Symphony No. 4, Concertino No. 1 & 2, Divertimento

Edward Burlingame Hill is best known today as the teacher of com- posers Leonard Bernstein, Walter Piston, Roger Sessions, Randall Thompson, Virgil Thomson and Elliott Carter. Hill’s beautifully craft- ed compositions have fallen off the musical map, a point illustrated by the fact that this recording of his Symphony No. 4, was made follow- ing its world premiere performance in 2013, some 72 years after the work’s completion! In his day, Hill was performed regularly- between 1916 and 1949, the Boston Symphony performed his music on 85 oc- casions. Peter Bay, Anton Nel, and the Austin Symphony give us vivid performances of these fine scores.