''Christmas Together'' is the seventh
studio album
An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as Digital distribution#Music, digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early ...
by American musical group
The Piano Guys
The Piano Guys is an American musical group consisting of pianist Jon Schmidt, cellist Steven Sharp Nelson, videographer Paul Anderson, and music producer Al van der Beek. Originating in Utah, they gained popularity through YouTube, where in ...
. Released on October 27, 2017, by Portrait (a division of
Sony Masterworks
Sony Music Masterworks (Sony Masterworks) is a record label, the result of a restructuring of Sony Music's classical music division. Before the acquisition of Bertelsmann's shares in the former Sony BMG, the label was known as Sony BMG Masterwor ...
), the album reached number 27 on the US
''Billboard'' 200. It also topped the Billboard Classical, New Age, and Holiday albums charts. The video for "Angels from the Realms of Glory" broke the largest live nativity
world record
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, with 1,039 people attending.
Track listing
Personnel
;The Piano Guys
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Steven Sharp Nelson
Steven Sharp Nelson (born July 5, 1977) is an American cellist. He is best known as "The Cello Guy" of the classical new-age musical group The Piano Guys, with whom he has released eight number-one albums and dozens of music videos. He also has ...
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Cellist
The cello ( ; plural ''celli'' or ''cellos'') or violoncello ( ; ) is a bowed (sometimes plucked and occasionally hit) string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually tuned in perfect fifths: from low to high, C2, G2, D3 ...
/
Songwriter
A songwriter is a musician who professionally composes musical compositions or writes lyrics for songs, or both. The writer of the music for a song can be called a composer, although this term tends to be used mainly in the classical music gen ...
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Jon Schmidt -
Pianist
A pianist ( , ) is an individual musician who plays the piano. Since most forms of Western music can make use of the piano, pianists have a wide repertoire and a wide variety of styles to choose from, among them traditional classical music, ja ...
/Songwriter/Additional vocals/
Synth
A synthesizer (also spelled synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals. Synthesizers typically create sounds by generating waveforms through methods including subtractive synthesis, additive synthesis and f ...
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Al van der Beek -
Music Producer
A record producer is a recording project's creative and technical leader, commanding studio time and coaching artists, and in popular genres typically creates the song's very sound and structure.Virgil Moorefield"Introduction" ''The Producer as ...
/Songwriter/
Guitarist
A guitarist (or a guitar player) is a person who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of guitar family instruments such as classical guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselv ...
/Additional vocals
*Paul Anderson -
Video Producer
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/
Videographer
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Additional musicians
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Peter Hollens
Peter James Hollens (born March 4, 1980) is an American singer/songwriter, producer and entrepreneur. He has been involved with ''a cappella'' music since 1999 when he and Leo da Silva founded the University of Oregon's ''a cappella'' group, On ...
- vocals on "Angels from the Realms of Glory"
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David Archuleta
David James Archuleta (born December 28, 1990) is an American pop singer. At ten years old, he won the children's division of the Utah Talent Competition, leading to other television singing appearances. When he was twelve years old, he becam ...
- vocals on "Angels from the Realms of Glory"
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Mormon Tabernacle Choir
The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square, formerly known as the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, is an American choir, acting as part of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). It has performed in the Salt Lake Tabernacle for ov ...
- vocals on "Angels from the Realms of Glory"
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Evynne Hollens
Evynne Hollens ( Smith) is a female vocalist who lives and works in her native Eugene, Oregon. She was one of the co-founders of the University of Oregon’s female a cappella group, Divisi, with which she sang for five years. Her name is the fir ...
- additional vocals on "Angels from the Realms of Glory"
* Kristiana Sandberg, Kathryn Collier, Kathryn Leavitt, Sarah Crowther -
violin
The violin, sometimes known as a ''fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone (string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in the family in regular ...
on "Angels from the Realms of Glory"
* Candace Wagner, Emily Brown -
viola
The viola ( , also , ) is a string instrument that is bow (music), bowed, plucked, or played with varying techniques. Slightly larger than a violin, it has a lower and deeper sound. Since the 18th century, it has been the middle or alto voice of ...
on "Angels from the Realms of Glory"
* Kelly McConkie Stewart, Sarah Arnesen - additional
cello
The cello ( ; plural ''celli'' or ''cellos'') or violoncello ( ; ) is a Bow (music), bowed (sometimes pizzicato, plucked and occasionally col legno, hit) string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually intonation (music), t ...
on "Angels from the Realms of Glory"
* Ben Henderson - bass on "Angels from the Realms of Glory"
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Giles Reaves Giles Reaves is a multi-instrumentalist sound artist and audio engineer who has composed albums of space music. His most recognized album, ''Sea of Glass'', 1992, peaked at #11 on the Billboard Top New Age Albums chart.
Biography
Reaves got his ...
- percussion on "Angels from the Realms of Glory"
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Lexi Walker - lead vocals on O Holy Night / Ave Maria
* Chuck E. Myers - Additional vocals, additional bells & percussion on "Ode to Joy to the World"
* Kelly Wallis - orchestral percussion on "Ode to Joy to the World"
* Seretta Hart - trumpet on "Ode to Joy to the World"
* Debra Bonner Unity Gospel Choir - additional vocals on "Ode to Joy to the World"
* Wesley Bell Ringers - bells on "Ode to Joy to the World"
* Jake Bowen - additional vocals on "Ode to Joy to the World"
* Debra Bonner, Terry Waite -
conducting
Conducting is the art of directing a musical performance, such as an orchestral or choral concert. It has been defined as "the art of directing the simultaneous performance of several players or singers by the use of gesture." The primary duti ...
on "Ode to Joy to the World"
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The King's Singers
The King's Singers are a British a cappella vocal ensemble founded in 1968. They are named after King's College in Cambridge, England, where the group was formed by six choral scholars. In the United Kingdom, their popularity peaked in the 19 ...
- lead vocals on "O Little One Sweet, BWV 493"
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Plácido Domingo
José Plácido Domingo Embil (born 21 January 1941) is a Spanish opera singer, conductor, and arts administrator. He has recorded over a hundred complete operas and is well known for his versatility, regularly performing in Italian, French, ...
- lead vocals on "Silent Night, Holy Night"
* Craig Aven - lead vocals on "The Sweetest Gift"
Charts
Weekly charts
Year end charts
See also
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List of ''Billboard'' number-one holiday albums of the 2010s
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Christmas Together
2017 classical albums
Sony Music Christmas albums
The Piano Guys albums
2017 Christmas albums
Christmas albums by American artists
Pop Christmas albums
Classical Christmas albums