Alexander Moissi reads Goethe’s Erlkoenig

Alexander Moissi (1879-1935), an Austrian-Albanian actor, reads Goethe’s horror-poem in a unique style that is now practically extinct. Moissi was admired by critics, writers and colleagues and performed all over Europe. However, due to the big changes in style that occurred in all forms of art in the first half of the 20th century, he is nowadays virtually unknown. One can write a lot about the extremely expressive intonations that Moissi uses to express the drama of the poem, but from a musicians point o