RIP John Shirley-Quirk

[verismissimo]

Great British bass-baritone.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

One of my all time favourite singers.

[Honoured Guest]

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[Barbirollians]

I have reported HG's offensive post . I assume he or she has had second thoughts.

RIP indeed to a very fine singer.

[Hornspieler]

Great British bass-baritone.

A great ambassador for the British style of singing in both Oratorio and Opera.

R.I.P

[visualnickmos]

I echo the words in the postings of verismissimo and Hornspieler.

[verismissimo]

Among much else in his recorded legacy, his VW "Songs of Travel" with Viola Tunnard from the early 1960s - unsurpassed.

[french frank]

I think my first classical LP - JSQ, accompanied by Martin Isepp, singing songs from Butterworth's A Shropshire Lad. It always remained my favourite version.

[Richard Tarleton]

Kindertodenlieder, Exeter Cathedral, 1970, with BSO (followed by Belshazzar's Feast) - I had never heard a voice like that live, and in an acoustic like that, unforgettable. A favourite disc, first heard on CD Masters while driving, Percy Grainger's "Shallow Brown" - I had to pull into a lay-by to listen. Lots more of course.

[DracoM]

Helped me to love Britten's Church Parables.

[Serial_Apologist]

Telegraph obituary:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/10752155/John-Shirley-Quirk-obituary.html

[Cockney Sparrow]

Yes, RIP. A great singer, a wonderful recorded legacy. I know for sure I saw him as Rangoni in "Boris G", which I won't forget for its tension and vocal colour, And probably I saw him on other occasions too (I must find and unpack my old programmes....)

I believe he appeared as one of the Mastersingers in September 2006 (in Brian McMasters farewell concert performance at the Edinburgh Festival).

[ardcarp]

..and I can't hear VW's Mystical Songs without associating them with JSQ. A wonderful singer. Dame Anne Evans paid tribute to him [on In Tune?] and referred to his generation of singers as 'really singing the words'. I know what she means.

[BBMmk2]

One of my all time favourite singers JQS RIP

[Don Petter]

I echo the sentiments above.

This is my memory of how he came into our lives some fifty years ago:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/SHIRLEY-QUIRK-Vaughan-Williams-Songs-Travel/dp/B009XSKMJY