Uploaded April 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 presentation of track 6, "The Gentle Breeze of Zephyrus", arranged for my magnificent recreated ancient Greek kithara with reverb sampled from York Minster Cathedral & new cinematic mastering, in my attempts to evoke the space of an ancient Greek Temple.
In ancient Greek mythology, Zephyrus is the god and personification of the West wind, one of the several wind gods, known as the Anemoi. The son of Eos, the goddess of the dawn, and Astraeus, Zephyrus is the most gentle of the winds, and is also associated with flowers, springtime and even procreation.
I attempt to also evoke the feeling of a soft breeze in this piece, by creating a feeling of movement, by passages of complex cross-rhythms between the left finger-plucked timbres and plectrum-plucked timbres of the right hand.
This tune features the ancient Greek Phrygian Mode - the conjunction of 2 tetrachords which form the equivalent of D-D on the white notes of the piano, but heard here, in the intense focus of just intonation.
The kithara featured in this album, was recreated in modern Greece, by Luthieros:
luthieros.com
"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.
Available from all the usual digital music platforms, here is the album on Spotify:
open.spotify.com/album/3d52Tmhn9198gW5dAPVR3g?si=i36EwksBTAeai0HlyZYBvw
Studio quaility audio of this and all my albums is also available on Bandcamp:
michaellevy.bandcamp.com/album/magic-of-the-kithara
Many thanks for watching!
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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 presentation of track 6, "The Gentle Breeze of Zephyrus", arranged for my magnificent recreated ancient Greek kithara with reverb sampled from York Minster Cathedral & new cinematic mastering, in my attempts to evoke the space of an ancient Greek Temple.
In ancient Greek mythology, Zephyrus is the god and personification of the West wind, one of the several wind gods, known as the Anemoi. The son of Eos, the goddess of the dawn, and Astraeus, Zephyrus is the most gentle of the winds, and is also associated with flowers, springtime and even procreation.
I attempt to also evoke the feeling of a soft breeze in this piece, by creating a feeling of movement, by passages of complex cross-rhythms between the left finger-plucked timbres and plectrum-plucked timbres of the right hand.
This tune features the ancient Greek Phrygian Mode - the conjunction of 2 tetrachords which form the equivalent of D-D on the white notes of the piano, but heard here, in the intense focus of just intonation.
The kithara featured in this album, was recreated in modern Greece, by Luthieros:
luthieros.com
"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.
Available from all the usual digital music platforms, here is the album on Spotify:
open.spotify.com/album/3d52Tmhn9198gW5dAPVR3g?si=i36EwksBTAeai0HlyZYBvw
Studio quaility audio of this and all my albums is also available on Bandcamp:
michaellevy.bandcamp.com/album/magic-of-the-kithara
Many thanks for watching!
Subscribe:
youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=Klezfiddle1
Official Artist Links:
Official Website:
ancientlyre.com
Digital Music Artist Profiles:
Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/7Dx2vFEg8DmOJ5YCRm4A5v
iTunes & Apple Music:
itunes.apple.com/us/artist/michael-levy/id4324920
Amazon:
amzn.to/2zmJph3
Bandcamp:
michaellevy.bandcamp.com
Facebook Page:
facebook.com/beautifullyre
Instagram:
instagram.com/mlevy1400bce
