Though he began his career ostensibly as an organist, David Hill emerged as one of the most important English choral conductors from the turn of the 21st century. Hill has also conducted orchestras, notably the Philharmonia and Bournemouth Symphony Orchestras, but it is his choral work, particularly with regard to the music of Spanish Renaissance composers and that of 19th and 20th century English composers, that has afforded him his greatest triumphs. By 2023, when he issued the album Peter Warlock: Maltworms and Milkmaids with the BBC Singers, Hill could boast a recording catalog including some 100 items.