Read Carl's interview with Mark Lyndon for www.in70mm.com where they discuss in detail the creation of Carl's score for Abel Gance's legendary 1927 masterpiece, Napoleon.

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I am thrilled to be able to announce that in honour of Carl's 75th birthday week the San Francisco Silent Film Festival have posted these fantasic interviews recorded when Carl visited SF in August 2011.

Click here to be redirected to the Carl Davis Collection YouTube Channel to hear Carl talk about how he came to write the music for Napoleon and as he receives his first tour of the Paramount Theatre in Oakland Bay where the performances will take place in 2012.

Just back from tour:  3 countries, 3 currencies, 3 orchestras, and 3 different programmes.  A personal duty always follows - sorting out the coinage, Euros for Italy, Danish Kroner, and Czech Crowns.  Very calming.

A SILENT FILM FESTIVAL – 8 days of non-stop silence, my fantasy is of pianists carried out of the theatre on stretchers.  In Pordenone (back for the first time in ages) I traditionally closed the Festival.  This year my 21^st anniversary at this event, we repeated from 1986 the sensational ‘The Wind’ (1929) directed by Victor Seastrom with Lillian Gish and Lars Hansen.  First time in the brilliant new theatre, Teatro Verdi,  with a large orchestra pit and a great orchestra from Udine.  Definitely a high point.

Directly on to Aalborg in Denmark (last there in 1995) to do Rossini, Chaplin, and Prokofiev, a  mixed film and concert.  The films were my personal favourite, Chaplin’s Easy Street, ...

Listen to Carl's 75th birthday celebration Friday Night Is Music Night.

Carl conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra with singers Janis Kelly, Mary Carewe and Lance Ellington.  Presented by Paul Gambaccini.

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Available until Thursday 20th October

UP IN LIGHTS - A new recording of Hollywood, Broadway and West End Classics, conducted by Carl Davis and played by the BBC Concert Orchestra.

Carl Davis celebrates his 75^th birthday this autumn with this new album UP IN LIGHTS.

 The recording sees Davis conducting the earliest of his musical obsessions, songs from the stage and screen.  From Richard Rodgers extraordinary Carousel Waltz to Jascha Heifetz’s notoriously hard-to-play arrangements of Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, Davis takes a starry look at Broadway, the West End and ...