Edward Greenfield is an English music critic and broadcaster. He joined the Manchester Guardian in 1953, working as a lobby correspondent in the House of Commons. He has been a record critic for the newspaper since 1955, a music critic since 1964, and was chief music critic from 1977 until his retirement in 1993. He has contributed to Gramophone magazine since 1960, and has been joint editor of The Stereo Record Guide

The Stereo Record Guide

The Stereo Record Guide is a series of nine classical discographies published by the Long Playing Record Library in Blackpool from 1960-1974.When volume 1 was published in the fall of 1960, the majority of classical records issued were monaural. The authors were totally supportive of the new...

since 1960. A regular broadcaster on the BBC, he presented classical music programmes on the World Service

BBC World Service

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, including The Greenfield Collection, and was a regular contributor to the 'Building a Library' feature of Radio 3's Record Review (now CD Review) for many years.

He is the author of monographs on Puccini (1958), Joan Sutherland

Joan Sutherland

Dame Joan Alston Sutherland, OM, AC, DBE was an Australian dramatic coloratura soprano noted for her contribution to the renaissance of the bel canto repertoire from the late 1950s through to the 1980s....

 (1972) and André Previn

André Previn

André George Previn, KBE is an American pianist, conductor, and composer. He is considered one of the most versatile musicians in the world, and is the winner of four Academy Awards for his film work and ten Grammy Awards for his recordings. -Early Life:Previn was born in...

 (1973). He was awarded the OBE in 1994.

Extracts from Edward Greenfield’s memoirs can be found here.

External links

• Edward Greenfield at Penguin Books