Strings of Classical Greece

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Vol. 1

Requiem in D minor, K. 626 Dies Irae

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A section of this music featuring the Leeds Town Hall Organ was used in the Hollywood horror movie "Ballet of Blood" by Jared Masters at 21:00
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEPZDyT0DkY

You can still download it for free from here: https://neilpaddock.gumroad.com/l/gnhliw

You can also find it here, on my Twenty Twenty compilation (Subject to official release date (To be confirmed):
https://neilpaddock.bandcamp.com/track/bachs-toccata-leeds-town-hall-organ

For more about Ballet of Blood:
http://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwtv/article/BALLET-OF-BLOOD-Opens-RIP-Horror-International-Film-Fest-20150908

https://youtu.be/Y7K6srIQUL8

The classic organ piece by Johann Sebastian Bach, as featured in the 1925 film "The Phantom Of The Opera". 
Recorded  in Reason 7.1 by importing the midi file created by Kenneth T Settlemyer Jr. (available from Midiworld.com)
http://www.midiworld.com/bach.htm
This track uses 16 bit samples based on the 3.2 Gigabyte FREE 24 bit Leeds Town Hall Organ sample pack available from Samplephonics.com here:
store.samplephonics.com/products/the-leeds-town-hall-organ
This is a 16 bit conversion and mp3 rendered in Goldwave.

This piece was put together to "road test" the authenticity of the sounds of the Free sample pack created by Samplephonics for Propellerhead Software's Reason. Used with permission from Samplephonics. 

Check out Samplephonics on Soundcloud https://soundcloud.com/samplephonics for more Free Stuff. This mp3 uses Preset 5 from the pack, crafted by Dr. Simon Lindley, Organist at Leeds Town Hall and Leeds Parish Church. Copyright remains the property of all respective holders.

Toccata and Fugue in D Minor - J S Bach(Mp3 Download)

This is a genuine 800 year old Troubadour song, arranged here for solo lyre, & written by Walther Von Der Vogelweide called "Palästinalied". Here are some interesting details about the song from Wikipedia:

"Palästinalied was written in connection with the Fifth Crusade (1217-1221). Although it is a political-religious propaganda song describing a crusade into the Holy Land, it is atypical for a song of this kind in that it also recognizes the claim of all Abrahamic religions to the Holy Land, although finally asserting that the Christian cause is the "right one" in the last strophe:

Kristen juden und die heiden 
jehent daz dis ir erbe sî 
got müesse ez ze rehte scheiden 
dur die sîne namen drî 
al diu werlt diu strîtet her 
wir sîn an der rehten ger. 
reht ist daz er uns gewer 

This strophe can be translated as follows:

"Christians, Jews and Heathens claim this to be their heritage. God has to assign it in the right way, for His three names. The whole world is coming battling here - our cause is right. It is right that He is granting it to us."

Despite all the pointless religious intolerance (as the words to this song certainly testify!), and the sheer bloody brutality of the Crusades, at least they resulted some amazing, utterly timeless melodies, like this! 

My many releases of albums for solo lyre can be found on iTunes:

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For full details, and all the historical research behind my myriad of "Musical Adventures in Time Travel", please visit my official website:

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Palästinalied (Walter Von Der Vogelweide)

The ancient Greek drinking song "Skolion of Seikilos" (Circa 1st Century CE) - arranged for my beautiful replica ancient Greek lyre, "The Lyre of Apollo III" - handmade in Greece by Luthieros Ancient & Modern Music Instruments:

https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/Luthieros

I have recently joined into an exciting collaboration with Luthieros, called "The Lyre 2.0 Project" - dedicated to reintroducing the beautiful lyre of antiquity back into our much less beautiful, bland modern world. For full details, please see my blog:

http://ancientlyre.com/the_lyre_20_project/



Skolion Of Seikilos (Ancient Greek Drinking Song)

"The Golden Lyre of Erato" - a sneak preview of the first track which will feature on my new album, "The Lyre of Apollo - The Chelys of Ancient Greece".

This album will feature my chelys (tortoise shell form) lyre, handmade in Greece, by Luthieros Ancient & Modern Music Instrumets, as part of my collaboration in "The Lyre 2.0 Project", dedicated to reintroducing the lyre of antiquity back into our modern world:

http://ancientlyre.com/the_lyre_20_project/

The Golden Lyre Of Erato

Alejandro D. Consolacion II
Princeton Seminary Chapel 

J.S. Bach: Little Fugue in g minor BWV 578

Tchaikovsky - 1812 Overture (Full With Cannons)

Myuuji

In the Hall of the Mountain King (Piano Version) - Edvard Grieg

Silent Night (Dark Piano Version)

God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (Dark Piano Version)

Assassin's Creed Odyssey OST (Greek Version) - The Flight

Holiday Macabre

I was listening to the OST on YouTube and heard other instruments I would've added lol. I know some parts seem "off," I didn't want to line everything up-- extra flavor lmao.

if you want to repost this onto youtube, or use it in a video, please be sure to credit me/leave a link to the song in your description. <3

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LITTLE NIGHTMARES 2 - SIX'S MUSIC BOX (jorden kiddo re-imagine)

Michael Levy is a UK-based composer for the recreated lyres of antiquity, whose musical mission is to create an entirely new musical genre, which could best be described as a 'New Ancestral Music' - dedicated to creating new music for the recreated ancient lyre, featuring an exotic palette of ancient musical modes and intonations not heard for almost 2000 years.

Michael has collaborated with the Grammy award winning Canadian composer, Rufus Wainwright - Rufus musically incorporated one of Michael's "Hymn to Zeus"  in two scenes of his second opera, "Hadrian" - which premiered in Toronto on 13th October 2018.

In 2022, Michael collaborated with the iconic American artist, Jeff Koons – his music for recreated ancient Greek kithara is currently the main soundscape of Koon’s animatronic sculpture, “Apollo Kithara” (2020-2022) on view at DESTE’s Project Space on the Greek island of Hydra.

Skolion Of Seikilos (Ancient Greek Drinking Song)

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