Live at Carnegie Hall (Renaissance album)

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Live at Carnegie Hall
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Cover art by Fred Marcellino
Live album by
ReleasedJune 1976 (US) [1]
RecordedJune 20–22, 1975 with Record Plant Remote
Venue Carnegie Hall, New York City, New York
Genre Progressive rock
Length103:16
Label BTM (UK)
Sire (North America)
RCA (Europe and Japan)
Producer Renaissance
Renaissance chronology
Scheherazade and Other Stories
(1975)
Live at Carnegie Hall
(1976)
Novella
(1977)
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Live at Carnegie Hall is a 1976 live double album by the English progressive rock band Renaissance. It presented songs from all of the band's Annie Haslam-era studio albums thus far, including the forthcoming (at the time of the concerts [3] ) Scheherazade and Other Stories .

Contents

Expanded 2019 edition

In 2019 Esoteric Recordings announced a re-mastered and 3 CD expanded edition of the album which was released on 31 May 2019. [4]

Track listing

All songs by Michael Dunford and Betty Thatcher, except where noted. [5]

Side A
  1. "Prologue" (Dunford [nb 1] ) - 7:35
  2. "Ocean Gypsy" - 7:48
  3. "Can You Understand?" - 10:41
Side B
  1. "Carpet of the Sun" - 4:15
  2. "Running Hard" - 9:43
  3. "Mother Russia" - 10:48
Side C
  1. "Song of Scheherazade" - 28:50 [nb 2]
    a. "Fanfare" (John Tout)
    b. "The Betrayal" (Jon Camp, Tout, Dunford)
    c. "The Sultan"
    d. "Love Theme" (Camp)
    e. "The Young Prince and Princess as told by Scheherazade"
    f. "Festival Preparations" (Camp, Tout, Dunford)
    g. "Fugue for the Sultan" (Tout)
    h. "The Festival"
    i. "Finale" (Camp, Tout, Dunford)
Side D
  1. "Ashes Are Burning" - 23:50

Expanded edition

CD 1 - 2019 re-mastered & expanded edition
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Prologue"Michael Dunford7:35
2."Ocean Gypsy"Dunford, Betty Thatcher7:55
3."Kiev" (Previously unreleased - as "Snow Fell in Kiev")McCarty, Thatcher8:09
4."Can You Understand?"Dunford, Thatcher10:20
5."Carpet of the Sun"Dunford, Thatcher4:15
6."Running Hard"Dunford, Thatcher9:43
7."Mother Russia"Dunford, Thatcher10:48
CD 2 - 2019 re-mastered & expanded edition
No.TitleLength
1."Song of Scheherazade"
a. "Fanfare" (John Tout)
b. "The Betrayal" (Jon Camp, Tout, Dunford)
c. "The Sultan" (Dunford, Thatcher)
d. "Love Theme" (Camp)
e. "The Young Prince and Princess as told by Scheherazade" (Dunford, Thatcher)
f. "Festival Preparations" (Camp, Tout, Dunford)
g. "Fugue for the Sultan" (Tout)
h. "The Festival" (Dunford, Thatcher)
i. "Finale" (Camp, Tout, Dunford)"
28:50
2."Ashes Are Burning"23:50
CD 3 - 2019 re-mastered & expanded edition - BBC Radio One "In Concert" - 25 March 1976
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Prologue" (BBC Radio One "In Concert" - 25 March 1976)Michael Dunford8:02
2."Running Hard" (BBC Radio One "In Concert" - 25 March 1976)Dunford, Thatcher10:13
3."Ocean Gypsy" (BBC Radio One "In Concert" - 25 March 1976)Dunford, Betty Thatcher5:46
4."Mother Russia" (BBC Radio One "In Concert" - 25 March 1976)Dunford, Thatcher10:25
5."Song of Scheherazade"
a. "Fanfare" (John Tout)
b. "The Betrayal" (Jon Camp, Tout, Dunford)
c. "The Sultan" (Dunford, Thatcher)
d. "Love Theme" (Camp)
e. "The Young Prince and Princess as told by Scheherazade" (Dunford, Thatcher)
f. "Festival Preparations" (Camp, Tout, Dunford)
g. "Fugue for the Sultan" (Tout)
h. "The Festival" (Dunford, Thatcher)
i. "Finale" (Camp, Tout, Dunford)" (BBC Radio One "In Concert" - 25 March 1976)
 25:30

Personnel

Renaissance

Additional musicians

Production

Notes

  1. The original LP and CD releases mistakenly credit this track to Dunford-Thatcher.
  2. This album does not list the parts of the suite or their individual writers, but simply credits the track to Camp-Dunford-Thatcher-Tout.

References

  1. Strong, Martin Charles (1995). The Great Rock Discography. Canongate Press. p. 684. ISBN   9780862415419.
  2. Eder, Bruce. "Live at Carnegie Hall - Renaissance | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 6 July 2011.
  3. According to Jon Camp's introductions to the Scheherazade songs
  4. "Esoteric New Releases" . Retrieved 3 June 2019.
  5. Live at Carnegie Hall (LP album notes). Renaissance. Sire Records. ASIN   B0079Q1M50.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)