Elisabeth Söderström (1927-2009) was a Swedish soprano, admired in Mozart, Strauss, Janáček, Tchaikovsky and song. She became one of the most intelligent and versatile singers of the later twentieth century.

In the Pristine catalogue she appears in Gounod’s Faust from the Metropolitan Opera with Jussi Björling and Cesare Siepi.

Söderström’s singing combined clarity, warmth and exceptional dramatic intelligence. She had the rare ability to make musical detail feel spontaneous rather than studied.

Her page is justified even from a small Pristine footprint. Söderström’s name brings a whole Nordic lantern-glow of vocal insight with it.