Andrew Davis, 80, Dies; Renowned Conductor Who Championed Britain’s Music
Complex Twentieth-century scores like Stravinsky’s 1946 Symphony in Three Movements held no terrors for him. A 2022 recording with the BBC Philharmonic demonstrates his mastery of the work’s turbulent polyphony. When he was a scholar at Cambridge, he was casually requested if he needed to conduct Schoenberg’s fearsome Five Pieces for Orchestra; he blithely accepted, […] More