Person · Male
Carl Davis
conductor and composer
- From
- Brooklyn, United Kingdom
- Active
- 1936–2023
- Releases
- 62
- cinematic classical
About
Carl Davis (October 28, 1936 – August 3, 2023) was an American-born British conductor and composer. He wrote music for more than 100 television programmes, notably the landmark ITV series The World at War (1973) and BBC's Pride and Prejudice (1995), and he created new scores for concert and cinema performances of vintage silent movies and composed many film, ballet and concert scores that were performed worldwide, including the Liverpool Oratorio in 1991, in collaboration with Paul McCartney. Davis's publisher was Faber Music.
Discography
Albums
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I Am What I Am
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Jayne Torvill & Christopher Dean – Fire & Ice
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Beautiful Dreamer: The Great American Songbook
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Carl Davis Conducts His The Glenlivet Fireworks Music
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The Town Fox
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Leeds Castle Classics
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Fanfare for the Common Man
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Rhapsody in Blue / Piano Concerto / An American in Paris
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The Phantom Of The Opera
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Délibes
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The Silents - New Scores for Classic Silent Films
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Léo Delibes
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Bernstein
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Great Movie Themes
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Reflections: Clarinet Concertos
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Great Movie Themes 2
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The Beatles for Orchestra
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The Freshman Apple Music
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ABBA for Orchestra Apple Music
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The Great Gatsby Ballet
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A Creepy Crawly Song Book
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Street Scene
Live
Compilations
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Buster Keaton: The Carl Davis Soundtracks
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Bond for Orchestra
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The World at War / The French Lieutenant's Woman
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Overture to Candide / Symphonic Dances from West Side Story / Symphonic Suite from On the Waterfront
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Liverpool Pops at Home: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra Plays The Beatles & Other Favourites
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The Silents
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Belshazzar’s Feast / Henry V Suite / Spitfire Prelude and Fugue
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The World At War, Pride And Prejudice And Other Great Themes
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Charlie Chaplin - The Essential Film Music
Other
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Napoléon
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King David
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Frankenstein Unbound
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The Lady of the Camellias Apple Music
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The Music of Upstairs Downstairs Series Two
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Cranford
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The Understudy
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Curse of the Werewolf
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The World at War
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Topsy-Turvy
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A Dance to the Music of Time Apple Music
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Pride and Prejudice
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The Film Music of Charles Chaplin
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Widows' Peak
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The Trial
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A Year in Provence - Music From the BBC Series
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Ben-Hur Apple Music
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Intolerance
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A Simple Man
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The Rainbow Apple Music
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Ben-Hur Apple Music
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The Far Pavilions
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Champions (A True Story)
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Napoleon
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The Commanding Sea
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The French Lieutenant's Woman
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Hollywood (original Music From the Thames Television Series)
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Prince Regent (Music From the BBC TV Series)
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Music for Television
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The Flesh and the Devil
Links
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Concerts
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Married
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Tags
- composer
- conductor
Identifiers
- MusicBrainz
- da1faeaa-82c8-4072-b40f-0f7f2e1efe76
- ISNI
- 0000000110279939
- IPI
- 00007604115
Data from MusicBrainz, saved 8 Nov 2026. Photo from Wikimedia Commons, covers from the Cover Art Archive and Apple Music.