Death of a classical PR

We have learned with sadness of the death from cancer of Paul Westcott, long-serving press officer for Chandos Records and a source of vast knowledge about recording history. He was a contributor to the Penguin Guide to Recorded Music.

Today would have been his birthday. He would have been 53.

Paul was the partner and heir of the music critic Edward Greenfield, who died in 2015.

A friend writes: ‘Paul had been experiencing considerable pain and suffering from blood cancer and aggressive chemotherapy over the past 2.5 years, but this did not diminish his warmth of spirit nor his love of music in the slightest. He passed away in the early hours of Christmas morning, peacefully in his sleep.’