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Meredith Davies
1922-2005 GB, Birkenhead
Composer / Conductor of Classical
(Albert) Meredith Davies CBE (30 July 1922 - 9 March 2005) was a British conductor, renowned for his advocacy of English music by composers such as Benjamin Britten, Frederick Delius and Ralph Vaughan Williams.His co-conducting, with the composer, of the premiere of Britten’s War Requiem, at the re-consecration of Coventry Cathedral on 30 May 1962, is generally regarded as one of the highlights of British 20th-century choral music.
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| Title | Artist | Year | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Requiem • Idyll • Songs Of Farewell | Frederick Delius • Meredith Davies • Sir Malcolm Sargent | 2002 | Compil. |
| Dona Nobis Pacem, Etc. | Ralph Vaughan Williams - Sir Adrian Boult, Sir Malcolm Sargent, Meredith Davies | 2001 | Compil. |
| Sir John In Love [Premiere Recording] | Ralph Vaughan Williams / New Philharmonia Orchestra, Meredith Davies, Raimund Herincx, John Alldis Choir | 1997 | Album |
| Riders To The Sea / Epithalamion / Merciless Beauty | Ralph Vaughan Williams, Philip Langridge, Meredith Davies, David Willcocks | 1993 | Compil. |
| Flos Campi / An Oxford Elegy / Magnificat / Fantasia On The Old 104th | Ralph Vaughan Williams, David Willcocks, Meredith Davies, Sir Adrian Boult | 1989 | Compil. |
| Double Concerto In A Minor, Double Concerto | Johannes Brahms, Frederick Delius, Yehudi Menuhin, Paul Tortelier, The London Philharmonic Orchestra, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Paavo Berglund, Meredith Davies | 1989 | Compil. |
| Riders To The Sea / Folk Song Arrangements | Ralph Vaughan Williams, Helen Watts, Margaret Price, Norma Burrowes, Benjamin Luxon, The Ambrosian Singers, Orchestra Nova Of London, Meredith Davies, London Madrigal Singers, Christopher Bishop | 1983 | Compil. |
| Violin Concerto / Double Concerto For Violin, Cello & Orchestra | Frederick Delius - Yehudi Menuhin, Paul Tortelier, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Meredith Davies | 1977 | Album |
| Fennimore And Gerda | Frederick Delius, Elisabeth Söderström, Robert Tear, Meredith Davies, Danmarks Radios Symfoniorkester & Radiokoret | 1976 | Album |
| Sir John In Love [Premiere Recording] | Ralph Vaughan Williams / New Philharmonia Orchestra, Meredith Davies, Raimund Herincx, John Alldis Choir | 1975 | Album |
| A Village Romeo & Juliet | Frederick Delius, Meredith Davies, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Elizabeth Harwood, Robert Tear, John Shirley-Quirk, John Alldis Choir | 1973 | Album |
| Riders To The Sea (Opera In One Act After Synge) / Magnificat | Ralph Vaughan Williams - Helen Watts, Margaret Price, Norma Burrowes, Benjamin Luxon, The Ambrosian Singers, Orchestra Nova Of London, Meredith Davies | 1972 | Album |
| Requiem And Idyll (Once I Passed Through A Populous City | Frederick Delius - Meredith Davies, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Heather Harper, John Shirley-Quirk | 1968 | Album |
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