Peter Quantrill

Classical
Classical, March 2025
Peter Quantrill  |  Apr 23, 2025  |  Published: Mar 01, 2025  |  0 comments

This month we review: Gilchrist Neary, Coleman; William Christie; Pioro, Dennis; and Frans Brüggen and Louis Andriessen

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Classical Companion
Charles Ives American visionary
Peter Quantrill  |  Apr 17, 2025  |  Published: Mar 01, 2025  |  0 comments

Modernist, patriot, man of faith, insurance broker: a new box illuminates one of classical music’s most singular voices, and his recording legacy, explored by Peter Quantrill

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Opinion
Never too old
Peter Quantrill  |  Apr 16, 2025  |  Published: Mar 01, 2025  |  0 comments
The longevity of conductors can be misleading, says Peter Quantrill, when the sentiment of the occasion obscures the vitality of the music-making. Yet with age can come great wisdom...
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Classical, February 2025
Peter Quantrill  |  Apr 05, 2025  |  Published: Feb 01, 2025  |  0 comments
This month we review: RLPO/Domingo Hindoyan; Johannes Moser, Xuefei Yang; Hallé/Kahchun Wong; and Bruno de Sà
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Opinion
Death of the orchestra?
Peter Quantrill  |  Apr 01, 2025  |  Published: Feb 01, 2025  |  0 comments
Peter Quantrill finds reasons to be cheerful in the proliferation of young-musician ensembles based on more flexible models of organisation – but can traditional venues follow suit?
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Classical, January 2025
Peter Quantrill  |  Mar 14, 2025  |  Published: Jan 01, 2025  |  0 comments
This month we review: Luiza Borac, Rachel Fenlon, Franco Mezzena, Pina Napolitano, and the BBC Concert Orchestra with Alice Farnham
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Opinion
Too young for Brahms
Peter Quantrill  |  Mar 13, 2025  |  Published: Jan 01, 2025  |  0 comments
A pair of prestigious piano competition finals has Peter Quantrill wondering if particular pieces and composers are best left on the shelf, waiting for a musician’s life to catch up with their ability
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Classical Companion
Géza Anda Troubadour of the Piano
Peter Quantrill  |  Mar 12, 2025  |  Published: Jan 01, 2025  |  0 comments
There’s more to the Hungarian pianist than his famous Bartók and Mozart recordings, says Peter Quantrill, as he explores Anda’s rigorous formation and poetic imagination
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Peter Schreier Storyteller supreme
Peter Quantrill  |  Mar 09, 2025  |  Published: Feb 01, 2025  |  0 comments
Peter Quantrill explores the career and catalogue of a renowned Bach Evangelist and Schubert tenor with a peerless ability to communicate directly with his listener
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Maestros unfiltered
Peter Quantrill  |  Mar 04, 2025  |  Published: Dec 01, 2024  |  0 comments
What do conductors do, and how do they do it? Peter Quantrill says two recent memoirs lift the veil on the supposed mysticism of a very practical profession, from contrasting perspectives

There is a nice irony to the fact that the most silent musicians of all are required to be the best with words. Orchestras may like the conductors who speak the least, but explanation, correction and encouragement can’t entirely be done at the tip of a baton. Meanwhile, the public is perennially fascinated by the power dynamic at play when a single figure seems to conjure unity from the talents of a hundred individuals.

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