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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The Lion King review - a dazzling photocopy
The cynicism of this film’s existence squeezes all the feeling from it. It approaches cherished...
Pick of the BBC Proms 2019
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Blu-ray: Lords of Chaos
“All this evil and dark crap was supposed to be fun,” complains exasperated...
k.d.lang, Brighton Dome review - superb revival of classic a...
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The Night of the Iguana, Noël Coward Theatre review - Clive...
One of the glories of contemporary London theatre is its revivals of classic American drama. Year after year, audiences are able to revisit and...
Ewa Banaszkiewicz and Mateusz Dymek: 'Is our film porny...
Spoiler alert: About sixty-four minutes into our debut feature film, one of the main female characters undresses for the camera. Alicja is being...
The Day We Walked on the Moon, ITV review - it was 50 years...
It was on 16 July 1969 that Apollo 11 lifted off from Florida en route for the Moon, and exactly 50 years later, as we nervously anticipate the...
Burt Bacharach Together with Joss Stone, Eventim Apollo revi...
Whatever age you are, in whatever era you grew up – wherever you grew up – you will know, perhaps unknowingly, a large handful of songs by Burt...