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John Shirley-Quirk
John Shirley-Quirk is credited on 1,118 releases across 187 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1963–2024 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
1,118
Pressings credited
187
Albums
7
Decades active
7
In collections
Biography
John Stanton Shirley-Quirk CBE (28 August 1931 – 7 April 2014) was an English bass-baritone. A member of the English Opera Group from 1964 to 1976, he gave premiere performances of several operatic and vocal works by Benjamin Britten, recording these and other works under the composer's direction. He also sang and recorded a wide range of works by other composers, ranging from Handel through Tchaikovsky to Henze.
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Credited work
1,118 releases · 187 albums · active 1963–2024
- Performance · 1,269
- Other credits · 16
Studios: Kingsway Hall · Walthamstow Assembly Hall · Abbey Road Studios · Henry Wood Hall, London
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Elgar
- Benjamin Britten
- Mozart
- Mahler
- Handel
- Vaughan Williams
- Britten
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