Uploaded January 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
A 'live' performance of "The Radiance of Helios" - track 4 from my new album for recreated ancient Greek lyres & kithara, "The Cave of Hermes", out now, on all major digital music platforms, including Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon & iTunes!
Helios was one of the Titans, son of Hyperion and Theia and brother of Eos (the Dawn) and Selene (the Moon). The personification of the Sun, he was portrayed as driving a four-horse chariot across the sky on a daily basis. Helios was married to Perse, but he had quite a few extramarital affairs and a number of children; these include the Charites, Phaethon, Circe, Aeetes, Pasiphae, Heliadae and Heliades.
At a later period in ancient Greek history, Helios was conflated with Apollo; to the Romans, he was known as Sol. To represent this association of Helios with Apollo, in the album recording, this track is performed on my Luthieros "Lyre of Apollo III" - a massive chelys (tortoise shell form) lyre, whose deeper, rich, exotic buzzy timbre is more than capable of waking the pantheon of ancient Greek gods from their slumbers!
The lyre featured in this 'live' presentation of the melody, is my marvellously mythological looking Luthieros "Lyre of Thamyris". Its swan neck iconography dates back to the ancient Greek myth of how Zeus seduced and deceived & seduced Princess Leda by transforming himself into the guise of a Swan escaping a bird of prey, which as Leda caressed it in her arms, Zeus impregnated her!
The 31st Homeric Hymn vividly describes the attributes of Helios, the essense of which I attempt to evoke through the new music for my recreated ancient Greek lyre:
“He shines upon men and deathless gods, and piercingly he gazes with his eyes from his golden helmet. Bright rays beam dazzlingly from him, and his bright locks streaming from the temples of his head gracefully enclose his far-seen face: a rich, fine-spun garment glows upon his body and flutters in the wind: and stallions carry him.”
For CD quality audio of this and all my albums, please also check out my releases on Bandcamp:
michaellevy.bandcamp.com
Many thanks for listening!
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A 'live' performance of "The Radiance of Helios" - track 4 from my new album for recreated ancient Greek lyres & kithara, "The Cave of Hermes", out now, on all major digital music platforms, including Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon & iTunes!
Helios was one of the Titans, son of Hyperion and Theia and brother of Eos (the Dawn) and Selene (the Moon). The personification of the Sun, he was portrayed as driving a four-horse chariot across the sky on a daily basis. Helios was married to Perse, but he had quite a few extramarital affairs and a number of children; these include the Charites, Phaethon, Circe, Aeetes, Pasiphae, Heliadae and Heliades.
At a later period in ancient Greek history, Helios was conflated with Apollo; to the Romans, he was known as Sol. To represent this association of Helios with Apollo, in the album recording, this track is performed on my Luthieros "Lyre of Apollo III" - a massive chelys (tortoise shell form) lyre, whose deeper, rich, exotic buzzy timbre is more than capable of waking the pantheon of ancient Greek gods from their slumbers!
The lyre featured in this 'live' presentation of the melody, is my marvellously mythological looking Luthieros "Lyre of Thamyris". Its swan neck iconography dates back to the ancient Greek myth of how Zeus seduced and deceived & seduced Princess Leda by transforming himself into the guise of a Swan escaping a bird of prey, which as Leda caressed it in her arms, Zeus impregnated her!
The 31st Homeric Hymn vividly describes the attributes of Helios, the essense of which I attempt to evoke through the new music for my recreated ancient Greek lyre:
“He shines upon men and deathless gods, and piercingly he gazes with his eyes from his golden helmet. Bright rays beam dazzlingly from him, and his bright locks streaming from the temples of his head gracefully enclose his far-seen face: a rich, fine-spun garment glows upon his body and flutters in the wind: and stallions carry him.”
For CD quality audio of this and all my albums, please also check out my releases on Bandcamp:
michaellevy.bandcamp.com
Many thanks for listening!
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
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twitter.com/AncientLyre
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