Probably one of the best interpretations of this piece I have ever seen/heard. Anne Sofie von Otter does a phenomenal job of capturing the audience's attention and make subtle changes in her demeanor to go from one character to another (narrator, son, father, erlkonig)... WOW!
This is the best interpretation of Johann Wolfgang Goethe's ballad coupled with the genius of Franz Schubert. Anne Sofie von Otter did a brilliant job and I had to replay her short performance at least a dozen times. Anne Sofie's performance is peerless the same way as both Schubert and Goethe are peerless in their respective art forms.
As a 20 year old, I find it sad that when searching for Schubert, AutoComplete comes back with "School fights, Schweddy Balls, and School of Rock" first. I'm kind of let down by my generation right now...
When Schubert was growing up I can assure you the main songs being sold and broadcasted were modern songs and not church modes from hunderds of years before.
Great performance and non verbal language to help tell the story, although sad that the little boy gets killed in the end (too bad it was too late when the boy's father finaly realized that his son's fears were justified). :(
There are several good reasons that this piece is usually sung by a man. Also, I don't think her changes in timbre are really convincing enough to pull off the four different characters.
Still, she has the range and drama to pull it off passably.
@LanceVader I think she does a wonderful job. Consider again from 3;44 to the end. She goes from compassionate observation to scathing commentary in a matter of milliseconds. I still don't see how she did it, and I've watched it over and over again. The movements of the camera add to the drama, but I would have liked to have seen Otter as she changed character physically as well as vocally.
@andrecooper555 I grew up on Prey, Fisher-Dieskau, etc. (only men) singing this song, and never even considered a woman for the roles. The higher voice also seems "more convincing" (???) for the child, even when he is horrified out of his mind. It also make the Erlkonig seem more “innocent”, alluring and sinister. I loved this (but I also like Florence Foster Jenkins’ Queen of the Night—just kidding!!!).
@LanceVader i don't think i have ever heard anyone do the different characters as good as von Otter (i mean it, niether Fisher-Dieskau nor Quasthoff), and this is an effin live recording
@LanceVader Yup - it's pitched a little too high for the father's part to carry itself properly. But she does a good job of keeping the seductive verse light and airy.
this is der erlkoenig in times of harry potter franchise and high speed internet. or in one word - a blockbuster on steroids.
i do not think that such large approach brings the same lavel of substence to the piece like, say, if a woodcut print miniature would be blowed up to the size of murals of, say, Siqueiros or Rivera.
also, i have to admit otter's der erlkoenig part is very convincing, therefore she is a great villian, hahahaha...
this is the reason why one should learn what one is singing! Her faces are amazing, and i believe that the only way one can truly develop the emotion and height needed for this piece is to understand what one is saying. This is amazing!
It's hard to believe Schubert was a shy homosexual who contracted syphilis... otherwise HE would be the driving force of Vienna. Not that ringer Beethoven. Don't get me wrong- Beethoven was great, but can you believe that THIS came from such a shy, feminine guy?
@Nicebrass21 Actually, that's all supposition based on Schubert being a confirmed bachelor and the degree of affection expressed in his letters to his male friends. But back in the Romantic era, men weren't afraid to express passionate regard for one another in very flowery terms. They shared beds, kissed each other hello and goodbye and even good morning. Especially for someone as unloved as Schubert, those friendships were precious, but we really don't know if they were sexual in nature.
Her soft voice and the even more dramatic orchestra really brings out the contrast between the child/father's desperation and the erlking's manipulative crooning
This really should be done by a male singer with the original piano accompaniment - the orchestral adaptation is truly dreadful. Just out of curiosity, does anyone know who arranged it?
Anyway, ms von Otter is so terrifying that it took me a good 10 listens to even notice An unbelievably brilliant performance.
@Chrysothemis No less than Hector Berlioz orchestrated this. But the point is still fair. It's hard to say that the orchestration adds much that isn't already there in the piano version, but it does allow the song to be performed in orchestral concerts.
@thesafekind Berlioz, huh? Actually, that makes so much sense I'm almost embarrassed for not guessing it in the first place. Thanks for the info, and I agree with your points.
@Chrysothemis There's another version Liszt. I'm not sure what the differences are. I think the triplets in an orchestra lose the percussive sounds that mimic the hoofbeats of the horse.
This is fantastic...nothing to add, nothing to criticize...just perfect! Both, piece and performance, make accelerate my pulse...Hearing this, I feel truly alive.
The text to the song she sings is in german book in school. Wenn I first read it, I fall in love with it. I loved the text. So good, but still so sad. <3<3
This was really intense and scary. i didnt think i would like it but i had to do a report in school and i had to listen to this and it was interesting.
I'm a huge fan of this song. However, I do believe Schubert's ending was... Lousy. I know I'm not one to criticize a man exponentially greater than I, but I would have ended it with a major seventh on "war" and up to the tonic on "tot" with the orchestra following along. But... that's just me. I'm sure Schubert had his reasons.
Bravo ! Pour moi, c'est la meilleure version de ce chant parumi les versions chantees par des femmes.
La voix, la technique, l'interpretation et meme, l'expression de la figure d'Anne Sofie von Otter, en plus, le son effayant des violons, tout ca m'a vraiment fait peur. Cette video est merveilleuse !
@vivegedda Pourtant je trouve que Norman fait bien plus de distinctions entre les différents personnages de Fischer-Dieskau par exemple. Tu aurais des références ?
@PatateRoussoiste I agree! The differences between the characters are eerily distinct in Norman's performance. I just checked out the Fischer-Dieskau performance and another baritone and I still prefer the soprano interpretations--more variation in the color.
@vivegedda Si, sono d'accordissimo: solo la voce di un uomo... questa versione è ...puajj.. isterica,, folle, suonerebbe male anche per Schubert.. Per me la più bella, drammatica, poetica, equilibrata eè quella di T. ALLEN ( la puoi ascoltare qui)
This songs brings me to my knees everytime. Shubert's epic craftmenship of musical artistry, combined with the dark romatismn of Goethe and a brilliant soloist draws my heart to heaven.
Ich liebe diese Musike und den Gedicht von Goethe. Das ist so haftend.
Bravo.
J'adore cette musique. Le poème à l'origine de Goethe est très beau et très prenant. Un grand bravo pour cette mise en musique qui n'est pas des moindres.
This is a three way conversation between the erl king, a spirit that the child can see, the child's father and the boy himself. The boy is very ill and being rushed home on horseback. The boy tells his father he sees the erl king, a ghostly spirit "with a crown and a tail". He father says "it is just the mist". THe boy says the erl king is talking to him and touching him. The father says "it is just the willows". The boy says "the erl king comes for me". The boy shivers, cries out, and dies.
My padre showed me Fischer-Dieskau's chilling performance of this when I was seven and translated it for me. Scared the living shit out of me.. @_@ Beautiful singing for Fischer-Dieskau & von Otter :3 "Meine töchter führen den nächtlichen Reihn, und wiegen und tanzen und singen dich ein" <3
What a performance, I don't know what scares me more, the creepy orchestra part, von Otter's interpretation, or Claudio Abbado's "I am going to kill you and eat your babies" expression when he turns his head to the left at 3:10!
To clarify, I really like this version...when I said it scares me, I meant in a good way, like it's supposed to! I realize that could have gone over as "it's so bad, it's scary," but that wasn't my intent...Erlkonig can be sung very effectively by a woman.
I... HATE... that voice! >:[ but her interpretation is quite good! and all her high notes are crystal clear. And her "Hat mir ein Leids gethan". but that "war tot"... KILLS it! she could learn a thing or two (or 1,000) from Dieskau, even Norman or Quasthoff.
Trivial comment, but this is the only, and I mean only time I have seen Abbado use a score! (Was this piece orchestrated by someone other than Schubert because I had only heard it with piano)
This group is amazing, the strings kept the passion, the imminence and intensity of what is mostly constant triplets in their parts throughout the entire piece.
@lehrent I agree, but did you know that sometimes, when someone changes the placement of teeth using braces, invisalign, etc. it changes the way their voice comes out? Weird, huh?
@lulzlover Was just thinking that when I looked this up just now. Well, Rammstein kinda did a metal version, but it was more of an "inspired by" then an actual metal version since the poem was different and wasn't even Schubert's. Actually I think there might have been a metal version but I forgot where I heard it if I ever did find it.
Wow. I thought Jessye Norman's was unique, but here is an equal. Different, but superb. I love how she (like Norman or Fischer-Dieskau) sings the different characters.
On the surface an exciting performance but on further hearing definitely overwrought at the start -- has no where to build to. Needs to start more calmly then build up to the hysteria later in the narrative.
"High born" lol - this phrase alone is outdated and a relic of a time, where people were privileged because of the family they were born in . And of course nobody has to respect the fact thant some people still divide the world in high born and low born only because of a "von" or aristocrativ family. If a Mr. Smith or Miller is "yet so down to earth" it is the same achievement as if a Mr. von Donnerstein or zu Friedensberg is, even if the father is a baron.-But her singing is of course great.
at 2:24 she sings "sie singen und wiegen und tanzen dich ein." shouldn't it be: "Und wiegen und tanzen und singen dich ein.? At least thats what Goethe wrote..
Nozdryov...not too bad !!! Sie ist eigentlich herrlich und wunderbar, perfekt und rührend. Wenn du nicht imstande bist, das zu ergreifen, hör doch andere Musik zu.
...a deep voice... zum Teufel du besserwisserischer Unerfahrener, die Interpretation muß tief sein und und das von Otter macht prächtig mit vier verschiedenen Tönen in ihrer schönen Stimme
@Nozdryov ....not too bad!!!!! Was meinst du ?Sie ist eigentlich herrlich und wunderbar, perfekt und rührend. Wenn du nicht imstande bist, das zu ergreifen, hör doch bitte andere Musik zu.
... a deep voice...lächerlich! Zum Teufel du kleiner bessewisserischer Unerfharener, die Interpretation muß tief sein und das von Otter macht prächtig mit vier verschiedenen Tönen in ihrer schönen Stimme
Oh right - no one is at all here for the sex appeal of... of... umm... so HEY that Schubert's a gifted fellow huh!
UNDENATUREDisaword 4 days ago
crap remark about metal gets most thumbs up. am I the only one here for the music then?
goemaeregert 1 week ago
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hate music like this...okay you can sing high good job...beethoven symphony 9 4th mvt ftw
ognimoddd 1 month ago
@ognimoddd Get out and never comment on videos like these again please
chocotastic 1 month ago 3
@chocotastic umm let me think abotu that................no
ognimoddd 1 month ago
Probably one of the best interpretations of this piece I have ever seen/heard. Anne Sofie von Otter does a phenomenal job of capturing the audience's attention and make subtle changes in her demeanor to go from one character to another (narrator, son, father, erlkonig)... WOW!
HopeFaithLove19 1 month ago 4
me costo entender este poema ,por el idioma ...pero me resulto hermoso....gracias por publicar
vitama1 1 month ago
Holy crap, it's slendy-kun!
XXmello42 2 months ago
This is the best interpretation of Johann Wolfgang Goethe's ballad coupled with the genius of Franz Schubert. Anne Sofie von Otter did a brilliant job and I had to replay her short performance at least a dozen times. Anne Sofie's performance is peerless the same way as both Schubert and Goethe are peerless in their respective art forms.
duncan19018 2 months ago
tut mir leid, die stimme ist einfach zu hoch.
13oleo13 2 months ago
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gabeproject 2 months ago 39
As a 20 year old, I find it sad that when searching for Schubert, AutoComplete comes back with "School fights, Schweddy Balls, and School of Rock" first. I'm kind of let down by my generation right now...
TheBlackshirtHusker 2 months ago 2
@TheBlackshirtHusker
When Schubert was growing up I can assure you the main songs being sold and broadcasted were modern songs and not church modes from hunderds of years before.
ACEDcomputers 1 month ago in playlist Music Final Exam 2
AMAZING!!!!!!!!!
dark999crow 3 months ago
Impressive song for an 18 year old boy (written 1815, Schubert born 1797) :O
rossyxan 4 months ago
she does best erlkönig
SingSumKun 4 months ago
Great performance and non verbal language to help tell the story, although sad that the little boy gets killed in the end (too bad it was too late when the boy's father finaly realized that his son's fears were justified). :(
peachesncream61 4 months ago
Que chingonería!
volodya75 4 months ago
There are several good reasons that this piece is usually sung by a man. Also, I don't think her changes in timbre are really convincing enough to pull off the four different characters.
Still, she has the range and drama to pull it off passably.
LanceVader 5 months ago
@LanceVader I think she does a wonderful job. Consider again from 3;44 to the end. She goes from compassionate observation to scathing commentary in a matter of milliseconds. I still don't see how she did it, and I've watched it over and over again. The movements of the camera add to the drama, but I would have liked to have seen Otter as she changed character physically as well as vocally.
andrecooper555 4 months ago
@andrecooper555 I grew up on Prey, Fisher-Dieskau, etc. (only men) singing this song, and never even considered a woman for the roles. The higher voice also seems "more convincing" (???) for the child, even when he is horrified out of his mind. It also make the Erlkonig seem more “innocent”, alluring and sinister. I loved this (but I also like Florence Foster Jenkins’ Queen of the Night—just kidding!!!).
andrecooper555 4 months ago
@LanceVader i don't think i have ever heard anyone do the different characters as good as von Otter (i mean it, niether Fisher-Dieskau nor Quasthoff), and this is an effin live recording
linusbergl 4 months ago
@linusbergl Except Jessy Norman. Listen to her recording.
heidiglinka 3 months ago
@LanceVader Yup - it's pitched a little too high for the father's part to carry itself properly. But she does a good job of keeping the seductive verse light and airy.
spodzone 3 months ago
Muy buena!
mano6292 6 months ago
unglückliche kleine franz... it is pretty vulgar.
this is der erlkoenig in times of harry potter franchise and high speed internet. or in one word - a blockbuster on steroids.
i do not think that such large approach brings the same lavel of substence to the piece like, say, if a woodcut print miniature would be blowed up to the size of murals of, say, Siqueiros or Rivera.
also, i have to admit otter's der erlkoenig part is very convincing, therefore she is a great villian, hahahaha...
bedupaz 6 months ago
Amazing, the raw emotions this evokes.
guru332 6 months ago
Fantastic!! Music doesn't get any better than this!!
BSelsbak 7 months ago
LISTEN TO LOTTE LEHMANN
MrSkylark1 7 months ago
wow :O
SertavisSaviPianist 7 months ago
this is the reason why one should learn what one is singing! Her faces are amazing, and i believe that the only way one can truly develop the emotion and height needed for this piece is to understand what one is saying. This is amazing!
wrmcchriston 7 months ago
I fucking love her face.
daniboy1995 8 months ago
Does anybody know where can I find the Dvd of this performance?
farhadroshanaie 8 months ago
Does anybody know where can I find the Dvd of this performance?
farhadroshanaie 8 months ago
I think the orchestra and the performer were equally skilled. This piece is extremely difficult to both sing and play.
stephencassista 8 months ago
Come on!
59 people is deaf.
demianp2008 8 months ago
fuckin shit
XDbamseXD 8 months ago
frickin awesome!!!!!!!!!
dungheap99 9 months ago 2
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prisonyan 9 months ago
It's hard to believe Schubert was a shy homosexual who contracted syphilis... otherwise HE would be the driving force of Vienna. Not that ringer Beethoven. Don't get me wrong- Beethoven was great, but can you believe that THIS came from such a shy, feminine guy?
Nicebrass21 9 months ago
@Nicebrass21 Actually, that's all supposition based on Schubert being a confirmed bachelor and the degree of affection expressed in his letters to his male friends. But back in the Romantic era, men weren't afraid to express passionate regard for one another in very flowery terms. They shared beds, kissed each other hello and goodbye and even good morning. Especially for someone as unloved as Schubert, those friendships were precious, but we really don't know if they were sexual in nature.
OrchestrationOnline 8 months ago
I wish I could sing like that.
Jadekittycat 9 months ago
Her soft voice and the even more dramatic orchestra really brings out the contrast between the child/father's desperation and the erlking's manipulative crooning
mobytoss 10 months ago
This really should be done by a male singer with the original piano accompaniment - the orchestral adaptation is truly dreadful. Just out of curiosity, does anyone know who arranged it?
Anyway, ms von Otter is so terrifying that it took me a good 10 listens to even notice An unbelievably brilliant performance.
Chrysothemis 10 months ago
@Chrysothemis No less than Hector Berlioz orchestrated this. But the point is still fair. It's hard to say that the orchestration adds much that isn't already there in the piano version, but it does allow the song to be performed in orchestral concerts.
thesafekind 10 months ago
@thesafekind Berlioz, huh? Actually, that makes so much sense I'm almost embarrassed for not guessing it in the first place. Thanks for the info, and I agree with your points.
Chrysothemis 10 months ago
@Chrysothemis There's another version Liszt. I'm not sure what the differences are. I think the triplets in an orchestra lose the percussive sounds that mimic the hoofbeats of the horse.
ixd735 9 months ago
@thesafekind Actually, this is a schubert piece. berlioz is french and wouldn't be capable of writing this in german.
agentj4y 9 months ago
@agentj4y It is Schubert's song, orchestrated by Berlioz.
thesafekind 9 months ago
@agentj4y The piece is based on a poem by Goethe
a123jeffrey123a 9 months ago
This is fantastic...nothing to add, nothing to criticize...just perfect! Both, piece and performance, make accelerate my pulse...Hearing this, I feel truly alive.
Philia2070 10 months ago 2
The text to the song she sings is in german book in school. Wenn I first read it, I fall in love with it. I loved the text. So good, but still so sad. <3<3
MsSwedenRock 10 months ago
THIS IS HUGGGEEEEE!!!!!
keepitacrime 10 months ago
zajebiste!!!
ich liebe es!!!
Rankochan 11 months ago
Diese unheimlich schöne Interpretation von Anne Sofie von Otter ist die Beste aller Zeiten! Punkt!
robertrstevens 11 months ago
why is this considered a "Opera-mini"? its a question for my homework haha
nhampole 11 months ago
@nhampole coz a lieder is just a short song, and opera, is composed of a structured cycle of lieder, Italian opera known as the "Arias"
manuelspcool 11 months ago
@nhampole ? what class is this? xD
Drelnis 10 months ago
wow, i normally listen to metal, but god this is good!
ylegend5 11 months ago
I hate von Otter's voice, but its a good perfomance.
Nothing like Fischr-Dieskau.
kzelmer 11 months ago
@kzelmer Galloping bass rhythm, extremely fast tempo, and lyrics about elves...this piece is metal
metalheadnick555 11 months ago 102
@metalheadnick555 I'm pretty sure not one person would give a shit if you killed yourself. Do it, phaggot.
liger4100 2 months ago
@liger4100 huh? this isn't exactly related to the wonderful music of Schubert =P
360Flicks 2 months ago
I hate von Otter´s voice but it´s a good performance.
Nothing like Fischer-Dieskau version.
kzelmer 11 months ago
This was really intense and scary. i didnt think i would like it but i had to do a report in school and i had to listen to this and it was interesting.
petlovers159 11 months ago
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PatateRoussoiste 11 months ago
I'm a huge fan of this song. However, I do believe Schubert's ending was... Lousy. I know I'm not one to criticize a man exponentially greater than I, but I would have ended it with a major seventh on "war" and up to the tonic on "tot" with the orchestra following along. But... that's just me. I'm sure Schubert had his reasons.
TheBlash 1 year ago
I just noticed the orchestration is by Berlioz. Love it, especially the syncopated rhythms.
BeammeupSpotty 1 year ago
WHAT THE *************************!!!!!!!!@@@@
willwei98 1 year ago
Schubert would be completely appalled on all levels. And Abbado is a total freak fraud.
WorldCupSeoul 1 year ago
Bravo ! Pour moi, c'est la meilleure version de ce chant parumi les versions chantees par des femmes.
La voix, la technique, l'interpretation et meme, l'expression de la figure d'Anne Sofie von Otter, en plus, le son effayant des violons, tout ca m'a vraiment fait peur. Cette video est merveilleuse !
simonetgarfunkel 1 year ago
@simonetgarfunkel J'ai une préférence pour Jessye Norman :) Je trouve qu'on ne l'entend pas assez/qu'on entend trop l'orchestre
PatateRoussoiste 1 year ago
@PatateRoussoiste C'est une chanson que seule une voix d'homme peut rendre vraiment dramatique et ce, pour des raisons évidentes.
vivegedda 11 months ago
@vivegedda Pourtant je trouve que Norman fait bien plus de distinctions entre les différents personnages de Fischer-Dieskau par exemple. Tu aurais des références ?
PatateRoussoiste 11 months ago
@PatateRoussoiste I agree! The differences between the characters are eerily distinct in Norman's performance. I just checked out the Fischer-Dieskau performance and another baritone and I still prefer the soprano interpretations--more variation in the color.
AriD2385 11 months ago
@vivegedda Si, sono d'accordissimo: solo la voce di un uomo... questa versione è ...puajj.. isterica,, folle, suonerebbe male anche per Schubert.. Per me la più bella, drammatica, poetica, equilibrata eè quella di T. ALLEN ( la puoi ascoltare qui)
franco96544 11 months ago
Damn!
From her face, it looks like it takes 3 decades to master that piece :o(
phatso1986 1 year ago
all I hear is: -A, -nd, -cht, -st. german is so not a language for singing. it doesn't even let a vowel go on for more than 2 seconds.
fatipattiYT 1 year ago
That was AMAZING.
kankypoo 1 year ago
PASSIE.
whoiskcwhat 1 year ago
Hoezo leuk, niet leuk als je iemand anders als Andre van Duin beoordeelt zou je ook andere bewoordingen kunnen overwegen
42krid 1 year ago
53 people can't understand German.
Sageman101 1 year ago
awesome
9794gilili 1 year ago
Unglaubliche Performance - so intensiv und voller Dramatik und Emotionen - Genial!!
baggi07 1 year ago 6
sorry.. this kills the piece
joboy1992jesto 1 year ago
@joboy1992jesto what kills the piece?
Sageman101 1 year ago
Powerful! Best interpretation I've heard... von Otter really sang the song as it really supposed to be.... Great orchestral arrangement as well....
sAmfRancIs94 1 year ago
holy crap
Broadica 1 year ago
彼女の声、表現力はとても素晴らしいものだ。
そして、なにより演奏が、より素晴らしい音楽として、曲として引き立てている。
こんなに音楽ド素人の自分に“the best”と唸らせる音楽など自分は一度も耳にしたことがない。
可笑しいくらいに最高だ。
plzhuvTmuzx 1 year ago
Oh...
i lost my voice when this voice and this sound heard on first time.
i really thought there is not the best music.
but,there is here.
This is beautiful and awesome.
plzhuvTmuzx 1 year ago
Very powerful and dramatic! Love it!
flx2525 1 year ago
I cant believe 51 people disliked this.....
Andrew777801 1 year ago
she did an awesome job!
sweetestcandy083109 1 year ago
This songs brings me to my knees everytime. Shubert's epic craftmenship of musical artistry, combined with the dark romatismn of Goethe and a brilliant soloist draws my heart to heaven.
Sageman101 1 year ago
Ich liebe diese Musike und den Gedicht von Goethe. Das ist so haftend.
Bravo.
J'adore cette musique. Le poème à l'origine de Goethe est très beau et très prenant. Un grand bravo pour cette mise en musique qui n'est pas des moindres.
Auxel75 1 year ago
Very well done. I'm studying music history right now, and this is the piece that I'm studying from Schubert.
byranntherockstar1 1 year ago
This is a three way conversation between the erl king, a spirit that the child can see, the child's father and the boy himself. The boy is very ill and being rushed home on horseback. The boy tells his father he sees the erl king, a ghostly spirit "with a crown and a tail". He father says "it is just the mist". THe boy says the erl king is talking to him and touching him. The father says "it is just the willows". The boy says "the erl king comes for me". The boy shivers, cries out, and dies.
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Aw man, it sucks to be tot
McLeod54 1 year ago
:( He died.
nightDREAMERms 1 year ago 2
My padre showed me Fischer-Dieskau's chilling performance of this when I was seven and translated it for me. Scared the living shit out of me.. @_@ Beautiful singing for Fischer-Dieskau & von Otter :3 "Meine töchter führen den nächtlichen Reihn, und wiegen und tanzen und singen dich ein" <3
ThatZazenIdiot 1 year ago
"...und bist du nicht willig, so brauch ich Gewalt" <3
SheIsTheAngryMob 1 year ago 3
I like the woman's voice, but in the translation it's a *son* taking to his father about the 'Erlking' trying to grab him and take him away hahaha
CrazyUpsetter 1 year ago
Absolutely powerful. Thank you Anne Sofie. I have shown it to the Music Department at my Cathedral and they were blown away too.
This is just HOT !
22armoured 1 year ago 4
Mein vater!
Lovethatshines 1 year ago
This is one of the best performances I´ve seen of this piece and in general. Everytime I see it it just blow my mind. Pure pasion. Thanks for posting
Ivanbelastegui 1 year ago 5
Thank you classical music, and especially to you SCHUBERT ! Long live..
Gesthrel 1 year ago
astonishing, I never thought that this could sound so good with a female voice
elolitta 1 year ago
I love it, but it makes me cry
Chinchilla2Christian 1 year ago 2
What a performance, I don't know what scares me more, the creepy orchestra part, von Otter's interpretation, or Claudio Abbado's "I am going to kill you and eat your babies" expression when he turns his head to the left at 3:10!
jl343 1 year ago 125
@jl343 If you think thats bad check out Jessye Norman's Rendition!
QTKittenz 1 year ago
To clarify, I really like this version...when I said it scares me, I meant in a good way, like it's supposed to! I realize that could have gone over as "it's so bad, it's scary," but that wasn't my intent...Erlkonig can be sung very effectively by a woman.
jl343 1 year ago
@jl343 Hahaha! I didn't notice the conductor's face until I saw that you pointed it out!
tub79081 1 year ago
@jl343 what scares me is that "der Franz" was only 18 when he composed this music!
Jerrez 7 months ago 3
@jl343 I lost it laughing! That was brilliant.
gr8pillock 6 months ago
HAMMER...Ich hab überall Gänsehaut bekommen...Bravoooo
TheLudovika1 1 year ago 2
I saw Otter yesterday in Tel Aviv (with the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra) singing Schubert, including Erlkonig.
She was amazing! Not an easy task to juggle between the three roles. Bravo!!!!
michalebeb 1 year ago
nice song
xitrumluubang 1 year ago
Erlkönig really does express and reflect the Romanticism and the historic awareness that came with the Romanticism. Or at least i think so ^^
kimimaru666 1 year ago
Actually this orchestration was by Max Reger, this is not the Berlioz
Wain13001 1 year ago
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rvaughanwilliams1988 1 year ago
I... HATE... that voice! >:[ but her interpretation is quite good! and all her high notes are crystal clear. And her "Hat mir ein Leids gethan". but that "war tot"... KILLS it! she could learn a thing or two (or 1,000) from Dieskau, even Norman or Quasthoff.
erroll9621 1 year ago
Weiter, weiter ins Verderben
Wir müssen leben bis wir sterben
Und das Kind zum Vater spricht
Hörst du denn den Donner nicht
Das ist der König aller Winde
Er will mich zu seinem Kinde
- Dalai Lama, Rammstein, adaptation of the old poem, and this song.
musicalpooo 1 year ago
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Grande Sofia ,le pone toda la fuerza , corazón y expresión.......insuperable , le ayuda mucho el deutsch ....desde P. Montt Chile
vitama1 1 year ago
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Grande Sofia ,le pone toda la fuerza , corazón y expresión.......insuperable , le ayuda mucho el deutsch ....desde P. Montt Chile
vitama1 1 year ago
Grande Sofia ,le pone toda la fuerza , corazón y expresión.......insuperable , le ayuda mucho el deutsch
vitama1 1 year ago
Unbelievable orchestration! Love to hear to it for baritone!
mattthecunt 1 year ago
Bemerkenswert in allen Aspekten!
N9155E 1 year ago
If it turns out Otter and the director are hot lovers, who would be surprised?
It's steaming hot above the concept I would say.
philidor3 1 year ago 2
This is the orchestration of Hector Berlioz.
enthi 1 year ago
Trivial comment, but this is the only, and I mean only time I have seen Abbado use a score! (Was this piece orchestrated by someone other than Schubert because I had only heard it with piano)
This group is amazing, the strings kept the passion, the imminence and intensity of what is mostly constant triplets in their parts throughout the entire piece.
JacobSteuer 1 year ago
Wow, she's the Erlkönigin
saintsaens21 1 year ago
less orchestra, more mezzo
raigekimaru 1 year ago
Great music, terrific orchestration, excellent conducting, good singing, bad dentist.
lehrent 1 year ago
@lehrent I agree, but did you know that sometimes, when someone changes the placement of teeth using braces, invisalign, etc. it changes the way their voice comes out? Weird, huh?
velvettears81969 1 year ago
my god, what an amazing voice. but, at the same time, i have to give props to the conductor for his intense expressions
cubadude1 1 year ago
Shockingly intense.
Brava!
Dchrisanthakopoulos 1 year ago 29
why is there not a metal ver. of this song????
lulzlover 1 year ago 2
@lulzlover Was just thinking that when I looked this up just now. Well, Rammstein kinda did a metal version, but it was more of an "inspired by" then an actual metal version since the poem was different and wasn't even Schubert's. Actually I think there might have been a metal version but I forgot where I heard it if I ever did find it.
TheouAegis 1 year ago
この歌曲は、やはり男性歌手がいいな・・・・・・
goldjumbuck 1 year ago
Great song, great performance, creepy story though...
wellsounds 1 year ago
What an incredible performance. You can literally feel and see each character as she performs.
EllenBradley10 1 year ago
One of my best permormance! German masterpiece!
mandelinho10 1 year ago
Interesting to hear it from a woman
Buzaglod 1 year ago
perfect
ladivissima 1 year ago
Wow! So powerful, almost scary! Von Otter rules!
greenstboy 1 year ago
Hector Berlioz orchestrated this.
madderbass 1 year ago
@madderbass: Thank you! That has been my question for ages.
vinemp 1 year ago
we need a revolution to bring down to earth ALL them there high folk!! viva music !viva the chopper!
Tommyfazz 1 year ago
THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE PLAYED ON A PIANO
zzall22 1 year ago
I love Anne Sofie von Otter
I adore Erlkonig and I think she's the best vocalist singing it
sharkfincc 1 year ago 2
Wow. I thought Jessye Norman's was unique, but here is an equal. Different, but superb. I love how she (like Norman or Fischer-Dieskau) sings the different characters.
LordHettrick 1 year ago
On the surface an exciting performance but on further hearing definitely overwrought at the start -- has no where to build to. Needs to start more calmly then build up to the hysteria later in the narrative.
penntowers 1 year ago
Dude.... this is so awesome. I never get tired of watching this. Ann Sofie is an incredible musician, and in this video, a most engaging storyteller.
mkurnat 1 year ago
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MrKeithMontgomery 1 year ago
Und bist du nicht willig, so brauch ich GEWALT! :D
flx2525 1 year ago 3
I made the mistake of hitting the damned Vuvuzela button instead of the enlarge button. T.T
Wow, this performance is incredible. She sounds absolutely terrified as the child, it almost made me cry...
The emotion in her voice and face is amazing, and her voice is perfect throughout.
insaneforstuff254 1 year ago
"High born" lol - this phrase alone is outdated and a relic of a time, where people were privileged because of the family they were born in . And of course nobody has to respect the fact thant some people still divide the world in high born and low born only because of a "von" or aristocrativ family. If a Mr. Smith or Miller is "yet so down to earth" it is the same achievement as if a Mr. von Donnerstein or zu Friedensberg is, even if the father is a baron.-But her singing is of course great.
fwbz 1 year ago
Who the hell cares into what kind of family she was born? The important thing is that her performance in this song is amazing.
UneBananeBleue 1 year ago
Excellent. Always my favorite for some reason.
Especially Anne.
alexklaus80 1 year ago
what a terrifying song
MrLacidaremlamano 1 year ago
@MrLacidaremlamano it is not
sharkfincc 1 year ago
How beautiful! How powerful - bravo bravo!!! I love this!
JubanTeyman24 1 year ago
Hey it's abbado
Huddiethegreat 1 year ago
There is something very appealing, or even sensual/sexy about her mouth.
ubermensch811 1 year ago
Thank you, Anne! You are the ERLKÖNIG DIVA!
6134447 1 year ago
at 2:24 she sings "sie singen und wiegen und tanzen dich ein." shouldn't it be: "Und wiegen und tanzen und singen dich ein.? At least thats what Goethe wrote..
hanshelm 1 year ago
Wonderful voice! Wonderful performance!
Roy Thomas
ROYCTHOMAS 1 year ago
The evidence of an absolutely perfect musician: A.S.v.O. !
Others arn't bad, she is exception!
3629666 1 year ago
I would hear her singing "Ol' man River. She's strictly first rate in all she does!!
tenorote 1 year ago
SO EPIC
cheeseintheair 1 year ago
Nozdryov...not too bad !!! Sie ist eigentlich herrlich und wunderbar, perfekt und rührend. Wenn du nicht imstande bist, das zu ergreifen, hör doch andere Musik zu.
...a deep voice... zum Teufel du besserwisserischer Unerfahrener, die Interpretation muß tief sein und und das von Otter macht prächtig mit vier verschiedenen Tönen in ihrer schönen Stimme
franzwalser 1 year ago
que dulce parecia el rey! herrrmoso
aletteiaveritas 1 year ago
Brilliant and horrifying
twangman5 1 year ago
The beautiful thing is that she not only sings but performs the various parts from deep within...
IlSoffione 1 year ago 3
hmm, not too bad, although I definitely think that Das Erlkonig needs a deep voice.
Nozdryov 1 year ago
@Nozdryov ....not too bad!!!!! Was meinst du ?Sie ist eigentlich herrlich und wunderbar, perfekt und rührend. Wenn du nicht imstande bist, das zu ergreifen, hör doch bitte andere Musik zu.
... a deep voice...lächerlich! Zum Teufel du kleiner bessewisserischer Unerfharener, die Interpretation muß tief sein und das von Otter macht prächtig mit vier verschiedenen Tönen in ihrer schönen Stimme
franzwalser 1 year ago
wow an impressive orchestration... I love it when the wind instruments double her voice
summergauk 1 year ago
bravo! best performance of this piece I've heard
conleyguitar 1 year ago
Am I the only person that can totally see Nightwish doing this?
metalheadnick555 1 year ago
@metalheadnick555 What the hell does Nightwish have to do with SCHUBERT? Just because the vocalist's voice might resemble classical singing