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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Darlingside, Cecil Sharp House review - finger-picking good
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Eyck, BBC Philharmonic, Storgårds, Bridgewater Hall, Manches...
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CD: El Khat - Saadia Jefferson
Israel isn’t generally kind to the Jews who have come from somewhere other than Eastern Europe and Russia. Music has provided one of the avenues...
& Juliet, Shaftesbury Theatre review - the Bard with dan...
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Acosta Danza, Sadler's Wells review - a dose of Cuban s...
Second album, second novel, second tour programme – the follow-up is always tricky. But the timing couldn’t be better for Acosta Danza, the Havana...
Shaw, Attacca Quartet, Kings Place review - composer portrai...
There aren’t many musicians who could appear as composer, singer and violist on a single programme but that was Caroline Shaw’s lot last night. As...
Permission review - suspenseful melodrama of a true-life eve...
Permission tells the story of Afrooz, the captain of...
Ivo Graham: The Game of Life, Soho Theatre review - privileg...
Ivo Graham's latest show The Game of Life follows on from his previous hour, in which he talked about passing a milestone in...