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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Die tote Stadt, Komische Oper Berlin, OperaVision review – w...
A word about grief. Many of us have learned a lot about it this past year; many knew about it before that. When someone we love dies, we grieve....
Berlinale 2021: Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn review – chee...
The Romanian director Radu Jude invariably serves spicy...
The Terror, BBC Two review - nightmare in the Arctic wastes
Admittedly, Antarctic explorer Captain Scott was at the other end of the earth from the protagonists of The Terror (...
Album: Kings of Leon - When You See Yourself
Over the course of seven albums and nearly two decades, Kings of Leon...
Moxie review - likeable if confused high school comedy
A teen comedy with a thematic difference, Moxie has enough memorable moments to firmly establish comedian Amy Poehler as a director worth...
Your Honor, Sky Atlantic review - Bryan Cranston suffers fea...
Nice to find Bryan Cranston taking the lead in a TV series again (this is his first since Breaking Bad ended in 2013), and the role of...
Pioneering Women, Oxford Ceramics Gallery online review - do...
Pioneering is an attractive adjective in this context, alerting the spectator to what has been, over the past half century, an extraordinary body...
Album: Arab Strap - As Days Get Dark
Shortly after Arab Strap split up in 2006, Malcolm Middleton was quoted saying “I don’t think we should ever get back together”. That’s...
Frances Larson: Undreamed Shores review - journeys without m...
Beatrice Blackwood had lived in a clifftop village between surf and jungle on Bougainville Island, part of the Solomon archipelago in the South...
Blu-ray: Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Te...
Jindřich Polák ’s 1963 film Ikarie XB-1 (also available...