Dietrich Fischer Dieskau is far and away the greatest performer of German Lieder in the recording era. He has a control of voice and emotion that is unmatched. You should watch the recording of him performing where you can actually see his face, the emotion carries through his entire being from the pleading and terrified child to the creepy and seductive Erlkoenig, it is all there. It terrifies me to imagine the kind of weight someone like Dieskau must have had to carry to perform with that level of conviction. It is art in its purist form.
I like the animation. I am German, and the English translation doesn't fit, but you got no words in English to translate this poem of Goethe correctly. And really^^, the "Erlkönig" for sure isn't an elf-king^^, it's the dead himself.
I’m Russian and I want to read the Erlkönig. There is a misunderstanding for me regarding pronounciation of the R, there are 3 different options, which one is correct? In this video, the R sounds like Russian, is it correct? I heard also R like French in other videos.
@@More_readings I don't know how the "R" is made in russian, but you would rarely pronounce anything with the french guteral R in standard German. You may hear it in songs or some German accents though. The way I learned was the R trill wich is just rolling the r by tapping the top of your tongue to the top of your mouth. It's really up to you wich you want to sing, but the glutteral R is hard to sing when the L comes after.
In my opinion I don't really like the animation but least the music's is good and I also love how they depicted the ErlKing as a beautiful woman but in reality she's a monster
Excuse the late response, but I‘m afraid the meaning of the song was lost to you. To clear this up; the song is about a mortally ill child being rushed to another court by its father in hope of alleviating the child’s fever, though on the way the boy hallucinates these figures such as the Erlkönig due to the deadly fever, when only the wind or fog or other natural occurrences are truly there. It’s a song based on a thing that might happen more often in the time it was written, with modern healthcare not yet existing, therefor leaving such an event well within the confounds of possibility. So, in summary, no, the father does not have vision impairments, he sees what is truly there, but the child, being close to death, and eventually dead, sees these things, the Erlkönig as an example presumably being the humanoid spectre of death. Alas, I’d just like to respectfully request that you think about such works just a little bit, but appreciate the gesture of allowing me to answer such a question. Furthermore I also commend your interest in classic literature such as this! Anyway, I hope I cleared this up successfully and wish you a wonderful day :D
Well since it came after "sweet lad, o come and join me do! Such pretty games i will play with you" , it is pretty self evident what it means if you ask me
