Christmas Celebration is Mannheim Steamroller

Mannheim Steamroller

Mannheim Steamroller is an American music group founded by Chip Davis and Jackson Berkey, known primarily for its modern recordings of Christmas music. The group has sold 28 million albums in the U.S. alone.-Beginnings:...

's seventh Christmas

Christmas

Christmas or Christmas Day is an annual holiday generally celebrated on December 25 by billions of people around the world. It is a Christian feast that commemorates the birth of Jesus Christ, liturgically closing the Advent season and initiating the season of Christmastide, which lasts twelve days...

 album. A compilation, it was released in 2004 on CD and DVD

DVD

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 by American Gramaphone

American Gramaphone

American Gramaphone is an American record company, and was formed in 1974 by Chip Davis. It is best-known for releasing Davis' solo and Mannheim Steamroller albums...

. The album features eighteen Christmas songs in progressive rock

Progressive rock

Progressive rock is a subgenre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s as part of a "mostly British attempt to elevate rock music to new levels of artistic credibility." John Covach, in Contemporary Music Review, says that many thought it would not just "succeed the pop of...

 and New Age

New Age music

New Age music is music of various styles intended to create artistic inspiration, relaxation, and optimism. It is used by listeners for yoga, massage, meditation, and reading as a method of stress management or to create a peaceful atmosphere in their home or other environments, and is often...

 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

Target Corporation

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 stores, featured two extra songs: "The Holly and the Ivy

The Holly and the Ivy

"The Holly and the Ivy" is an English traditional Christmas carol. The carol contains intermingled Christian and Pagan imagery, with holly and ivy representing Pagan fertility symbols. Holly and ivy have been the mainstay of Christmas decoration for church use since at least the fifteenth and...

" and "Messengers of Christmas".

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
   Away in a Manger
   "Away in a Manger" is a Christmas carol first published in 1885 in Philadelphia and used widely throughout the English-speaking world. In Britain it is one of the most popular carols, a 1996 Gallup Poll ranking it joint second.-History of the lyrics:...
   
   " – 3:22
6. "Hallelujah" (from "Messiah
   Messiah (Handel)
   Messiah is an English-language oratorio composed in 1741 by George Frideric Handel, with a scriptural text compiled by Charles Jennens from the King James Bible and the Book of Common Prayer. It was first performed in Dublin on 13 April 1742, and received its London premiere nearly a year later...
   
   ") – 4:43
7. "O Tannenbaum
   O Tannenbaum
   "O Tannenbaum", or, in its English version, "O Christmas Tree", is a Christmas carol of German origin.A Tannenbaum is a fir tree or Christmas tree...
   
   " (featuring Johnny Mathis
   Johnny Mathis
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   ) – 2:58
8. "Wassail, Wassail" – 2:25
9. "Carol of the Birds" – 2:07
10. "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
    God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
    God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen is an English traditional Christmas carol. The melody is in Aeolian mode. It was published by William B...
    
     (Renaissance
    Renaissance music
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     version)" – 1:42
11. "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen (Rock
    Rock music
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     version)" – 4:31
12. "Greensleeves
    Greensleeves
    "Greensleeves" is a traditional English folk song and tune, a ground of the form called a romanesca.A broadside ballad by this name was registered at the London Stationer's Company in September 1580 as "A New Northern Dittye of the Lady Greene Sleeves". It then appears in the surviving A Handful of...
    
    " – 3:29
13. "Traditions of Christmas (New Vocal Version)" – 3:40
14. "Good King Wenceslas
    Good King Wenceslas
    "Good King Wenceslas" is a popular Christmas carol about a king who goes out to give alms to a poor peasant on the Feast of Stephen . During the journey, his page is about to give up the struggle against the cold weather, but is enabled to continue by following the king's footprints, step for step,...
    
    " – 3:32
15. "Carol of the Bells
    Carol of the Bells
    "Carol of the Bells" is the common English language title of a Christmas carol of Ukrainian origin, which has in recent years grown in popularity, particularly in English-speaking countries. The work was originally a choral miniature composition by the Ukrainian composer Mykola Leontovych based on...
    
    " – 3:53
16. "Auld Lang Syne
    Auld Lang Syne
    "Auld Lang Syne" is a Scots poem written by Robert Burns in 1788 and set to the tune of a traditional folk song . It is well known in many countries, especially in the English-speaking world; its traditional use being to celebrate the start of the New Year at the stroke of midnight...
    
    " – 3:40
17. "Fum, Fum, Fum
    Fum, Fum, Fum
    Fum, Fum, Fum is a traditional Catalan Christmas carol.It is thought to have originated in the 16th or 17th Century. The word 'fum' means smoke in Catalan, and it may simply refer to the smoke rising from a chimney as seen from afar, or, as indicated in the Oxford Book of Carols, "may imitate the...
    
    " – 4:54
18. "Stille Nacht (Silent Night)" – 5:25