Portrait of a Guardian music critic

In Portrait Gallery, Edward Greenfield remembers the characters he met in his days as a classical music reviewer — revealing his own character in the process

From magazine issue: 08 February 2014

Edward Greenfield with André Previn in front of the Royal Festival Hall, c.1970. [Getty Images/Shutterstock/iStock/Alamy]

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