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Mozart: Mass in C, K.317 "Coronation": 2. Gloria

Ileana Cotrubas, Helen Watts, Robert Tear, John Shirley-Quirk, Schola Cantorum of Oxford, George Malcolm, Academy of St Martin in the Fields & Sir Neville Marriner

Mozart: Mass in C, K.317 "Coronation": 3. Credo

Ileana Cotrubas, Helen Watts, Robert Tear, John Shirley-Quirk, Schola Cantorum of Oxford, George Malcolm, Academy of St Martin in the Fields & Sir Neville Marriner

Mozart: Mass in C, K.317 "Coronation": 6. Agnus Dei

Ileana Cotrubas, Helen Watts, Robert Tear, John Shirley-Quirk, Schola Cantorum of Oxford, George Malcolm, Academy of St Martin in the Fields & Sir Neville Marriner

Mozart: Mass in C, K.317 "Coronation": 5. Benedictus

Ileana Cotrubas, Helen Watts, Robert Tear, John Shirley-Quirk, Schola Cantorum of Oxford, George Malcolm, Academy of St Martin in the Fields & Sir Neville Marriner

Mozart: Litaniae Lauretanae BMV in D, K.195: 2. Sancta Maria

Ileana Cotrubas, Helen Watts, Robert Tear, John Shirley-Quirk, Schola Cantorum of Oxford, George Malcolm, Academy of St Martin in the Fields & Sir Neville Marriner

Britten: Curlew River, Op. 71: "Look! While you were listening to my story"

John Shirley-Quirk, Bryan Drake, Harold Blackburn, English Opera Group Chorus, English Opera Group Orchestra & Benjamin Britten

Songs of Travel : I. The Vagabond

John Shirley-Quirk & Viola Tunnard

Britten: Curlew River, Op. 71: "I beg your pardon, living in this famous place"

John Shirley-Quirk, Peter Pears, Bryan Drake, Harold Blackburn, English Opera Group Chorus, English Opera Group Orchestra & Benjamin Britten

Orff: Carmina Burana: IV. Omnia Sol temperat

John Shirley-Quirk, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Antal Doráti

Orff: Carmina Burana: XI. Estuans interius

John Shirley-Quirk, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Antal Doráti

L'Incoronazione di Poppea, SV 308, Act 1 Scene 2: "Chi parla, chi va lì?" (Soldato 1, Soldato 2)

Magda László/Richard Lewis/Oralia Dominguez/Lidia Marimpietri/Walter Alberti/Carlo Cava/Frances Bible/Duncan Robertson/Soo-Bee Lee/John Shirley-Quirk/Hugues Cuénod/Dennis Wicks/Dennis Brandt/Gerald English/Elizabeth Bainbridge/Annon Lee Sil

The Creation, Hob. XXI:2, Pt. 2: No. 22, Air. "Now Heaven in Fullest Glory Shone" (Raphael)

Heather Harper, Robert Tear, John Shirley-Quirk, Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, James Lancelot & Sir David Willcocks

Songs of Travel : II. Let Beauty Awake

John Shirley-Quirk & Viola Tunnard

Samson, HWV 57, Act 3, Scene 2: Recitative. "Old Manoah, with youthful steps, makes haste to find his son" (Micah, Manoah) [feat. Helen Watts & John Shirley-Quirk]

Raymond Leppard

A Knot of Riddles: II. Swallows

Wyn Morris, John Shirley-Quirk & London Chamber Orchestra

9. Allegro (alla breve) 'Con queste paroline'

John Shirley-Quirk

The Creation, Hob. XXI:2, Pt. 2: No. 16, Recitative. "And God Created Great Whales" (Raphael)

Heather Harper, Robert Tear, John Shirley-Quirk, Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, James Lancelot & Sir David Willcocks

The Creation, Hob. XXI:2, Pt. 1: No. 3, Recitative. "And God Made the Firmament" (Raphael)

Heather Harper, Robert Tear, John Shirley-Quirk, Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, James Lancelot & Sir David Willcocks

Britten: Death in Venice, Op. 88 / Act 1: "Naturally, Signore, I Understand"

John Shirley-Quirk, Kenneth Bowen, Peter Pears, Ronald Murdock, Michael Bauer, English Chamber Orchestra & Steuart Bedford

A Village Romeo and Juliet - Music drama in six scenes from Gottfried Keller's novel (2002 Remastered Version), Scene VI. The Paradise Garden: (Moderato) - Vagabonds and comrades! (orchestra, Vagabonds, Vrenchen, Sali, The Dark Fiddler)

Benjamin Luxon/Noel Mangin/Corin Manley/Robert Tear/Wendy Eathorne/Elizabeth Harwood/John Shirley-Quirk/Stephen Varcoe/Neville Taweel/Bryn Evans/Felicity Palmer/Mavis Beattie/Doreen Price/Elaine Barry/Pauline Stevens/Martyn Hill/John Huw Da

Albums

English Song Anthology

John Shirley-Quirk

J.S. Bach: Six Cantatas

Sir Neville Marriner, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Julia Varady, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Timothy Brown, Susan Milan, Ian Watson, Denis Vigay, Raymond Koster, Aldo Baldin, John Shirley-Quirk, The St. Anthony Singers, Janet Baker, Robert Tear, Philip Ledger, Rachel Lord & George Malcolm

Purcell: The Fairy Queen; Songs And Arias

Anthony Lewis, Benjamin Britten, Philomusica of London, Jennifer Vyvyan, James Bowman, Charles Brett, Peter Pears, Mary Wells, Ian Partridge, John Shirley-Quirk, Owen Brannigan, Norma Burrowes, Alfreda Hodgson, Martin Gatt, Peter Graeme, Philip Ledger, Kenneth Heath, William Herbert, Hervey Alan & D

Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony (Symphony No. 1), IRV. 70

André Previn, Heather Harper, John Shirley-Quirk, London Symphony Orchestra & London Symphony Chorus

Tippett: A Child of Our Time

Jessye Norman, Janet Baker, Richard Cassilly, John Shirley-Quirk, BBC Choral Society, BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Sir Colin Davis

Elgar - The Dream of Gerontius

Janet Baker, John Mitchinson, John Shirley-Quirk, CBSO Chorus, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra & Sir Simon Rattle

Tippett: A Child Of Our Time

Jill Gomez, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, John Shirley-Quirk, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Helen Watts, BBC Symphony Chorus and Kenneth Woollam

Haydn: The Seasons

Heather Harper, John Shirley-Quirk, BBC Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Sir Colin Davis

Vaughan Williams: 5 Tudor Portraits & Variants of Dives & Lazarus

Richard Hickox, London Symphony Orchestra, Jean Rigby, John Shirley-Quirk & London Symphony Chorus

The World of Delius

John Shirley-Quirk, Richard Hickox, Sir Neville Marriner, London Symphony Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Academy of St Martin in the Fields

Live performances

Beethoven: Mass in D Major, Op. 123 "Missa solemnis"

Helen Donath, Brigitte Fassbaender, Rafael Kubelik, Peter Schreier & John Shirley-Quirk

Gluck: Alceste, Wq. 44 (Sung in French) [Live Recordings 1981]

Janet Baker, Robert Tear, John Shirley-Quirk, Matthew Best, Maldwyn Davies, Philip Gelling, Jonathan Summers, Maurits Sillem, Charles Mackerras, Royal Opera House Orchestra at Covent Garden & Royal Opera Chorus

Appearances

A Musical Bestiary (feat. Aaron Copland, Adrian Le Roy, Agustín Barrios Mangoré, Alan Rawsthorne, Alban Berg, Albert Roussel, Alessandro Scarlatti, Alexander von Zemlinsky, Alexandre Tansman, Anatoly Lyadov, André Caplet, André Messager, André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry, Anonymous, Antonio Vivaldi, Anton

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Airs by the River (feat. Albert Heinrich Zabel, Albert Roussel, Anonymous, Antonio Vivaldi, Arthur Bliss, Bedřich Smetana, Béla Bartók, Charles Ives, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Claude Debussy, Claudio Monteverdi, Felix Mendelssohn, Francesco Cavalli, Francis Poulenc, Franz Liszt, Franz Schubert, Fre

Johann Sebastian Bach

"Academy of St Martin in the Fields": Baroque Landscapes

Academy of St Martin in the Fields

English Chamber Orchestra - Bach, Handel & Telemann (feat. Georg Philipp Telemann, George Frideric Handel & Johann Sebastian Bach)

English Chamber Orchestra

Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 8 & 9 "Choral"

Carlo Maria Giulini

Concert of the Birds (feat. Alban Berg, Albert Roussel, Alessandro Scarlatti, Alexander von Zemlinsky, Alexandre Tansman, André Messager, André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry, Antonio Vivaldi, Antonín Dvořák, Arnold Schoenberg, Arthur Bliss, Arthur Sullivan, Astor Piazzolla, Benjamin Britten, Béla Bartók, Ca

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Resurrection - Masterworks for Easter (feat. Albert Roussel, Antonio Vivaldi, Astor Piazzolla, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Carlo Gesualdo, Charles Tournemire, Claudio Monteverdi, César Franck, Dietrich Buxtehude, Domenico Scarlatti, Erik Satie, Frank Martin, Franz Liszt, François Couperin, Georg Phil

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Airs by the River

Johann Sebastian Bach

Classical Weddings

Various Artists

Handel: Messiah, HWV 56

Raymond Leppard

Compilations

Britten: Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo; Winter Words; Who Are These Children?

Peter Pears, John Shirley-Quirk, James Bowman & Benjamin Britten

Bach, J.S,: Cantatas Nos.170, 82 & 159

Janet Baker, John Shirley-Quirk, Academy of St Martin in the Fields & Sir Neville Marriner

Mahler: Orchestral Songs

Jessye Norman, John Shirley-Quirk, Janet Baker, James King, Hermann Prey, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra & Bernard Haitink

Britten: The Rape of Lucretia; Phaedra

Janet Baker, Peter Pears, Heather Harper, John Shirley-Quirk, English Chamber Orchestra, Benjamin Britten & Steuart Bedford

Berlioz: Les nuits d'été; Lélio

Sir Colin Davis, José Carreras, Thomas Allen, Sheila Armstrong, Josephine Veasey, Frank Patterson, John Shirley-Quirk & London Symphony Orchestra

Berlioz: Cléopâtre; Herminie; 5 Mélodies

Sir Colin Davis, Janet Baker, Sheila Armstrong, John Shirley-Quirk, Josephine Veasey, Frank Patterson & London Symphony Orchestra

Elgar - Choral Works

Sir Adrian Boult/Dame Margaret Price/Richard Morton/Stephen Roberts/Cambridge University Musical Society Chorus/Choir of King's College, Cambridge/New Philharmonia Orchestra/Sir Philip Ledger/Yvonne Minton/Alexander Young/John Shirley-Quirk

Britten: Owen Wingrave; 6 Hölderlin Fragments; The Poet's Echo

Peter Pears, Heather Harper, Sylvia Fisher, Janet Baker, Nigel Douglas, John Shirley-Quirk, Benjamin Luxon, Jennifer Vyvyan, English Chamber Orchestra & Benjamin Britten

Biography