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Peter Quantrill @PeterQuantrill

Writing and talking about music. Cricket tragic.

Joined May 2013
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Why is it so insanely hard to discover how I can listen to English-language radio commentary of the IPL #ipl2026? Also: how can I listen to radio commentary of the IPL? (No I am not interested in the TV broadcast on any channel.) Thanks!
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The long goodbye - Jurowski returns to the LPO for Mahler's Tenth in Rudolf Barshai's completion. My ★★★★ review @bachtrack 📸Mark Allan bachtrack.com/review-mahler-…
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High performance: Kian Soltani on his Stradivari cello ✍️ @PeterQuantrill bachtrack.com/interview-kian…

High performance: Kian Soltani on his Stradivari cello

One of only 60 surviving cellos by the Cremonese master, Kian Soltani’s ‘London, ex-Boccherini’ cello is reunited with many other Stradavari instruments at J & A Beare’s Chamber Music Festival in...

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Two Nilssons for the price of one: my report @Bachtrack from the award of the Birgit Nilsson Prize to the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence. 📸Maja Brandt bachtrack.com/review-malkki-…
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Choose life: Oramo's Mahler 9 leaves death for the last page @BBCSO ✍️ Peter Quantrill bachtrack.com/review-oramo-m…

Choose life: Oramo's Mahler 9 leaves death for the last page

The BBC Symphony Orchestra opens its season at the Barbican on top form in Mahler's last completed symphony. 

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15 Sep 2025
Taking risks that pay off at the Enescu Festival @Enescu_Festival ✍️ Peter Quantrill bachtrack.com/review-giocoso…

Taking risks that pay off at the Enescu Festival

The Giocoso’s Enescu and Il Giardino Armonico’s Beethoven bookend an exhilarating day of rarities and classics.

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In these sacred halls: a long Sunday at the George Enescu International Festival @Enescu_Festival ✍️ Peter Quantrill bachtrack.com/review-kurtag-…

In these sacred halls: a long Sunday at the Enescu Festival

Bucharest’s temples of culture present rites of closure by Mozart, Kurtág and Bruckner… and a fleeting glimpse of Nirvana.

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12 Sep 2025
Bach on the street, Klimt in the forest: the Enescu Festival goes immersive @Enescu_Festival ✍️ Peter Quantrill bachtrack.com/review-breakin…

Enescu Festival immersion: Bach on the street, Klimt in the forest

At the George Enescu International Festival, a pair of new shows crossing genres and reinventing the classics, with mostly enlightening results.

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Revelatory Birtwistle and Beethoven from the BBC Scottish SO and Ryan Wigglesworth ✍️ Peter Quantrill bachtrack.com/review-wiggles…

Revelatory Birtwistle and Beethoven from the BBC Scottish SO

A composer-conductor's insight yields lasting rewards in Earth Dances and the Eroica at the Royal Albert Hall. 

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Such a treat to hear and see the strange and wonderful Sancta Civitas again. My ★★★★ review @bachtrack of the First Night of the Proms. bachtrack.com/22/296/view/29…

The First Night of the BBC Proms: celebration and redemption

The BBC's annual classical jamboree is launched in fine style with a premiere and a timely revival, conducted by Sakari Oramo. 

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Faust in Bucharest - my review for Opera Now. tl:dr - no, the devil doesn't have all the best tunes. Marguerite has most of them, at least when sung by Anita Hartig. gramophone.co.uk/opera-now/r…
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Unhurried suspense in a very English Parsifal @glyndebourne ✍️ Peter Quantrill bachtrack.com/review-parsifa…

Unhurried suspense in a very English Parsifal

Compelling singers carry the day in the Glyndebourne Festival Opera's first staging of Wagner’s swansong. 

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2 May 2025
“If this Ring were an HBO series, the Emmy awards would be in the can.” Fair to say that Barrie Kosky's new Walküre went down well at the @rbo_org last night! First review: ✍️ Peter Quantrill bachtrack.com/review-walkure…

The little man has his day: a nasty and brutish Die Walküre

The latest, thrilling instalment of Barrie Kosky's Ring cycle at Covent Garden does not have to strain for contemporary relevance. 

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Dvořák in the bloodstream: Joshua Bell in Rome ✍️ @PeterQuantrill bachtrack.com/interview-josh…

Dvořák in the bloodstream: Joshua Bell in Rome

The US violinist talks about his love for Dvořák’s Violin Concerto, ahead of concerts with Daniel Harding and the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.

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2 Apr 2025
Lucid dreaming and poetic elegies: Total Immersion with Boulez at the @BarbicanCentre @BBCSO ✍️ Peter Quantrill bachtrack.com/review-boulez-…

Total Immersion with Boulez at the Barbican

A BBC day of talks and concerts yields delight and revelation in equal measure. 

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Just to say, in case anyone around here cares, that I am only checking in once in a while. Otherwise I am over at the other place, WokeSky as my son calls it (he is exercising filial rights to ridicule his father whenever he likes)
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Lovely sunny day in Galați by the Danube. Last night, Trio Akademik (excellent) at the Nae Leonard Theatre. Tonight, Butterfly with Elena Mosuč as part of their #Puccini festival.
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Since when did I have to upload a copy of my passport in order to access my @LinkedInUK @LinkedInHelp account? A surefire way to put me off using it every again!
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Another love-letter from me to Bruckner 5, courtesy of Ádám Fischer and @theoae - my review @bachtrack bachtrack.com/review-adam-fi…

Vision of glory: Bruckner's Fifth glows with new authenticity

Ádam Fischer and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment bring new light and life to Bruckner's most imposing cathedral in sound. 

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