Ryan McKinny and Kim Pensinger Witman perform 'Winterreise' at Wolf Trap Barns

It was a perfect "Winterreise" setting -- a dark winter's night, a small rustic hall with ideally intimate acoustics and the partnership of a wonderfully sensitive pianist. Bass-baritone Ryan McKinny wove his heartsick journey through Schubert's 24-song cycle at the Wolf Trap Barns on Friday with Kim Pensinger Witman's exceptional pianism as his artistic and poetic companion. The songs followed one another almost without pause and, with no intermission, an hour of longing, dreaming, despair and ...