The poem “Erlkönig” by Goethe has been set to music several times (you can find Sir Walter Scott’s translation of the poem at this earlier post). Below, in a performance infused with a very contemporary raw anxiety, Anne Sofie von Otter sings Franz Schubert’s setting of the poem, accompanied by the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, [...]
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 08:12AM on November 8, 2011