Alfred Hill: String Quartets Vol 6 – finely crafted works

Dominion String Quartet
(Naxos)The works of Alfred Hill make interesting listening for those who have always suspected there was more to Australasian music of this period than Percy Grainger. Born in Australia in 1869, Hill was raised in New Zealand and trained in Leipzig. He became a prolific composer, and this is the last instalment of the Dominion Quartet’s series encompassing all 17 of his string quartets. The final three, all apparently receiving their first recording, date from the l