Peter Quantrill, Author at Catholic Herald

Peter Quantrill

Faith is the golden thread running through Stockhausen’s work

June 13, 2019

Musical – artistic – modernism is a godless pursuit. Or so the maxim runs – especially among those discomfited by dissonance, while modern composers of religious music such as John Tavener and Sir James MacMillan have recovered the tenets of tonality and consonance that were challenged and overthrown in the early years of the last

Holy Week as you’ve never heard it before

March 30, 2017

Holy Week is a time for taking stock. For quiet acts of memory and devotion, of preparation for the feast to come. The city of Kraków is no different in this regard from other reservoirs of Catholic faith around the world. On Holy Saturday morning, votive candles spring up like crocuses in the gardens of

Bach, my violin and God

October 13, 2016

Most classical musicians “don’t do God”, in Alistair Campbell’s notorious phrase. Kyung Wha Chung is different. ‘‘I have a deep faith,” she says. “I walk out on stage, and God is with me all the time”. The Korean violinist has returned to the world’s concert halls after recovering from a hand injury which almost ended

The bizarre life of a Catholic communist

May 12, 2016

A little-known feast day falls on May 17. Music lovers, artists and eccentrics everywhere will remember the composer Erik Satie, who was born that day in 1867. Oysters will be eaten – with luck the Normandy oysters sold on the quay of Satie’s birth town of Honfleur. To drink: perhaps a little of the champagne that

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