Peace Like a River (album)
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Peace Like a River is a religious album
released by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir
. The album was originally released in 2004.
Religious music
Religious music is music performed or composed for religious use or through religious influence.A lot of music has been composed to complement religion, and many composers have derived inspiration from their own religion. Many forms of traditional music have been adapted to fit religions'...
released by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir
Mormon Tabernacle Choir
The Mormon Tabernacle Choir, sometimes colloquially referred to as MoTab, is a Grammy and Emmy Award winning, 360-member, all-volunteer choir. The choir is part of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . However, the choir is completely self-funded, traveling and producing albums to...
. The album was originally released in 2004.
Track listing
- Sweet Peace
- Music: English Folk Song
- Text: David WarnerDavid WarnerDavid Warner may refer to:* Dave Warner, or David Robert Warner, Australian author, rock musician and screenwriter* David Warner , British actor* David Warner , Australian cricketer* David Bruce Warner, South African alpine skier...
- Arrangement: Mack WilbergMack WilbergMack Wilberg is a composer, arranger, conductor, and Choral clinician, as well as the music director of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir...
- 2:31
- Be Still, My Soul
- Music: Jean SibeliusJean SibeliusJean Sibelius was a Finnish composer of the later Romantic period whose music played an important role in the formation of the Finnish national identity. His mastery of the orchestra has been described as "prodigious."...
- Text: Katharina von Schlegel (trans. Jane Borthwick)
- Arrangement: Mack Wilberg
- 4:52
- Music: Jean Sibelius
- Peace Like a River
- Music: African-American SpiritualSpiritual (music)Spirituals are religious songs which were created by enslaved African people in America.-Terminology and origin:...
- Arrangement: Mack Wilberg
- 4:31
- Music: African-American Spiritual
- All Things Bright and Beautiful
- Music: John RutterJohn RutterJohn Milford Rutter CBE is a British composer, conductor, editor, arranger and record producer, mainly of choral music.-Biography:Born in London, Rutter was educated at Highgate School, where a fellow pupil was John Tavener. He read music at Clare College, Cambridge, where he was a member of the...
- Text: Mrs. C. F. Alexander
- 2:45
- Music: John Rutter
- The Lord Is My Shepherd
- Music: Thomas Koschat
- Text: James MontgomeryJames MontgomeryJames Montgomery was a British editor, hymnwriter and poet. He was particularly associated with humanitarian causes such as the campaigns to abolish slavery and to end the exploitation of child chimney sweeps....
- Arrangement: Mack Wilberg
- 4:33
- This Is My Father's WorldThis is My Father's WorldThis is My Father's World is a well-known Christian hymn written by Maltbie Davenport Babcock, a minister from New York. The piece was published after his death in 1901 at age 42. The poem was set to music by Franklin L...
- Music: Trad. English Melody (adapt. Franklin L. Sheppard)
- Text: Maltbie D. Babcock
- Arrangement: Mack Wilberg
- 3:24
- Wayfarin' Stranger
- Music: American Folk Hymn
- Arrangement: Mack Wilberg
- 4:12
- Lord, Make Me an Instrument of Thy Peace
- Music: John Rutter
- Text: St. FrancisFrancis of AssisiSaint Francis of Assisi was an Italian Catholic friar and preacher. He founded the men's Franciscan Order, the women’s Order of St. Clare, and the lay Third Order of Saint Francis. St...
of Assisi - 3:04
- Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
- Music: African-American Spiritual
- Arrangement: Alice ParkerAlice ParkerAlice Parker is an American composer, arranger and conductor. Many of her arrangements were done in cooperation with Robert Shaw....
and Robert ShawRobert Shaw (conductor)Robert Shaw was an American conductor most famous for his work with his namesake Chorale, with the Cleveland Orchestra and Chorus, and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. Shaw received 14 Grammy awards, four ASCAP awards for service to contemporary music, the first Guggenheim Fellowship... - 3:25
- Deep River
- Music: American Folk Hymn
- Arrangement: Mack Wilberg
- 4:10
- The Lamb
- Music: John TavenerJohn TavenerSir John Tavener is a British composer, best known for such religious, minimal works as "The Whale", and "Funeral Ikos"...
- Text: William BlakeWilliam BlakeWilliam Blake was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age...
- 3:43
- Music: John Tavener
- A Child's Prayer
- Music: Janice Kapp PerryJanice Kapp PerryJanice Kapp Perry is a well-known Latter-day Saint songwriter whose contributions have resulted in roughly 50 albums and songs in the LDS Church hymnal, Children's Songbook, and 70 Favorite Children's Songs.- Biography :...
- Text: Janice Kapp Perry
- Orchestration: Barlow Bradford
- 3:55
- Music: Janice Kapp Perry
- It is Well with My Soul
- Music: Philip B. Bliss
- Text: Horatio Gates Spafford
- Arrangement: Michael DavisMichael DavisMichael Davis may refer to:* Michael Davis , bass guitarist, singer, songwriter and music producer* Michael Davis , film director, writer, producer...
- Additional Lyrics: Michael Davis
- 5:06
- Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep
- Music: Irving BerlinIrving BerlinIrving Berlin was an American composer and lyricist of Jewish heritage, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history.His first hit song, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", became world famous...
- Text: Irving Berlin
- Arrangement: Michael Davis
- 3:55
- Music: Irving Berlin
- A Gaelic Blessing
- Music: John Rutter
- Text: Adapted from an old GaelicOghamOgham is an Early Medieval alphabet used primarily to write the Old Irish language, and occasionally the Brythonic language. Ogham is sometimes called the "Celtic Tree Alphabet", based on a High Medieval Bríatharogam tradition ascribing names of trees to the individual letters.There are roughly...
rune - 2:04
- Thou Gracious God, Whose Mercy Lends
- Music: English Folk Tune
- Text: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. was an American physician, professor, lecturer, and author. Regarded by his peers as one of the best writers of the 19th century, he is considered a member of the Fireside Poets. His most famous prose works are the "Breakfast-Table" series, which began with The Autocrat...
- Arrangement: Mack Wilberg
- 5:01
- Come, Let Us Anew
- Music: attributed to James LucasJames LucasJames Lucas was a celebrated English Victorian eccentric and hermit who gained international renown by his strange way of life. He was known as the Hermit of Hertfordshire.-Life:...
- Text: Charles WesleyCharles WesleyCharles Wesley was an English leader of the Methodist movement, son of Anglican clergyman and poet Samuel Wesley, the younger brother of Anglican clergyman John Wesley and Anglican clergyman Samuel Wesley , and father of musician Samuel Wesley, and grandfather of musician Samuel Sebastian Wesley...
- Arrangement: Mack Wilberg
- 5:07
- Music: attributed to James Lucas