Michael Levy
My musical mission is to literally "carry on where the ancients left off" in continuing to create new music, for the recreated ancient lyres & kithara of antiquity, using the distinctive expressive qualities of the ancient musical modes, heard in the pure focus of authentic, ancient just intonation.
This channel is my essential vehicle for this 'musical adventure in time travel' - it is entirely thanks to the video comments & suggestions of you, my much valued subscribers, that my new music has been continually forged, refined and ultimately released on my many albums, available from all the usual digital music platforms, painstakingly indepenently produced since 2008.
Michael Levy
Special thanks to all my Spotify listeners in 2025 - who so kindly shared my music across 34,100 Spotify Playlists! Warmest wishes for 2026.
#Spotify #spotifyplaylist #lyre #meditationmusic
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Michael Levy
Dear Channel Subscribers ,
I am delighted to announce that my new album, "Invocation to Athena", due for release on 1st January 2026, can now be pre-ordered from Bandcamp!
Also due for release across all the usual digital music platforms on New Year's Day, only on Bandcamp can studio quality audio (96,000 Hz in 24 Bit Definition) be purchased - with a complete PDF booklet of the detailed album notes included:
michaellevy.bandcamp.com/album/invocation-to-athen…
Thanks you all for your support and whose invaluable comments of appreciation continue to inspire me to create new music for the recreated ancient lyre!
Seasons Greetings,
Michael
#ancientmusic #lyre #ancientgreece #mythology #meditationmusic
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Michael Levy
My lyre theme 'Hymn to Zeus' orchestrated into Rufus's Wainwright's opera 'Hadrian' got a mention in the book "Queer Opera" by musicologist Andrew Sutherland! 😀
(This 'official mention' of my music certainly compensates for no mention whatsoever in the credits of the program for the third performance of the opera in Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti in Spoleto, Italy! 😞)
#opera #Hadrian #rufuswainwright #hadrianopera
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Michael Levy
I have the initial idea for a 2026 album, "Invocation to Athena"! Here are a couple of potential album covers which I am considering - all feedback as usual, very welcome!
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Michael Levy
As a devoted 'cat dad' myself, the story told in this touching review someone posted on Bandcamp of my album "Musica Lyra" brought tears to my eyes - the most poignant use of my music I have so far learnt of.
As another remarkable coincidence, the album cover I designed was based on a close-up from a Roman-era mosaic of Orpheus - calming animals with the beauty of his lyre music.
#orpheus #meditativemusic #meditationmusic #lyre #ancientmusic #catlovers #catlover
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Michael Levy
Hi everyone,
Apologies for the recent reduction in uploads - rather like what caused the collapse of the Roman Empire, I'm currently concentrating on consolidating rather than endlessly expanding my own 'musical empire'!
In particular, I am concentrating on promoting some of what I consider to be my higher quality albums on Spotify, which through random chance, regrettably did not fair as well in streams as other of my ' lesser' releases! Throughout August ,I am promoting my 2023 release, 'Musica Lyra' - an ancient Roman-themed album, whose tracks were actually inspired from themes of Stoic Philosophy...do please 'spread the word'!
Having no record company to do my tedious promo stuff, each & every new Spotify playlist featuring my music is another invaluable means by which unfamiliar ears out there become familiar with my 'New Ancestral' musical mission - thanks once more, for your invaluable support!
Warmest wishes
Michael
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Michael Levy
Snap from Saturday's live London lyre gig at lavish Leighton House Museum, for their 'Echoes of Greece' Garden Party (a pity their legendary guitar-god neighbour, Jimmy Page wasn't around that evening to help me get to grips with their amp!)
[Echoes of Greece Garden Party at Leighton House, 2025, courtesy of Kevin Moran] #lyre #leightonhouse #leightonhousemuseum #London #ancientgreece
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Michael Levy
Special thanks to my awesome followers & listeners on Spotify - yesterday, I hit 10,000 streams of my new album in just under a week since it's release! Each & every new playlist featuring my music makes such a difference. #spotifyplaylist #spotify #ancientmusicalinstruments #lyre #meditativemusic #Enchantment #ancientgreece
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Michael Levy
Join the exclusive Bandcamp Listening Party at 7pm GMT today to hear with me the premier of my new album & ask to any questions you like:
michaellevy.bandcamp.com/live/enchantment-of-the-t…
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Michael Levy
My lyre music once again forms the soundscape to the new English translation of the original podcast series, "Beyond the Marble" - produced by the Borghese Gallery in Rome!
open.spotify.com/episode/5XnbQRvvCTWtuKUoQa9iWW?si… #sculpture #Borghese #art #ancientrome
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