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Edward Downes
real name Edward Thomas Downes
Edward Downes is credited on 981 releases across 236 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1961–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
981
Credits
236
Albums
7
Decades active
17
In collections
Biography
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British conductor. He was born 17 June 1924 in Birmingham, England, UK and died 10 July 2009 in Zürich, Switzerland.
Appointed commander (CBE) - Order of the British Empire in 1986 (Sir Edward Thomas Downes).
Not to be confused with american musicologist Edward Downes.
Bio from Discogs
Credited work
981 releases · 236 albums · active 1961–2025
- Performance · 957
- Other credits · 283
Studios: New Broadcasting House, Manchester · Philharmonic Hall, New York · Kingsway Hall · VEB Deutsche Schallplatten Berlin
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.

New World Symphony

Pavarotti My Own Story-Musical Highlights Of His Spectacular Career
1981

Great Music's Greatest Hits
1980

Also Sprach Zarathustra
1971

Petrushka / Pulcinella
2006

Symphony No. 2 In E Minor, Op. 27
1994

Rhapsody In Blue / Ein Amerikaner In Paris / Klavierkonzert In F
1981

Amériques / Arcana / Ionisation
1977

Pavarotti At The Met
1977

Concerto En Fa / Danses Symphoniques De "West Side Story"
1973

16 Slavonic Dances; Opus 46 (1878) · Opus 72 (1886)
1963
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Luciano Pavarotti
- Placido Domingo
- Verdi
- Leonard Bernstein
- Pavarotti
- Puccini
- Bernstein
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