Review: Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin (Ian Bostridge, Saskia Giorgini)
A movingly intimate, poignant, quietly mesmerising Müllerin.
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.
A movingly intimate, poignant, quietly mesmerising Müllerin.
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