Frederic Lamond (1868-1948): Schubert-Liszt - Erlkönig

Frederic Lamond was another of Liszt's pupils from the 1880s. He was born in Glasgow, like his fellow student Eugen d'Albert. Unlike his fellow Liszt students who made records, Lamond made a speciality in the music of Beethoven (with an almost equal enthuisiam for Brahms), and recorded most of the piano sonatas. For around 50 years he was regarded as the greatest interpreter of Beethoven's piano music, and before Schnabel made his complete recording of the sonatas, Lamond's records were the benchmark.

He did, however, also record the music of other composers, and laid down a good number of tracks by his teacher, Liszt.

This recording is of Liszt's transcription of Schubert's exciting song "Erlkönig" ("The Earl-King"). The recording was made in 1919.

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[paulostroff99]

Awesome! TY for posting.

[123mazeppa]

@jrdscrgn You played the schubert version which is much easier than the Liszt version.

Liszt's version is 10000 times more difficult ;-)

[naoishe]

relentless! more terrifying than hofmann, richter, rubackyte and especially that ass muncher kissin.

[Misteribel]

@jrdscrgn The piece isn't that hard for accompanying singers. This is the Liszt version of the song, adding much more than just a melody line.

Furthermore, Erlkonig, as with any piece, is not difficult only because of the notes. I.e, it takes astonishing technique to lift out the voices from the gazillion of notes, or express the differences of the three (four) characters (but try Richter '49 or Kissin's). Give it a try in your last year again, and you'll (re)discover it's difficulty,

[jrdscrgn]

I am a college freshman majoring in music. What is with this fear of playing "Erkonig"? I was asked once to accompany a tenor who was singing Erlkonig. So, I agreed to do so. And I don't see the fuss over it. I have had to play much more difficult music...i don't know

[guillatra]

"Der Erlkönig" - maybe english keyboards have no "ö", "ü", and "ä".

I tried to play this piece. It's very hard not to clench.

[bmatt05]

that was my original point.

[bmatt05]

I just don't know how to type the umllaut but it's masculine so its Der not Die.

[costanzomusicworld]

actually, when leaving out the 'umlaut' [the two dots over a vowel], an e is added after the vowel. Thus, the precise spelling is Die ErlKoenig. More modern German tends to discard the umlaut in favor of the e after but it is necessary when writing. If you leave off the E or the Umlaut, the pronunciation changes considerably.

[bmatt05]

Der Erlkonig to be precise.