The American contralto Marian Anderson sings “Der Erlkönig,” part of our continuing series on the Schubert song, written when he was a teenager. I was talking to my mother on the phone the other day ...

The celebrated Mexican tenor Francisco Araiza sings Schubert’s “Der Erlkonig,” or most of it. Compare with Fischer-Dieskau singing the same below. Frankly, hard to choose between them. I’m glad we ...

For chilling Halloween music, it’s still hard to beat a Franz Schubert song from 1815 — “Der Erlkonig” (“The Erl-King”). The text by Goethe is spooky enough, telling of a father’s frenzied ride on ...