The humble harmonica or mouth organ is hardly an instrument that evokes the classical concert halls, but still several composers of note have written concertos for it, more often than not inspired by harmonica virtuoso Larry Adler. The first one I could trace back is a piece I have not been able to get hold off, the 1940 Caribbean Concerto by Jean Berger. Better known names that have ventured into this rare type of concerto include Malcolm Arnold, Heitor Villa-Lobos and Arthur Benjamin. I have opted for the 1951 concerto by Michael Spivakovsky, composed for Tommy Reilly. The recording is by Reilly himself with the Munich Radio Orchestra under Charles Gerhardt on Chandos.
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