Sir Andrew Davis is one of the most highly regarded conductors in the world, with a career spanning decades and taking in a number of the leading opera companies and orchestras.

He's so well regarded in fact, that orchestras just can't let him go: he's the conductor laureate at the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

In the Drawing Room he talks about crafting his own take on Handel's Messiah and finding comfort in translating Virgil's Aeneid.