''Christmas 25th Anniversary Collection'' is a compilation album by

Mannheim Steamroller Mannheim Steamroller is an American neoclassical new-age music ensemble founded and directed by percussionist/composer Chip Davis in 1974. The group is known primarily for its '' Fresh Aire'' series of albums, which blend classical music with e ...

. It is the group's eleventh

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album overall. It was released in 2009 as a double CD by American Gramaphone, and features 25

Christmas song Christmas music comprises a variety of Music genre, genres of music regularly performed or heard around the Christmas and holiday season, Christmas season. Music associated with Christmas may be purely instrumental, or in the case of Christmas ...

s. It contains songs from their '' Mannheim Steamroller Christmas'' (1984), '' A Fresh Aire Christmas'' (1988), ''

Christmas in the Aire ''Christmas in the Aire'' is the third Christmas album and twenty-first studio album released by American musical group Mannheim Steamroller. The album was originally released in 1995, and was the biggest-selling holiday album in the United Sta ...

'' (1995), ''My Little Christmas Tree'' (1997), '' The Christmas Angel: A Family Story'' (1998), ''

Christmas Extraordinaire ''Christmas Extraordinaire'' is Mannheim Steamroller's sixth Christmas album overall and the group's fourth Christmas studio album. The album was originally released in 2001. The song "O Tannenbaum" features a lead vocal by Johnny Mathis. Five o ...

'' (2001), ''

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'' (2007) and '' Christmasville'' (2008).

Track listing

CD 1

# "Faeries" rom ''The Nutcracker''# "Gagliarda" # "My Little Christmas Tree" # "

We Three Kings "We Three Kings", original title "Three Kings of Orient", also known as "We Three Kings of Orient Are" or "The Quest of the Magi", is a Christmas carol that was written by John Henry Hopkins Jr. in 1857. At the time of composing the carol, Hopk ...

" # "Joseph Dear, Oh Joseph Mine" # "

It Came Upon the Midnight Clear "It Came Upon the Midnight Clear", sometimes rendered as "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear", is an 1849 poem and Christmas Carol (music), carol written by Edmund Sears, pastor of the American Unitarian Association, Unitarian Church in Wayland, M ...

" # "

Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" is a song written in 1943 by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane and introduced by Judy Garland in the 1944 MGM musical '' Meet Me in St. Louis''. Frank Sinatra later recorded a version with modified lyrics. ...

" # "

Joy to the World "Joy to the World" is an English hymn and Christmas carol. It was written in 1719 by the English minister and hymnist Isaac Watts. It is usually sung to the American composer Lowell Mason's 1848 arrangement of a tune attributed to George Fride ...

" # " First Noel" # " Pat a Pan" # "

Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!", also known as simply "Let It Snow", is a song written by lyricist Sammy Cahn and composer Jule Styne in July 1945 in Hollywood, California, during a heatwave as Cahn and Styne imagined cooler conditions. ...

" # " Cantique de Noël" ("O Holy Night")

CD 2

# "Traditions of Christmas (Music Box)" # "Messengers of Christmas" # " Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming" # "

Winter Wonderland "Winter Wonderland" is a song written in 1934 by Felix Bernard and lyricist Richard Bernhard Smith. Due to its seasonal theme, it is often regarded as a Christmas song in the Northern Hemisphere. Since its original recording by Richard Himb ...

" # "

The Christmas Song "The Christmas Song" (commonly subtitled "Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire" or, as it was originally subtitled, "Merry Christmas to You") is a Christmas song written in 1945 by Robert Wells (songwriter), Robert Wells and Mel Tormé. The Nat K ...

" # "Hark! The Herald Trumpets Sing" # "

Hark! The Herald Angels Sing "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" is an English Christmas carol that first appeared in 1739 in the collection ''Hymns and Sacred Poems''. The carol, based on , tells of an angelic chorus singing praises to God. As it is known in the modern era, it ...

" # "Above the Northern Lights" # "

Jingle Bells "Jingle Bells" is one of the most commonly sung Christmas songs in the world. It was written by James Lord Pierpont. It is an unsettled question where and when Pierpont originally composed the song that would become known as "Jingle Bells". It ...

" # " The Holly and the Ivy" # "

The Little Drummer Boy "The Little Drummer Boy" (originally known as "Carol of the Drum") is a popular Christmas song written by American composer Katherine Kennicott Davis in 1941. First recorded in 1951 by the Austrian Trapp Family, the song was further popularized ...

" # " Still, Still, Still" # " O' Little Town of Bethlehem"

Musicians

References

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