Suter wrote as a subtitle Cantico delle creature (Song of Creation) and gave the choir prime importance in the scoring: per Coro, Soli, Voci di ragazzi, Organo ed Orchestra.

[1] Suter composed nine movements, according to the praises of the canticle: The work is in the late-Romantic tradition, in particular the New German School, unaffected by the emerging dodecaphony.

After the praise of nature, addressing the sun, the moon, stars and the four elements as brothers and sisters, man appears in the seventh movement, shown as forgiving and suffering.

[5] The second movement, Laudato sia, mio Signore, per sora luna e le stelle, is focused on Sister Moon and the stars.

Marked Andante tranquillo,[5] the orchestra supplies a shimmering and glistening basis[7] for all four soloists, who sing one after the other, beginning with the soprano, and are answered by a four-part women's choir.

[7] The sixth movement, Laudato sia, mio Signore, per sora nostra matre terra, focuses on the Earth, called not only Sister but also our mother.

[7] In the seventh movement, Laudato sia, mio Signore, per quelli, che perdonano, per lo tuo amore, men and women appear, after the sun, moon, stars and the four elements.

[7] The soprano solo calls those blessed who wait in peace (Beati quelli, che sosterrano in pace), echoed by the choir.

The eighth movement, Laudato sia, mio Signore, per sora nostra morte corporale, focuses on Sister Death.

[5] The music grows in intensity and tempo but slows again with the final Amen and ends with a sustained last chord in many voices.

[3] The premiere of Le Laudi was on 13 June 1924 in Basel, conducted by the composer,[1] with soloists Eva Bruhn, Maria Philippi, Karl Erb and Heinrich Rehkemper.

[1][3][9] The oratorio was recorded in 1991 by András Ligeti conducting soloists Alida Ferrarini [it], Vesselina Kasarova, Eduardo Villa [de] and Marcel Rosca, organist Andras Virágh, the choir and children's choir of the Hungarian Radio, and the Budapest Symphony Orchestra, for the label MGB.

[10] In 2006, the work was videotaped at the Coréades Festival in La Rochelle, France, conducted by Jean-Yves Gaudin, and was broadcast the following year.

[11] In 2007, Theo Loosli conducted the Berner Bach-Chor and Bern Symphony Orchestra in a recording for the label Ars Musici.

[12] The work was first performed in the United Kingdom by Choir 2000 on 21 June 2009 at the West Road Concert Hall in Cambridge.