Classical cover: Schubert’s ‘Erlkonig’
I love a good cover song. The term usually applies to a pop or rock song — some of my favorites in that category include DEVO’s “Satisfaction,” Cake’s “I Will Survive” and The Clash’s “Brand New Cadillac.”
But broadly speaking, classical music is filled with cover songs, if we think of transcriptions, arrangements and paraphrases as such. At any rate, here’s one of my favorite classical covers: First, the original Schubert song, “Erlkönig,” sung by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (English subtitles included); and then Heinrich Ernst’s violin transcription of same, played by Hilary Hahn.
Classical cover: Schubert’s ‘Erlkonig’
Beautiful Schubert song. Is it from one of his song cycles e.g. Winterraise or Schwanengesang? It was not familiar to me.
On Aug 23, 2017 8:29 AM, “pacific symphony blog” wrote:
pacificsymphony posted: “I love a good cover song. The term usually applies to a pop or rock song — some of my favorites in that category include DEVO’s “Satisfaction,” Cake’s “I Will Survive” and The Clash’s “Brand New Cadillac.” But broadly speaking, classical music is fill”
No, “Erlkonig” is not part of any cycle. It’s a standalone song. The words are by Goethe.