About this product
Title: Life in Music
Artist: Various Artists
Label: Chandos
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 095115214329
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2019-08-23
Number of Discs: 1
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.
Tracks:
1.1 Zigeunerweisen
1.2 Sonata, L. 338, KK 450 in G minor
1.3 Gigue from Partita No. 2, BWV 1006
1.4 Serenade
1.5 Age of Innocence
1.6 Italian Dance
1.7 Spanish Dance No. 2 in G minor
1.8 Voice from the Past
1.9 Firebrand
1.10 Deep Purple
1.11 Dance of the Comedians, from the Bartered Bride
1.12 Overture to 'Le Nozze Di Figaro'
1.13 Midnight in Mayfair
1.14 El Cumbanchero
1.15 Jealousy
1.16 Dinah
1.17 Bop! Goes the Weasel
1.18 Firefly
1.19 Begin the Beguine
1.20 Gin Ginger
1.21 No Limit
1.22 Bulgarian Wedding Dance
1.23 Hora Staccato
1.24 18th Century Rock
1.25 Irish Medley
1.26 The Breeze and I
1.27 :Le Grisbi
1.28 The Red Flame
1.29 Waltz, Op. 64 No. 1 'Minute Waltz' in D Flat Major
1.30 Golden Girl
Artist: Various Artists
Label: Chandos
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 095115214329
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2019-08-23
Number of Discs: 1
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.
Tracks:
1.1 Zigeunerweisen
1.2 Sonata, L. 338, KK 450 in G minor
1.3 Gigue from Partita No. 2, BWV 1006
1.4 Serenade
1.5 Age of Innocence
1.6 Italian Dance
1.7 Spanish Dance No. 2 in G minor
1.8 Voice from the Past
1.9 Firebrand
1.10 Deep Purple
1.11 Dance of the Comedians, from the Bartered Bride
1.12 Overture to 'Le Nozze Di Figaro'
1.13 Midnight in Mayfair
1.14 El Cumbanchero
1.15 Jealousy
1.16 Dinah
1.17 Bop! Goes the Weasel
1.18 Firefly
1.19 Begin the Beguine
1.20 Gin Ginger
1.21 No Limit
1.22 Bulgarian Wedding Dance
1.23 Hora Staccato
1.24 18th Century Rock
1.25 Irish Medley
1.26 The Breeze and I
1.27 :Le Grisbi
1.28 The Red Flame
1.29 Waltz, Op. 64 No. 1 'Minute Waltz' in D Flat Major
1.30 Golden Girl
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