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hifinews.com | Peter Quantrill
Charles Ives American visionaryPeter Quantrill | Apr 17, 2025 | First Published: Mar 1, 2025 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 It did not take Schoenberg long, after emigrating to the US in 1933, to size up the local scene. ‘There is a great Man living in this Country – a composer. He has solved the problem how to preserve one’s self and to learn.
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hifinews.com | Peter Quantrill
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... Conductors enjoy something of an advantage over their fellow musicians. Not just that they are better paid – to a degree that grinds the gears of their often more experienced orchestral colleagues the world over – but that the nature of their craft is relatively impervious to the ravages and indignities of age.
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bachtrack.com | Peter Quantrill
I want to take Joshua Bell on a trip down memory lane. We’ll have to be quick, because he has a TED talk to prepare. It’s July 2001, and Sir Colin Davis is conducting Bach’s St Matthew Passion in Gloucester Cathedral. Bell gets up from his leader’s chair and stands to play “Erbarme dich”, alongside the alto Sarah Connolly, with a piercing beauty of tone and uncanny directness.
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bachtrack.com | Peter Quantrill
Last week the city of Paris paid tribute to Pierre Boulez (born on 26th March 1925) with three days of sold-out events reviving many of his major works. In London – where he made if anything an even greater impact on cultural life – the centenary celebrations have been more muted. No doubt money is an issue, so too a local and sclerotic anxiety over modernism in music (as distinct from other art forms).
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hifinews.com | Peter Quantrill
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? There is no question that traditional symphony orchestras are finding life tough, especially in a post-Covid world. Audiences are down, funding is down, rehearsal time cut to the bone. The fight is not so much for relevance as prominence.
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