Sir Andrew Davis conducts BBC NOW and NCW in Berlioz's L'enfance du Christ, beginning a weekend-long celebration of the composer's music Show more
Desert Island Discs
Andrew Davis
40 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
Available for over a year
Michael Parkinson's castaway is Director of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra Andrew Davis. Show more
9 minutes
Panufnik's Last Night commission sets words by Isaac Rosenberg and Khalil Gibran, marries an Ashkenazy Jewish prayer mode, Maronite Syriac chant and Sufi rhythms and structure. Show more
18 minutes
Songs of the Sea is a cycle of five songs to poems by Henry Newbolt, which Stanford composed for the baritone Harry Plunket Greene, to be premiered at the 1904 Leeds Festival. Show more
This short, popular work is Parry's ecstatic setting for chorus of Milton's ode, At a solemn Musick. Its dedicatee, Charles Villiers sTanford conducted the premeire in 1887. Show more
Scaramouche is a three-movement work based on incidental music wrote for a Moliere play. The soloist is Jess Gillam, the first ever saxophone Finalist in BBC Young Musician. Show more
Performed by Beatrice Rana with the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Andrew Davis.
Performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Andrew Davis.
Performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Andrew Davis.
Performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Andrew Davis.
BBC Symphony Orchestra under Sir Andrew Davis.
Mark Simpson is the clarinet soloist with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Sir Andrew Davis.
BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Symphony Chorus under Sir Andrew Davis.
BBC Symphony Orchestra under Sir Andrew Davis.
Truls Mørk performs Elgar’s last major work, the Cello Concerto. Show more
Sir Andrew Davis opens the Proms with Elgar's biblical oratorio The Kingdom Show more