Christmas

"Christmas in the Heart" is singer-songwriter Bob Dylan's 2009 Christmas album. The record features popular Christmas tunes, hymns and carols including: "Here Comes Santa Claus", "I'll Be Home for Christmas", "Silver Bells", "Hark the Herald Angels Sing" and many more. Dylan gave all of the royalities he received to charities including Feeding America, the World Food Programme and Crisis in the UK. "Christmas in the Heart" reached number 1 on Billboard's Holiday Chart and the Billboard Folk Album chart, number 9 on the Rock Album chart, and 23 on the Billboard Albums Chart.

This is one of those occasions where beauty and artistry are reflected not only on the surface but right through to the core. This is a marvelous performance of Bach's six-cantata cycle that offers ravishing choral singing, sharply detailed orchestral playing, and superior contributions from the four solo vocalists, all presented in state-of-the-art sound.

Enjoy 30 selections of Appalachian, Shape-Note, Shaker, Gospel, bluegrass, and other traditional folk music from 1930's America, recorded LIVE at the 2019 Christmas Revels in Cambridge, Massachusetts. “2019’s Christmas Revels isn’t just set in the American heartland, it comes from the American heart.

In collaboration with singers like Sharon Dyall, Jessica Pilnäs, Jeanette Köhn and Ida Sand, as well as 1500 guests, Nils Landgren celebrated a dearly as joyful musical Christmas devotion in December 2011. “For all of us it was a magic evening. Our hope is that we can give the listeners the same feeling as we had during our performance that became this album.” Tradition is one of the things through which a person finds out where he comes from and what makes him who he is. Perhaps the most important spiritual tradition in the Western world is Christmas – and music is a big part of that. Christmas songs are their own genre around the world, which is linked to ceremonial and happy togetherness like no other.

"Holiday Wishes", also titled "Christmas Wishes", is a Christmas holiday album by American singer-songwriter and actress Idina Menzel. The album was produced by Grammy Award-winner Walter Afanasieff (Barbra Streisand, Celine Dion, Mariah Carey) and features such classic favorites as "A Holly Jolly Christmas" and "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas". It is Menzel's fourth studio album to date, as well as her first in six years, and features a duet with Michael Bublé.

It may seem weird to call a seasonal album 'essential,' but along with Phil Spector's Christmas Gift for You, this is arguably the finest rock & roll Christmas album of all time. Recorded in 1957 at the height of his artistry when he truly could be called the King of Rock & Roll this album demonstrates Presley having a lot of vocal fun with a variety of styles, whether it's a carol ('Silent Night') or pop standard (Gene Autry's 'Here Comes Santa Claus'). He does one of the greatest versions of 'White Christmas' ever recorded, basically using the Drifters' version as a blueprint and then singing all the parts himself.

RCA's wildly successful Living Stereo series spawned a number of ensembles with Living in their titles; the two that folks remember these days are The Living Strings and The Living Voices. Here's two holiday albums featured on this twofer that she released with The Living Voices remain treasured among Christmas music aficionados for their ornate orchestration, innovative arrangements, and, most of all, sweeping stereo sound. The first, 1962's "Sing Christmas Music", had actually come out on the Living Stereo imprint in 1959 as "Christmas Surprises" from The Ralph Hunter. The second album, 1965's "The Little Drummer Boy", featured the legendary Anita Kerr Singers and production by Anita Kerr herself.

Released for the 1963 Christmas season, this collection from the Miracles includes soulful interpretations of several traditional classics and a song written by Smokey Robinson, Christmas Everyday, one of the 20 best soul Christmas songs according to The Telegraph.

The album is Dolly's first holiday album in 30 years. This festive collection of music includes some of the timeless Christmas songs we all know and love, as well as a few original tracks from Dolly.