John Shirley‐Quirk

bass-baritone, United Kingdom, 1931 to 2014

Albums

Year Title Average Ratings
1966 A Midsummer Night’s Dream
1971 Pierre Boulez Conducts Berlioz: Lélio (The Return to Life)
1972 Belshazzar’s Feast / Improvisations on an Impromptu of Benjamin Britten
1973 Journey of the Magi / Who are these Children / Tit for Tat
1973 Choral Symphony
1975 Le Messie
1976 The Bells / Vocalise
1976 Carmina Burana
1977 Requiem
1979 In Terra Pax / Introit / Lo, the Full, Final Sacrifice / Magnificat
1979 Pulcinella
1979 Pulcinella
40 more releases
1985 Roméo et Juliette
1987 Krönungsmesse / Spatzenmesse
1988 Exsultate, Jubilate / Krönungsmesse / Litaniae Lauretanae, K195
1989 Stabat Mater / Legends
1989 Danny Boy: Grainger Favourites
1989 Curlew River
1990 Szenen aus Goethes Faust
1990 Death in Venice
1991 Songs
1992 British Composers: A Mass of Life / Songs of Sunset / An Arabesque
1992 The Fairy Queen
1992 The Messiah
1993 Le Sacre du printemps / Pulcinella
1993 The Light of Life
1993 Matthäus-Passion
1993 Serenade / Five Pieces for Orchestra / Ode to Napoleon
1995 A Child of Our Time
1996 Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius / Holst: The Hymn of Jesus / Delius: Sea Drift
1996 A Vision of St Augustine / Concerto for Violin, Viola, Cello and Orchestra
1996 Alto Rhapsody / Nänie / Four Serious Songs / Five Songs
1996 Orchestral Songs
1997 Over the Sea to Skye: Folk Songs from Around the World
1997 Song Cycles: Op. 24, 42, & 48
1998 Five Tudor Portraits / Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus
1998 La Damnation de Faust
1999 Lieder
1999 The Seasons
1999 The Prodigal Son
2001 Mass in B minor
2002 Requiem / Idyll / Songs of Farewell / A Song Before Sunrise
2003 The Dream of Gerontius
2004 Cantatas nos. 170, 82 & 159
2015 Les nuits d’été / Lélio
2016 A Child of Our Time
2018 Owen Wingrave
2019 Hippolyte et Aricie
Ode On St. Cecilia's Day (1692)
Symphony no. 2 / Wunderhorn-Lieder
Symphony No. 9; Lieder aus "Des Knaben Wunderhorn"
St. John Passion: Highlights

Live

Year Title Average Ratings
1992 Cantate BWV 147, 3 Motets
2014 Alceste, Wq. 44 (Sung in French) [Live Recordings 1981]
2017 Symphony No. 13, Op. 113 "Babi Yar"