It knocked my socks off! And my 14-year-old highland snare drummer son, who has no taste whatsoever absolutely loved it! The highest compliment you could get! GREAT JOB!!!! I really loved your Brian Boru's March - took that old chestnut to new heights!! Congratulations!!! - JoannaĬynthia,I just finished listening to your new CD and I loved what you did with Brian Boru! The rest of it is great too, but I wanted to tell you about Brian Boru.
It shines like a multi-faceted diamond with many different hues, always sparkling, always fascinating. As I was listening, it seemed more and more like I was listening to the wire harp as It was probably played long ago, not a commercialized pretty picture, but a whole feeling that I was hearing music for a moment through a window of time.
And so much of it is playful and self-affirming as well (self-affirming in that the music sort of lifts you up). Alchemy has a very mysterious, haunting, sometimes dark, often sparsely-produced quality to it that actually allows the harp to stand out. Reviews of the CD:Real words by real people.įrom those who have written to Cynthia's website after hearing the recording:Ĭynthia - I'm used to "lovely", yet over-produced harp recordings that are lush, but not necessarily much more than that.
The uniquely bell-like resonance of brass, silver and gold strings carries the listener to a time when legends lived and magic was a part of every day. Cynthia Cathcart recaptures the original sound of the music of Scotland and Ireland in this collection of melodies played on the wire strung harp.
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