Erlkönig (13 Settings)

13 settings of Erlkönig on one CD. That has never been done before!

Goethe’s Erlkönig is one of the most famous poems of all time, and many composers have turned this extraordinary text into outstanding songs. We all know Franz Schubert’s Erlkönig; some may also know the versions by Carl Loewe or Carl Zelter. But Émile Mathieu? Corona Schröter? Ludwig van Beethoven? Emilie Mayer? Carl Czerny? Stefan Schulzki?

They, along with many others, also took on the text. Doriana Tchakarova dug her way through numerous libraries and archives and examined most of the roughly 40 settings. Thirteen of them, which she and we found especially compelling, can now be heard on this CD.