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Thomas Dunhill
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Thomas Frederick Dunhill (b. Hampstead, London 1 February 1877; d. Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire March 13th 1946) was an English composer and writer on musical subjects. He is best-known for his song-cycle The Wind among the Reeds. Thomas Dunhill attended the Royal College of Music, London, in 1893 and studied pianoforte under Franklin Taylor and composition under Sir Charles Villiers Stanford. He won an open scholarship for composition in 1897. He became a music-master at Eton College for several years, before becoming a professor at the Royal College of Music in 1905. From 1907 to 1919 he gave concerts of chamber-music in London, the Thomas Dunhill Concerts, at which important chamber music by English composers was performed. He himself wrote chamber music and also songs and song-cycles. His song-cycle The wind among the reeds, for tenor voice and orchestra, was first performed by Gervase Elwes with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at Queen's Hall in 1912. His setting of W.B. Yeats's 'The Cloths of Heaven' is deservedly famous. Elwes (with Frederick B. Kiddle) recorded his song 'A Sea Dirge', a setting of Shakespeare's lyric Full fathom five. In July 1918 Dunhill chaired the meeting of Directors on the Royal Philharmonic Society which set out to reclaim democratic control of the Society's affairs when, during the Great War, they had largely fallen under the single, if highly benevolent, control of Thomas Beecham and his secretary Donald Baylis. He gave a concert of music by
top songs
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Dew Fairies - Duo-Art 0338 Br
1812The Cloths of Heaven
1283Vectis Suite op. 82 - IV. Mayday Dance
704Violin Sonata in F major, Op.50
295Phantasy Suite, Op. 91: I. Andante Espressivo
266First Year Pieces: No. 8, A Song of Erin
257Phantasy Suite, Op. 91: III. Allegro con fuoco
248Phantasy Suite, Op. 91: II. Allegretto
209Lyric Suite, Op. 96: V. Vivace, capriccioso assai
1610Lyric Suite, Op. 96: II. Scherzino. Allegro molto giocoso
15albums
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Thomas Dunhill: Mayday Dance (from: Vectis op. 82)
Violin Sonatas by Dunhill, Bantock and Stanford
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Cara Klara II
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An Irish Album
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Tell Me the Truth About Love
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The English Songbook
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Poulenc / Dunhill / Bax / Bernstein / Schumann: Sonatas for Clarinet and Piano
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Vectis Suite, Op. 82: IV. Mayday Dance
An English Serenade
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Lott, Felicity: Favourite English Songs
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Vocal Recital: Aler, John - Marshall, C. / Firestone, I. / Rasbach, O. / Sanderson, W. / Purcell, E. / Charles, W. / Sullivan, A.
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Hurlstone / Bliss / Stoker / Ferguson / Dunhill / Stanford / Arnold: Works for Clarinet and Piano