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The manuscript of String Quartet No. 6 in G major bears the date 31st September, 1927, indicating it was most likely composed in Sydney. Its nickname The Kids refers to the fact that Hill was at the time Professor of Composition at the New South Wales Conservatorium of Music and intended this work to be performed by students. While it is relatively simple in both its construction and playability, it is nevertheless a most attractive work set in an earlier style, at times Schubertian, at other times Haydnesque, yet one cannot escape the unique mannerisms of Hill. The slow movement with its simple repeated chords accompanying a series of scale-like motives produces a surprisingly beautiful result, not unlike the music of Greig.

Donald Maurice
from Alfred Hill – String Quartets Vol. 2, NAXOS

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• Alfred Hill - String Quartets No. 5, No. 6 and No. 11  Year: 1997 

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“Tathāgata” is the term Goutama Buddha often used when referring to himself after his enlightenment. In Pali and Sanskrit, “tatha” is the “truth”, and “āgata” is “to come”, “arrived”. (The noun buddha drives from “budh”, which means “to understand”.) As Buddha often said, he was a man, not a god or saviour and “…Tathagatas are only teachers… [who] point out the path…”. He taught that it is up to us to make the effort ourselves to follow the right path. “Nibbāna” is the cessation of sorrow and suffering (in Sanskrit “Nirvana”).

The String Quartet is in two contrasting movements. The structure, both overall and within movements, and many musical procedures, build on mathematical ideas. For the composer many layers of intention and personal history combine, but in performance the main impression is of struggle against conflict and discord, eventually overcome in exultant song in the First movement; the Second instead is contemplative, fugal, sometimes complex and intense, but finally resolving tensions and simplifying to end in an ancient cadence.

Maarire Goodall

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Written in Hiroshima while I was a Master’s student at Elisabeth University of Music, and first performed at my graduation concert from that institution. The piece opens with the ascending four-note motif from Debussy’s The Snow is Dancing from the Children’s Corner suite; gradually the motif is repeated in various ranges of both instruments, followed by soft passages from firstly piano, then violin. The piece concludes with the transposed motif heard over a chordal ostinato. The piece was influenced in some way by the music of Morton Feldman, whom I was studying at the time. Published by Wai-te-ata Press Music Editions, Wellington, and released on CD in a performance by Mark Menzies and Dan Poynton, on Wai-te-ata WTA001.

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• Carey: Tombeau; facsimile  Year: 1994 

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• Waiteata Collection of New Zealand Music Vol. 1 - A Violin and Piano Recital  Year: 1999 

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