John Shirley-Quirk
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Treasures of Baroque Opera
RecommendedJanet Baker, Teresa Berganza, Catherine Bott, Luciano Pavarotti
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Very Best of English Song
RecommendedDame Janet Baker (mezzo), Gerald Moore (piano), Sir Thomas Allen (baritone), Geoffrey Parsons (piano), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), David Willison (piano), Ian Partridge (tenor), Janet Craxton (piano), Ian Bostridge (tenor), Julius Drake (piano), Jonathan Lemalu (bass-baritone), Roger Vignoles...
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Building a Library, June 2018, Also recommended
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Building a Library, January 2021, Recommended orchestral version (Songs of Travel)
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Rachmaninov: The Four Piano Concertos, Piano Works, Three Symphonies and Orchestral Works
RecommendedNikolai Lugansky (piano), Nikolai Lugansky (piano) & Alexander Kniazev (cello), Sheila Armstrong • Robert Tear • John Shirley-Quirk
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus, Sakari Oramo, André Previn
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Grammy Awards, 19th Awards (1976), Best Choral Performance
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Britten: Gloriana RecommendedJosephine Barstow, Yvonne Kenny, Della Jones, Philip Langridge, John Mark Ainsley, Jonatham Summers, Alan Opie and Bryn Terfel
Chorus and Orchestra of Welsh National Opera, Sir Charles Mackerras
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Gramophone Awards, 1979, Best of Category - Opera
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Britten: Gloriana RecommendedJosephine Barstow (Elizabeth), Philip Langridge (Essex), Della Jones (Lady Essex), Jonathan Summers (Charles Blount), Alan Opie (Cecil), Yvonne Kenny (Lady Rich), Bryn Terfel (Henry Cuffe), Richard van Allan (Walter Ralegh)
Welsh National Opera, Sir Charles Mackerras
The Cinderella among Britten's operas finally received its due with this recording. The superb cast and Mackerras's sure touch reveal Gloriana as a touching insight into the travails of leadership. — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 1994, Winner - Opera
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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream Elizabeth Harwood (Tytania), Alfred Deller (Oberon), Peter Pears (Lysander), Thomas Hemsley (Demetrius), Heather Harper (Helena), Josephine Veasey (Hermia), John Shirley-Quirk (Theseus), Helen Watts (Hippolyta), Owen Brannigan (Bottom), Norman Lumsden (Quince)
London Symphony Orchestra, Benjamin...
It hardly needs saying that Britten's direction of his piece is superlative...In this Dream, Britten combines the sense of atmosphere and beauty of tone...And it is an enthralling experience. — More…
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Shostakovich - Songs & Operas Luba Organosova (soprano), Elisabeth Söderström (soprano), Larissa Dyadkova (mezzo-soprano), Nathalie Stutzmann (contralto), Elena Zaremba (contralto), Philip Langridge (tenor), Ilya Levinsky (tenor), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), John Shirley-Quirk (baritone), Sergei Leiferkus (bass) &...
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Britten: The Rape of Lucretia, and Phaedra Janet Baker (Lucretia), Peter Pears (Male Chorus), Heather Harper (Female Chorus), Benjamin Luxon (Tarquinius), Bryan Drake (Junius), John Shirley-Quirk (Collatinus), Elizabeth Bainbridge (Bianca), Jenny Hill (Lucia)
English Chamber Orchestra, Benjamin Britten, Steuart Bedford
two outstanding performances by Dame Janet Baker, recorded at the peak of her career...Luxon makes the selfish Tarquinius into a living character...The seductive beauty of the writing - Britten... — More…
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Britten: Curlew River Blackburn, Shirley-Quirk, Drake, Pears & Webb
English Opera Group, Benjamin Britten
Curlew River captured completely the composer's fascination with the Japanese Noh play on which it was based. The recording, produced by John Culshaw, was made in Orford Church, and the atmosphere... — More…
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Boulez Conducts Berlioz
Jean-Louis Barrault (speaker), John Alldis (chorus master), John Mitchinson (tenor), John Shirley-Quirk (baritone), Stuart Burrows (tenor), Yvonne Minton (mezzo-soprano)
London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus, New York Philharmonic, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Boulez
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