Remembering John Shirley-Quirk: the passing of a great British voice

Within that community of English voices who defined the sound-world of Benjamin Britten from the 1960s onwards, one of the most admirable, eloquent and utterly distinctive was the bass-baritone of John Shirley-Quirk – who has just died at the age of 82, leaving very few now from that golden era still here to bear witness to it.



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