Schubert/Ernst -- "Der Erlkonig" for Solo Violin
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- Опубліковано 28 лип 2011
- This is one VERY challenging piece for the violin. But while it may be hard to come across someone who can play it decent, if you find someone it sounds amazing. And this piece has a lot of background. It is originally scored for piano and voice. The voice told a creepy story about a child, his father, and the "Elf King". Look it up. But enjoy.
I DO NOT OWN THIS MUSIC.
To anyone that doesn't play the violin it sounds good. Anyone who does is staring in disbelieve. This is _sadistic_.
Perfect description
Alison O'Connor exactly
Alison O'Connor Why?
BrHarley054 Because of the sheer difficulty of the piece. Attempting to play something like this would be difficult for Andre Rieu.
Alison O'Connor well put, the last summer of the rose is beautiful yet Amazingly difficult. I'm currently doing Vieuxtemps concerto No. 5 which is easy for me at least, yet I've always dreamt of playing erlkonig.
When no one in neither of the violin sections knows what they’re doing so you have to carry both first and second violin.
more like when the orchestra is a failure so you play the entire score simultaneously.
P A G A N I N I HAS JOINED THE CHAT
@@Nikita.___.Gladko_562 LOLLLLLL
@@Nikita.___.Gladko_562 L I S Z T C O P I E S T H E C O M P E T I T I O N A N D O N E - U P S E V E R Y T H I N G
Adrian Remo
*Black Midi uses UNO reverse card*
“Look at those perfect octaves, Eddy!”
TwoSet are so funny
perfect octaves aren't that hard. even with those weird fingerings. u just need big hands.
@@arta6183 Yes but they need to be clean, otherwise it doesn‘t has the same effect. In fact, it is one of the hardest intervals! (I play the Viloin)
No hate!!!
@@arta6183 Yes, but they're playing octaves, with left hand pizz, and other notes
like Brett and Eddy said : "you know it's getting serious when there's a second line"
Paganini: "yay, I have caprices"
Ernst: "bitch please, I have this transcription"
Fr though 😅😅😅
And his polyphonic etudes, taking the same idea of multiple voices. Absolutely insane.
Chopin: " I have some études"
Godowsky: " to easy, make them harder"
Hamelin: " See? Three simultaniously, hahahaha"
The persons POV: Ahhh! Why are these Caprice's so difficult!
Franz: please bitch try me.
To be fair, Paganini also has 2 extremely difficult pieces, arguably more difficult than this too.
The score alone is enough to give any nascent violinist a heart attack. Heck, I've been playing for five years, and I'm still overwhelmed by this! It looks like it should be scored for two or three instruments, not one.
+Rachel Dewitt too be fair it was originally scored for piano and voice (see desc) some sadist decided it would be a fun idea to transpose it for violin :|, I actually have the sheet music and it just kinda sits there to collect dust.
+Οkamiden12 Gaming Holy cap you would probably need a fiddle in order to get all three strings don't you think so
Antonio Munoz no I can play it at like 1/8th of the actual tempo >_> and can hit the strings with no real issue :P plus there's no real difference from a violin or a fiddle, its just the attitude >:D (though some times you can have a C string fitted on to it, to make it different)
You're right that it was originally scored for a voice and piano. If anything, that makes it even more remarkable - the violinist must express the voices of both onto what is technically a monophonic instrument. It's freaking absurd, if you ask me.
Rachel Dewitt I have the sheet music....it's currently gathering dust
This is Hilary Hahn.
Listen Music but it isn’t, she said she only got through the first part
Oh and I was joking before anyone goes crazy
김은섭2020010505 it is her. It was like 8 years ago so she would do better now but it definitely is her stop trying to act smart
@@betultunca5418 relax my guy xD i know hilarys awesome but just a common mistake
The uploader of the video said it was Hilary in another comment
Hilary Hahn
I was almost to complain for no credit, but you could edit the description.
It could only be her ;)
I feel nice for recognising her interpretation within the first four scores
Guys it was 7 years ago i dont think they had those functions back then
Andy Rosene seven years ago lmao
Whose here after Hillary Hahn's Ling Ling challenge?
:D
Me too
*dab
lmao
Let's get it
I can play this, with another four tentacles that is
Anonymous Anonymous 😂😂
Are you implying you already have some tentacles? You just need more?
@@hi2656 don't we all have 3 tentacles
@@thatsEforEveryone only guys
@@faidaway1 ohh another reason to be gay
Isn’t anyone saying how beautiful this music is played? I mean the triple stops sounded like double stops they were so clear. Wow
To be honest, some of them really were. But then Ernst was asking an awful lot of the violinist.
@@rosiefay7283 Ernst was intending to cause us more pain than Paganini, prove me wrong
One of the hardest existing pieces for violin. Maybe "the last rose of summer" is even harder, but I'm not sure. I think these two are even more challenging than Paganini.
The only Paganini that comes close to these two is God Save the Queen.
Or nowadays there is the music of Roman Kim xD
@@Josefowiczfan Don't remind me of his Brindisi and Mozart. God, those fingers of his are mind blogging.
Well Ernst did learn by listening to paganini practice so...
Its hard because its boring . It is a parlor trick. Mostly
Clean crisp and brilliantly played. She played this Erlkonig at age 11. Hilary Hahn is one of my few favorite violinists. Hard to believe she's 31. Wow. Time flies.
no she played this at ELEVEN?!?!?!?! seriously???? wow!!! Is there a video?
@@cke900 no, thats a mistake: she played it at 21. Very impressing though
@@wolflastname1720I know this is quite old lmao, but Hilary first started to study this piece at 11 when she was at Curtis lol
Why don't you write who is playing this?...
Hilary Hahn played this. She is just amazing.
Thank you Ernst. This was already freakishly hard on the Piano, and for the Tenor, now we have the Solo Violin version...
I'm a pianist and studied violin earlier. Always knew Wilhelm,Sarasate ,Ernst wrote impossible music! Ive heard Ernst before but didn't remember how exciting and welll made this violin version is. A marvel of transposition. Unbelievable! Even better shrieks on violin .Makes me want to go hear Liszt version again -it 's more famous but I don't remember it being as sheer terrifying and difficult as this is on violin! Who! is playing ? This performance is so amazing , terrifying music !
i know that Hilary Hahn plays it really good. :P
This actually is Hillary Hahn playing. Compare it to another live video of her playing it in concert and you'll find that they're exactly the same.
Actually I'de love to hear both versions performed together, I've heard a couple of Liszt versions that really express the dramatic moods well. Since both piano and violin versions are in the same key I think it's doable. Then you'd get the best from both. The menacing rumble of the bass on the piano, the terrified child cries on the violin.
Then you might as well just listen to the original song with a violin playing the voice.
have you ever play violin piece on piano?will playing the violin erlköning on piano makes it feel like easier?
Problem with this piece is that is one of the few virtuosistic pieces that don't sound very virtuosistic and are great to listen to even for non violinists. Which make this an incredible piece to learn.
Problem is, it's hard to find an harder piece than this.
A lot of people are commenting Last Rose of Summer by Ernst
God Save the King by Paganini is insane
The only pieces I can think of that compare to this are Ernst's Last Rose of Summer, Paganini's "God save the king" and "Variations on Nel Cor Piu Non mi sento", and Ysaye's 6th sonata. The first 3 I could argue are harder, but it depends on the player's capabilities. For me personally, I think even God save the king is easier, since I find it easier to do the LH pizz in that piece than in this one, plus there's a lot less and a bit easier harmonics and double/triple stops. Not to imply that any of those pieces are playable to the mere mortal, though.
I wasn't really a fan of this piece until I heard it played on solo violin.
Ling ling's warm up
It's devilishly difficult, but you don't know what's going on if you don't know the song. Ernst turns Schubert's masterpiece into a technical exercise.
That's... kind of the point of a caprice
This would be no problem for ling ling
cole calavano ofc
Eyyy ling ling joke
ling ling played this for warmup when he was 4 years old.
Who is this ling ling?
@@user-ru9go2wv3q He's a character / “ideal“ by TwoSetViolin and it's a community joke. They are really funny and unique so you could check them out.
Who rides there so late through the night dark and drear?
The father it is, with his infant so dear;
He holdeth the boy tightly clasp'd in his arm,
He holdeth him safely, he keepeth him warm.
"My son, wherefore seek'st thou thy face thus to hide?"
"Look, father, the Erl-King is close by our side!
Dost see not the Erl-King, with crown and with train?"
"My son, 'tis the mist rising over the plain."
"Oh, come, thou dear infant! oh come thou with me!
For many a game I will play there with thee;
On my strand, lovely flowers their blossoms unfold,
My mother shall grace thee with garments of gold."
"My father, my father, and dost thou not hear
The words that the Erl-King now breathes in mine ear?"
"Be calm, dearest child, 'tis thy fancy deceives;
'Tis the sad wind that sighs through the withering leaves."
"Wilt go, then, dear infant, wilt go with me there?
My daughters shall tend thee with sisterly care;
My daughters by night their glad festival keep,
They'll dance thee, and rock thee, and sing thee to sleep."
"My father, my father, and dost thou not see,
How the Erl-King his daughters has brought here for me?"
"My darling, my darling, I see it aright,
'Tis the aged grey willows deceiving thy sight."
"I love thee, I'm charm'd by thy beauty, dear boy!
And if thou'rt unwilling, then force I'll employ."
"My father, my father, he seizes me fast,
For sorely the Erl-King has hurt me at last."
The father now gallops, with terror half wild,
He grasps in his arms the poor shuddering child;
He reaches his courtyard with toil and with dread, -
The child in his arms finds he motionless, dead.
If you have translated it to English, with the rhymes still remaining, then you have done a terrific job!!
This is one of my favorite songs for voice and piano because of the text-painting; I remember being totally transfixed when I first heard it in my music history class in college. However, even after graduating with a music degree and being a violinist for 25 years, I don't have the chops to play this transcription for solo violin. Even as a violin duet it would still be a massive undertaking! 😳
Anant Kerur no it wasn’t me, i found this online. but i do speak a bit german XD
reading and listening at the same time tells the whole story
Challenging as a piano accompaniment and even more so as a violin transcription! Brilliant!
lordy look at those tenths
Amazing, I love pieces like this where you can so vividly see the story behind.
Beautiful, haunting, emotional.
First it was Paganini, now this composer/transcriber. What is with making the violin into a portable piano, with an accompaniment and melody and everything 😂
As an fyi Schubert originally composed it then Ernst transcribed it to violin the piece is very playable on piano but on violin... I'd bet I can count on two hands the amount of people in the world that can play this well
The violin is the best musical instrument ever created 😎
YEAH! it don't work like that. it's like 5000000 times harder on the violin than on the piano. i'm not a pianist but i was able to learn the erlkonig on the piano within like a month or two? it was impossible to do so on the violin. i gave up after looking at the third bar
@@ummhi.6725 Depends what version you're playing on piano. While not as difficult as the violin, Liszt has a transcription of it as well for solo piano, which is very dfificult.
This piece has such a history for me, I learned the poem in like 8th grade on a herman lesson (from Portugal but i went to german school), then my mom sang the shubert version and I fell in love with the sheer dramatism that this incredible poem and music have. The I found Ernst's transcription for violin (I play the violin), and I won't die without playing it.
You will get there, I believe in you! Eight years ago I didn't believe I could play it either. (There is no punchline; I can play it now.)
I watched the opera and came back really touched…
It just hits different
actually how on earth is that humanly playable
Hilary Hahn played it i guess so it is possible
@@shan8499 He asked humanly, Hilary doesn't count
I always thought you can only play 1:40 on the piano, this is amazing and proves me wrong!
i love me too, very very much! thanks for sharing the score, very interesting to follow it
thus is so inspiring and i love it
2:23 gives me chills every time.
Is this Hilary Hahn playing?
Isibeal Owens yes
I don’t think so. I think it’s Vilde Frang
This is so Hilary Hahn bro, she is unique I can even picture her "dance" with her violin...
still can’t even wrap my head around how it’s even possible to play thisss😳
I showed this so g to my orchestra director, she was surprised at first. But ended up playing it sorta well.
Stunning.
I'm speechless..!
I have been playing violin for 15 years and can play exactly 15 seconds of this piece
Shoutout to those guys watching this after watching twoset with hilary 🎻🎻🎻
This is actually her performing this piece too! :)
@@Rorza94 How can you tell?!
Diana Lee the audio is taken directly from one of her live performances. You can find it pretty easily on YT.
@@Rorza94 I didn't realize that it was identical.
Diana Lee her version is quite distinct in my opinion. Others perform this piece super fast by comparison.
Hillary Hahn has a great live performance of this. She puts so much power in the low drones.
This is Hilary Hahn playing
I didn't know violin sheets could suddenly turn into piano sheets!
I sure ain't gonna get this good staying up every night and watching this at 12:00 am..
New Musical Challenge Accepted! Just got done last month memorizing the Bach solo violin partitas and sonatas along with the Ysaye sonatas, and now I can learn one of my favorite Schubert pieces for violin solo! It sure will be fun to practice singing and playing this!
You know you're in trouble when there are 2 lines on a violin sheet
This 2-staff section I find even harder than the one in Paganini's "Nel cor piu non mi sento". In Paganini's piece, the staffs divide the notes that are meant to be played with a bow from the notes that are supposed to be left hand pizzicato. Here it's just confusing me to the highest extent
Perfecto
Wow this is so good
HOMER SIMPSON?! YOU ARE MY FAV!
For anyone wondering, this is Hilary Hahn playing.
everything gangsta until violin starts having 2 lines
At 3:05, I find it so amusing that both "II" and "III" are written simultaneously. Unless I'm wrong, that means that the violinist must be in second and third position at the same time… which is pretty much impossible if you like your hand to stay in one piece. I can just see Ernst, the composer, scowling and saying, "It's not that hard! Suck it up already!" … Yup. Right, no problem at all.
Same
Roman numerals are more often used to indicate which string to play on. I - e, II - a, III - d, IV - G. So that indication means to play on the a and d strings. The B on the a string and the G# on the d string.
Here it means that the double stop is to be played on the second and third strings (A and D). Still damn hard...
Baby sleep musik
9.5 half and 10 steps
"no biggie"
I had trouble READING the sheet music! I think I'll stick to dreaming and listening to this piece for a few years. Right now I'd say I can play the last 3 bars well
When the violin sheet music starts looking like piano sheet music
It is not the hardness of the piece that scares me the most. It is that there are humans (?) out there who can play this
I saw this sheet music and I was like “what the fuck”
I've never even played violin but those notes look like the truest form of hell
Trust me when I say this is one of the hardest pieces on the violin repetoire. It's actually absolute hell. Even most masters, like Jascha Heifetz, didn't even dare pick up this piece.
Ning Feng's version on this is incredible--Hilary Hahn also different interpretations though.
This is Ling Ling’s warm up piece :)
warm up? Ling Ling doesn't need to warm up!
4 Violist die from hearing this piece every day!
At least most of Asian parents do not know the piece
Or RIP THEIR CHILDREN
You know the piece is hard when it has two lines
'You don't understand bach', 'this isn't music', 'what's the point'. SO many of these comments below. I would be surprised if the aforementioned folks could struggle through a dont etude, let alone a paganini caprice and LET ALONE this. Enjoy an incredible feat for what it is and stop trying to get over your own insecurities and technical shortcomings by being dismissive. I fancy that the people like me and others who play this repertoire have a far better chance of playing what people call 'real music' than the type who so readily criticise this. Frankly I don't know why those people are watching this video if they are after a work of enduring depth and emotional significance. If they are half as informed as they pretend to be then they would know that erlkonig is originally an incredible Schubert song (D.328) where the genius lies in the absolutely appropriate setting of a truly haunting text by Goethe. Bravo to this fine violinist for such an excellent performance - I came here to listen to an ERNST polyphonic work for the violin and not to listen to something on the same emotional level as the lamentations of Jeremiah
Ugh shut up
pEoPlE LiKe mE wHo PlAy tHiS *rEpeRtOiRe*
I think I could play this, if I leave out the underlying triple notes
Wow
- How hard do you want it to be ?
Ernst : Yes.
hola, necesito esa partitura alguien me la podría mandar por favor :)
i can keep track of the measure that is currently playing in the first 5 second, that's a W for me.
It looks so simple but it is, in fact, a curse upon all violinists to play.
welp there goes all of my self esteem
you know shits getting real when there’s two lines
Never think I will play it in my life
Don’t give up
@@coscoguz4434 I can probably try a couple of phrases, not super difficult at the beginning (where there are less melodic lines).
Me neither, but don't give up. Dedication is key.
that's a LOT of practicing
I got arthritis after watching this
This is linglings warmup
my personal challenge this year
I don't know how good you are but I'd wager it's gonna take more than a year lol
This is insane. If you ever manage it please consider sharing the recording with us, there's a distinct lack of people playing this.
here the most difficult violin solo piece
Ling ling Workin out his skills I see~🎷
This is the Hahn recording right...
Hello, I want to konw where can I founded these notes! Thank you!
Holy crap.
It says “for solo violin” but it has 36373637 voices and two lines in some parts don’t you think that’s a lot of mixed signals
I’m still trying to figure out how measure 9 (0:16, first measure on the last line) is even physically possible. Like… I can’t even think of a single reasonable fingering for that. You’d have to be like a violin contortionist to be able to execute that.
Ikr
you play the higher G with the 2nd finger, and on the bottom part you play both the A and the B-flat with the first finger. It seems confusing, but it's the only reasonable fingering, since sliding the 4th finger for the highest notes in the passage isn't convenient. So basically it's 2nd position, with an under-extension to play the low A.
whats the name of the piece that sounds similar to the intro but instead of going up it goes down.
Sheet music pls?
Personally I have played this piece before for my school, but I have never had such a challenging time with a piece other than God save the king variations by paganini.
Ling ling goes Brrrrrr
Strange not to mention the violinist. Is it Vadim Repin of Hilary Hahn?
Pretty sure it's HIlary Hahn
How can someone make a violin sound like two?
It take more than a human to play this
1:37
how does one even play the first line
@ have you ever tried? There is this one fifth, which makes it soo hard. And when the high g comes and the triple stops begin, gosh it's hard...
Jose Lima-Tapia it's kinda like saying playing bach is just playing notes, misses the difficulty completely
*the fact that this is Ling Ling’s warm-up piece*
I am transcribing it for viola so this is gonna be fun
So how'd it go?
Cool beans
**cries**
How do you play a solo violin with a grand staff
very carefully
Mister or miss cornel999, certainly is a virtuso.
YIKES
Even I not a musician looking at these notes just 💀