Yanni - Live: The Concert Event

Title: Live: The Concert Event Artist: Yanni Release Date: 8/15/2006 Label: Image Entertainment (Audio) Album Type(s): live UPC: 014381356427 Genre: New Age Styles: Neo-Classical, Adult Alternative, Progressive Electronic, Adult Contemporary, Contemporary Instrumental, Keyboard/Synthesizer/New Age Moods: Ethereal, Laid-Back/Mellow, Light, Refined/Mannered, Reflective, Soothing, Delicate, Happy, Romantic, Calm/Peaceful, Gentle, Passionate, Reserved, Yearning Total Copies: 0 Members Wishing: 3 Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 1

1. Rainmaker
2. Keys to Imagination
3. Enchantment
4. Standing in Motion
5. On Sacred Ground
6. Playtime
7. Until the Last Moment
8. If I Could Tell You
9. For All Seasons
10. The Storm
11. Prelude
12. Nostalgia

Year Type Label Catalog # 2006 CD Image Entertainment (Audio) 3564

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Recorded and filmed for DVD live at the Mandalay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas during Yanni's 2005 world tour, this 65-minute set delivers what you'd expect from a live Yanni album: an eclectic, cinematic fusion of world, new age, and mainstream contemporary pop styles. The 13 songs are, with one exception, drawn from releases dating back to the 1980s ("Keys to the Imagination" having been the title track of his 1986 album) all the way up to the most recent studio effort predating this recording, 2003's Ethnicity (from which three songs are presented). Indeed, a few of these same songs have shown up on previous Yanni concert albums. (The one piece that hadn't shown up on prior Yanni releases, "The Storm," is actually based Antonio Vivaldi's 18th century violin concerto "Summer.") It's well recorded -- on "125 channels of digital audio," according to the back cover -- with a two-dozen-strong cast of supporting musicians in the band and orchestra, plus a couple of vocalists adding the occasional atmospheric singing. The slick drama of both the material and the execution, in fact -- perhaps because of many listeners' associations of Yanni music with the Olympics -- makes you feel as though many of the pieces are introductory fanfares to some spectacular event. For Yanni fans, however, this sort of concert is the spectacular event. ~ Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide

Name Credits Alfreda Gerald Vocals April Cap Oboe, Orchestra Armen Movsessian Violin Charlie Adams Drums, Drums Chris Bellman Mastering Colin O'Malley Transcription, Orchestration, Keyboards, Sound Design Dana Teboe Trombone, Orchestra David Hudson Didjeridu Erika Walczak Orchestra, Violin Eugene Mechtovich Orchestra, Viola Hussain Jiffry Bass Ilona Geller Orchestra, Viola Jeffrey Mark Silverman Orchestration Jim Mattos French Horn, Orchestra Kerry Hughes Orchestra, Trumpet Kristen Autry Violin, Orchestra Michelle Amato Vocals Ming Freeman Keyboards Norman Moore Design, Art Direction Pedro Eustache Duduk, Saxophone, Flute, Reeds Richard Boukas Orchestration Sarah O'Brien Orchestra, Cello Travis Meck Audio Engineer Victor Espinola Harp, Vocals Walter Rodriguez Percussion Yanni Synthesizer, Orchestration, Arranger, Keyboards, Producer, Engineer Zachary Carrenttin Orchestra, Violin