Peter Quantrill

Opinion
The price of success
Peter Quantrill  |  Sep 12, 2025  |  Published: Sep 01, 2025  |  0 comments

The winner of this year’s Van Cliburn International Piano Competition will have the musical world at their feet – won’t they? Self-confessed ‘jaded hack’ Peter Quantrill has his doubts

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Classical Companion
Pierre Boulez Organiser of Delirium
Peter Quantrill  |  Aug 14, 2025  |  Published: Aug 01, 2025  |  0 comments

There’s much more to Boulez than the abrasive provocateur, says Peter Quantrill, as he picks out highlights from a life’s work driven by an ambition to fuse poetry and music

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Classical
Classical, August 2025
Peter Quantrill  |  Jul 29, 2025  |  Published: Aug 01, 2025  |  0 comments

This month we review: Raphaël Pichon; Iestyn Davies; Soloists, BBC National Orchestra of Wales; and Gerald Finley

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Opinion
Revelations and admissions
Peter Quantrill  |  Jul 28, 2025  |  Published: Aug 01, 2025  |  0 comments
A new documentary film about Herbert von Karajan’s Bruckner cycle sheds revealing light on both the technology of the recordings and the interpretations, finds Peter Quantrill

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Classical, July 2025
Peter Quantrill  |  Jul 09, 2025  |  Published: Jul 01, 2025  |  0 comments

This month we review: Arabella Steinbacher, Bizet, Adam Baldych, and Simone Young

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Opinion
Forty years of ECM
Peter Quantrill  |  Jul 09, 2025  |  Published: Jul 01, 2025  |  0 comments

A new coffee table book of album covers and statistics from Manfred Eicher’s record label will make a happy trip down memory lane for any serious collector, says Peter Quantrill

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Classical Companion
Charles Mackerras A Conductor For All Seasons
Peter Quantrill  |  Jul 09, 2025  |  Published: Jul 01, 2025  |  0 comments
Peter Quantrill pays tribute to a complete musician who drove his colleagues hard, always with the ultimate goal of serving the composer rather than a personal vision
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Classical Companion
Mel Bonis Sepia Postcards In Sound
Peter Quantrill  |  Jun 26, 2025  |  Published: Jun 01, 2025  |  0 comments

A life story that would make a movie and a catalogue of over 300 works... this forgotten musical heroine of Belle Epoque Paris is explored on record by Peter Quantrill

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Opinion
Lessons from Kurtág
Peter Quantrill  |  Jun 19, 2025  |  Published: Jun 01, 2025  |  0 comments
An encounter with the Hungarian composer gets Peter Quantrill thinking about how we respond to music... and whether it’s the music that we’re responding to, or our own feelings
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Classical, June 2025
Peter Quantrill  |  Jun 18, 2025  |  Published: Jun 01, 2025  |  0 comments
This month we review: Krystian Zimerman & Friends; Tamara Stefanovich; Devieilhe, Dubois, Les Siècles/Roth; and Matthias Goerne, OPRF/Franck
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