For the Beauty of the Earth. Composer: John Rutter

Heartstrings Cello Ensemble consists of young cellists dedicated to providing concerts and performances to benefit domestic and international missions. They have a heart to share God's love, and they believe that their music can be a tool to positively impact the global community.

Solomon M. Lee
Sydney Lee
Michael S. Won
Leonardo S. Ko
Noah Lee

[misheckmsiska]

Dear Mr Rutter you are the best when it comes to writhing creation music ....my soul is always uplifted 🎉

[slowandpensive]

This made me cry more than human voices did performing this piece of music.

[BenjaminGerez]

we're practicing this song now with my choir, but man, this ensemble is excellent. so much emotion.

[reikiguy]

This is what true passion sounds like. Simply astounding blend and such love expressed in total perfect music. Wow. I'm in tears. I've heard this done with many different choirs but this surpasses all of them. They took a John Rutter piece to new heights and gave this piece of life of its own. God bless these super talented cellists.

[kirkfunk]

This is gorgeous.  I love the way they watch each other!

[gamalieldearmas]

Uplifting music! I used to sing this in my Sunday School class when I was very young using the traditional music, DIX. I have always loved the hymns that I grew up with that have started to fade in the last 10 years or so.  I have been trying to revive the singing of these hymns because of the wonderful message they convey. In the last few years, I have been featuring a hymn each month that the congregation sings every Sunday for that month, thus making them familiar with the lyrics and the music. The congregation also gets to know the story behind the hymn including the composer and writer. For this month I thought of featuring "For the Beauty of the Earth". While conducting my research, I stumbled on John Rutter's music composition that touched my heart.  Was it accidental?  I believe it was meant to be. So for this month I will have this wonderful hymn sung using the traditional version and John Rutter's heart-warming music. Our congregation will be thrilled. Praise God! I hope I can get the musical score.

[franklinsilawa]

For the beauty of the earth
For the beauty of the skyes
For the love
Wich from our birth
Over and around us lies
Over and around us lies

Lord of all to thee we raise
This our joy ful hymn of praise

For the beauty of the hour
Of the day and of the night
Hill and vale
And tree and flower
Sun and moon and stars of light

Lord of all to thee we raise
This our joy ful hymn of praise

For the joy of human love
Brother, sister, parent, child
Friends on earth
And friends above
For a gentle
Thoughts and mild
For a gentle
Thoughts and mild

Lord of all to thee we raise
This our joy ful hymn of praise

For each perfect gift of thine
To our race so freely given
Graces human and divine
Flow'rs of earth and buds of heav'n
Flow'rs of earth and buds of heav'n

Lord of all to thee we raise
This our joy ful hymn, our joy ful hymn of praise
This our joy ful hymn of praise

[t.hamiltonian]

This performance certainly pulled at my "heartstrings".  Absalutely beautiful!

Teresa

[BrunoHenryVeigadeSza]

John was a master to give a new melody to this hymn. You are led to sing along.

[kennethoberg]

Beautiful, well played, and inspiring! Thank you!

[joninaruto]

Thanks for bringing me to heaven through music

[starrb]

I love everything about this piece and this performance of it! Many thanks to the musicians 💖♪♫♪♬💖

[victoriacostina]

Beautiful and heartfelt playing, thank you

[jenniferkim]

Omg this is one of my favorite song since i was like 8! It's my first time ever listening this song with cellos and I'm in LOVE with the sounds and everything.

[be.here.now.]

Your beautiful music brings peace to my heart.  Thank you for sharing your music with us.

[Dulcimerea]

Thank you! This is a  beautiful performance of an exquisitely beautiful song.

The beauty of the instruments' melody and harmonies, and the  moving relationships or patterns among the instruments  are all especially evident in the absence of a choir, which makes for added pleasure
 
Everything in this performance is superb. To me, it sounds perfect. 

I know it takes tremendous skill and much practice to do an ensemble performance of this high quality, and i appreciate it very much that I am able to both hear and see the performance, thanks to YouTube. 

I actually  listen to this recording of this song  at least once every day, and never tire of it, which is quite unusual.

Although hymns are usually not my favorite type of music, there is really something very special to this composition. Love and devotion shine through both the melody and the lyrics of it; it is a masterpiece.

This music is somehow so joyful that it's quite inspiring  all by itself, even without the lyrics.

[nancyf]

So beautiful, it was so beautiful it almost made me cry. Wow, I love it when they looked at each other and that they had the music feeling! :)

[DJMichaelAngelo]

a thousand thumbs up! *wipes away tears :) this was SO moving and SO amazing, I can't even....

[thilovonwatzdorf]

You are all absolutely wonderful. Thank you for giving us so much joy.Bravissimi!

[RealKorean]

Amazing!! I wonder what these young cellists are doing now after five years from these performances...I hope God bless each person with a blessing.