Meredith Davies (1922-2005) was a British conductor, active in opera, choral music and twentieth-century repertory. He worked with major British institutions and became an important conductor in post-war musical life.

In the Pristine catalogue he appears in Britten’s War Requiem and in Delius’s A Village Romeo and Juliet, linking him to two substantial British operatic and choral traditions.

Davies’s conducting was practical, disciplined and strongly aware of voices. Such work requires architectural sense as well as sympathy for singers and chorus.

His page is justified by repeated catalogue appearances and by his role in British music. Davies belongs to the working cathedral of post-war musical craft.