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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.

     
Genres
  • Classical
  • Spoken Word
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Violin Concerto: Slower - 1993 Digital Remaster on British Composers - A Celebration by Various Artists

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Discography



Title Artist Year Type
Requiem • Idyll • Songs Of FarewellFrederick Delius • Meredith Davies • Sir Malcolm Sargent2002Compil.
Dona Nobis Pacem, Etc.Ralph Vaughan Williams - Sir Adrian Boult, Sir Malcolm Sargent, Meredith Davies2001Compil.
Sir John In Love [Premiere Recording]Ralph Vaughan Williams / New Philharmonia Orchestra, Meredith Davies, Raimund Herincx, John Alldis Choir1997Album
Riders To The Sea / Epithalamion / Merciless BeautyRalph Vaughan Williams, Philip Langridge, Meredith Davies, David Willcocks1993Compil.
Flos Campi / An Oxford Elegy / Magnificat / Fantasia On The Old 104thRalph Vaughan Williams, David Willcocks, Meredith Davies, Sir Adrian Boult1989Compil.
Double Concerto In A Minor, Double ConcertoJohannes Brahms, Frederick Delius, Yehudi Menuhin, Paul Tortelier, The London Philharmonic Orchestra, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Paavo Berglund, Meredith Davies1989Compil.
Riders To The Sea / Folk Song ArrangementsRalph Vaughan Williams, Helen Watts, Margaret Price, Norma Burrowes, Benjamin Luxon, The Ambrosian Singers, Orchestra Nova Of London, Meredith Davies, London Madrigal Singers, Christopher Bishop1983Compil.
Violin Concerto / Double Concerto For Violin, Cello & OrchestraFrederick Delius - Yehudi Menuhin, Paul Tortelier, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Meredith Davies1977Album
Fennimore And GerdaFrederick Delius, Elisabeth Söderström, Robert Tear, Meredith Davies, Danmarks Radios Symfoniorkester & Radiokoret1976Album
Sir John In Love [Premiere Recording]Ralph Vaughan Williams / New Philharmonia Orchestra, Meredith Davies, Raimund Herincx, John Alldis Choir1975Album
A Village Romeo & JulietFrederick Delius, Meredith Davies, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Elizabeth Harwood, Robert Tear, John Shirley-Quirk, John Alldis Choir1973Album
Riders To The Sea (Opera In One Act After Synge) / MagnificatRalph Vaughan Williams - Helen Watts, Margaret Price, Norma Burrowes, Benjamin Luxon, The Ambrosian Singers, Orchestra Nova Of London, Meredith Davies1972Album
Requiem And Idyll (Once I Passed Through A Populous CityFrederick Delius - Meredith Davies, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Heather Harper, John Shirley-Quirk1968Album
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