''A Romantic Christmas'' is the fourth studio album and first holiday album by John Tesh. It was released by GTS Records in 1992. The album peaked at No. 3 on the ''

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'' Holiday Albums chart, No. 8 on its New Age Albums chart, and No. 50 on the ''Billboard'' 200.

Track listing

Track information and credits adapted from the album's liner notes.

Personnel

Musicians * John Tesh – grand piano * Paul Viapiano –

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* Tim Landers – fretless bass (16) * Joan Elardo –

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, oboe * John Reynolds – French horn *

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– violin solo (15) * Vince Denham – saxophone (16) * Tim Heintz – arrangements (16) Orchestra section * Charlie Bisharat – arrangements * John Bisharat – conductor * Barbara Nahlik – contractor * Ed Alton and Dave Stone – bass * Matthew Cooker, Armen Ksadjikian, Sachi McHenry and Ed Willett – cello * Katie Kirkpatrick –

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* Brian Dembow, Karie Prescott, John Scanlon and David Stenske – viola * Charlie Bisharat, Darius Campo, Juliann French, Berj Garobedian, Peter Kent, Maria Newman, Sid Page, Michele Richards, Anatoly Rosinsky, Bob Sanov, Sheldon Sanov and Roger Wilkie – violin The Paulist Boy Choristers of California (Tracks 5, 9 & 13) * Carol Foster – choir director :*Joseph Bertolami :*Matthew Bertolet :*Christian Campos :*Timothy Chew :*Darren Davies :*Hassan Dornayi :*Anthony Fournier :*Cris Garza :*Chris Gough :*Michael Graham :*Andrew Henning :*Gerardo Hernandez :*Eric Hwang :*Jay Johnson :*Tyler Klein :*Theodorus Laksmana :*Matthew Lawrence :*Andrew Lumsden :*Jon McIlinay :*Michael Martner :*Dante Nakazawa :*Dominic O'Connor :*Jesse Ramirez :*Brian Sanchez :*Jordan Ste. Marie :*Ricky Valenzuela :*Hank Wilkes

Production

* Concetta Sellecchia Tesh – executive producer * John Tesh – executive producer, producer * Chris Chandler – recording * Ross Pallone – recording, mixing * Chris Bellman – mastering at

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(Hollywood, California) * Gib Gerard – production assistant * Vu Tran – art direction * Charles William Bush – cover photography * Will McKenzie – Make-Up * Mimi Vodnoy – hair stylist * Suzie Bagdadi – hair stylist * Ronny Schiff – research * Jerry Gross – Scripture selection * Teri Meredyth – piano technician * Denxyl Feigelson – management * Richard Gant – publicity

Charts

References

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