Uploaded March 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
I am pleased to announce the release across all the usual digital music platforms, of my first new album for 2025, "Magic of the Kithara"! The kithara was the highly advanced, large wooden lyre of the professional musicians of Classical Greece, which reached its pinnacle of perfection during the “Golden Age” of Classical Antiquity, circa 5th century BCE. In this album, I attempt to demonstrate through new compositions conjured forth in a selection of some of the original ancient Greek musical modes, how the magic of the kithara once cast some of its captivating spells.
This track is a new arrangement for recreated ancient Greek kithara of an original melodic theme I originally featured in my 2010 album, "The Ancient Greek Lyre". The kithara featured in this new album, was recreated in modern Greece by Luthieros:
luthieros.com
This tune features the intensely introspective ancient Greek Hypodorian Mode - the conjunction of two tetrachords white form the equivalent intervals as A-A on the white notes of the piano, but heard here, in the intense focus of just intonation.
"Magic of the Kithara" was inspired by my collaboration in the soundscape to the exhibitions of the new Jeff Koons sculpture, "Apollo Kithara" on the Greek island of Hydra in 2022 & Frankfurt during 2023.
I am pleased to announce the release across all the usual digital music platforms, of my first new album for 2025, "Magic of the Kithara"! The kithara was the highly advanced, large wooden lyre of the professional musicians of Classical Greece, which reached its pinnacle of perfection during the “Golden Age” of Classical Antiquity, circa 5th century BCE. In this album, I attempt to demonstrate through new compositions conjured forth in a selection of some of the original ancient Greek musical modes, how the magic of the kithara once cast some of its captivating spells.
This track is a new arrangement for recreated ancient Greek kithara of an original melodic theme I originally featured in my 2010 album, "The Ancient Greek Lyre". The kithara featured in this new album, was recreated in modern Greece by Luthieros:
luthieros.com
This tune features the intensely introspective ancient Greek Hypodorian Mode - the conjunction of two tetrachords white form the equivalent intervals as A-A on the white notes of the piano, but heard here, in the intense focus of just intonation.
"Magic of the Kithara" was inspired by my collaboration in the soundscape to the exhibitions of the new Jeff Koons sculpture, "Apollo Kithara" on the Greek island of Hydra in 2022 & Frankfurt during 2023.
