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offline Zeus from San Francisco (United States) on 2003-10-27 20:53 [#00921258]
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Damn, I heard this peice for the first time today.

Its a piano piece, with solo male singer, writen by
Schubert. (the poem is writen by someone else, whos name
escapes me at present)

Im not sure how many of you dig Schubert... or classical
style singing... but this is an awesome peice (his opus. 1
actually!)

its a poem about a father riding through the woods with his
son, trying to get him home, because the boy is very ill.

The boy keeps seeing and hearing the Erlkonig (german for
the grim reaper) but his father just keeps telling him it
will be ok

when its the father talking (singing) its all powerful, and
heroic kinda sounding

the child is sung very dramatically (he IS dying)

and death is fucking creepy. its all high, and when ever he
is singing, it modulates to a major key so its all
freakishly happy... he is trying to lure the boy into his
grasp...

but yeah... if anyone likes romantic era music, and doesnt
mind classical style singing... check it out

it rocks


 


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