| 1966 | A Midsummer Night’s Dream | Britten; Alfred Deller, Elizabeth Harwood, Peter Pears, Thomas Hemsley, Josephine Veasey, Heather Harper, Stephen Terry, John Shirley‐Quirk, Helen Watts, Owen Brannigan, Norman Lumsden, Kenneth MacDonald, David Kelly, Robert Tear, Keith Raggett, London Symphony, Benjamin Britten | | 2 |
| 1971 | Pierre Boulez Conducts Berlioz: Lélio (The Return to Life) | Berlioz; London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Pierre Boulez, Jean‐Louis Barrault, John Mitchinson, John Shirley‐Quirk, John Alldis | | 1 |
| 1972 | Belshazzar’s Feast / Improvisations on an Impromptu of Benjamin Britten | Sir William Walton; John Shirley‐Quirk, London Symphony Orchestra Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, André Previn | | 2 |
| 1975 | Le Messie | Haendel; Felicity Palmer, Helen Watts, Ryland Davies, John Shirley‐Quirk, English Chamber Choir, English Chamber Orchestra, Raymond Leppard | | 1 |
| 1976 | The Bells / Vocalise | Rachmaninov; Sheila Armstrong, Robert Tear, John Shirley‐Quirk, London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus, André Previn | | 2 |
| 1977 | Requiem | Mozart; Ileana Cotrubaş, Helen Watts, Robert Tear, John Shirley‐Quirk, Academy and Chorus of St. Martin‐in‐the‐Fields, László Heltay, Neville Marriner | | 5 |
| 1985 | Roméo et Juliette | Berlioz; Kern, Tear, Shirley‐Quirk, John Alldis Choir, London Symphony Orchestra, Chorus, Sir Colin Davis | | 1 |
| 1987 | Krönungsmesse / Spatzenmesse | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Edith Mathis, Norma Procter, Tatiana Troyanos, Donald Grobe, Horst R. Laubenthal, John Shirley‐Quirk, Kieth Engen, Rafael Kubelík, Bernhard Klee | | 1 |
| 1988 | Exsultate, Jubilate / Krönungsmesse / Litaniae Lauretanae, K195 | Mozart; Spoorenberg, Cotrubaș, Watts, Tear, Shirley‐Quirk, Schola Cantorum of Oxford, Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Sir Neville Marriner | | 1 |
| 1989 | Curlew River | Britten; English Opera Group, Peter Pears, John Shirley‐Quirk, Benjamin Britten | | 1 |
| 1989 | Danny Boy: Grainger Favourites | Percy Grainger; Peter Pears, John Shirley‐Quirk, Ambrosian Singers, English Chamber Orchestra, Benjamin Britten, Steuart Bedford | | 2 |
| 1989 | Stabat Mater / Legends | Antonín Dvořák; Mathis, Reynolds, Ochman, Shirley‐Quirk, Rafael Kubelík | | 3 |
| 1990 | Szenen aus Goethes Faust | Schumann; Benjamin Britten, Fischer‐Dieskau, Harwood, Pears, Shirley‐Quirk | | 2 |
| 1991 | Songs | Stravinsky; Phyllis Bryn‐Julson, Ann Murray, Robert Tear, John Shirley‐Quirk, Ensemble interContemporain, Pierre Boulez | | 1 |
| 1992 | British Composers: A Mass of Life / Songs of Sunset / An Arabesque | Delius; Heather Harper, Helen Watts, Robert Tear, Benjamin Luxon, Dame Janet Baker, John Shirley‐Quirk, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir, London Philharmonic Choir, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Charles Groves | | 1 |
| 1992 | The Messiah | Handel; Elizabeth Harwood, Norma Procter, Alexander Young, John Shirley‐Quirk, Arnold Greir, The Royal Choral Society, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Malcolm Sargent | 5 | 5 |
| 1992 | The Fairy Queen | Purcell; Vyvyan, Bowman, Pears, Shirley‐Quirk, English Chamber Orchestra, Benjamin Britten | | 1 |
| 1993 | Serenade / Five Pieces for Orchestra / Ode to Napoleon | Schoenberg; Pierre Boulez, Yvonne Minton, John Shirley‐Quirk, Ensemble intercontemporain, BBC Symphony Orchestra | | 1 |
| 1993 | Le Sacre du printemps / Pulcinella | Igor Strawinsky; Teresa Berganza, Ryland Davies, John Shirley‐Quirk, London Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado | | 4 |
| 1993 | The Light of Life | Elgar; Judith Howarth, Linda Finnie, Arthur Davies, John Shirley‐Quirk, London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, Richard Hickox | | 2 |
| 1995 | A Child of Our Time | Tippett; Jill Gomez, Helen Watts, Kenneth Woollam, John Shirley‐Quirk, BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky | | 1 |
| 1996 | Orchestral Songs | Mahler; Jessye Norman, Janet Baker, James King, Hermann Prey, John Shirley‐Quirk, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink | | 1 |
| 1996 | Alto Rhapsody / Nänie / Four Serious Songs / Five Songs | Johannes Brahms; Helen Watts, L’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Ernest Ansermet, John Shirley‐Quirk, Martin Isepp | | 1 |
| 1996 | A Vision of St Augustine / Concerto for Violin, Viola, Cello and Orchestra | Tippett; John Shirley‐Quirk, Ernst Kovacic, Rivka Golani, Karine Georgian, London Sinfonietta Chorus, London Sinfonietta, David Atherton | | 1 |
| 1996 | Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius / Holst: The Hymn of Jesus / Delius: Sea Drift | Elgar, Holst, Delius; Benjamin Britten, Yvonne Minton, Peter Pears, John Shirley‐Quirk, London Symphony Chorus, Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, London Symphony Orchestra | | 1 |
| 1997 | Song Cycles: Op. 24, 42, & 48 | Schumann; Leon Fleisher, Phyllis Bryn‐Julson, John Shirley‐Quirk | | 1 |
| 1998 | Five Tudor Portraits / Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus | Vaughan Williams; Jean Rigby, John Shirley‐Quirk, London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, Richard Hickox | | 1 |
| 1998 | La Damnation de Faust | Berlioz; Crespin, Turp, Roux, Shirley‐Quirk, London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Pierre Monteux | | 1 |
| 1999 | Britten: The Prodigal Son | Benjamin Britten; Peter Pears, John Shirley‐Quirk, English Opera Group, Benjamin Britten | | 1 |
| 1999 | Lieder | Schubert; Arleen Augér, Gundula Janowitz, Sarah Walker, Peter Schreier, Dietrich Fischer‐Dieskau, John Shirley‐Quirk, Robert Holl | | 1 |
| 2001 | Mass in B minor | Bach; Jenny Hill, Janet Baker, Peter Pears, John Shirley‐Quirk, New Philharmonia Chorus, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Carlo Maria Giulini | | 1 |
| 2002 | Requiem / Idyll / Songs of Farewell / A Song Before Sunrise | Delius; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Choral Society, Sir Malcolm Sargent, Meredith Davies, Heather Harper, John Shirley‐Quirk | | 1 |
| 2003 | The Dream of Gerontius | Elgar; Dame Janet Baker, John Mitchinson, John Shirley‐Quirk, CBSO Chorus, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Simon Rattle | | 1 |
| 2019 | Hippolyte et Aricie | Rameau; Robert Tear, Angela Hickey, Janet Baker, John Shirley‐Quirk, English Chamber Orchestra, Anthony Lewis | | 1 |
| — | Owen Wingrave | Britten; Benjamin Luxon, John Shirley‐Quirk, Nigel Douglas, Sylvia Fisher, Jennifer Vyvyan, Janet Baker, Peter Pears, English Chamber Orchestra, Benjamin Britten | 1 | 1 |
| — | Ode On St. Cecilia's Day (1692) | Henry Purcell; Simon Woolf, Paul Esswood, Roland Tatnell, Alexander Young, Michael Rippon, Shirley-Quirk, Tiffin Choir, Ambrosian Singers, English Chamber Orchestra, Charles Mackerras | | 1 |
| — | Symphony no. 2 / Wunderhorn-Lieder | Mahler; Elly Ameling, Aafje Heynis, Jessye Norman, John Shirley‐Quirk, Concertgebouw Orchetra, Amsterdam, Bernard Haitink | | 1 |
| — | Symphony No. 9; Lieder aus "Des Knaben Wunderhorn" | Gustav Mahler;Jessye Norman, John Shirley‐Quirk, Koninklijk Concertgebouworkest & Bernard Haitink | | 0 |
