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Peter Quantrill

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Peter has written about music ever since completing his studies in the Classics. He contributes regularly to Gramophone, the Catholic Herald and The Strad, as well as writing for the Salzburg Festival, Warner Classics, Opera and Pianist magazines, among others. He also made significant contributions to Help your Kids with Music (Dorling Kindersley, 2015) and 1001 Classical Recordings (Cassell, rev 2016).

Articles By Peter Quantrill

Connolly, West, BBCSO, Davis, Barbican

Saturday, 16 May 2015 Read more...

Ensemble InterContemporain, Pintscher, Barbican

Wednesday, 29 April 2015 Read more...

LSO, Eötvös, Barbican

Friday, 24 April 2015 Read more...

Mikhail Rudy, Kings Place

Saturday, 28 March 2015 Read more...

Feldman's Triadic Memories, Melnikov, Wigmore Hall

Friday, 13 March 2015 Read more...

Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, Royal Opera

Wednesday, 11 March 2015 Read more...

BBCSO, Segerstam, Barbican

Monday, 02 March 2015 Read more...

Sibelius Cycle 3, Berliner Philharmoniker, Rattle, Barbican

Friday, 13 February 2015 Read more...

Tutuguri, BBCSO, Nagano, Barbican

Sunday, 01 February 2015 Read more...

Hannigan, LSO, Rattle, Barbican Hall

Friday, 16 January 2015 Read more...

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I have two guilty secrets about the theatre – okay, two I’m prepared to own up to right here, right now. I quite enjoy some...

Beating Hearts review - kiss kiss, slam slam

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Album: Emma Smith - Bitter Orange

Emma Smith, one time Puppini Sister, has established herself over the past decade or so as one of the UK’s most compelling jazz singers, now...

BBC Proms: Anoushka Shankar 'Chapters' review - so...

You can't explain stage presence like Anoushka Shankar’s. It just "is". When she steps out in front of a completely packed Royal Albert Hall, and...

Elschenbroich, Grynyuk / Fibonacci Quartet, Edinburgh Intern...

Leonard Elschenbroich and Alexei Grynyuk crafted a fine programme for their EIF recital, centring around Brahms’ relationship with the Schumanns....

Edinburgh Fringe 2025 reviews: The Fit Prince / Undersigned

The Fit Prince (who gets switched on the square in the frosty castle the night before (insert public holiday here)), Pleasance...

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The Canadian-Korean director Celine Song burst onto the scene with her debut feature, Past Lives, two years ago, a bittersweet...

Album: Marissa Nadler - New Radiations

“I will fly around the world just to forget you” are the opening words of “It Hits Harder,” the first track on New Radiations. The song...

BBC Proms: Akhmetshina, LPO, Gardner review - liquid luxurie...

Water surged through this Prom from first spray to last drop....