THREE CHOIRS FESTIVAL: Roderic Dunnett previews the 2024 edition of the UK's oldest music festival, 27 July until 4 August.
ARTICLES BEING VIEWED NOW:
- Intelligently Structured and Winningly Executed - Mike Wheeler is impressed by Fenella Humphreys and Martin Roscoe's Buxton Festival recital marking the centenary of the death of Gabriel Fauré
- February 2023 New Releases - Browse a large selection of new recordings
- New Releases for April 2024 and Later - Browse a selection of new recordings
- Comment
- Gerald Fenech
British-born record producer, author and broadcaster Paul Walter Myers was born in London on 17 July 1932. During a career with CBS, Decca and Naxos, he worked with Frederica von Stade, George Szell, Glenn Gould, guitarist John Williams, the Juilliard Quartet, Kiri Te Kanawa, Leonard Bernstein (whose biography he later wrote), Pierre Boulez, Pinchas Zukerman, Plácido Domingo and Samuel Barber.
As an author, he wrote a series of mystery novels set in the classical music world, beginning with Deadly Variations (1985) and proceeding through Deadly Cadenza (1986), Deadly Aria (1987), Deadly Sonata (1987) and Deadly Score (1988) to Deadly Crescendo (1989).
Paul Myers died on 1 May 2015, aged eighty-two.