Yanni Live! The Concert Event

Yanni Live! The Concert Event
Live album & Concert film by Yanni
Released	August 15, 2006
Genre	Instrumental New age
Length	65:25
Label	Image Entertainment
Producer	Yanni
Yanni chronology
The Collection (2006) Yanni Live! The Concert Event (2006) Super Hits (2007)
DVD Cover
Yanni Live! DVD cover

Yanni Live! The Concert Event is the third live album by Yanni. It was recorded live at the Mandalay Bay Events Center, Las Vegas on November 6, 2004, and released in August 2006 as a CD and concert film on DVD. The album peaked at No. 1 on Billboard's "Top New Age Albums" chart; No. 6 on the "Top Independent Albums" chart; No. 84 on the "Billboard 200" chart; and at No. 84 on the "Top Internet Albums" chart, during the same year.^[1]

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]

In a review by Richie Unterberger of AllMusic, "Recorded and filmed for DVD live at the Mandalay Bay 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)."^[3]

Track listing – Album

1. "Rainmaker" – 5:20
2. "Keys to Imagination" – 5:22
3. "Enchantment" – 4:06
4. "Standing in Motion" – 1:38
5. "On Sacred Ground" – (McNeill, Yanni) – 7:56
6. "Playtime" – 7:08
7. "Until the Last Moment" – 6:36
8. "If I Could Tell You" – 4:19
9. "For All Seasons" – 8:14
10. "The Storm" – 5:07 (based on Antonio Vivaldi's 18th century violin concerto "Summer" from The Four Seasons)
11. "Prelude" – 5:21
12. "Nostalgia" – 4:31

Track listing – Video

1. "Standing in Motion"
2. "Rainmaker"
3. "Keys to Imagination"
4. "Enchantment"
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"
13. "World Dance"

Personnel

• Yanni (Greece) – Piano, Keyboards

Band

• Charlie Adams (USA) – drums
• Victor Espinola (Paraguay) – harp, vocals
• Pedro Eustache (Venezuela) – flute, saxophone, duduk, whistle, bansuri
• Ramon Flores (Mexico) – trumpet
• Ming Freeman (Taiwan) – keyboards
• David Hudson (Australia) – didgeridoo
• Hussain Jiffry (Sri Lanka) – bass guitar
• Sayaka Katsuki (Japan) – violin
• Dan Landrum (USA) – hammered dulcimer
• Armen Movsessian (Armenia) – violin
• Walter Rodriguez (Puerto Rico) – percussion
• Samvel Yervinyan (Armenia) – violin

Vocalists

• Alfreda Gerald (USA)
• Michelle Amato (USA)

Orchestra

• Kristen Autry (USA) – violin
• April Cap (USA) – oboe
• Zachary Carrettin (USA) – violin
• Ilona Geller (Ukraine) – viola
• Kerry Hughes (USA) – trumpet
• Jim Mattos (USA) – French horn
• Eugene Mechtovich (USA) – viola
• Kristin Morrison (USA) – French horn
• Sarah O'Brien (England) – cello
• Dana Teboe (USA) – trombone
• Erika Walczak (USA) – violin
• Alexander Zhiroff (Russia) – cello

"Yanni Live!" tour dates

Production

• Executive producer: Yanni
• Directed by Jerry McReynolds & George Veras.
• Remote and Mobile Production Facilities PMTV

References

External links

• Official Website
• Yanni Live! The Concert Event at AllMusic
• Yanni Live! The Concert Event at AllMovie
• Yanni Live! The Concert Event at IMDb

This page was last edited on 30 March 2021, at 10:14