Iwa Sörenson: Poetic & Romantic Songs

Carl Jonas Love Almqvist (1793–1866)

1. You do not walk alone
2. The listening Mary
3. Mary’s amazement
4. Why did you come on the meadow?
5. Flower of the heart
6. The song of Tintomara

Adolf Fredrik Lindblad (1801–1878)

1. A Summer day
2. What do you believe? Well, well!
3. In a young girl´s memory book
4. Unrequited
5. In the evening
6. Near
7. In the Night
8. Resolve
9. Confidence
10. A young girl´s morning reflection
11. The evening
12. The Autumn evening
13. Karin Månsdotter’s lullaby for Erik XIV
14. Where is my home?
15. First loss
16. At Aarensee
17. Solace
18. The sleeping Amor

Torbjörn Iwan Lundqvist (1920–2000)

1. Out there is Summer breeze
2. Joyfully the birds so small are singing
3. The magpie is sitting on church’s tower part

Ingemar Liljefors (1906–1981)

1. Mirror song
2. Question and answer
3. Sunrise

Sven-Eric Johanson (1919–1997)

1. The Silence
2. Folk Tone 2000

Sven-Erik Bäck (1919–1994) Tre kinesiska dikter / Three Chinese poems

1. The full Moon
2. Poem
3. Written a rainy day for a friend in the North

Kerstin Jeppson (1948–) Kvinnosånger Women’s songs

1. The Rose
2. Discovery
3. Love Poem

The Swedish soprano Iwa Sörenson studied at the Music Academies in Gothenburg and Cologne and at the Opera School in Gothenburg. She made her opera début in Don Pasquale at Malmö Opera och Musikteater in 1978. She has appeared in leading rôles in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Le nozze di Figaro, Così fan tutte, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Faust, Les contes d’Hoffmann, Carmen, Rigoletto, Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Der Rosenkavalier, Arabella, Capriccio, Dialogues des Carmélites, La Bohème and The Cunning Little Vixen, among other works, at the Royal Swedish Opera.