The Vien­nese ensemble The Erlk­ings lets clas­sic­al song rep­er­toire shine in new and excit­ing col­ours with Eng­lish-lan­guage adapt­a­tions and unusu­al instru­ment­a­tion – gui­tar, cello, tuba, and per­cus­sion and vibra­phone. With an eye on the upcom­ing anniversary years – the Beeth­oven year 2027 and the Schubert year 2028 – two cent­ral ref­er­ence points of The Erlk­ings’ rep­er­toire are com­ing into sharp­er focus.

The Erlk­ings’ extens­ive con­cert sched­ule has taken them to numer­ous pres­ti­gi­ous fest­ivals and con­cert halls in recent years, includ­ing the Wig­more Hall in Lon­don, the Wien­er Konzer­thaus, the Salzburg Fest­iv­al, the Konzer­thaus Ber­lin, the Schleswig-Hol­stein Music Fest­iv­al, and Heidel­berg Spring. Their intens­ive live pres­ence has also been cap­tured on numer­ous record­ings: in col­lab­or­a­tion with the inde­pend­ent label Rhythmic Dog Sev­en record­ings have been made to date fea­tur­ing Schubert, Schu­mann, Beeth­oven, and Haydn. The first live album was released in 2025. Char­ac­ter­ist­ic of all pro­jects is the dir­ect access to the rep­er­toire – with poet­ic Eng­lish para­phrases and an ensemble that lends new son­ic facets to the clas­sic­al lied.

In the sum­mer of 2026, The Erlk­ings will con­tin­ue their inter­na­tion­al con­cert tour in Ger­many, Aus­tria, Great Bri­tain, and Slov­e­nia, with a South Amer­ic­an tour fol­low­ing in 2027. Stops include, among oth­ers, the Schu­mann Fest­iv­al as part of City of Düs­sel­dorf, the Schuber­tiade Vor­arl­berg, the Ryedale Fest­iv­al in Great Bri­tain, as well as con­certs in Munich, Limburg and at Elmau Castle; fur­ther per­form­ances are sched­uled at the Vienna Musik­ver­ein and the jazz club Porgy & Bess.

Opheli­as Cul­ture PR sup­ports The Erlk­ings through artist PR and clas­sic press work.