Romantic / pre-Modern German vocal music

Listening to all these German tapes has reminded me how much I love a lot of German vocal music. Here are some fun links.

As first showed me by Matt, this is an awesome performance of Schubert's Erlkonig by Fischer-Dieskau - creeepy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh4_R8B3tag There are a lot of videos of his performances on YouTube. They also have Richter and a bunch of older videos available. Pretty sweet.
Here's von Otter in the full orchestration: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdhRYMY6IEc
Here's the score if you'd like to follow along: http://icking-music-archive.org/scores/schubert/Erlkonig/erlkonig.pdf and of course the translation is widely available, e.g. Wikipedia.

One of my favorite vocal pieces of all time is Nun will de Sonn' so hell aufgehn from Mahler's Kindertotenlieder. Outrageously depressing, but gorgeous. There's a youtube of Fischer-Dieskau performing it, but it's very choppy and cuts the intro. Awful!

Mexico State orchestra actually does a pretty good job with it, Suaste baritone. : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqTyEKB64EE

I can't find any other good YouTubes of it, but I'm also kinda lazy. Here's a related Youtube with F-D singing Mahler: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n287HC6G03I

so, getting away from the German theme:

A selection of youtubes of the now late-great Rostropovich performances on YouTube:
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxYbF-Yzdf0 (Dvorak Cello Concerto w/ London Phil) apparently this video comes in multiple parts. I don't know if these are contiguous... but hopefully since they're from the same poster they will be:
-- part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRRHhCAUDI4
-- part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iuw1ieM2Ejg
-- part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-GlL_qlvBM
-- part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fj0GMQCi3gY
-- part 6: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7e7LFhfN_s
of course there are links from each to the other. watching Rosty play this showy piece is awesome. intonation is a little reckless as always, but in a good way. Plus the British people all look funny.
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DfDVQ0pdfo Bach suite in Dm (part 1, I'm not listing all the parts. You figure it out.)


Some other things that I highly suggest YouTubing:
- Art Tatum
- Thelonius Monk
- Edgar Meyer (duh)
- Don Hertzfeldt rejected
- Jaco Pastorius (particularly Portrait of Tracy... in fact here's a link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25DXcFg1TFo . he had to have been on crack.)