Live at the Acropolis

Yanni

Genre: music4me > Easy Listening > Classical

Format: CD Album

Released: Tue 6 Dec 1994

Catalogue Number: 01005821222

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Description:
Recorded live at the Herod Atticus Theatre, Athens, Greece on September 25, 1993. 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.

Details:

Distributors: Arvato Services, Sony Music
Producer: Yanni,
Sound Engineers: Andy Rose, Yanni,
Discs: 1
Release Year: 2000
Running Time: 68 minutes

Track Listing:

1.	Santorini
2.	Keys to Imagination
3.	Until the Last Moment
4.	The Rain Must Fall
5.	Acroyali
6.	Standing in Motion
7.	One Man's Dream
8.	Within Attraction
9.	Nostalgia
10.	Swept Away
11.	Reflections of Passion
12.	Aria