[1][2] The album features holiday favorites, plus a duet with Andy Williams on his signature Christmas classic "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" and an original song "Only Always" written by Troccoli and Jeff Franzel.

A Sentimental Christmas debuted and peaked at number 40 on the Billboard Heatseekers Albums chart.

Steve Huey of AllMusic says A Sentimental Christmas "plays it pretty safe, even as Christmas albums go — there's one new composition, 'Only Always,' but the other 11 selections (one a medley) are time-tested holiday standards performed with big-band arrangements.

It's all very traditional, evoking images of warm fires and family gatherings, and that's exactly the kind of Christmas record most people will want."

Tony Cummings of Cross Rhythms has called the album a "classy set" and that Troccoli has added "jazz phrasing to her impressive vocal armoury and with her Sarah Vaughn-style interpretations of a set of Christmas standards and jazz accompaniments classily produced by Larry Day and Troccoli, this is definitely one for the sophisticates among us."