Christmas Celebration

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Christmas Celebration
Christmas Celebration cover
Compilation album by Mannheim Steamroller
Released October 12, 2004
Genre New Age
Length 65:08
Label American Gramaphone
Producer Chip Davis
Professional reviews
Mannheim Steamroller chronology
Halloween: Monster Mix
(2004)		 Christmas Celebration
(2004)		 Romantic Themes
(2005)
Mannheim Steamroller Christmas albums chronology
Christmas Extraordinaire
(2001)		 Christmas Celebration
(2004)		 Christmas Song
(2007)

Christmas Celebration is Mannheim Steamroller's seventh Christmas album. A compilation, it was released in 2004 on CD and DVD by American Gramaphone. The album features eighteen Christmas songs in progressive rock and New Age styles, and includes two new tracks: "Celebration" and "Traditions of Christmas" (vocal version). The remaining songs are new mixes of previously released songs. A limited edition version of the album, available exclusively at Target stores, featured two extra songs: "The Holly and the Ivy" and "Messengers of Christmas".

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Celebration" – 2:37
  2. "Christmas Lullaby" – 4:09
  3. "Deck the Halls" – 3:37
  4. "Veni Veni (O Come, O Come Emmanuel)" – 4:21
  5. "Away in a Manger" – 3:22
  6. "Hallelujah" (from "Messiah") – 4:43
  7. "O Tannenbaum" (featuring Johnny Mathis) – 2:58
  8. "Wassail, Wassail" – 2:25
  9. "Carol of the Birds" – 2:07
  10. "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (Renaissance version)" – 1:42
  11. "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen (Rock version)" – 4:31
  12. "Greensleeves" – 3:29
  13. "Traditions of Christmas (New Vocal Version)" – 3:40
  14. "Good King Wenceslas" – 3:32
  15. "Carol of the Bells" – 3:53
  16. "Auld Lang Syne" – 3:40
  17. "Fum, Fum, Fum" – 4:54
  18. "Stille Nacht (Silent Night)" – 5:25