For other people named Colin Davis, see Colin Davis (disambiguation).
Davis in 1967
Sir Colin Rex DavisCH CBE (25 September 1927 – 14 April 2013) was an English conductor, known for his association with the London Symphony Orchestra, having first conducted it in 1959. His repertoire was broad, but among the composers with whom he was particularly associated were Mozart, Berlioz, Elgar, Sibelius, Stravinsky and Tippett.
Davis studied as a clarinetist, but was intent on becoming a conductor. After struggling as a freelance conductor from 1949 to 1957, he gained a series of appointments with orchestras including the BBC Scottish Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. He also held the musical directorships of Sadler's Wells Opera and the Royal Opera House, where he was principal conductor for over fifteen years. His guest conductorships included the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic and the Staatskapelle Dresden, among many others.
As a teacher, Davis held posts at the Royal Academy of Music, London, and the Landesgymnasium für Musik "Carl Maria von Weber" (preparatory school for music) in Dresden. He made his first gramophone recordings in 1958, and his discography over the next five decades was extensive, with many studio recordings for Philips Records and a substantial catalogue of live recordings for the London Symphony Orchestra's own label.
Sir Colin Rex Davis CH CBE (25 September 1927 – 14 April 2013) was an English conductor, known for his association with the London Symphony Orchestra...
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by the works team, driven by Hans Herrmann/Herbert Linge, Jo Siffert/ColinDavis and Udo Schütz/Peter de Klerk. Alfa Romeo, and its works team Autodelta...
Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro after an audition of which the conductor, ColinDavis, said, "I couldn't believe my ears. I've taken thousands of auditions...
Mozart: Cosi fan tutte, conducted by ColinDavis (Philips, 1974) Mozart: La clemenza di Tito, conducted by ColinDavis (Philips, 1977) Purcell: Dido and...
renowned conductors, including Georg Solti, Bernard Haitink, Andrew Davis, ColinDavis, Sergiu Celibidache, John Pritchard, Neville Marriner, Carlos Kleiber...
Rushton, Sir ColinDavis and others retained "the embattled conviction of a cause". Nevertheless, Northcott was writing about Davis's "Berlioz Odyssey"...
more recent decades Pierre Monteux, André Previn, Claudio Abbado, Sir ColinDavis, and Valery Gergiev. Since 1982, the LSO has been based in the Barbican...
Sol String Quartet) James Mallinson Berlioz: Grande Messe Des Morts (ColinDavis, London Symphony Chorus, London Philharmonic Choir & London Symphony...
directors since its inception: Karl Rankl, Rafael Kubelík, Georg Solti, ColinDavis, Bernard Haitink and Antonio Pappano. Between the two World Wars the...
high-profile chief conductors in the 1960s and 1970s – Antal Doráti, ColinDavis, Pierre Boulez and Gennady Rozhdestvensky – the BBC SO remained underfunded...
and Musicians Like his predecessor Rafael Kubelík, and his successor ColinDavis, Solti found his early days as musical director marred by vituperative...
Symphony Orchestra for Verdi: Aida Best Choral Performance, Classical ColinDavis (conductor), Russell Burgess, Arthur Oldham (choir directors) the Wandsworth...
Radio 4 on 1 August 1998 as part of The Saturday Play series. Adapted by ColinDavis, it featured Amanda Root, Joanna Monro, Abigail Docherty, Christopher...
Opéra National de Paris). The conductors were, respectively, Goodall, ColinDavis, Antonio Pappano and Mark Elder, and the title role was sung by Pears...
under the baton of conductors Mariss Jansons, Daniel Barenboim, Sir ColinDavis, Charles Dutoit, Bernard Haitink, James Levine, Lorin Maazel, Kurt Masur...
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Abbado, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Daniel Barenboim, Myung-Whun Chung, Sir ColinDavis, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Valery Gergiev, Carlo Maria Giulini, Mariss Jansons...
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