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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Black British Musical Theatre 1900-1950, Wigmore Hall review...
The Wigmore Hall is a bastion of white musicians playing the music of white composers to a largely white audience and it is to the credit of the...
Thomas Hardy: Fate, Exclusion and Tragedy, Sky Arts review –...
Born in 1840, Thomas Hardy lived a life of in-betweens. Modern yet traditional, the son of a builder who went on to become a famous novelist, he...
Camp Siegfried, Old Vic review - the banality of evil, brill...
A stealthily powerful play gets the production of its dreams in Camp Siegfried, which marks a high-profile UK presence for the American...
Ben Howard, Royal Festival Hall review - authentic and reass...
Ben Howard is a man of very few words, unless of course, there’s a...
Esther Yoo, Yekwon Sunwoo, Wigmore Hall review - Korean duo...
The duo partnership between violinist Esther Yoo and...
The Lodger, Coronet Theatre review - underdeveloped family d...
The Coronet Theatre is a beautiful space – it’s a listed Victorian building, and the bar’s like something out of a film about Oscar Wilde....
Colson Whitehead: Harlem Shuffle review - period piece speak...
More than once, reading Colson Whitehead’s latest novel Harlem Shuffle, the brilliant Josh and Benny Safdie movie Uncut...
DVD/Blu-ray: The Servant
Switching between upstairs and downstairs makes your soul melt, in this first of three Joseph Losey/Harold Pinter...
LSO, Rattle, Barbican review - a glimpse into Bruckner’s wor...
For most Bruckner fans, the multiple editions and revisions...
Anuvab Pal, Soho Theatre review - Empire and Bollywood colli...
Anuvab Pal may be a new name to some UK audiences (although many will know him from the global...