Beautiful River

Following their award-winning, best-selling CD All Creatures of Our God and King, the BYU Concert Choir delivers another winner. Beautiful River is a timeless collection of hymns, anthems, and folk songs, including a gorgeous new collection of Hebrew love songs by composer Eric Whitacre. You'll find Beautiful River perfect for peaceful, tranquiling.

TRACK LIST

1. Beautiful River (arr. William Hawley)

2. I Gotta Home Ina dat Rock (arr. Moses Hogan)

3. Be Still My Soul (arr. Dan Bird)

Five Shaker Songs (arr. Kevin Siegfried)

4. Come to Zion

5. Love Is Little

6. Dismission of Great I

7. We Must Be Meek

8. Lay Me Low

9.There Is a Balm in Gilead

(arr. Benjamin Harlan)

Five Hebrew Love Songs

(music: Eric Whitacre)

10. Temuná (A Picture)

11. Kala, Kallá (Light Bride)

12. Lárov (Mostly)

13. Ézeg shéleg! (What Snow!)

14. Rakút (Tenderness)

15. God So Loved the World

(music: Bob Chilcott)

16. I Will Arise (arr. A. Parker, Robt. Shaw)

17. The Covert of His Wings

(music: Lane Johnson)

18. Irish Blessing (music: Graeme Langager)

CREDITS

Rosalind Hall, conductor

Carric Smolnik and Jared Oaks, piano; Carly Jackson, oboe; Emily Outhier, flute; and the BYU Honors String Quartet--Ben Chan, Kate Homer, Leslie

Richards, Scott Thomas Lesser.

Produced by Rosalind Hall with Jon Holloman

Executive producer and postproduction: Ron Simpson

Recording engineer: Jon Holloman

Digital editing and mastering: Troy Sales

Graphic design: Rachael Haney

Booklet notes: Ron Simpson

Cover image: David Ligare

Photography: Mark Philbrick, page 3; Annie Jones, page 2

Recorded on the stage of the de Jong Concert Hall, Brigham Young University