The Beauty of the Earth fuses Lydia McCauley's luminous songwriting and rich vocals with a brilliant performance from her ensemble of musicians. This album shines like gold on a Tuscan hillside. Coloring her compositions with Folk, World Music and New Age elements, Lydia McCauley combines the past and present, joyfully mapping out new territory for the mind and spirit.

All music and lyrics by Lydia McCauley, except where noted.
The Beauty of the Earth - Celebrates the Divine Earth, and Love.
I Want to be Free - The universal yearning for freedom.
The River of Life - Creating gold from all of life's circumstances/joy and pain.
The Lark in the Morn - A celebration of Life! Music by L.M., lyrics British Isles.
In the Silence - "Eternity is in-between, in the silence."
Aeternitas - In Latin and English. A spiritual quest.
The White Heat - Written after Emily Dickenson's poem, "Dare to see the soul at the White Heat." The joining of two through fiery trial.
When You See - Taken from a Jewish Midrash, or an illustrated truth.
Burning of the Piper's Hut - Trad. Scottish.
Kyrie Eleison - An ancient chant - Lord Have Mercy. After the anonymously written 19th Century Russian Classic, "The Way of a Pilgrim." Lydia wrote this Kyrie on September 11, 2001.
The Beauty of the Earth by Lydia McCauley