I’ve seen Schubert’s Winterreise done many ways.  There’s the classic one with baritone and piano and more rarely soprano (including a memorable performance by Adrienne Pieczonka as a passing cold front battered the hall!).  I’ve seen it done with projections and three singers and I’ve seen made into a film.  So there’s nothing particularly outré about arranging it to add a choir to baritone and piano.  The choir can function as Greek chorus or alter ego or whatever.  Any way that’s what Gregor Meyer did and what the Toronto Mendelssohn Singers conducted by Jean-Sébastian Vallée performed when they joined forces with Brett Polegato and Philip Chiu at Trinity St. Paul’s on Saturday night.

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