Alfred Hill (1842-1944) was an Australian composer whose music bridges nineteenth-century Romanticism and twentieth-century modernism. His Third Symphony, subtitled 'Australia,' incorporates Aboriginal musical elements and reflects his deep engagement with Australian identity. The Seventh Symphony represents his mature style—expansive, complex, and historically significant as one of the earliest symphonic works by an antipodean composer. Willi Lehmann's 1995 Marco Polo recordings with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra are devoted, clear-eyed performances that reveal Hill's sophistication and individuality. These symphonies deserve rediscovery, offering an alternative history of Romantic and early-modern symphonic thought.

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