Peter Quantrill
Bio
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
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Billy Budd, Royal Opera review - Britten's drama of goo...
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Suede, Brighton Dome review - Brett Anderson gives it full f...
Suede finish “Sabotage”. It’s a mid-paced, elegant number set off by swirling, circling central...
10 Questions for actress and playwright Nicôle Lecky
Nicôle Lecky’s one woman show Superhoe has added fire to the reputation of an already fast-rising actress and writer. Based around Sasha...
All My Sons, Old Vic review - starry but disappointingly une...
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Run for Your Life, ITV review - giving the nation's you...
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Looking for Rembrandt, BBC Four review - painter's biog...
This final episode of BBC Four's Looking for Rembrandt...
CD: Bad Religion - Age of Unreason
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Obituary: Bibi Andersson 1935-2019
"One talks, the other doesn’t" is about as crude a description as could be of the Swedish masterpiece, Persona. Profoundly experimental...
Sea Star: Sean Scully, National Gallery review - analysing p...
Either side of a doorway, framing a view of Turner’s The Evening Star, c. 1830 (Main picture), Sean Scully’s ...
DVD/Blu-ray: Pet Shop Boys - Inner Sanctum
Pet Shop Boys are never shy of producing stylishly conceived fan mementos. Coming not long after Faber & Faber’s hardback collection of Neil...