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Catherine Strutt - No Wind at the Window: Celtic and Gaelic Sacred Melodies (CD ALBUM) There is a quality in the music of the Celtic and Gaelic people that touches something deep inside us. It could be the home-spunfolk rhythms that speak of good times with close friends. It could be the sound of a people who have been defined by dispossession, asense of yearning for a homeland that can never be theirs. Or perhaps it is purely musical, a tradition whose core notes resound with thesound of the human spirit. Catherine Struttexplores these themes on her new album, No Wind at the Window. Including well-known pieces like 'Amazing Graceâ, 'Abide With Meâ and 'Morning Has Brokenâ, to obscure tunes from a small Gaelic hymnbook from 1935, called simply An Laoidheadair(The Hymnal), given to Catherine by a friend as she embarked on this incredibly personal journey. "For as long I can remember," says Catherine, "My mother has played the harmonium at the local Anglican church. It was there that I encountered the great tunes of the Welsh and English hymn writers, and from this first early exposure, the hymns tunes have beenstored deep inside my memory, and never forgotten." Catherine is considered to be one of the finest piano players of traditional Scottish dance music in the world today. She is well respected as an innovative and sensitive natural dance and concert musician and is a grapheme synaesthete, an individual who experiences numbers and letters in colour. Using this phenomenon as a tool, Catherine plays and records entirely by ear. Her intuitive sense of rhythm and colour are incomparable and she continues to be an inspiration, teacher and mentor to many of Australiaâs Scottish-style pianists. Tracklistings: 1.All Through the Night (Arhydy nos) 2.I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say (Kingsfold) 3.How Are Thy Servants Blest, O Lord (Kilmarnock) 4.No Wind at the Window (Columcille) 5.There Is Sweet Rejoicing on the Hill of Paradise (Bearnaraidh) / Sion Sings with Sheer Sweetness (Sion) 6.Oh, This is the Story That Will Gladden My Heart (So an sgeul) 7.Lord, Hear My Praying (Lara) 8.Country Carol (The Oxen) 9.God Is Love, Let Heaven Adore Him (Abbotâs Leigh) 10.Morning Has Broken (Bunessan) 11.Hail the Day That Sees Him Rise (Llanfair) 12.O Crucified Redeemer (Llangloffan) 13.Christ Be My Leader by Night as by Day (Bonnie George Campbell) 14.Abide with Me (Eventide) 15.Sussex Carol 16.Love Divine, All Loves Excelling (Blaenwern) 17.Precious Is Your Grace to Us (Tigh-an-Easa) 18.God of Jeremiah (Kelvin Grove) 19.Amazing Grace (New Britain) 20.O for a Closer Walk with God (Caithness)
