John Shirley‐Quirk

Type
Person
Location
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Formed
28 August 1931
Ended
7 April 2014

Albums50

  • Hippolyte et Aricie
    Rameau; Robert Tear, Angela Hickey, Janet Baker, John Shirley‐Quirk, English Chamber Orchestra, Anthony Lewis
    2019
  • Owen Wingrave
    Britten; Benjamin Luxon, John Shirley‐Quirk, Nigel Douglas, Sylvia Fisher, Jennifer Vyvyan, Janet Baker, Peter Pears, English Chamber Orchestra, Benjamin Britten
    2018
    1.00 ★
  • A Child of Our Time
    Michael Tippett; Jessye Norman, Janet Baker, Richard Cassilly, John Shirley‐Quirk, BBC Singers, BBC Choral Society, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis
    2016
  • Les nuits d’été / Lélio
    Hector Berlioz; José Carreras, Thomas Allen, Sheila Armstrong, Josephine Veasey, Frank Patterson, John Shirley‐Quirk, London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis
    2015
  • Cantatas nos. 170, 82 & 159
    J.S. Bach; Janet Baker, John Shirley‐Quirk, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Neville Marriner
    2004
  • The Dream of Gerontius
    Elgar; Dame Janet Baker, John Mitchinson, John Shirley‐Quirk, CBSO Chorus, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Simon Rattle
    2003
  • Requiem / Idyll / Songs of Farewell / A Song Before Sunrise
    Delius; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Choral Society, Sir Malcolm Sargent, Meredith Davies, Heather Harper, John Shirley‐Quirk
    2002
  • Mass in B minor
    Bach; Jenny Hill, Janet Baker, Peter Pears, John Shirley‐Quirk, New Philharmonia Chorus, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Carlo Maria Giulini
    2001
  • The Prodigal Son
    Benjamin Britten; Peter Pears, John Shirley‐Quirk, English Opera Group, Benjamin Britten
    1999
  • Lieder
    Schubert; Arleen Augér, Gundula Janowitz, Sarah Walker, Peter Schreier, Dietrich Fischer‐Dieskau, John Shirley‐Quirk, Robert Holl
    1999
  • The Seasons
    Haydn; Heather Harper, John Shirley‐Quirk, BBC Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis
    1999
  • Five Tudor Portraits / Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus
    Vaughan Williams; Jean Rigby, John Shirley‐Quirk, London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, Richard Hickox
    1998
  • La Damnation de Faust
    Berlioz; Crespin, Turp, Roux, Shirley‐Quirk, London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Pierre Monteux
    1998
  • Song Cycles: Op. 24, 42, & 48
    Schumann; Leon Fleisher, Phyllis Bryn‐Julson, John Shirley‐Quirk
    1997
  • Over the Sea to Skye: Folk Songs from Around the World
    Washington Men’s Camarata; John Shirley‐Quirk; Thomas Beveridge; Edward Newman
    1997
  • Orchestral Songs
    Mahler; Jessye Norman, Janet Baker, James King, Hermann Prey, John Shirley‐Quirk, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink
    1996
  • A Vision of St Augustine / Concerto for Violin, Viola, Cello and Orchestra
    Tippett; John Shirley‐Quirk, Ernst Kovacic, Rivka Golani, Karine Georgian, London Sinfonietta Chorus, London Sinfonietta, David Atherton
    1996
  • Alto Rhapsody / Nänie / Four Serious Songs / Five Songs
    Johannes Brahms; Helen Watts, L’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Ernest Ansermet, John Shirley‐Quirk, Martin Isepp
    1996
  • Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius / Holst: The Hymn of Jesus / Delius: Sea Drift
    Elgar, Holst, Delius; Benjamin Britten, Yvonne Minton, Peter Pears, John Shirley‐Quirk, London Symphony Chorus, Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, London Symphony Orchestra
    1996
  • A Child of Our Time
    Tippett; Jill Gomez, Helen Watts, Kenneth Woollam, John Shirley‐Quirk, BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
    1995
  • Serenade / Five Pieces for Orchestra / Ode to Napoleon
    Schoenberg; Pierre Boulez, Yvonne Minton, John Shirley‐Quirk, Ensemble intercontemporain, BBC Symphony Orchestra
    1993
  • Le Sacre du printemps / Pulcinella
    Igor Strawinsky; Teresa Berganza, Ryland Davies, John Shirley‐Quirk, London Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado
    1993
  • Matthäus-Passion
    Heinrich Schütz, Peter Pears, John Shirley‐Quirk, Heinrich Schütz Choir & Sir Roger Norrington
    1993
  • The Light of Life
    Elgar; Judith Howarth, Linda Finnie, Arthur Davies, John Shirley‐Quirk, London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, Richard Hickox
    1993
  • British Composers: A Mass of Life / Songs of Sunset / An Arabesque
    Delius; Heather Harper, Helen Watts, Robert Tear, Benjamin Luxon, Dame Janet Baker, John Shirley‐Quirk, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir, London Philharmonic Choir, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Charles Groves
    1992
  • The Fairy Queen
    Purcell; Vyvyan, Bowman, Pears, Shirley‐Quirk, English Chamber Orchestra, Benjamin Britten
    1992
  • The Messiah
    Handel; Elizabeth Harwood, Norma Procter, Alexander Young, John Shirley‐Quirk, Arnold Greir, The Royal Choral Society, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Malcolm Sargent
    1992
    5.00 ★
  • Songs
    Stravinsky; Phyllis Bryn‐Julson, Ann Murray, Robert Tear, John Shirley‐Quirk, Ensemble interContemporain, Pierre Boulez
    1991
  • Death in Venice
    Benjamin Britten; Peter Pears, John Shirley-Quirk, English Opera Group, English Chamber Orchestra, Steuart Bedford
    1990
  • Szenen aus Goethes Faust
    Schumann; Benjamin Britten, Fischer‐Dieskau, Harwood, Pears, Shirley‐Quirk
    1990
  • Curlew River
    Britten; English Opera Group, Peter Pears, John Shirley‐Quirk, Benjamin Britten
    1989
  • Danny Boy: Grainger Favourites
    Percy Grainger; Peter Pears, John Shirley‐Quirk, Ambrosian Singers, English Chamber Orchestra, Benjamin Britten, Steuart Bedford
    1989
  • Stabat Mater / Legends
    Antonín Dvořák; Mathis, Reynolds, Ochman, Shirley‐Quirk, Rafael Kubelík
    1989
  • Exsultate, Jubilate / Krönungsmesse / Litaniae Lauretanae, K195
    Mozart; Spoorenberg, Cotrubaș, Watts, Tear, Shirley‐Quirk, Schola Cantorum of Oxford, Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Sir Neville Marriner
    1988
  • Krönungsmesse / Spatzenmesse
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Edith Mathis, Norma Procter, Tatiana Troyanos, Donald Grobe, Horst R. Laubenthal, John Shirley‐Quirk, Kieth Engen, Rafael Kubelík, Bernhard Klee
    1987
  • Roméo et Juliette
    Berlioz; Kern, Tear, Shirley‐Quirk, John Alldis Choir, London Symphony Orchestra, Chorus, Sir Colin Davis
    1985
  • Pulcinella
    Игорь Фёдорович Стравинский; Teresa Berganza, Ryland Davies, John Shirley‐Quirk, London Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado
    1979
  • Pulcinella
    Igor Strawinsky – Teresa Berganza • Ryland Davies • John Shirley‐Quirk, London Symphony Orchestra • Claudio Abbado
    1979
  • In Terra Pax / Introit / Lo, the Full, Final Sacrifice / Magnificat
    Gerald Finzi; Norma Burrowes, John Shirley‐Quirk, The City of London Sinfonia, The Richard Hickox Singers, Richard Hickox
    1979
  • Requiem
    Mozart; Ileana Cotrubaş, Helen Watts, Robert Tear, John Shirley‐Quirk, Academy and Chorus of St. Martin‐in‐the‐Fields, László Heltay, Neville Marriner
    1977
  • Carmina Burana
    Orff; Norma Burrowes, Louis Devos, John Shirley‐Quirk, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Antal Doráti
    1976
    3.50 ★
  • The Bells / Vocalise
    Rachmaninov; Sheila Armstrong, Robert Tear, John Shirley‐Quirk, London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus, André Previn
    1976
  • Le Messie
    Haendel; Felicity Palmer, Helen Watts, Ryland Davies, John Shirley‐Quirk, English Chamber Choir, English Chamber Orchestra, Raymond Leppard
    1975
  • Choral Symphony
    Beethoven; Sheila Armstrong, Anna Reynolds, Robert Tear, John Shirley‐Quirk, London Symphony Orchestra Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, Carlo Maria Giulini
    1973
  • Belshazzar’s Feast / Improvisations on an Impromptu of Benjamin Britten
    Sir William Walton; John Shirley‐Quirk, London Symphony Orchestra Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, André Previn
    1972
  • Pierre Boulez Conducts Berlioz: Lélio (The Return to Life)
    Berlioz; London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Pierre Boulez, Jean‐Louis Barrault, John Mitchinson, John Shirley‐Quirk, John Alldis
    1971
  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream
    Britten; Alfred Deller, Elizabeth Harwood, Peter Pears, Thomas Hemsley, Josephine Veasey, Heather Harper, Stephen Terry, John Shirley‐Quirk, Helen Watts, Owen Brannigan, Norman Lumsden, Kenneth MacDonald, David Kelly, Robert Tear, Keith Raggett, London Symphony, Benjamin Britten
    1966
  • Ode On St. Cecilia's Day (1692)
    Henry Purcell; Simon Woolf, Paul Esswood, Roland Tatnell, Alexander Young, Michael Rippon, Shirley-Quirk, Tiffin Choir, Ambrosian Singers, English Chamber Orchestra, Charles Mackerras
  • St. John Passion: Highlights
    Bach; Peter Pears, Heather Harper, Alfreda Hodgson, John Shirley‐Quirk, English Chamber Orchestra, Benjamin Britten
  • Symphony no. 2 / Wunderhorn-Lieder
    Mahler; Elly Ameling, Aafje Heynis, Jessye Norman, John Shirley‐Quirk, Concertgebouw Orchetra, Amsterdam, Bernard Haitink

Live Albums3

  • Symphony No. 13, Op. 113 "Babi Yar"
    Dmitri Shostakovich; Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Mannerchor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, John Shirley‐Quirk & Kirill Kondrashin
    2017
  • Alceste, Wq. 44 (Sung in French) [Live Recordings 1981]
    Christoph Willibald Gluck; Janet Baker, Robert Tear, John Shirley‐Quirk, Matthew Best, Maldwyn Davies, Philip Gelling, Jonathan Summers, Maurits Sillem, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Sir Charles Mackerras
    2014
  • Cantate BWV 147, 3 Motets
    Johann Sebastian Bach; Sir David Willcocks, Elly Ameling, Dame Janet Baker, Ian Partridge, John Shirley‐Quirk, Choir of King’s College, Cambridge
    1992

Compilations14