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Elisabeth Söderström
voc, 1927-2009 SE, Stockholm
Classical
A.k.a. Elisabeth Anna Söderström
Elisabeth Anna Söderström CBE (7 May 1927 – 20 November 2009) was a Swedish soprano who performed both opera and song, and was known as a leading interpreter of the works of Janáček, Rachmaninov and Sibelius. She was particularly well known for her recordings of the lead soprano roles in the three Janáček operas Jenůfa, Káťa Kabanová, and The Makropoulos Affair, all of which received Gramophone Awards. The Gramophone critic John Warrack described her portrayal of Káťa Kabanová as "establishing by an infinity of subtle touches and discreet, sensitive singing the picture of Káta as the richest and most human character in the drama."
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Forkladd gud, Op. 24: Tror du, att faren skulle on Larsson: Förklädd Gud - Missa Brevis - De nakna trädens sånger by Lars-Erik Larsson & Eric Ericson Forkladd gud, Op. 24: Vad faller over traden for silverglans on Larsson: Förklädd Gud - Missa Brevis - De nakna trädens sånger by Lars-Erik Larsson & Eric Ericson Forkladd gud, Op. 24: Husbonden ma vi prisa sall. on Larsson: Förklädd Gud - Missa Brevis - De nakna trädens sånger by Lars-Erik Larsson & Eric Ericson Káta Kabanová / Act 2: Jste to vy, Katerino Petrovno? on Janácek: Kát'a Kabanová by Leoš Janáček, Elisabeth Söderström, Naděžda Kniplová, Peter Dvorsky, Wiener Philharmoniker & Sir Charles Mackerras Jenufa / Act 1: Uz se vecer chyli on Janácek: Jenufa by Leoš Janáček, Elisabeth Söderström, Peter Dvorsky, Eva Randová, Wiesław Ochman, Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper, Wiener Philharmoniker & Sir Charles Mackerras Messa Solemnis in D Major, Op. 123: I. Kyrie on Beethoven Missa Solemnis Op. 123 by Ludwig van Beethoven, Elisabeth Söderström, Marga Höffgen & Waldemar Kmentt Jenufa / Act 1: Co ty, Jenufo on Janácek: Jenufa by Leoš Janáček, Elisabeth Söderström, Peter Dvorsky, Eva Randová, Wiesław Ochman, Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper, Wiener Philharmoniker & Sir Charles Mackerras Messa Solemnis in D Major, Op. 123: II. Gloria in excelsis Deo on Beethoven Missa Solemnis Op. 123 by Ludwig van Beethoven, Elisabeth Söderström, Marga Höffgen & Waldemar Kmentt Jenufa / Act 1: Co to robis, mládku? on Janácek: Jenufa by Leoš Janáček, Elisabeth Söderström, Peter Dvorsky, Eva Randová, Wiesław Ochman, Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper, Wiener Philharmoniker & Sir Charles Mackerras Jenufa / Act 1: Dusa moya, Stevo, Stevusko on Janácek: Jenufa by Leoš Janáček, Elisabeth Söderström, Peter Dvorsky, Eva Randová, Wiesław Ochman, Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper, Wiener Philharmoniker & Sir Charles MackerrasTrack list and 30sec audio provided by 
Discography
| Title | Artist | Year | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intermezzo | Richard Strauss - Elisabeth Söderström, Glyndebourne Festival Opera Company, The London Philharmonic Orchestra, John Pritchard | 2011 | Album |
| Songs • Lady Macbeth Of Mtsensk | Dmitri Shostakovich – Larissa Diadkova, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Sergei Leiferkus, Ilya Levinsky, John Shirley-Quirk, Elisabeth Söderström, Elena Zaremba, Maria Ewing, Aage Haugland, Philip Langridge / Vladimir Ashkenazy • Myung-Whun Chung • Neeme Järvi | 2006 | Compil. |
| Káťa Kabanová | Leoš Janáček, Elisabeth Söderström, Peter Dvorský, Naděžda Kniplová, Wiener Philharmoniker, Sir Charles Mackerras | 2006 | Compil. |
| Le Nozze di Figaro (Die Hochzeit des Figaro) | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Otto Klemperer, Geraint Evans, Reri Grist, Elisabeth Söderström, Teresa Berganza, Gabriel Bacquier, Annelies Burmeister, Margaret Price, Werner Hollweg, Michael Langdon, Clifford Grant, Willi Brokmeier, Teresa Cahill, Kiri Te Kanawa, Henry Smith | 2004 | Album |
| Jenůfa | Leoš Janáček, Elisabeth Söderström, Wiesław Ochman, Eva Randová, Wiener Philharmoniker, Sir Charles Mackerras | 2000 | Album |
| Szenen Aus Der Rosenkavalier | Richard Strauss, Régine Crespin, Elisabeth Söderström, Hilde Güden, Heinz Holecek, Wiener Philharmoniker, Silvio Varviso | 2000 | Album |
| A Swedish Song Collection | Elisabeth Söderström | 1999 | Compil. |
| Glada Änkan - Greven Av Luxemburg | Franz Lehár - Per Grundén - Sonja Stjernquist - Elisabeth Söderström - Egon Kjerrmans Orkester | 1994 | Album |
| Untitled | Elisabeth Söderström & Kerstin Meyer, Jan Eyron | 1993 | Album |
| Goethe Lieder | Franz Schubert, Elisabeth Söderström, Paul Badura-Skoda | 1991 | Album |
| Pelléas Et Mélisande | Pierre Boulez, Claude Debussy, Elisabeth Söderström, George Shirley, Donald McIntyre, David Ward, Yvonne Minton, Chorus Of The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Orchestra Of The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | 1991 | Album |
| Les Illuminations ~ Bridge Variations ~ Simple Symphony | Benjamin Britten - Elisabeth Söderström, English Chamber Orchestra, Gilbert Levine | 1989 | Album |
| Pastorial, Suite, Songs, Chaconne, Trio No. 2 | Gunnar De Frumerie, Elisabeth Söderström, Kerstin Meyer, Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester, Stig Westerberg | 1988 | Album |
| Serenade For Tenor, Horn & Strings; Our Hunting Fathers; Folksong Arrangements | Benjamin Britten, Robert Tear, Alan Civil, Elisabeth Söderström, Sir Neville Marriner, Richard Armstrong, Northern Sinfonia, The Welsh National Opera Orchestra | 1988 | Album |
| Missa Solemnis / Choral Fantasia | Ludwig van Beethoven, Otto Klemperer, New Philharmonia Orchestra - Elisabeth Söderström, Marga Höffgen, Waldemar Kmentt, Martti Talvela, New Philharmonia Chorus / Daniel Barenboim, John Alldis Choir | 1988 | Compil. |
| Piano Quintet - Seven Romances On Poems Of Alexander Blok | Dmitri Shostakovich - Fitzwilliam String Quartet, Elisabeth Söderström, Vladimir Ashkenazy | 1987 | Album |
| Sinfonia Del Mare / Sinfonia Concertante | Gösta Nystroem, Elisabeth Söderström, Erling Bløndal Bengtsson, Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester, Stig Westerberg | 1987 | Compil. |
| Piano Quintet - Seven Romances On Poems Of Alexander Blok | Dmitri Shostakovich - Fitzwilliam String Quartet, Elisabeth Söderström, Vladimir Ashkenazy | 1987 | Album |
| Mša Glagolskaja (Glagolitic Mass) | Leoš Janáček : Elisabeth Söderström / Drahomíra Drobková / František Livora / Richard Novák / Jan Hora / Czech Philharmonic Chorus, The Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras | 1987 | Album |
| Chopin Songs- = Mélodies = Lieder | Frédéric Chopin, Elisabeth Söderström, Vladimir Ashkenazy | 1986 | Album |
| Symfoni Nr 4 c-moll, op. 39 "Från Havsbandet" | Hugo Alfvén, Stig Westerberg, Elisabeth Söderström, Stockholms Filharmoniska Orkester, Gösta Winbergh | 1986 | Album |
| Violinkonsert Nr 2; "...Resan I Denna Natt" | Hilding Rosenberg, Karl-Birger Blomdahl, Leon Spierer, Elisabeth Söderström, The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Arvid Jansons, Yuri Ahronovitch | 1985 | Album |
| Peer Gynt Suites, Music From Cinderella, Pelléas Et Mélisande | Edvard Grieg, Sergei Prokofiev, Gabriel Fauré, New Philharmonia Orchestra, The London Symphony Orchestra, Elisabeth Söderström, Andrew Davis | 1985 | Album |
| Songs = Melodies = Lieder | Jean Sibelius, Tom Krause, Elisabeth Söderström, Irwin Gage, Vladimir Ashkenazy | 1984 | Album |
| Goethe Lieder | Franz Schubert - Elisabeth Söderström, Paul Badura-Skoda | 1984 | Album |
| Tchaikovsky: Songs Vol. 2 | Elisabeth Söderström, Vladimir Ashkenazy | 1983 | Album |
| Jenůfa | Leoš Janáček / Elisabeth Söderström, Wiesław Ochman, Peter Dvorský, Eva Randová, Lucia Popp, Wiener Philharmoniker, Sir Charles Mackerras | 1983 | Album |
| The Unicorns / Henry The Fifth / Prometheus Unbound | Peter Dickinson, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Granville Bantock, Elisabeth Söderström, Solna Brass, Lars-Gunnar Björklund | 1983 | Album |
| Our Hunting Fathers / Folksongs With Orchestra | Benjamin Britten - Elisabeth Söderström, The Welsh National Opera Orchestra, Richard Armstrong | 1983 | Album |
| Tchaikovsky Songs, Vol. 1 | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Elisabeth Söderström, Vladimir Ashkenazy | 1982 | Album |
| Symphony No. 4 In C, Op. 39 "From The Seaward Skerries" | Hugo Alfvén - Elisabeth Söderström, Gösta Winbergh | 1982 | Album |
| Four Last Songs · Closing Scene From Capriccio · Marschallin's Monologue From Der Rosenkavalier | Elisabeth Söderström Sings Richard Strauss | 1982 | Album |
| Örhängen | Elisabeth Söderström, Håkan Sund, Clas Pehrsson | 1981 | Album |
| Lyrische Symphonie Op. 18 | Alexander Von Zemlinsky / Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin / Bernhard Klee / Elisabeth Söderström / Dale Duesing | 1981 | Album |
| Symphony No. 4 / Finlandia / Luonnotar | Jean Sibelius, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Elisabeth Söderström | 1981 | Album |
| Rachmaninov Songs Vol.5 | Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff, Elisabeth Söderström, Vladimir Ashkenazy | 1980 | Album |
| Elisabeth Söderström Sings Songs For Children | Modest Mussorgsky, Sergei Prokofiev, Alexander Gretchaninov, Elisabeth Söderström, Vladimir Ashkenazy | 1979 | Album |
| Věc Makropulos | Leoš Janáček, Elisabeth Söderström, Peter Dvorský • Beno Blachut, Wiener Philharmoniker, Sir Charles Mackerras | 1979 | Album |
| Rachmaninov Songs Vol. 4 | Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff, Elisabeth Söderström, Vladimir Ashkenazy | 1979 | Album |
| Symfoni Nr 4 c-moll, op. 39 "Från Havsbandet" | Hugo Alfvén, Stig Westerberg, Elisabeth Söderström, Stockholms Filharmoniska Orkester | 1979 | Album |
| Káťa Kabanová | Leoš Janáček, Elisabeth Söderström, Peter Dvorský, Naděžda Kniplová, Wiener Philharmoniker, Sir Charles Mackerras | 1977 | Album |
| Rachmaninov Songs - Volume 3 | Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff — Elisabeth Söderström, Vladimir Ashkenazy | 1977 | Album |
| Peer Gynt Suites Nos. 1 And 2 / Five Songs | Andrew Davis Conducts Edvard Grieg, Elisabeth Söderström, New Philharmonia Orchestra | 1977 | Album |
| Fennimore And Gerda | Frederick Delius, Elisabeth Söderström, Robert Tear, Meredith Davies, Danmarks Radios Symfoniorkester & Radiokoret | 1976 | Album |
| Sånger Vid Havet / Idyll / Sånger | Gösta Nystroem, Ture Rangström, Charles Ives, Kerstin Meyer, Elisabeth Söderström, Erik Saedén | 1976 | Album |
| Rachmaninov Songs Volume 2 | Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff, Elisabeth Söderström ∙ Vladimir Ashkenazy | 1976 | Album |
| Kodály, Tjajkovskij, Dvořák, Purcell, Wennerberg, Geijer, Rossini | Elisabeth Söderström, Kerstin Meyer, Jan Eyron | 1975 | Album |
| Rachmaninov Songs | Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff, Elisabeth Söderström, Vladimir Ashkenazy | 1975 | Album |
| Die Krönung Der Poppea | Claudio Monteverdi - Helen Donath • Elisabeth Söderström • Cathy Berberian • Paul Esswood, Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt | 1974 | Album |
| Caprice Med OD | Eric Ericson, Elisabeth Söderström, Yngve Gamlin, Orphei Drängar | 1972 | Album |
| Sinfonia Del Mare | Gösta Nystroem, Elisabeth Söderström, Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester | 1971 | Album |
| Lidholm Stenhammar Rosenberg | Ingvar Lidholm, Wilhelm Stenhammar, Hilding Rosenberg, Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester, Stig Westerberg, Elisabeth Söderström, Radiokören, Arve Tellefsen | 1971 | Album |
| Waldmärchen (Das Klagende Lied Part 1) / Adagio From Symphony No. 10 | Gustav Mahler - Pierre Boulez, Elisabeth Söderström, Grace Hoffman, Ernst Haefliger, Gerd Nienstedt | 1970 | Album |
| Missa Solemnis | Ludwig Van Beethoven - Otto Klemperer | 1966 | Album |
| Jenny Lind Songs | Elisabeth Söderström, Jan Eyron | 1966 | Album |
| Der Rosenkavalier | Richard Strauss, Régine Crespin, Elisabeth Söderström ∙ Hilde Güden ∙ Wiener Philharmoniker ∙ Silvio Varviso | 1965 | Album |
| Kung Eriks Visor, Divertimento Elegiaco | Ture Rangström, Elisabeth Söderström, Erik Saedén, Kungliga Hovkapellet, Stig Westerberg | 1960 | Album |
| Greven Av Luxenburg-Potpurri | Elisabeth Söderström, Per Grundén, Egon Kjerrmans Orkester | 1958 | Single |
| Sånger av Geijer, Almqvist, Stenhammar | Elisabeth Söderström, Erik Saedén, Stig Westerberg | 1957 | Album |
| Greven Av Luxemburg - Cirkus Prinsessan | Franz Lehár - Per Grundén - Sonja Stjernquist - Elisabeth Söderström - Egon Kjerrmans Orkester, Emmerich Kálmán | 1957 | Album |
| Lyrische Symphonie Op. 18 . Sechs Gesänge | Alexander Von Zemlinsky / Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin / Bernhard Klee / Elisabeth Söderström / Dale Duesing / Glenys Linos | Album | |
| Hovsångare På Konsertestraden | Jussi Björling / Elisabeth Söderström / Nicolai Gedda / Erik Saedén / Kerstin Meyer | Compil. | |
| Sibelius Complete Songs | Elisabeth Söderström, Tom Krause, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Irwin Gage, Carlos Bonell | Album | |
| Sista Valsen | Per Grundén, Elisabeth Söderström, Sune Waldimirs Orkester | Single | |
| Sånger Av E.G. Geijer, C.J.L. Almqvist, A.F. Lindblad, J.A. Josephson, Emil Sjögren | Elisabeth Söderström, Erik Saedén, Stig Westerberg | Album | |
| An Elisabeth Söderström Recital | Elisabeth Söderström | Album | |
| A Collection | Elisabeth Söderström | Compil. | |
| Ökensången | Egon Kjerrmans Orkester, Elisabeth Söderström, Per Grundén, Gösta Björling | Single | |
| Svenska Romanser | Elisabeth Söderström, Erik Saedén, Stig Westerberg | Album | |
| Untitled | Kerstin Meyer, Elisabeth Söderström, Jan Eyron - Wilhelm Stenhammar / Ture Rangström / Gösta Nystroem | Album | |
| Potpurri Ur Operetten Fågelhandlaren | Per Grundén, Elisabeth Söderström, Sonja Stjernquist, Egon Kjerrmans Kör Och Orkester | Single | |
| Potpurri Ur Operetterna Tiggarstudenten Och Fågelhandlaren | Per Grundén, Elisabeth Söderström, Olav Gerthel, Sonja Stjernquist | Compil. | |
| Otto Klemperer Dirigiert Ludwig Van Beethoven | Otto Klemperer, Ludwig van Beethoven, The London Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia Chorus London, Daniel Barenboim, Yehudi Menuhin, Waldemar Kmentt, Hans Hotter, Aase Nordmo Løvberg, Birgit Nilsson, John Alldis Choir, Christa Ludwig, Elisabeth Söderström, Marga Höffgen | Album | |
| An Elisabeth Soderstrom Recital | Elisabeth Söderström, Martin Isepp | Album |
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