Peter has been attending concerts and operas enthusiastically since his parents took him to see The Mikado in Liverpool when he was a boy of ten and to a “family concert” given by the RLPO a year or so later. Peter studied Modern Languages at Worcester College, Oxford and Law in Manchester. After spending twenty years as a pensions lawyer in Manchester, he retrained as a teacher of English as a foreign language, which took him to Germany and to Serbia. With the onset of the pandemic he returned to the UK and now works online and frequents concert halls and theatres in the North West of England.
In a concert consisting of two contrasting works, the BBC Philharmonic and John Storgårds gave a dramatic performance of Sibelius' Lemminkäinen Suite and Garrick Ohlsson offered a restrained but virtuosic account of Rachmaninov's Third Piano Concerto.
Liverpool's Philharmonic Hall bubbles with a concert staging of Puccini's Gianni Schicchi with Sir Byn Terfel leading a cast of fine young singers from the European Opera Centre.
Angela Hewitt gives magical Mozart with Andrew Davis and the BBC Philharmonic and four twentieth century masterpieces looking back to the past complete a rewarding and unusual programme
Nicola Benedetti dazzled in Szymanowski's Violin Concerto no 2 after the Hallé and Sir Mark Elder had impressed with a colourful Fountains of Rome. Measured Brahmscompleted the programme.
Andris Poga conducts the RLPO in a breathtaking Shostakovich 10, preceded by a rarity for brass and percussion and Glazunov's delightful Saxophone Concerto with Jess Gillam.
A stunning Mozart piano concerto with Angela Hewitt and a dazzling recent piece are framed by serious but uplifting orchestral works by Britten and Strauss.
Two fascinating and hugely entertaining recent pieces started a superb concert by the strings of the Manchester Camerata, joined by Jess Gillam in Glazunov's Saxophone Concerto and the Brodsky Quartet in Elgar's Introduction and Allegro. Tchaikovsky crowned the concert.
The Bridgewater Hall's cycle of Vaughan Williams' symphonies continues with a gripping performance of the Ninth, coupled with a colourful account of Holst's The Planets.
The BBC Philharmonic and Mark Wigglesworth present moving accounts of two symphonies, plus eloquent singing from Alessandro Fisher in the orchestral version of On Wenlock Edge.
