Home for the Holidays (Mormon Tabernacle Choir album)

Home for the Holidays feat. Alfie Boe
Live album by Mormon Tabernacle Choir featuring Alfie Boe
Released October 15, 2013 (2013-10-15)
Recorded 2012
Genre Christmas
Length 59:49
Label Mormon Tabernacle Choir
Producer Mack Wilberg, Ryan T. Murphy, Bruce Leek, Fred Vogler
Mormon Tabernacle Choir featuring Alfie Boe chronology
Once Upon a Christmas
(2012)		 Home for the Holidays
(2013)		 Let The Season In
(2014)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Salt Lake Tribune[1](very favorable)

Home for the Holidays was recorded during the Mormon Tabernacle Choir's 2012 Christmas shows in the LDS Conference Center, with special guests English tenor Alfie Boe, former NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw, and Retired Col. Gail Halvorsen aka "Candy Bomber".[2] An album and concert DVD were released on October 15, 2013 along with a companion book titled Christmas from Heaven: The Story of the Berlin Candy Bomber.[3][4][5] The recorded concert will be broadcast on PBS premiering December 10, 2013.[6] The Salt Lake Tribune said concerning this performance that "this year's edition may have topped them all."[7]

Track listing

CD
No. TitlePerformer(s) Length
1. "Jingle Bells"  Choir, Orchestra, and Bells 2:55
2. "Sing Noel! A Christmas Processional"  Choir, Orchestra, and Bells 4:38
3. "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing"  Alfie Boe with Choir and Orchestra 5:13
4. "I Wonder as I Wander"  Alfie Boe with Orchestra 5:14
5. "From Heaven on High, from Weihnachtslied"  Choir and Orchestra 4:48
6. "God Bless the Master of this House, from Folk Songs of the Four Seasons"  Choir and Orchestra 4:22
7. "Christmas at Home: (There's No Place Like) Home for the Holidays, I'll Be Home for Christmas, Somewhere in My Memory, from Home Alone"  Alfie Boe with Choir and Orchestra 7:10
8. "Bring Him Home, from Les Miserables"  Alfie Boe with Orchestra 5:02
9. "A Christmas Waltz Fantasy: The Christmas Waltz; Silver Bells; Sleep Well, Little Children"  Choir and Orchestra 7:45
10. "Sleigh Ride (organ performance)"  Richard Elliott 3:24
11. "What Shall We Give?"  Choir and Orchestra 4:40
12. "Angels From the Realms of Glory"  Alfie Boe with Choir and Orchestra 4:38
Total length:
 59:49

The DVD and Blu-ray disc version also include tracks of a reading of Luke 2 by Tom Brokaw (2:24 in length) and Christmas From Heaven by Brokaw and Halvorsen (13:22 in length).

Charts

Chart (2013) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Holiday[8] 42
U.S. Billboard Classical 14
U.S. Billboard Christian[9] 25

Year-end charts

Chart (2014) Position
US Billboard Classical[10] 26

References

  1. ↑ "Review: Mormon Tabernacle Choir celebrates the gifts of Christmas". sltrib.com. 2012-12-14. Retrieved 2013-10-02.
  2. ↑ http://www.mormontabernaclechoir.org/articles/choir-to-release-home-for-the-holidays-october-15?lang=eng
  3. ↑ "Christmas From Heaven: The True Story of the Berlin Candy Bomber". Shadow Mountain Publishing. Retrieved 2013-10-09.
  4. ↑ "Deseret Book Home for the Holidays CD by Mormon Tabernacle Choir". Deseretbook.com. Retrieved 2013-09-28.
  5. ↑ "Home for the Holidays Featuring Alfie Boe: Music". Amazon.com. Retrieved 2013-09-28.
  6. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zjY-PXxIFk
  7. ↑ "Review: Mormon Tabernacle Choir celebrates the gifts of Christmas". sltrib.com. 2012-12-14. Retrieved 2013-10-02.
  8. ↑ http://www.allmusic.com/album/home-for-the-holidays-mw0002571134/awards
  9. ↑ http://www.allmusic.com/album/home-for-the-holidays-mw0002571134/awards
  10. ↑ "2014 Year End Charts - Top Classical Albums". Billboard. Retrieved December 9, 2014.
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