Performance · Other credits

John Shirley-Quirk

John Shirley-Quirk is credited on 1,255 releases across 184 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1963–2024 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

1,255

Pressings credited

184

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.

Bio from Wikipedia

Credited work

1,255 releases · 184 albums · active 1963–2024

  • Performance · 1,444
  • Other credits · 28

Studios: Kingsway Hall · The Maltings · Abbey Road Studios · Walthamstow Assembly Hall

Discography

Records they worked on — most-collected first.

Frequent collaborators

  • Various
  • Elgar
  • Benjamin Britten
  • Britten
  • Mozart
  • Mahler
  • Handel
  • Vaughan Williams

Around the web

See who really made the music.

Gatefold maps every producer, engineer, and player across your shelf — the credits no one else surfaces.

Start your shelf →

Free forever. Works with 10 records or 10,000.