wikipedia: Während der 55. Lindauer Psychotherapiewochen 2005 stellte Luise Reddemann die These auf, das Gedicht handele von einem Alptraum eines Opfers sexualisierter Gewalt, das den Täter in zwei Personen zerlege, nämlich in den Vater als „guten Vater“ und den Erlkönig als „bösen Vater“. Dass der Täter in Gestalt des „guten Vaters“ dem Opfer einrede, es bilde sich die Tat nur ein, sei typisch für das Verhalten von Tätern aus dem Nahbereich von Kindern.
I performed this song many years ago. Brilliant track. So much passion, and the many characters of the song make it so entertaining. The narrator, the father, the son, the Erlking. Just an amazing piece of music. Beautiful and terrifying.
2:57 ff shows that this is a father raping its own son to death. What a terrible story. This is totally pervert ! How can Goethe be handled as famous writer, when he writes and has such dirty thoughts about child abuse in his head. I would refuse to sing such a pervert song. Do you understand the text completely?
Friends of Schubert asked him to play this song...After he played it they asked if he could play it again...After the second time they said "Play it again!" and he couldn't because his fingers were fatigued :D ( True Story )
I think a lot of heavy metal artists drew on this for inspiration. This is pretty dark and fast so I think there's an argument that this partly laid the foundation for metal. The problem is you got intolerant douchebags like Gerstroncio
to everyone who's arguing the whole classical music over metal music...all i have to say is at first...there was only classical music, everything after is influenced by it...there are classical aspects in every single form of music LULCAEKZ ggs noobs
Extraordinaria interpretación. Fischer Dieskau individualiza perfectamente las cuatro voces, (del narrador, del padre, del niño y del rey de los silfos) y le imprime un dramatismo insuperable.. La versión de Hermann Prey, también es excelente, pero para mi inferior a esta y en la de Sir Thomas Allen, si bien su voz es hermosísima, no hace mayor distinción entre las 4 voces, restándole fidelidad a la obra.
The author of the blog at "Kashu-do: The Way of the Singer" wrote that he thinks Dieskau's passagi indicate a tenor who sang as a baritone with easy high range. Does anyone have any opinion on this? I really am not sure.
That's fine, you're entitled to your opinion that metal is noisy; but you call it music, meaning you acknowledge it as some form of art. I just pointed out someone trying to tell us what art is while dismissing another genre of music.
@orangedragan If you've had musichistory in say Norway, like I've had Classical music means both baroque, renaissance, romantic etc. We refer to classicism in music as wienerclassicism, because the musical center at the time was Vienna.
@vonFalkenstein77 So, it wasn't the fact that you didn't simply express your opinion, but went back to personally attack the poster, lambasting their heritage and culture? Oh, I'm sure it's just because you had a difference of opinion and not because you failed to express it like a rational human being.
@vonFalkenstein77 Good for Richard Strauss. Now, how is that relevant? Oh, right. That's his opinion, which he is entitled to, just like yours. The problem here was as follows: you were an obnoxious prat about it.
@vonFalkenstein77 Your assertion does not, in any way, negate the ridiculously overbearing nature of your behavior, including this remark. I'm not particularly fond of metal, but that doesn't mean people can't enjoy it and perceive some value in it. Rammstein is metal and they frequently draw from Goethe. Dalai Lama parallels Erlkönig, even. You are a self-righteous blowhard.
Haha I like how you took the time to look at what country I'm from, then double post. You're trying too hard to look smart, maybe you should get rid of your prejudice before you rant about "art." I didn't even criticize, or "tell you anything" about your "great classical composers," nor did I claim to be more intelligent than anyone. I simply pointed out your dismissive comment about metal. But I agree, you are indeed VERY sorry.
@CottlestonCottleston I wholly agree with you. vonFalkenstein77 has only succeeded in sounding like an elitist buffoon. Their immediate assumption of your idiocy and lack of culture is deliciously pompous and ironically makes them appear as stupid, because this IS a matter of knowing better but behaving foolishly anyway, as they accused you of being.
@lostota sorry, the son is sick, and the erlkonig is the goblin king who is trying to take the boy, but is merely an illusion, so the father does not understand what is happening to the boy, and the boy is taken by the goblin king, resulting in death
@vonFalkenstein77 Also, don't forget that many heavy metal musicians were influenced by classical musicians - Bach and Vivaldi seem to be the most common. Go see if you can find the tribute album version of Ozzy - Mr. Crowley or Suicide Solution and listen to the guitarist Randy Rhoads. You can hear the classical influence in his playing. It is too bad he died before fully blossoming as a musician.
@vonFalkenstein77 Well, just remember where metal came from. If you track metal back far enough, there is a parallel of specific elements to classical. Language is similar; for example, the parallels between Greek and English or the relationship between German and English as both "Germanic languages." In metal, harmony, chord structure, and even instruments being played are borrowed from the classical orchestra (keyboard, guitar, drums, bass, vocals).
@MilkAndFrosties You can't really name a band stating they "ripped this off" considering the entire genre, starting from it's roots were influenced by this kind of music.
OWNS. Definitely metal. An impassioned performance. Notice the vocalist face changing when singing each parts. It is as if he is mentally the erlkoning, then the child, then the father.
@Puertoricansniper yes, yes it was :D wonder if Moonspell will consider doing their own version (Portuguese or English) that would be sweet. @MeetTheNeet, Thanks for posting! I missed this in my Modern Music Appreciation class last week! :D
@RelayerDuos I know, you misunderstand what I said. I was saying that if he thinks this is metal, he has to listen to some baroque music, which is way more metal sounding than this.
@FFKpar I completely agree. I think this has the tone and intensity of good metal, but baroque is far more similar in construction. The ornamentation in both genres is insane.
@Puertoricansniper stop comparing metal to Classical. Classical is BETTER than metal. I just hate to break it to you. Metal copied Cassical music in many aspects.
@TheDavid2222 No shit Sherlock. Of course Metal copied classical. It's one of metal's biggest influences to date. Ever heard of prog. metal bands that use a lot of classical quirks? Symphony X being one example. Anyway, we all know that there are classical aspects in metal, but that doesn't mean you can't compare the two or you can say that one is better. They can both be appreciated equally. THAT is the way good musicians and educated people see it.
@TheDavid2222 if you had any musical education at all you would know that classical music is better. I have heard of nearly every metal subgenre in existence. Metal is better than most popular music, but is much worse than nearly all forms of art music. Educated people have refined taste, unlike you.
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@Puertoricansniper Schubert would be dissapointed with your comment and all those "thumbs up". Go listen your "metal" music and spread your ignorance there, this is not the place to do it.
@Gerstroncio Two things: 1. Are you Schubert? Would you know what he thinks? No. So don't pretend to. 2. You are trying to regulate the internet of all places. It doesn't work. Your farts don't smell that great, so take your head out of your butt and let people enjoy music however they like. It isn't up to the music god, Gerstroncio, to interpret music for others.
@Stringy007 You are very correct on this one. The thing is, if one were to transpose this onto guitars, sing the vocals in a less operatic style and add a drum section this certainly could be metal. Also, I'm wondering why the dude put 'metal' and 'thumbs up' in quotes. Are they somehow ironic?
Anybody here can say how he finds or interprets this music! That is how one can learn and judge.
In my view the professional university singer education is dominated by ultra conservative idiots who destruct any lovely or natural expressive human voice and creating inhuman voice monsters with such inhuman exercices. Only similar perverted listeners with repressive ultra conservative education, those of the sort "only what is hard and difficult is art" can stand this.
@Gerstroncio BEFORE it became all about being cool and fitting in and formulated, Metal was VERY similar to classical! There are videos of how similar VH's improvs are extremely similar to Bach's. Do your research, please!
@dappling484 That's not what metal has become at all, its not about fitting in, there are so many artists making truly incredible music, way after VH. In fact, I am currently making a metal version of this song. check out Animals as Leaders if you want some really original brand new metal
The point of course is that English is the sole truly international language and are we not so fortuante that this is understood by almost all - else, if each somehow felt out of an inferiority complex the need to promote their native tongue to communicate in an ionternational setting, god help us.
All communicated with the eyes and with facial expression. No extravagent and distracting gestures. Would that some younger singers would follow this good example. Think Gerald Moore (that poor pianist!) deserves a credit too.
@randapanda2009 which obviously explains the child's drastic, last gasp calls for help, as the Erlkonig becomes angry, instead of persuasive and takes the child for his own.
These movements are made even more powerful by Fischer-Dieskau's amazing talent in switching so quickly between the crazed happiness of the Erlkonig and the pleas of the child.
A terrible story, yet one of the most thecnically brilliant lieder's ever written.
@Joshua17404930 This song, in and of itself, is not hilarious. I also find it powerful and moving, even. However, I personally find that large men bellowing in deep, vibrato-rich German (while simultaneously gesticulating and making strange faces) to be very funny. So perhaps I should have stated, this *performance* is hilarious.
This video was good! I loved his facial expressions for each of the parts during the piece. This performer really got into the different parts of the piece, the Narrator, the Son, the Father and of course the Erlking! Loved this piece & THANK YOU for sharing! I actually used this for my Music Appreciation class and all of those who disliked it just do not have a good taste for good quality music!
*sigh* im only listening to this b/c i have to for a music test at school other than that the only german music i like is by Tokio Hotel <3333 They r the hottest german boy band ever!!!!! x]
i´m happy there are at least some people who´re interessted in our culture and history besides hitler and his liability.Thank you. Apart from that great performence
this song text is worse than Hitler ! Since Erlkings do not exist, except in phantasies of rapists as dust that shall psychologically cover how a father rapes his son to death.
Goethe the German thinker? ... perverted, useless outdated
That was an amazing performance! I was assigned to memorize this in high school 10 years ago and I can still recite it. But it's good to hear some better pronunciation than what I can do.
wikipedia: Während der 55. Lindauer Psychotherapiewochen 2005 stellte Luise Reddemann die These auf, das Gedicht handele von einem Alptraum eines Opfers sexualisierter Gewalt, das den Täter in zwei Personen zerlege, nämlich in den Vater als „guten Vater“ und den Erlkönig als „bösen Vater“. Dass der Täter in Gestalt des „guten Vaters“ dem Opfer einrede, es bilde sich die Tat nur ein, sei typisch für das Verhalten von Tätern aus dem Nahbereich von Kindern.
edgar0001 1 day ago
The favorite song of child rapists !
What a pervert art community !
edgar0001 1 day ago
I performed this song many years ago. Brilliant track. So much passion, and the many characters of the song make it so entertaining. The narrator, the father, the son, the Erlking. Just an amazing piece of music. Beautiful and terrifying.
bestiarius 2 days ago
I get nightmares because of 1:28
Lollopops93 2 weeks ago
@Lollopops93
2:57 ff shows that this is a father raping its own son to death. What a terrible story. This is totally pervert ! How can Goethe be handled as famous writer, when he writes and has such dirty thoughts about child abuse in his head. I would refuse to sing such a pervert song. Do you understand the text completely?
edgar0001 1 day ago
2:53
Best line of the poem. This guy reminds me of jack black.
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theyforcedmetosignup 3 weeks ago
Liszt did a good job with putting the piano part together.
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Iciebleu 1 month ago
Hallo wo bleiben die deutschen kommentare?
das ist ein deutsches gedicht ^^
jahrbacher077 1 month ago
This guy is the best Lied singer EVER! Enough said
Chaserpeach 1 month ago
Great musicians and fantastic music
Wonderful to listen to this
zazzombruder 2 months ago
The BEST rendition I've ever heard. Every measure is full in character and he really helps blend the text with the music!
hollytree1996 2 months ago
フィッシャー=ディースカウ、若い！ でも声はいつまでも変わらないね Very young, Fischer-Dieskau!
But doesn't voice change forever.
yoinohoshi 2 months ago in playlist シューベルト
german is hard :S
kasperk22 2 months ago
This probably sounds terribly weird, but this song inspired me to start learning German.
thephilosopherkartik 2 months ago
I love the transition between the king and the father and son.
fulmer6 2 months ago
Friends of Schubert asked him to play this song...After he played it they asked if he could play it again...After the second time they said "Play it again!" and he couldn't because his fingers were fatigued :D ( True Story )
PeterKeuneVideos 3 months ago
@relaxin001 Come on now, you don't honestly believe any genre is superior to classical now, do you?
m3anmik3y 3 months ago
It's not until "erreicht den Hof" that I realize I'm not breathing and gasp for air. This is amazing!
cdbaxte 3 months ago
What a performer, blows me away:D
1rorylynch1 3 months ago
Good
thomasm210797 4 months ago
Simplemente maravilloso.
mano6292 4 months ago
25 people didn't make the horse ride. . .
thesilentsilas 4 months ago
I think a lot of heavy metal artists drew on this for inspiration. This is pretty dark and fast so I think there's an argument that this partly laid the foundation for metal. The problem is you got intolerant douchebags like Gerstroncio
lunaboomboom 4 months ago 3
to everyone who's arguing the whole classical music over metal music...all i have to say is at first...there was only classical music, everything after is influenced by it...there are classical aspects in every single form of music LULCAEKZ ggs noobs
dtb2111 5 months ago
this song gives me the chills near the end.
ravenwda007 5 months ago 9
How did it take him 18 minutes to compose THIS?! God damnit Schubert stop being so awesome.
VKatze 5 months ago
Lovely singing. TY MeetTheNeet for posting.
paulostroff99 5 months ago
Dannnng, this gives me chills - he's so wonderful at being terrifying when he's 'playing' the Erlkonig.
CCNuck 5 months ago
great vid! thanks for uploading
ButterflyofOceans 6 months ago
Erlking = Slenderman
Nevetsteven 6 months ago 11
The facial expressions explain everythingLD
isaaccya 6 months ago
i love wat this song/poem means it should be made into a feature film
mranaya92 6 months ago
I remember my mum would play this song on the radio, and it would scare the bejesus out of me...
Stewie4guvna 7 months ago
He's not a singer, he's an actor- look at the different expressions for the different characters! Brilliant...
muulka 7 months ago 33
@muulka Actually, he's both. His technique is just as beautifully done. His voice has even more expression than his face.
Sareth740 1 week ago
Schubert was 18 when he wrote this,.. humility is not an unnecessary luxury....
Jerrez 7 months ago
reminds me of the lessons of art history ^^
Prinsesjuh22 7 months ago
I wish Germany was this classy nowadays
Skinnyoompalumpa 7 months ago
Extraordinaria interpretación. Fischer Dieskau individualiza perfectamente las cuatro voces, (del narrador, del padre, del niño y del rey de los silfos) y le imprime un dramatismo insuperable.. La versión de Hermann Prey, también es excelente, pero para mi inferior a esta y en la de Sir Thomas Allen, si bien su voz es hermosísima, no hace mayor distinción entre las 4 voces, restándole fidelidad a la obra.
axelmimi 7 months ago
Here for the music 4 final!
tetekeke 7 months ago
イイネｂ
1006kenokuno 8 months ago
his erlking face is so creepy but appropriate.
suyangsong 8 months ago
Go all listening final! WE ARE THE ELITE!
highoctaneman2 8 months ago
wow! who's the pianist????
marcohorowitz8 8 months ago
... notice that the accompanist, Gerald Moore, plays something very rhythmic ... something that IS NOT IN THE SCORE ... Gerald was a GREAT !
3NUNS 8 months ago
Schubert was such a genuis.
I love all the music composed by Schubert.
057gnb3316sef6 8 months ago 7
@057gnb3316sef6 Mhmm... you say you love ALL his music... he composed some shit too... But his masterpieces are ones of the best ever composed !
PatateRoussoiste 8 months ago
The author of the blog at "Kashu-do: The Way of the Singer" wrote that he thinks Dieskau's passagi indicate a tenor who sang as a baritone with easy high range. Does anyone have any opinion on this? I really am not sure.
pie0my 8 months ago
Hear Erlkönig with Svanholm!!!
vera62able 8 months ago
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@Wotansabschied
That's fine, you're entitled to your opinion that metal is noisy; but you call it music, meaning you acknowledge it as some form of art. I just pointed out someone trying to tell us what art is while dismissing another genre of music.
CottlestonCottleston 9 months ago
@vonFalkenstein77
Actually, this music orginates in the Romantic period, not the Classical.
orangedragan 9 months ago 7
@orangedragan If you've had musichistory in say Norway, like I've had Classical music means both baroque, renaissance, romantic etc. We refer to classicism in music as wienerclassicism, because the musical center at the time was Vienna.
FilmTuffen 8 months ago
@vonFalkenstein77
Tange ;)
CottlestonCottleston 9 months ago
@vonFalkenstein77 So, it wasn't the fact that you didn't simply express your opinion, but went back to personally attack the poster, lambasting their heritage and culture? Oh, I'm sure it's just because you had a difference of opinion and not because you failed to express it like a rational human being.
ShijiFuuten 9 months ago
@vonFalkenstein77 Good for Richard Strauss. Now, how is that relevant? Oh, right. That's his opinion, which he is entitled to, just like yours. The problem here was as follows: you were an obnoxious prat about it.
ShijiFuuten 9 months ago
Whao ! We want to sleep after hear that a child died in his fathers arm's
TomZanovich 9 months ago
@vonFalkenstein77
Whatever makes you feel better. Di lang kau mar nong mag saltang ib ng lengahe, tange. ;)
CottlestonCottleston 9 months ago
@vonFalkenstein77 Your assertion does not, in any way, negate the ridiculously overbearing nature of your behavior, including this remark. I'm not particularly fond of metal, but that doesn't mean people can't enjoy it and perceive some value in it. Rammstein is metal and they frequently draw from Goethe. Dalai Lama parallels Erlkönig, even. You are a self-righteous blowhard.
ShijiFuuten 9 months ago
@vonFalkenstein77
Haha I like how you took the time to look at what country I'm from, then double post. You're trying too hard to look smart, maybe you should get rid of your prejudice before you rant about "art." I didn't even criticize, or "tell you anything" about your "great classical composers," nor did I claim to be more intelligent than anyone. I simply pointed out your dismissive comment about metal. But I agree, you are indeed VERY sorry.
CottlestonCottleston 9 months ago
@CottlestonCottleston I wholly agree with you. vonFalkenstein77 has only succeeded in sounding like an elitist buffoon. Their immediate assumption of your idiocy and lack of culture is deliciously pompous and ironically makes them appear as stupid, because this IS a matter of knowing better but behaving foolishly anyway, as they accused you of being.
ShijiFuuten 9 months ago
i think
son loves his father
and father's love to his son is truth
but...son=der erlkönig
lostota 9 months ago
@lostota sorry, the son is sick, and the erlkonig is the goblin king who is trying to take the boy, but is merely an illusion, so the father does not understand what is happening to the boy, and the boy is taken by the goblin king, resulting in death
DistinctlyRandom 7 months ago
Es ist wirklich wunderbar.
Nikoletta47 9 months ago
@vonFalkenstein77
It's a shame to see someone mention "art" and call metal "just noisy."
CottlestonCottleston 9 months ago
マジで凄い迫力。フィッシャーディスカウ、さすがです。
zowzow1 9 months ago
@vonFalkenstein77 Also, don't forget that many heavy metal musicians were influenced by classical musicians - Bach and Vivaldi seem to be the most common. Go see if you can find the tribute album version of Ozzy - Mr. Crowley or Suicide Solution and listen to the guitarist Randy Rhoads. You can hear the classical influence in his playing. It is too bad he died before fully blossoming as a musician.
aimson 9 months ago
@vonFalkenstein77 Well, just remember where metal came from. If you track metal back far enough, there is a parallel of specific elements to classical. Language is similar; for example, the parallels between Greek and English or the relationship between German and English as both "Germanic languages." In metal, harmony, chord structure, and even instruments being played are borrowed from the classical orchestra (keyboard, guitar, drums, bass, vocals).
aimson 9 months ago
@MilkAndFrosties You can't really name a band stating they "ripped this off" considering the entire genre, starting from it's roots were influenced by this kind of music.
Puertoricansniper 9 months ago
Best Ending EVER! you just dont expect that
TheHuMoCa 9 months ago 2
One of the most beautiful german poems. My Grandma and her genereation had to learn it by heart and I did too, because it's great :3
YumikoYuuhi 9 months ago
Is it Gerald Moore playing the piano?
FilmTuffen 9 months ago
omg This Lied is so creepy!!!!! please check out the English translation
dastinyisnow 9 months ago
amazing
AsiaKenny 9 months ago
Right hand 16th note torture.
dizzack 10 months ago
@dizzack Triplets actually, but yes.
matt92091 9 months ago
Amazing!
Linhlansusu 10 months ago
Less views than Von Mutter's video? Where's the ears?
kzelmer 10 months ago
This scared the crap out of me...Listening to it while reading the translation as a kid...
I was afraid to walk by the creek by myself from then on...
Kimbelle10 10 months ago 5
das is sehr gut!!!
croxxification 10 months ago
Er hat vergessen zu sagen, was mit dem Kind ist. :D Jetzt weiß ich nicht, wie's ausgeht....:D
SweeneyTodd971 10 months ago
hey, its vintage F-D. Who contests he was the most beautiful supple baritone of the 20th c.?
Tplanaha 10 months ago 3
Good night ^^
PsychoWerther 10 months ago
breathtaking, it's the most dramatic thing I have ever listen to
adelfiano 10 months ago
Magnifique, grâce à son regard le chanteur nous fait tout comprendre! On voit bien les trois personnages et quel pianiste!!!!
Myiamay 11 months ago
OWNS. Definitely metal. An impassioned performance. Notice the vocalist face changing when singing each parts. It is as if he is mentally the erlkoning, then the child, then the father.
dhtmlkitchen 11 months ago 3
@dhtmlkitchen I thought I was the only one who thought of this as extremely heavy metal.
traveller982 10 months ago
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This my friends... Is the first metal song ever.
Puertoricansniper 11 months ago 272
@Puertoricansniper yes, yes it was :D wonder if Moonspell will consider doing their own version (Portuguese or English) that would be sweet. @MeetTheNeet, Thanks for posting! I missed this in my Modern Music Appreciation class last week! :D
ReplicatorFifth 10 months ago
@Puertoricansniper ALL HAIL RIFF #1!!!!!!
alsharpton666 10 months ago
@Puertoricansniper
You should listen to some Baroque music, there is tons of metal going on there(ie. Vivaldi, Bach)
FFKpar 10 months ago
@FFKpar Dude, this is romantic era Lied. over 100 later than the Baroque era.
RelayerDuos 9 months ago
@RelayerDuos I know, you misunderstand what I said. I was saying that if he thinks this is metal, he has to listen to some baroque music, which is way more metal sounding than this.
FFKpar 9 months ago
@FFKpar I completely agree. I think this has the tone and intensity of good metal, but baroque is far more similar in construction. The ornamentation in both genres is insane.
ShijiFuuten 9 months ago
@Puertoricansniper
I agree this is amazing
mccart72 10 months ago
@Puertoricansniper and some people think Metal has nothing to do with "Classical" music
TheHuMoCa 9 months ago
@Puertoricansniper stop comparing metal to Classical. Classical is BETTER than metal. I just hate to break it to you. Metal copied Cassical music in many aspects.
TheDavid2222 9 months ago
@TheDavid2222 No shit Sherlock. Of course Metal copied classical. It's one of metal's biggest influences to date. Ever heard of prog. metal bands that use a lot of classical quirks? Symphony X being one example. Anyway, we all know that there are classical aspects in metal, but that doesn't mean you can't compare the two or you can say that one is better. They can both be appreciated equally. THAT is the way good musicians and educated people see it.
Puertoricansniper 9 months ago
@TheDavid2222 if you had any musical education at all you would know that classical music is better. I have heard of nearly every metal subgenre in existence. Metal is better than most popular music, but is much worse than nearly all forms of art music. Educated people have refined taste, unlike you.
TheDavid2222 9 months ago
@TheDavid2222
miseducation is worser than no education
edgar0001 1 day ago
@Puertoricansniper lol, you better listen to bachs brandemburg concerto no 5. fucking solo is true baroque metal
macrocec 9 months ago
@Puertoricansniper
nnnnnnnnn
FRuhm1 8 months ago
@Puertoricansniper lmao...it really is isn't it
a1Drummer07 8 months ago
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@Puertoricansniper Schubert would be dissapointed with your comment and all those "thumbs up". Go listen your "metal" music and spread your ignorance there, this is not the place to do it.
Gerstroncio 7 months ago
@Gerstroncio Two things: 1. Are you Schubert? Would you know what he thinks? No. So don't pretend to. 2. You are trying to regulate the internet of all places. It doesn't work. Your farts don't smell that great, so take your head out of your butt and let people enjoy music however they like. It isn't up to the music god, Gerstroncio, to interpret music for others.
Stringy007 6 months ago 47
@Stringy007 You are very correct on this one. The thing is, if one were to transpose this onto guitars, sing the vocals in a less operatic style and add a drum section this certainly could be metal. Also, I'm wondering why the dude put 'metal' and 'thumbs up' in quotes. Are they somehow ironic?
KingOfRoll 6 months ago
@Stringy007
Anybody here can say how he finds or interprets this music! That is how one can learn and judge.
In my view the professional university singer education is dominated by ultra conservative idiots who destruct any lovely or natural expressive human voice and creating inhuman voice monsters with such inhuman exercices. Only similar perverted listeners with repressive ultra conservative education, those of the sort "only what is hard and difficult is art" can stand this.
edgar0001 1 day ago
@Gerstroncio BEFORE it became all about being cool and fitting in and formulated, Metal was VERY similar to classical! There are videos of how similar VH's improvs are extremely similar to Bach's. Do your research, please!
dappling484 5 months ago 3
@dappling484 That's not what metal has become at all, its not about fitting in, there are so many artists making truly incredible music, way after VH. In fact, I am currently making a metal version of this song. check out Animals as Leaders if you want some really original brand new metal
IWishIWasFinnish 1 month ago
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joske8400 1 week ago
@Gerstroncio yo fagot du bist zurückgeblieben was ist los mit metal
joske8400 1 week ago
Creepy poem. Love the piano.
NiymbleFingers 11 months ago
Mark Tatlow!!!
Chopofiev 11 months ago
I love how old audio changes the key of everything.
plantsax1210 11 months ago
@plantsax1210 It doesn't, this is probably played in F minor for the baritone voice, a tone down from the original :P
rossyxan 11 months ago
@rossyxan it is played in f. g is the right tonality.
PrinsTan 11 months ago
@rossyxan it is played in f. g is the right tonality. Or at least the original one in the four different versions
PrinsTan 11 months ago
@PrinsTan
you only know 4 versions?
Tplanaha 10 months ago
It is a great singing voice! The song’s music class at school music lessons. The piano was a wonderful sound!
Erlkonig are pretty good songs!
tobufun2 11 months ago
fuck this bitch
misterlumpy 11 months ago
normal mag ich sowas ja eig. garnicht aba des ist wirklich so scheiße geil also respekt :)
CJAchatz 11 months ago
THIS ONE IT'S GOOD FOR CLASS
akuamenyon 11 months ago
Зверски трудная вещь ... В правой руке всё время как минимум октавы , темп - бешеный , ноты открываешь , а там - сплошная чернота ...
lorelea131 11 months ago
Awesome:)
dctrtuba1 11 months ago
The point of course is that English is the sole truly international language and are we not so fortuante that this is understood by almost all - else, if each somehow felt out of an inferiority complex the need to promote their native tongue to communicate in an ionternational setting, god help us.
sorim1967 11 months ago
@sorim1967 You're an ignorant moron, and if English is so international, why is your grammar worse than my four-year olds?
QuantumRevelations 11 months ago
"If you don't know German, you should check out the lyrics in English. "
1) Les sous-titres en allemand ici seraient bien...
2) Quand on ne connaît pas l'allemand, on ne parle pas nécessairement anglais !
YvesGingras 11 months ago 2
All communicated with the eyes and with facial expression. No extravagent and distracting gestures. Would that some younger singers would follow this good example. Think Gerald Moore (that poor pianist!) deserves a credit too.
terrybaritone 11 months ago
Экзамен для концертмейстера!!!
fotofalcon1 11 months ago
Dude, its not all that hard to play, but to do triplets through the whole thing cramps my hand up through the whole thing...
Swabby88 1 year ago
That poor pianist.
stephencassista 1 year ago 2
I don't care if Goethe never approved of his poem being made into song: this is excellent.
bannable 1 year ago
@bannable Acutally later (after Schubert died) he began to appreciate it....took him long enough.
JeannineAnne 1 year ago
@bannable He probably didn't approve because he was a narcissistic dick.
595o 7 months ago
i put up an english version with lyrics if it helps anyone? :)
coverman101 1 year ago
素晴らしい！！
アップありがとうございます！！
Havlurinn 1 year ago
Wer reitet so spät durch Nacht und Wind?
Es ist der Vater mit seinem Kind.
Er hat den Knaben wohl in dem Arm,
Er faßt ihn sicher, er hält ihn warm.
Ryak1234 1 year ago
five billion stars to this video, schubert was a genious!!
srbiruga 1 year ago
Love this!!!
sirMEGADACTYL 1 year ago
I LOVE his facial expressions and how the transitions between them are abrupt. He has a beautiful voice :)
chibilover4ever 1 year ago
I love Franz Schubert. He is one of the best!
057gnb3316sef6 1 year ago
wonderful
yui4me 1 year ago
sad story :( gotta love the Romantic Era though :D
leafninja247 1 year ago
is that the guy from full metal jacket???
GrimKvltTroll 1 year ago
@GrimKvltTroll
No, he would have kicked the sergeant
6lues6rother 1 year ago
I loved this from the first time i heard it.
CobHatecrewNor 1 year ago
gives me goosebumps :)
Moombaboarder13 1 year ago
He is freaking amazing!!!!
readwritesing14 1 year ago
the Ekling part is by far the creepiest thing i've ever heard. It is sweatily demonic.
nocodenull 1 year ago
Bravo!
MacGirvan 1 year ago
@randapanda2009 which obviously explains the child's drastic, last gasp calls for help, as the Erlkonig becomes angry, instead of persuasive and takes the child for his own.
These movements are made even more powerful by Fischer-Dieskau's amazing talent in switching so quickly between the crazed happiness of the Erlkonig and the pleas of the child.
A terrible story, yet one of the most thecnically brilliant lieder's ever written.
jomobro 1 year ago 4
The video of choice for my music teacher. He pulled up youtube to show us this very video.
Fuzunga 1 year ago
We took this up in music class.
The exact same piece. Both the pianist/piano piece and singer did well.
Bravo!
ryokoryuen 1 year ago
Interesting song. INteresting that he was actually in an American POW camp during WWII and sang to other german soldiers
dangolf1890 1 year ago
One of the great performances on Youtube. If we could only go back in time, and have them perform requests.
mdehkram 1 year ago
DFD at his very best. Schubert does more in 4 minutes than Wager can in 4 hours!
edjjg111 1 year ago 3
He is a singer and an actor! <3
ebatdorf09 1 year ago
truly great performance, so dramatic!
dajohnthomas69 1 year ago
Absolutely love this piece
jasminjohnson89 1 year ago
@Joshua17404930 This song, in and of itself, is not hilarious. I also find it powerful and moving, even. However, I personally find that large men bellowing in deep, vibrato-rich German (while simultaneously gesticulating and making strange faces) to be very funny. So perhaps I should have stated, this *performance* is hilarious.
saintsfan1043 1 year ago
This video was good! I loved his facial expressions for each of the parts during the piece. This performer really got into the different parts of the piece, the Narrator, the Son, the Father and of course the Erlking! Loved this piece & THANK YOU for sharing! I actually used this for my Music Appreciation class and all of those who disliked it just do not have a good taste for good quality music!
Joshua17404930 1 year ago
----THIS WAS MY GIRLFRIEND MAKING THIS POST.
Joshua17404930 1 year ago
i really don't know why have 15 people dislike this vid????? are they justin bieber?
wanghao414 1 year ago
i really don't know why have 15 people dislike this vid?????
wanghao414 1 year ago
これ学校の音楽時間に習ったｗ
5927gt 1 year ago
*sigh* im only listening to this b/c i have to for a music test at school other than that the only german music i like is by Tokio Hotel <3333 They r the hottest german boy band ever!!!!! x]
wondergirls2448 1 year ago
@MacGirvan The last words are actually "war tot"
edblah 1 year ago
i´m happy there are at least some people who´re interessted in our culture and history besides hitler and his liability.Thank you. Apart from that great performence
mauriceriegler 1 year ago 2
@mauriceriegler Well said
QuantumRevelations 11 months ago
@mauriceriegler
this song text is worse than Hitler ! Since Erlkings do not exist, except in phantasies of rapists as dust that shall psychologically cover how a father rapes his son to death.
Goethe the German thinker? ... perverted, useless outdated
edgar0001 1 day ago
声音はもちろん、かわいいけど怯えた顔、
うさんくさい笑顔、怖い顔・・
どれも全然違っててすごい！
ってしょうもない感想しか言えないけど・・
あと最後めちゃくちゃ体でかいのにびっくりしたｗ
ruokalarock 1 year ago
The last word is kaput.
MacGirvan 1 year ago
@MacGirvan It was? well i didn't hear it.....
merekandgavin56789 1 year ago
@merekandgavin56789 He sung it very quietly.
MacGirvan 1 year ago
That was an amazing performance! I was assigned to memorize this in high school 10 years ago and I can still recite it. But it's good to hear some better pronunciation than what I can do.
lunarjog 1 year ago