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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LFF 2018: The Ballad of Buster Scruggs review - Wild West ta...
The “portmanteau” form of film-making is almost guaranteed to deliver patchy results, and The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, the Coen brothers...
CD: Yoko Ono - Warzone
There is no doubt that the hippies of the late 60s and early 70s gifted the world a horde of beautiful music before they finally slipped into a...
There She Goes, BBC Four review - mining disability for fami...
What do you do after playing Doctor Who, the...
Informer, BBC One review - keeping tabs on terror
Thanks heavens not all police officers spend their time trying to find “hate crime” on Twitter, or not going to the assistance of colleagues in...
Measure for Measure, Donmar Warehouse review - Shakespeare t...
Shakespeare exists to be refracted and filtered...
Barneys, Books and Bust Ups, BBC Four review - the Booker Pr...
You had to keep your eyes skinned. Was that Iris Murdoch or AS Byatt, Kingsley Amis or John Banville, Margaret Atwood or Val McDermid – maybe,...
The Inheritance, Noël Coward Theatre review - tangled knot o...
Its roots are in an emotional truth: Matthew Lopez saw the film, then read the book, of Howards End when he was 15 and 11 years later...
Hallé, Gardner, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester review – drama...
Edward Gardner was back amongst friends when he opened the Hallé’s Thursday series concerts. This was the place where he made his mark, as the...
Ciarán Dowd, Soho Theatre review - terrific spoof swordsman...
The Edinburgh Fringe does throw up some...