Christmas Wishes Idina Menzel

• 1 Do You Hear What I Hear 03:45
• 2 The Christmas Song 03:32
• 3 Baby It's Cold Outside (duet with Michael Bublé) 02:46
• 4 Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas 05:43
• 5 All I Want For Christmas Is You 05:12
• 6 What Are You Doing New Year's Eve? 04:36
• 7 December Prayer 04:50
• 8 When You Wish Upon A Star 03:00
• 9 Silent Night 04:30
• 10 River 04:01
• 11 Holly Jolly Christmas 02:27
• 12 White Christmas 04:12
• Total Runtime 48:34

Info for Christmas Wishes

Holiday Wishes is 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".

„Frozen opened the doors for Holiday Wishes, a seasonal album from Broadway superstar Idina Menzel. Without the 2013 Disney blockbuster, Menzel may have cut a Christmas record, but certainly Frozen's success meant that Holiday Wishes arrived to the biggest potential audience she'd ever have, so it's not a surprise the record plays it safe. Save for the presence of Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You," which is now the closest thing to a new holiday standard, and perhaps the shoehorning of "When You Wish Upon a Star" into the Christmas theme, there are no surprises here, not in the choice of songs, not in the old-fashioned arrangements, not even in the choice of Michael Bublé as the duet partner for a de rigueur "Baby It's Cold Outside." Unsurprising though it may be, Holiday Wishes nevertheless is satisfying because producer Walter Afanasieff commits to his Christmas classicism, as does Menzel. Everything here sparkles with the gleam of freshly fallen snow: it's big, bright, and so stubbornly out of fashion that it'd never go out of style.“ (Stephen Thomas Erlewine, AMG)

Idina Menzel, vocals
Michael Bublé, vocal (duet)
Walter Afanasieff, keyboards
Randy Waldman, piano
Dennis Budimir, guitar
Paul Jackson Jr., guitar
Kenny G, saxophone
Kent Smith, trumpet
Nathan East, bass
Vinnie Colaiuta, drums
Missi Hale, background vocals
Luke Edgemon, background vocals
Monét Owens, background vocals

Engineered by Tyler Gordon, David Reitzas, Adrian Bradford
Produced by Walter Afanasieff, Rob Mounsey

Idina Menzel
Tony Award-winning singer/actor Idina Menzel has announced her forthcoming album idina., which will be released September 23 on Warner Bros. Records. The record – announced last night directly to fans via a Facebook Live performance – will mark Menzel’s first original studio album since 2008’s I Stand and its first single “I See You” is available everywhere now. The album, produced by Eric Rosse (Tori Amos, Sara Bareilles) and Greg Wells (Katy Perry, OneRepublic), is now available for pre-order at idinamenzel.com.

Idina. is Menzel’s first album since her October 2014 release of Holiday Wishes, a Christmas album produced by Grammy Award-winner Walter Afanasieff (Barbra Streisand, Celine Dion, Mariah Carey). The album was met with rave reviews, debuted at #1 on Billboard’s Holiday Albums chart and gave Menzel a Top 10 album on the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart.

Menzel’s career has traversed music, stage, film, and television. With her breakthrough role as Elsa in Disney’s global box office smash Frozen, and singing the multi-platinum Oscar-winning song “Let It Go”, she made history as the first person with both a Billboard Top 10 hit and a Tony Award for acting. Menzel went on to sing the National Anthem at Super Bowl XLIX, the most watched television show in U.S. history, before launching a global concert tour.

Menzel earned her first Tony Award nomination as Maureen in the Pulitzer Prize winning musical Rent, won the Tony Award for her performance as Elphaba in Wicked, and received her third nomination as Elizabeth in If/Then. Other notable roles include Rachel Berry’s mother, Shelby Corcoran, on the hit television show Glee as well as starring opposite Susan Sarandon and Amy Adams in Disney’s Enchanted. Menzel starred in her own PBS special, Barefoot at the Symphony, with an accompanying live album of the same name. In addition to cast albums, Menzel’s prolific recording career includes the solo albums I Stand, Here and Still I Can’t Be Still.

This album contains no booklet.