Review: Schubert: Winterreise (Joyce DiDonato, Yannick Nézet-Séguin)
Heartache and heat: Joyce DiDonato's startling Winterreise from the maiden’s point of view.
Michael Quinn is a former theatre director and BBC Radio Drama producer who writes about classical music, opera and theatre. A former Deputy Editor of Gramophone, he is obituaries editor for The Stage, booklet editor for SOMM Recordings, and programming consultant to Northern Ireland’s newest arts centre, The Portico of Ards.
Heartache and heat: Joyce DiDonato's startling Winterreise from the maiden’s point of view.
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