Devotion: Best of Yanni

Yanni | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 29, 2008)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sbme Special Mkts.
• ASIN: B001662F64
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,677 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings

1. Once Upon a Time

2. Within Attraction

3. Song for Antarctica

4. Aria

5. A Love for Life

6. Reflections of Passion

7. To Take... to Hold

8. Only a Memory

9. Flight of Fantasy

10. To the One Who Knows

11. The End of August

12. Marching Season

13. Santorini

14. Nice to Meet You [Special Radio Edit]

15. A Night to Remember

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

For nine of this compilation's 15 tracks, Devotion dips into two of Yanni's quieter recordings, 1992's Dare to Dream and 1993's delicate In My Time. Those selections, intermingled with an assortment of the keyboardist's more dynamic works ("Santorini," the ubiquitous "Within Attraction"), create a generally satisfying survey of Yanni's first seven albums. (Niki Nana and Optimystique are not represented here, which is a plus.) The claim, as stated on the CD's packaging, that this is the best of Yanni is a stretch, but the package does offer a decent overview of his work, with a tilt toward his gentler side. "The End of August" and "Marching Season" are presented as performed in concert at the Acropolis. --Terry Wood

Customer Reviews

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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A lot of duplication here, August 14, 2001

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Neal C. Reynolds (Indianapolis, Indiana) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Devotion: Best of Yanni (Audio CD)

First, as the staff reviewer pointed out, six cuts come from the same album, "Dare To Dream". And then, the later "The Very Best of Yanni", has six cuts that this album has. Mathematically, we're talking about 2/5 of the CD being "Dare To Dream", and 2/5 being "The Very Best of Yanni." Since two of the dupes between the "best" albums come from "Dare To Dream", this means 2/3 of the CD is on one of the two other albums.

Yet, the remaining five do work to give this album a mellower and more classical seeming sound than the "Very Best"..."Within Attrcation" is bombastic with less piano work. The other four are much stronger on the piano and are more dreamy, sensitive and evocative. "Song of Antartica" has some of the ethereal quality that "Aria" has. "Reflections of Passion" is, to me, the deepest and most moving of the five and one of the real standouts of the entire compilation, with truly passionate piano. "To Take...To Hold" is ultimately sensive and evocative, while "Only A Memory" is dreamy.

So what you have here is a compilation which has to have a lot of familiarity to it due to the duplication, and yet has a romantic, passionate voice of its own.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Yeah Yanni, June 1, 2001

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Pumpkin (Brooklyn, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Devotion: Best of Yanni (Audio CD)

I was very impressed by this CD. I have been a Yanni fan ever since I saw "Live at the Acropolis" in 1994. This is real music. Music that you feel in your soul.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome Cd, May 7, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Devotion: Best of Yanni (Audio CD)

This album is one of the best from Yanni. It portrays Yanni so well. It has some of the best songs from. I listen to it all of the time. This is a definate Yanni album you have to have if you are a fan.