Uploaded June 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
A live performance of my piece, "Hymn to Zeus" in one of my favourite ancient woodland glades.
This piece formed track 3 from my 2010 album, "Apollo's Lyre" - available from all the usual digital music platforms, CD quality audio & a PDF booklet of the detailed album notes is also available for every of my albums purchased on Bandcamp:
michaellevy.bandcamp.com/album/apollos-lyre
In 2017, I was amazed to be asked by Rufus Wainwright for permission for him to adapt this tune for 2 scenes of his 2nd opera, "Hadrian", which premiered in Toronto in October 2018:
youtube.com/watch?v=V-UmewNsClg
The lovely location is Lancaut Nature Reserve, in a secluded glade next to steep limestone cliffs, framing the River Wye - one of my favourite local spots to escape the mostly maddness of the rest of the modern world.
Lancaut was once a tiny village, long-abandoned during the Middle Ages, probably due to the plague - all that remains, is the ruins of a 12th century church, nestled in the remnants of the ancient wild wood bordering the banks of the Wye & surrounding sheer limestone cliffs - today I discovered it makes a spendid outdoor recording studio!
A live performance of my piece, "Hymn to Zeus" in one of my favourite ancient woodland glades.
This piece formed track 3 from my 2010 album, "Apollo's Lyre" - available from all the usual digital music platforms, CD quality audio & a PDF booklet of the detailed album notes is also available for every of my albums purchased on Bandcamp:
michaellevy.bandcamp.com/album/apollos-lyre
In 2017, I was amazed to be asked by Rufus Wainwright for permission for him to adapt this tune for 2 scenes of his 2nd opera, "Hadrian", which premiered in Toronto in October 2018:
youtube.com/watch?v=V-UmewNsClg
The lovely location is Lancaut Nature Reserve, in a secluded glade next to steep limestone cliffs, framing the River Wye - one of my favourite local spots to escape the mostly maddness of the rest of the modern world.
Lancaut was once a tiny village, long-abandoned during the Middle Ages, probably due to the plague - all that remains, is the ruins of a 12th century church, nestled in the remnants of the ancient wild wood bordering the banks of the Wye & surrounding sheer limestone cliffs - today I discovered it makes a spendid outdoor recording studio!
