Review Yanni - Tribute [VHS]

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Captivating. From the moment this concert begins, you are transported by Yanni's music. Not only that, but the performers themselves are a marvel to watch. How can so much talent fit onto one stage? The Taj Mahal, gleams in the background, as well as scenes from China, "the forbidden city". There are many instruments introduced that I've never even seen or heard before. Completely captivating. The music stayed with me for days.

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Yanni - Tribute [VHS] Overview

Exotic locales and famous monuments! Adagios and waltzes! Spectacle and bombast! A didgeridoo and an orchestra too! Yanni's amazing hair!! All this and much more make Tribute a feast sure to be eagerly devoured by the Greek composer-keyboardist's legions of fans--and it's not hard to understand why, as it is an impressive achievement. The DVD chronicles Yanni's 1997 concerts at India's Taj Mahal (the first concert staged there) and Beijing's Forbidden City (the first-ever performance there by a Western artist), and these splendid settings are certainly shown to good effect throughout this well-directed, great-sounding program. As for the music, well, that's all a matter of taste; what might be schlocky to one person will be beautiful and majestic to another. But regardless of one's musical leanings, no one can dispute that the 90-minute concert, combining numbers from both locations, provides a healthy and representative dose of Yanni's New Age-cum-classical-cum-world music sounds, and they are well played by the international cast of nearly 50 musicians and singers (violinist Karen Briggs and guitarist Pedro Eustache acquit themselves especially well among the soloists).

And that's not all, as the DVD is loaded with bonus features. Principal among them is "No Borders, No Boundaries," a beautifully photographed, hourlong film narrated by actor Christopher Plummer; part documentary and part travelogue, it contains musician profiles, Yanni biographical material, some Indian and Chinese history, and information about how the concerts came about. Other features include a lengthy Yanni interview and discography, as well as audio options. In the end, Yanni detractors are unlikely to be converted, but then, they can always put on their Limp Bizkit CDs instead. --Sam Graham

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Customer Reviews

Yanni Tribute - M. Hawkins - South Carolina USA
This is a great DVD if you like Yanni music. It is one of my favorites and I watch it over and over.



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Bad combination that doesn't deliver - Casual Bookworm - USA
As many previous reviewers said, this DVD is made from live performance in India's Taj Mahal and China's Forbidden City. Very bad combination. India and China just don't mix, in the sense of culture. It's that simple. Why this is the matter or why does this matter? Because this is a DVD and much is about "visual" stuff. The settings of the live performance and the editing of the DVD tried to put much ethnic or cultural elements related to the two nations. That's understandable. Landmarks like Taj Mahal and Forbbiden City mean and convey something. Unfortunately, mixing Taj Mahal and Forbidden City, with one scene of Indian people clapping their hands and the next scene of the Great Wall silhouette, causes me impulses of vomiting. For most of the people, though, India and China are just two foreign countries, "alienish" and exotic; not much difference. Both are Asian countries and oriental in sense of culture. The fact is, the cultural gap or difference of these two nations is HUGE, GIGANTIC, or whatever you'd call it, especially in the meanings conveyed through the symbolic Taj Mal and Forbbiden City. For a native from one of the nations like me, kneading Chinese and Indian together just does not work. Pair a superb wine with superb food, instead of having yet another wine (whether it's superb or not) to compete with it. Same thing for music.

In term of audio effect, I suppose it's just good.

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