David Briggs is one of the world's foremost concert organists, with an unusual specialty in the French improvisatory tradition. He began his career in cathedral posts and then became mostly a concert organist. In 1982 and 1983, Briggs performed in the annual Festival of Lessons and Carols before a worldwide audience of 35 million. In 1994, he made his recording debut with the album Improvisation, The Illusionist's Art. He has recorded a complete cycle of his transcriptions of Mahler's symphonies for organ; he is prolific as an arranger, often of orchestral works. By 2022, Briggs' recording catalog numbered some 30 items, and that year, he released the album Vaughan Williams: Transcriptions from Truro.