''Yanni Live! The Concert Event'' is the third live album by

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. It was recorded live at the

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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.

Critical reception

In a review by Richie Unterberger of

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, "Recorded and filmed for

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live at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in

during

'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 ''

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'' (from which three songs are presented)."

Track listing – Album

#"Rainmaker" – 5:20 #"Keys to Imagination" – 5:22 #"Enchantment" – 4:06 #"Standing in Motion" – 1:38 #"On Sacred Ground" – (McNeill, Yanni) – 7:56 #"Playtime" – 7:08 #"Until the Last Moment" – 6:36 #"If I Could Tell You" – 4:19 #"For All Seasons" – 8:14 #"The Storm" – 5:07 (based on

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's 18th century violin concerto "Summer" from '' The Four Seasons'') #"Prelude" – 5:21 #"Nostalgia" – 4:31

Track listing – Video

#"Standing in Motion" #"Rainmaker" #"Keys to Imagination" #"Enchantment" #"On Sacred Ground" #"Playtime" #"Until the Last Moment" #"If I Could Tell You" #"For All Seasons" #"The Storm" #"Prelude" #"Nostalgia" #"World Dance"

Personnel

(Greece) – Piano, Keyboards Band * Charlie Adams (USA) – drums * Victor Espinola (Paraguay) –

harp The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has individual strings running at an angle to its soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers. Harps can be made and played in various ways, standing or sitting, and in orchestras or ...

, vocals * Pedro Eustache (Venezuela) –

flute The flute is a member of a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, producing sound with a vibrating column of air. Flutes produce sound when the player's air flows across an opening. In th ...

saxophone The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass. As with all single-reed instruments, sound is produced when a reed on a mouthpiece vibrates to p ...

duduk The duduk ( ; ) or tsiranapogh (, meaning "apricot-made wind instrument"), is a double reed woodwind instrument made of apricot wood originating from Armenia. Variations of the Armenian duduk appear throughout the Caucasus, the Balkans, and the ...

, whistle,

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* Ramon Flores (Mexico) – trumpet * Ming Freeman (Taiwan) – keyboards * David Hudson (Australia) –

didgeridoo The didgeridoo (;()), also spelt didjeridu, among other variants, is a wind instrument, played with vibrating lips to produce a continuous Drone (music), drone while using a special breathing technique called circular breathing. The didgerido ...

* Hussain Jiffry (Sri Lanka) – bass guitar * Sayaka Katsuki (Japan) – violin * Dan Landrum (USA) –

hammered dulcimer The hammered dulcimer (also called the hammer dulcimer) is a percussion-string instrument which consists of String (music), strings typically stretched over a trapezoidal resonant sound board (music), sound board. The hammered dulcimer is set bef ...

* Armen Movsessian (Armenia) – violin * Walter Rodriguez (Puerto Rico) – percussion *

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(Armenia) – violin Vocalists * Alfreda Gerald (USA) * Michelle Amato (USA) Orchestra * Kristen Autry (USA) – violin * April Cap (USA) –

oboe The oboe ( ) is a type of double-reed woodwind instrument. Oboes are usually made of wood, but may also be made of synthetic materials, such as plastic, resin, or hybrid composites. The most common type of oboe, the soprano oboe pitched in C, ...

* Zachary Carrettin (USA) – violin * Ilona Geller (Ukraine) –

viola The viola ( , () ) is a string instrument of the violin family, and is usually bowed when played. Violas are slightly larger than violins, and have a lower and deeper sound. Since the 18th century, it has been the middle or alto voice of the ...

* Kerry Hughes (USA) – trumpet *Jim Mattos (USA) –

French horn The French horn (since the 1930s known simply as the horn in professional music circles) is a brass instrument made of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell. The double horn in F/B (technically a variety of German horn) is the horn most o ...

* Eugene Mechtovich (USA) – viola * Kristin Morrison (USA) – French horn * Sarah O'Brien (England) – cello * Dana Teboe (USA) –

trombone The trombone (, Italian, French: ''trombone'') is a musical instrument in the Brass instrument, brass family. As with all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player's lips vibrate inside a mouthpiece, causing the Standing wave, air c ...

* Erika Walczak (USA) – violin *

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(Russia) – cello

"Yanni Live!" tour dates

Production

*Executive producer:

*Directed by Jerry McReynolds & George Veras. *Remote and Mobile Production Facilities PMTV

References

External links

Official Website
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''Yanni Live! The Concert Event''
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