Dare to Dream Yanni

BUY THIS ITEM

  • $7.99 Online price
    $7.19 Member price
    Join Now
    • skip to cart
  • Add To List uiAction=GetAllLists&page=List&pageType=list&ean=886972664620&productCode=MU&maxCount=100&threshold=3

GET FREE SHIPPING ON ORDERS OF $25 OR MORE

DELIVERY & GIFT DETAILS:

Usually ships within 24 hours

Delivery Time and Shipping Rates

Eligible for gift wrap & gift message.

CD

  • Release Date: 04/29/2008
  • Original Release: 1992
  • Sales Rank: 10,602
  • Label: SBME SPECIAL MKTS.
  • UPC: 886972664620

Listener Rating: (3 ratings)

Detailed Rating: "Stimulating" See All

 
  • Overview
  • Tracks
  • Editorial Reviews
  • Customer Reviews
  • Details & Credits
Track List
Click on LISTEN or link to hear an audio clip.
To listen to samples you'll need a Windows Media Player

Dare to Dream

1LISTENOnce Upon a Time 3:53
2LISTENA Love for Life 5:10
3LISTENNice to Meet You 5:38
4LISTENSo Long My Friend 3:50
5LISTENYou Only Live Once 7:22
6LISTENTo the One Who Knows 5:39
7LISTENFace in the Photograph 3:49
8LISTENFelitsa 4:47
9LISTENDesire 5:02
10LISTENAria 4:00
11LISTENA Night to Remember 5:48
12LISTENIn the Mirror 4:08

About this Artist

Editorial Reviews

Dare to Dream is Yanni's first new material in three years and finds the new age composer fitting his unflinchingly romantic arrangements into tighter song structures. The surging synth backgrounds, insistent piano lines, and general grandiosity that mark Yanni's sound are still intact. But tracks like "Love for Life" or "Nice to Meet You" harness that famously epic energy in smaller stables. This tactic works especially well on the latter track, which is led by the wail of an electric fiddle. Elsewhere, Yanni plucks the heartstrings with "In the Mirror" and "So Long My Friend" -- two weepy ballads that cascade like sheets of rain on a lonely city street. The seven-minute "You Only Live Once" becomes the only really epic piece on Dare to Dream, and it's pleasant enough. However, it illustrates the main drawback to Dream, which is Yanni's reliance on the shifting sands of synthesizers to do his bidding. As his rousing 1990 live collaboration with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra proved, live instruments only accentuate the humanity of Yanni's music instead of deadening it like his fleets of keyboards have a tendency to do. This is a minor issue, though. Since artificial instrumentation has always been part of Yanni's highly successful sound, fans of the composer likely won't be put off by their prominence here. Johnny Loftus, All Music Guide

Customer Reviews

Excellent CDby Anonymous

Reader Rating:
See Detailed Ratings

May 03, 2009: This was the first Yanni CD I purchased years ago. I had lost it and was very happy to find that it was still available. Anyone who enjoys New Age music will most definitely enjoy this CD.

Quality Musicby NanTX

Reader Rating:
See Detailed Ratings

May 02, 2009: Yanni's music is always dreamy and relaxing. Some of his songs on this album have been used in other CD's-"Once Upon A Time", but are his best. I never get tired of listening to the changing rhythm's. His latest CD-Voices-is beautiful along with his new image.

I Also Recommend: Reflections of Passion, Voices, Live at Red Rocks, Live at the Acropolis [CD & DVD].


More Customer Reviews