A Life in Music: Vintage Tommy Reilly

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Label
Chandos
Release Date
August 23, 2019
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      VARIOUS
    • PERFORMER
      Tommy Reilly
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      August 23, 2019
    • UPC
      095115214329
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      CHAN 20143
    • LABEL
      Chandos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Zigeunerweisen, Op. 20 (arr. T. Reilly for harmonica and orchestra)

      Composer: Pablo de Sarasate

      Ensemble: Norwegian Radio Orchestra

      Performer: Tommy Reilly

      Conductor: Øivind Bergh

    2. Keyboard Sonata in G Minor, K.450/L.338/P.422 (arr. J. Moody for harmonica and piano)

      Composer: Domenico Scarlatti

      Performer: Tommy Reilly, Kaare Ørnung

    3. Violin Partita No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1006: VII. Gigue (arr. T. Reilly for harmonica)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Tommy Reilly

    4. Morceaux de fantaisie, Op. 3: No. 5. Sérénade in B-Flat Minor (arr. for harmonica and piano)

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Performer: Tommy Reilly, Kaare Ørnung

    5. Age of Innocence

      Composer: David Reilly, Robert Farnon

      Ensemble: Norwegian Opera String Quartet

      Performer: Tommy Reilly, Knut Guettler, Tor Hultin

    6. Italian Dance (arr. for harmonica and piano)

      Composer: Madeleine Dring

      Performer: Tommy Reilly, Kaare Ørnung

    7. 5 Spanische Tänze, Op. 12: No. 2 in G Minor (arr. for harmonica and piano)

      Composer: Moritz Moszkowski

      Performer: Tommy Reilly, Kaare Ørnung

    8. Voice from the Past

      Composer: Tommy Reilly, James Moody

      Ensemble: Norwegian Opera String Quartet

      Performer: Tommy Reilly, Knut Guettler, Robert Normann

    9. Firebrand

      Composer: Alan Langford

      Performer: Tommy Reilly, Kaare Ørnung

    10. Deep Purple (arr. T. Reilly and F. Still for harmonica and piano)

      Composer: Peter DeRose

      Performer: Tommy Reilly, Frank Still

    11. Prodaná nevesta (The Bartered Bride), Act III: Dance of the Comedians (arr. T. Reilly for harmonica and orchestra)

      Composer: Bedřich Smetana

      Ensemble: Billy Ternent Orchestra

      Performer: Tommy Reilly

    12. Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), K. 492: Overture (arr. T. Reilly for harmonica and orchestra)

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Billy Ternent Orchestra

      Performer: Tommy Reilly

    13. Midnight in Mayfair (arr. for harmonica and piano)

      Composer: Newell Chase

      Performer: Tommy Reilly, Vic Hammett

    14. El Cumbanchero (arr. T. Reilly for harmonica and chamber ensemble)

      Composer: Rafael Hernández

      Ensemble: Vic Hammett Quartet

      Performer: Tommy Reilly

    15. Jalousie (Jealousy) (arr. T. Reilly for harmonica and chamber ensemble)

      Composer: Jacob Gade

      Ensemble: Vic Hammett Quartet

      Performer: Tommy Reilly

    16. Dinah (arr. N. Warren for harmonica)

      Composer: Samuel M. Lewis, Joe Young, Harry Akst

      Performer: Tommy Reilly

    17. Bop! Goes the Weasel (arr. G. Martin for harmonica)

      Composer: Jack Bentley, Reg Owen

      Performer: Tommy Reilly

    18. Firefly

      Composer: Donald Phillips

      Ensemble: Northern Variety Orchestra

      Performer: Tommy Reilly

      Conductor: Vilem Tausky

    19. Begin the Beguine (arr. T. Reilly and N. Warren for harmonica and orchestra)

      Composer: Cole Porter

      Ensemble: Norwegian Radio Orchestra

      Performer: Tommy Reilly

      Conductor: Øivind Bergh

    20. Gin Ginger

      Composer: Bobby Young

      Performer: Tommy Reilly

    21. No Limit

      Composer: Tommy Reilly, Bobby Young

      Performer: Tommy Reilly, James Moody

    22. Bulgarian Wedding Dance (version for harmonica and piano)

      Composer: James Moody

      Performer: Tommy Reilly, James Moody

    23. Hora Staccato (arr. for harmonica and piano)

      Composer: Grigoraș Dinicu, Jascha Heifetz

      Performer: Tommy Reilly, Johan Øian

    24. 18th Century Rock (arr. T. Reilly and J. Moody for harmonica and chamber ensemble)

      Composer: Jimmy Leach

      Ensemble: Edward Rubach Quartet

      Performer: Tommy Reilly

    25. Irish Medley: The Humours of Limerick - Thady's Wattle - St Patrick's Day - The Irish Washerwomen (arr. J. Moody for harmonica and chamber ensemble)

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: Edward Rubach Quartet

      Performer: Tommy Reilly

    26. The Breeze and I (arr. T. Reilly for harmonica and chamber ensemble)

      Composer: Ernesto Lecuona

      Ensemble: Edward Rubach Quartet

      Performer: Tommy Reilly

    27. Le Grisbi

      Composer: Jean Wiéner

      Ensemble: Edward Rubach Quartet

      Performer: Tommy Reilly

    28. The Red Flame

      Composer: Tommy Reilly, Maurice Arnold

      Performer: Tommy Reilly, James Moody

    29. Waltz No. 6 in D-Flat Major, Op. 64, No. 1, "Minute" (arr. for harmonica and piano)

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Tommy Reilly, Kaare Ørnung

    30. Golden Girl

      Composer: Tommy Reilly, James Moody

      Performer: Tommy Reilly, James Moody


Born in Ontario in August 1919, Tommy Reilly studied violin from the age of eight, and began playing harmonica at the age of eleven. Though he had played in England in 1935 – 37 and continental Europe in 1937 – 39, it was not until his arrest (while studying violin at the Leipzig Conservatory) and subsequent internment 1939 – 45 in prisoner-of-war camps that he developed his virtuosity on the harmonica, basing his ideas of phrasing and interpretation on the playing of Jascha Heifetz. Returning to London in 1945, Reilly began parallel careers as a concert soloist and recitalist, a popular BBC radio and television performer, and a studio musician-composer. He performed with most of the major European orchestras and toured all over the world as a concert soloist. Inspiring the composition of more than thirty works by other composers, Reilly also transcribed a great deal of repertoire for the instrument, in addition to composing his own works. In 1967 he designed a concert harmonica, later manufactured by Hohner and marketed as the Silver Concerto Chromonica. In 1992, he became the first harmonica player to be made a Member of the Order of the British Empire. His other awards included the Gold Medal of the Deutscher Harmonika-Verband, and a Golden Badge from the British Association of Composers, Authors and Songwriters. Sir Neville Marriner and Igor Stravinsky were among those who admired his playing.