Pakistan, July 12 -- Two-time Oscar winner Anthony Hopkins released his first classical music single on Friday after signing a record deal as a composer.

"Bracken Road" features on his upcoming "Life is a Dream" album, a collection of orchestral works written over six decades, "revealing a composer whose music shares the same emotional depth and storytelling that define his screen career", label Decca Classics said.

The 88-year-old Welsh-born actor, who won Academy Awards for his performances in "The Silence of the Lambs" and "The Father", learned to play the piano at the ?age of four and went on to compose music for local plays as a teenager in the 1950s.

"Music was my first desire, my first wish," Hopkins said in a statement. "I've b...