgang Windgassen; Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau; Josef Traxel; Toni Blankenheim; Gerhard Stolze; Alfons Herwig; Gre Brouwenstijn; Herta Wilfert; Volker Horn

Bayreuth Festival Chorus & Orchestra, Andre Cluytens

Live recording, 1955

Orfeo - C643043D

(CD - 3 discs)

$31.99

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Wagner: Parsifal

Wagner: Parsifal


Jones, King, Stewart, Crass, McIntyre, Ridderbusch

Chor und Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele, Pierre Boulez

DG - 4357182

(CD - 3 discs)

$31.99

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Wagner: Tristan und Isolde

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde


Ramon Vinay, Ludwig Weber, Martha Mödl, Hans Hotter, Hermann Uhde, Ira Malaniuk

Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele, Chor der Bayreuther Festspiele, Herbert von Karajan

Orfeo - C603033D

(CD - 3 discs)

$31.99

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Wagner: Tristan und Isolde

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde

Recorded 1952


Martha Modl, Ramon Vinay, Ludwig Weber, Ira Malaniuk, Hans Hotter, Hermann Uhde

Bayreuth Festival Orchestra & Chorus, Herbert von Karajan

Walhall - WLCD0001

(CD - 3 discs)

$19.99

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Wagner: Götterdämmerung

Wagner: Götterdämmerung


Jutta Vulpius, Elisabeth Schärtel, Maria Graf, Gustav Neidlinger, Astrid Varnay, Maria von Ilosvay, Wolfgang Windgassen, Georgine von Milinkovic, Mina Bolotine, Hermann Uhde, Josef Greindl, Gré Brouwenstijn

Bayreuth Festival Chorus & Orchestra, Joseph Keilberth

Recorded live at the 1955 Bayreuth Festival

OK, so I know that January’s CD of the Month was also an opera and I do try to vary these things, but what is one to do when faced with a set that reduces you to helpless, awestruck admiration (and, I admit it, tears) by its close? This is a worthy conclusion to a magnificent cycle. As before, most of the cast, familiar from other recordings, surpass themselves here. Windgassen may be more vocally secure for Solti but nowhere else is he so tender, so moving as here. Josef Greindl is a far more saturnine, charismatic Hagen here than elsewhere. But it is Astrid Varnay who is the great revelation. - Gramophone Magazine

GGramophone Awards 2007

Best of Category - Historic Archive

GGramophone Magazine

Disc of the Month - February 2007

Penguin Guide

Rosette Winner

BBC Music Magazine

Opera Choice - March 2007

Testament - SBT41393

(CD - 4 discs)

$55.99

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