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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Masculinities: Liberation through Photography, Barbican revi...
The exhibition starts on the Barbican’s lift doors, which are emblazoned with photographs...
Alexei Sayle, Oxford Playhouse review - return of the politi...
It has been seven years since Alexei Sayle last toured – radio shows and books detaining him elsewhere – but he's back with a bang. As he walks on...
DVD/Blu-ray: The Winslow Boy
Though set in a handsomely-realised 1912, many of The Winslow Boy’s period details seem disconcertingly contemporary, from aggressive...
Panikos Panayi: Migrant City review – the capital of the wor...
Some menus never change. In 1910, the Loyal British Waiters Society came into being, prompted by “xenophobic resentment at the dominance of...
Patricia Grace: Potiki review – a searching examination of h...
With the publication of her first work, Waiariki (1975), Patricia Grace became the author of the first ever collection of short stories...
Reissue CDs Weekly: Bona Rays
For record buyers, Bona Rays left limited evidence for their existence. One single was issued by the aptly named Mystery Records in 1981. Pressed...
CD: Grimes - Miss Anthropocene
Grimes is hilarious. For all the grandiose conceptualism, apocalyptic visions, high tech sonic manipulation, outré costumes, modish witchery,...
Aimard, Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, Roth, RFH review - Beethov...
In Beethoven anniversary year, there are three ways to...
Hunters, Amazon Prime review - bringing God's justice t...
Apparently network executives initially reacted with alarm to the premise of Hunters,...
Supergrass, Barrowland, Glasgow review - nostalgic reunion p...
As Gaz Coombes noted around the halfway point of Supergrass’s Barrowland set “the last time we were here it was to say goodbye”. That was a decade...