The Brooklyn Youth Chorus introduced ‘Black Mountain Songs’ during the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival in 2014. Along with the ensemble’s 50 singers, the staged production included dancers, videos and readings, all revolving around song settings by eight composers. The visual impact can’t be gleaned from this recording of the work’s 13 songs, but what is there reflects a deep commitment on the part of the chorus, the Academy and the composers to create a diverse, moving and jubilant experience.

As a boy, the composer-guitarist Bryce Dessner spent a summer at a North Carolina camp near Black Mountain College, whose curriculum was rooted in the arts, and which closed in 1957. He conceived Black Mountain Song as a tribute to the college’s collaborative aesthetic, which is reflected in the array of styles, techniques and texts that make up this captivating song cycle.

Dessner and Richard Reed Parry are represented by three songs apiece and Caroline Shaw with two; the other composers are John King, Aleksandra Vrebalov, Jherek Bischoff, Nico Muhly and Tim Hecker. In tailoring their creations for the Brooklyn chorus, the composers didn’t stint on challenges. The young choristers, under founder and artistic director Dianne Berkun Menaker, rise to every occasion with singing pure in pitch and alert to the lyrical or pungent activity.

Among the delights are Vrebalov’s Bubbles, in which the ensemble bursts with nimble glee, and Shaw’s shimmering Its Motion Keeps. But the entire cycle beguiles, as does the artistry of this exceptional ensemble.