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Yanni: Yanni live at the Acropolis

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Label: BMG Records
Released: 1994
Time:
 73:15
Category: Symphonic-Rock
Producer(s): Yanni
Rating: *********. (9/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.yanni.com
Appears with:
Purchase date: 1998.08.12
Price in €: 10,99



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[1] Santorini (Yanni) - 6:57
[2] Keys to Imagination (Yanni) - 7:35
[3] Until the Last Moment (Yanni) - 6:37
[4] Rain Must Fall (Yanni) - 7:24
[5] Acroyali/Standing in Motion (Yanni) - 8:51
[6] One Man's Dream (Yanni) - 3:36
[7] Within Attraction (Yanni) - 7:46
[8] Nostalgia (Yanni) - 5:46
[9] Swept Away (Yanni) - 9:22
[10] Reflections of Passion (Yanni) - 5:22

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Yanni - Piano, Keyboards, Engineer, Mixing

Shardad Rohani - Violin, Conductor, Orchestration, Transcription, Arrangement Preparation
The Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra - Orchestra

Karen Briggs - Violin
Charlie Adams - Drums
Michael "Kalani" Bruno - Percussion
Rick Fierabracci - Bass
Julie Homi - Keyboards
Bradley Joseph - Keyboards
Richard Boukas - Transcription, Arrangement Preparation

Chris Bellman - Mastering
Andy Rose - Engineer
Lynn Goldsmith - Photography
Norman Moore - Art Direction, Design

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Released 03/01/94.

Recorded live at the Herod Atticus Theatre, Athens, Greece on September 25, 1993.All music written by Yanni.Yanni has enjoyed sensational success over the past several years with his lush, densely layered, new age orchestrations. But the Greek keyboardist/composer's overtly romantic musings achieve a bold new dimension when augmented by a full symphony orchestra, and some of the more rhythmic elements in his music, previously masked under a wall of synthesizers, come to the fore - and the resulting music is much closer to progressive rock (and his own native roots) than new age.Thus we have distinctly Greek rhythmic cycles (in seven) keying the variations on the opening "Santorini" and "Keys To The Imagination," richly colored by percussion fanfares and instrumental breaks - demonstrating that the breadth of Yanni's music and his interest in popular forms is greater than many of his diehard fans have grown to expect. And on an arrangement like "The Rain Must Fall," Yanni frames his boleroesque piano shadings against a mysterious backbeat and fretless bass, which soon develops into - of all things - an R&B-styled slap bass groove.But those fans drawn to the purely lyric side of Yanni's art won't be disappointed by the composer's programming on YANNI LIVE AT THE ACROPOLIS. Such keyboard-inflected fantasias as "Reflections Of Passion," "One Man's Dream" and "Until The Last Moment" illustrate Yanni's sentimental yearnings, while the Oriental flourishes of "Swept Away" demonstrate why he's achieved such an immense following among adult contemporary listeners.



Live at the Acropolis is Yanni at his broadest, fullest sound ever. This much-awaited live album is a collection of his now-classic compositions that have redefined the traditional symphony experience. The collection includes "Santorini," "Keys to the Imagination," and "Reflections of Passion." Yanni's own passionate sound is counterpoint to the refined fullness of The Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra. This is a recording of his first homeland concert. All the energy and all the passion of a live concert are here.

MusD - All Music Guide (Best of Genre)



Yanni can be likened to 1970s rock group Emerson, Lake and Palmer. There are several basic parallels, especially in this orchestra-enhanced concert reworking of his more propulsive, anthemic compositions. Yanni, who in concert sometimes strikes the rapturous two-keyboard "iron-cross" pose that served as one of Keith Emerson's trademarks, uses, as ELP did, classical and world-music influences to elevate pop-inclined compositions to more sophisticated levels. He then turbocharges the whole concoction with bold strokes of prog-rock bravura to give his finest pieces a dramatic, chest-swelling, larger-than-life impact. A key difference between the two acts, of course, is Yanni possesses a much stronger romantic streak, plus he refrains from attacking his keyboards with sharp objects. At his best, Yanni strikes incendiary sparks with the driving, celebratory quality of his music, and this production, culling some of the best audio moments from his much-televised 1993 concert performance in Athens, is a most appealing showcase. Yanni can sometimes strike the sonic hammer as forcefully as a Greek god ("Santorini," "Keys to Imagination") and, on this album at least, gives even overtly romantic pieces ("One Man's Dream," "Swept Away") a warmly masculine flair. Beautifully arranged and recorded; a pleasure to experience.

Terry Wood - Amazon.com
 

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