Hadley: The Ocean, Op.99, Symphony No.4 in D minor Op.64, etc

"Three recording premieres for the American Hadley, accessible and enthusiastically played."

"Another Naxos rediscovery among North American romantics... Apart from being an immensely prolific composer, he he developed a highly successful conducting career in Germany adn in the USA and generously used his position to promote American music."

"Williams and the Ukrainian players really make the most of these first recordings and there's an informative CD booklet: it all lifts Hadley deservedly from history into sound at a stroke."
- Gramophone (Peter Dickinson) November 2001

"The sound provided for the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine is...nicely detailed and does reproduce a reasonably good stage depth, a solid dynamic impact, and a fairly wide frequency range. This is an enjoyable collection of highly accessible...orchestral music that one can hear for himself at very little expense."
- John Puccio Sensible Sound November/December 2001

In 1933 the Musical Courier called Henry Kimball Hadley "probably the most important composer in the contemporary American musical scene." Although his musical influence has been obscured by others over the past three-quarters of a century, his amazing promotion and support of American music and composers has only been matched by Koussevitzky and Hanson. Henry Hadley was one of the most amazingly prolific composers of the early twentieth century. He composed virtually in every musical genre, producing operas, operettas, incidental music, musicals, ballet suites, band pieces, symphonies, overtures, tone poems, cantatas, hymns, oratorios, anthems, choral pieces, chamber music, piano pieces, and numerous songs. According to biographer J. Canfield, Hadley may also have written "the first musical score to be recorded and played in synchronism with an entire motion picture" when he composed for the Vitaphone Company the film score for When a Man Loves (released in November 1926).