I feel like a lot of you are probably familiar with the legend of the
Erlking. Well, it just so happens that the composer I shared a piece from the other day, Schubert, also wrote this really neat piece about the Erlking, the lyrics being the
famous poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (but as a warning a part of that poem could be interpreted as having some sketchy pedophilic implications
)
Also I just really like the animation this is set to.
Anyway, usually I prefer operatic pieces in Romance languages rather than Germanic languages because I just feel like, it just works more and Romance languages usually feel more flowing to me while Germanic languages usually feel more choppy to me. But this is a piece that I really think works with being in a Germanic language and it just really fits it.