Review
Hill (1869-1960) was an Australian who, in his maturity, composed like an Englishman of the post-Elgar generation. The touchstones of his 10th and 11th quartets, written in 1935, are sincerity and melodic wistfulness. These are admirably concise and uncomplicated works, free of angst but full of good musical ideas, and the Dominion Quartet tackles them with palpable enthusiasm. But the biggest work on the disc is a 40-minute piano quintet from 1912 that shows Hill in an unflattering experimental light. It is torpedoed by a finale in which eight voices intone a bizarre Gloria in excelsis Deo . The piece emerges with a split character, and the rough-edged singing on this recording only adds to the misery.*** --Financial Times,21/01/12
Product Description
Dominion Quartet - Richard Mapp, piano
