Never Too Late
The Oscar-winning actor signed a record deal with Decca Classics for Life Is a Dream, which was conducted by Gustavo Dudamel
It’s never too late to chase your dreams: Anthony Hopkins, 88, signed with Decca Classics to release Life Is a Dream, a new recording project encompassing more than six decades of original compositions. The album’s tracks were conducted by Gustavo Dudamel and performed by the Philharmonia Orchestra.
Hopkins has been playing piano since the age of four. He began composing music for local plays as a teenager. The album’s first single, “Bracken Road,” comes from Hopkin’s “1947: Suite for Solo Piano and Orchestra. It was “inspired by childhood memories of Margam, South Wales,” and “is a nostalgic musical portrait of the streets, meadows, farmland and mountains that surrounded his family home in the 1940s,” according to a press release.
Other tracks on the album include “My Fatherland,” which was inspired by traditional Welsh melodies, and compositions inspired by cinema, the actor’s wife, and his niece.
