The Collection | ||||
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Box set by Yanni | ||||
Released | June 13, 2006 | |||
Genre | Instrumental | |||
Length | 155:43 | |||
Label | Private Music | |||
Producer | Yanni | |||
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The Collection is a three disc box set by Yanni, released on the Private Music label in 2006. The set contains three of Yanni's original album's on three discs. The albums included are In Celebration of Life , Dare to Dream , and In My Time .
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Private Music was an American independent record label founded in 1984 by musician Peter Baumann as a "home for instrumental music". Baumann signed Ravi Shankar, Yanni, Suzanne Ciani, Andy Summers, Patrick O'Hearn, Leo Kottke, and his former bandmates, Tangerine Dream. The label specialized in New age music but made a sharp turn to the mainstream by signing Taj Mahal, Ringo Starr, Etta James, and A. J. Croce. Its albums were distributed by BMG, which bought Private Music in 1996.
In Celebration of Life is the seventh studio album by Yanni, released on the Private Music label in 1991. The album peaked at #3 on Billboard's "Top New Age Albums" chart and at #60 on the "Billboard 200" in the same year.
Disc 1: In Celebration of Life (1991)
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Santorini" | 4:34 |
2. | "Song for Antarctica" | 4:23 |
3. | "Marching Season" | 5:34 |
4. | "Walkabout" | 4:32 |
5. | "Keys to Imagination" | 5:13 |
6. | "Looking Glass" | 6:35 |
7. | "Someday" | 4:34 |
8. | "Within Attraction" | 4:12 |
9. | "Standing in Motion" | 5:20 |
10. | "Sand Dance" | 5:10 |
Disc 2: Dare to Dream (1992)
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Once Upon a Time" | 3:51 |
2. | "A Love for Life" | 5:07 |
3. | "Nice to Meet You" | 5:35 |
4. | "So Long My Friend" | 3:47 |
5. | "You Only Live Once" | 7:19 |
6. | "To the One Who Knows" | 5:37 |
7. | "Face in the Photograph" | 3:47 |
8. | "Felitsa" | 4:45 |
9. | "Desire" | 5:00 |
10. | "Aria" (based on the 19th century French opera, Lakmé, by Léo Delibes.) | 3:58 |
11. | "A Night to Remember" | 5:47 |
12. | "In the Mirror" | 4:07 |
Disc 3: In My Time (1993)
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "In the Morning Light" | 3:49 |
2. | "One Man's Dream" | 2:43 |
3. | "Before I Go" | 4:30 |
4. | "Enchantment" | 3:51 |
5. | "The End of August" | 4:51 |
6. | "To Take... To Hold" | 4:01 |
7. | "In the Mirror" | 4:04 |
8. | "Felitsa" | 4:51 |
9. | "Whispers in the Dark" | 5:24 |
10. | "Only a Memory" | 4:15 |
11. | "Until the Last Moment" | 6:22 |
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