I wasn’t expecting to enjoy a modernised version of Winterreise as I like my Schubert uncontaminated.   So, I approached the performance of Hans Zender’s 1993 version of the original in St. Leonard’s, Shoreditch with trepidation.   I was quite wrong.   It was an astonishing, electrified, theatrical version of the original, as performed by the Aurora Orchestra, which made it more vivid, including making one pay more attention to the language, but also amplified it.   Both shocking and intense, not least in the way it used the decayed interiors of George Dance’s church:-