Portrait Gallery

* Eminent and well-respected author with a lifetime of writing about classical music.; * Supporting campaign from Gramophone magazine.; * Wide-ranging memoir that ranges from early years to later life.; * Greenfield has met, interviewed or become good friends with just about every major figure in the classical music world in the last 60 years; the book includes anecdotes about many such people, from Benjamin Britten to Nigel Kennedy and Edward Heath.

An absorbing memoir by eminent broadcaster and classical music critic Edward Greenfield.From Leonard Bernstein to Benjamin Britten, Andre Previn and Igor Stravinsky, Edward Greenfield had the privilege of getting to know some of the 20th century's greatest composers, conductors and performers. His lifelong career as a music critic for the Guardian and Gramophone has taken him around the world and left him with an endless source of fascinating material. Here for the first time he has brought together a lifetime of memories in this absorbing and fascinating memoir. Greenfield has worked with such renowned singers as Joan Sutherland and Elizabeth Schwarzkof, Placido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti; he has interviewed luminaries including Yehudi Menuhin, George Martin and Colin Davis; and he has forged enduring friendships with the likes of Jacqueline du Pre, Daniel Barenboim and Edward Heath. His is a career steeped in classical music and his Portrait Gallery brings that vividly to life.