Live at Carnegie Hall (Renaissance album)

Live at Carnegie Hall
Cover art by Fred Marcellino
Live album by Renaissance
Released	1976
Recorded	June 20–22, 1975 with Record Plant Remote
Venue	Carnegie Hall, New York
Genre	Progressive rock, symphonic rock
Length	104:16
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 British 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^[2]) Scheherazade and Other Stories.

Track listing

All songs by Michael Dunford and Betty Thatcher, except where noted.^[3]

Side A

1. "Prologue" (Dunford) - 7:35
2. "Ocean Gypsy" - 7:55
3. "Can You Understand?" - 10:20

Side B

4. "Carpet of the Sun" - 4:15
5. "Running Hard" - 9:43
6. "Mother Russia" - 10:48

Side C

7. "Song of Scheherazade" - 28:50

   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

8. "Ashes Are Burning" - 23:50

Personnel

Renaissance

• Annie Haslam – lead (all but 7a-d, 7f, 7g) and backing vocals
• Michael Dunford – acoustic guitars, backing vocals
• John Tout – keyboards, backing vocals
• Jon Camp – bass, lead vocals on track 7c, backing vocals
• Terence Sullivan – drums, backing vocals, percussion

Additional musicians

• New York Philharmonic Orchestra and choir with Tony Cox, orchestra conductor

Production

• Carmine Rubino - recording engineer
• Dick Plant - mixing at De Lane Lea Studios, Wembley, UK
• Barry KIdd - mixing assistant

References