Peter Quantrill @peterquantrill.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Didn't Holst set some of her poems? (trying to do this without cheating). Such a beautiful name. 110
Peter Quantrill @peterquantrill.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Was already done in 2024, in less than five minutes. www.iainfarrington.com/extra-time.h...iainfarrington.comExtra TimeExtra Time for Symphony Orchestra Extra Time is a celebration of sport and its ability to create a rousing collective experience for its spectators. Composed after the 2024 Paris Olympic... 000
Peter Quantrill @peterquantrill.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Nothing says patriotism quite like marching in masks and black balaclavas. 2723
Reposted by Peter Quantrill Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 03/08/2026Up the garden path: Aimard's joyous Messiaen at the Salzburg Festival 🐥 ✍️ Peter Quantrill bachtrack.com/review-pierr... 031
Reposted by Peter Quantrill Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 05/08/2026Bread and Transfiguration: Messiaen’s Saint François d'Assise at the Salzburg Festival ✍️ Peter Quantrill bachtrack.com/review-messi... 051
Reposted by Peter Quantrill Sacrifice! At the Harvest Festival @theharvestmaid.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Why is everything so transparently evil now? 532384601
Reposted by Peter Quantrill Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 22/04/2026National Grid: the UK is currently getting only 2.6% of its electricity from fossil fuels. grid.iamkate.com 611439
Peter Quantrill @peterquantrill.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Stamen-wielding Flowermaidens and a soaking wet Kundry - my **** review of a luxuriously cast Parsifal at the Tiroler Festspiele in Erl, @bachtrack.com bachtrack.com/review-parsi... 191
Peter Quantrill @peterquantrill.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Facing up to a grief beyond words - Laura Bowler's new musical translation of Han Kang's novel/memoir, for Barbara Hannigan and the LSO at its UK premiere. My ★★★★ review @bachtrack.com bachtrack.com/review-hanni...bachtrack.com 071
Reposted by Peter Quantrill Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 03/03/2026When you click the "beautify slide" AI feature in Google Slides. NOT A JOKE 251713382
Peter Quantrill @peterquantrill.bsky.social · 18/02/2026Good carb loading there, Bernard. Toast, hash browns AND chips. Impressive work. 120
Peter Quantrill @peterquantrill.bsky.social · 04/02/2026It's funny you should raise that one, I saw it myself last night, for the first time in years. And reminded myself, it's a good deal less sexist than most Bond movies. Does the cosmetic op to make him look more Asian count as racist? 110
Reposted by Peter Quantrill European Movement UK @europeanmovement.co.uk · 31/01/2026Today marks 6 years since the UK left the European Union. On the 31st January 2020, life changed for millions of people, with the impact still being felt across the country to this day. 49341
Peter Quantrill @peterquantrill.bsky.social · 27/01/2026The long goodbye - Jurowski returns to the LPO for Mahler's Tenth in Rudolf Barshai's completion. My ★★★★ review @bachtrack.com 📸Mark Allan bachtrack.com/review-mahle... 081
Peter Quantrill @peterquantrill.bsky.social · 13/01/2026I can't do that, Cat. Try Bryan Magee or Michael Tanner or... anyone else? 050
Peter Quantrill @peterquantrill.bsky.social · 24/12/2025What interests me is - is that the road to the Isle of Sheppey in the opening credits? 000
Reposted by Peter Quantrill Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 19/12/2025The most brutal way of telling someone they’re a few sandwiches short of a picnic that I’ve heard in French is t’es pas la truite la plus oxygénée de la rivière. It means “you’re not the most oxygenated trout in the river.” * read on for similar insults from around the world (a thread)… 1011560402
Reposted by Peter Quantrill Joel Veitch @rathergood.bsky.social · 10/12/2025Wife: why do you have 8 cubes filled with ink? Me: for eggs Wife: why are you only putting eggs in the eighth cube? Me: I am ink cube eighting them Wife: ok, I need to explain something to you... 0172
Peter Quantrill @peterquantrill.bsky.social · 28/11/2025Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's... but we're paddling in the shallows of KB's ignorance here. 010
Peter Quantrill @peterquantrill.bsky.social · 28/11/2025And Aus Licht was 2019. Dates never my strong suit. 000
Peter Quantrill @peterquantrill.bsky.social · 27/11/2025Ah, they were all formative experiences. The Bach was broadcast live on R3, so can in theory be re-lived... 110
Peter Quantrill @peterquantrill.bsky.social · 27/11/20251991 - Berg: Wozzeck, English National Opera 1995 - Mahler 9, BPO/Abbado, Proms 2001 - Bach: St Matthew Passion, Gloucester Cathedral, cond Sir Colin Davis 2008 - Wagner: Parsifal, Bayreuth Festival, dir Herheim, cond Gatti 2022 - Stockhausen: Aus Licht, Amsterdam 150
Reposted by Peter Quantrill Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 07/11/2025High performance: Kian Soltani on his Stradivari cello ✍️ @peterquantrill.bsky.social bachtrack.com/interview-ki... 032
Reposted by Peter Quantrill Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 28/10/2025I know nothing about Dr Who, but, for Londoners, the phrase "Going For Dinner With Billie Piper" is the absolute best way to remember the order of the vertical streets running east to west in Soho (Greek, Frith, Dean, Wardour, Berwick, Poland) and has saved many a late night out 21710156
Reposted by Peter Quantrill David KC @davidmuttering.bsky.social · 25/10/2025It is a little known fact that tonight's clock re-adjustment was pioneered by German-British artist Frank Auerbach, to the great dismay of the proponent of the original change, politician Konrad Adenauer 1925770
Peter Quantrill @peterquantrill.bsky.social · 24/10/2025Two 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-malkk... 021
Reposted by Peter Quantrill Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 24/10/2025A walk through King’s Cross via @KingsPlace ✍️ Peter Quantrill bachtrack.com/feature-walk... 001
Reposted by Peter Quantrill Final Friztination @frizfrizzle.bsky.social · 14/10/2025STATLER; "This funeral is so boring, I'm jealous of the guy in the coffin! Ah ha ha ha ha!" [Statler turns to the empty chair next to him and sheds one tear] 23965188
Reposted by Peter Quantrill Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 06/10/2025Choose life: Oramo's Mahler 9 leaves death for the last page ✍️ Peter Quantrill bachtrack.com/review-oramo... 083
Peter Quantrill @peterquantrill.bsky.social · 06/10/2025Sakari Oramo guided the BBCSO through a life-affirming Mahler 9 at the Barbican on Saturday - my ★★★★ review for Bachtrack here: bachtrack.com/22/296/view/... 272
Peter Quantrill @peterquantrill.bsky.social · 24/09/2025But is it a constant? Feels like way more than 4% of people believe comparably crazy nonsense. 000
Peter Quantrill @peterquantrill.bsky.social · 23/09/2025Don't you think these replies fuse quite seamlessly with potential answers to the question, 'what's the most English-coded thing you actively love?' Now, as to why that is... [shuffles papers] 170
Reposted by Peter Quantrill Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 15/09/2025Taking risks that pay off at the Enescu Festival ✍️ Peter Quantrill bachtrack.com/review-gioco... 012
Reposted by Peter Quantrill Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 14/09/2025After the rivers of blood speech, precisely no one in the major parties patted themselves on the back and declared free speech to be alive and well. They declared Powell a pariah, and he was only able to re-emerge in public life as the incongruous unionist MP for South Down. 18346147
Reposted by Peter Quantrill Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 12/09/2025Bach on the street, Klimt in the forest: the Enescu Festival goes immersive ✍️ Peter Quantrill bachtrack.com/review-break... 001
Reposted by Peter Quantrill Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 09/09/2025In these sacred halls: a long Sunday at the George Enescu International Festival ✍️ Peter Quantrill bachtrack.com/review-kurta... 012
Reposted by Peter Quantrill Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 28/08/2025Oliver Soden tried to get a copy of Virginia Woolf’s uncollected letters. It became a parable about money and the state of literary culture.prospectmagazine.co.ukOn not reviewing Virginia WoolfHere’s what happened when I tried to get a copy of her uncollected letters. Consider it a parable about money and the state of literary culture 182
Peter Quantrill @peterquantrill.bsky.social · 12/08/2025I meet an old friend annually, and half the evening is occupied by quoting molesworth back to each other. the Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold, mogley-howard one. 030
Peter Quantrill @peterquantrill.bsky.social · 21/07/2025Such a treat to hear and see the strange and wonderful Sancta Civitas again. My ★★★★ review @bachtrack.com of the First Night of the Proms. bachtrack.com/22/296/view/...bachtrack.comThe First Night of the BBC Proms: celebration and redemptionThe BBC's annual classical jamboree is launched in fine style with a premiere and a timely revival, conducted by Sakari Oramo. 081
Peter Quantrill @peterquantrill.bsky.social · 20/07/2025Would anyone like to take issue with the idea of that Berger save as the new Gordon Banks 1970 moment? 020
Peter Quantrill @peterquantrill.bsky.social · 16/07/2025Buxton has (or had) one of the UK's very best 2nd-hand bookshops. Strong music section. 030
Peter Quantrill @peterquantrill.bsky.social · 15/07/2025I don't know what an ND queen is (was Marx gay?) but he looks like a pretty sound chap to me. 010
Reposted by Peter Quantrill Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 14/07/2025What a disappointment after spending all that money. 931630
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