Catherine Strutt This Is The Story (live at the ABC)

Catherine Strutt takes us to the heart of the beautiful old Scottish hymn tune So an sgeul. From her new album No Wind at the Window, out now on ABC Classics: In the Scottish Presbyterian tradition, hymns were traditionally sung unaccompanied, so I start this track with just the plain melody line. I imagined that maybe it was the parish priest humming the hymn alone while working in his isolated stone abbey on Iona. The melody as printed in the hymnal is very m