Live at Carnegie Hall (Renaissance album)

Live at Carnegie Hall
Cover art by Fred Marcellino
Live album by Renaissance
Released	June 1976 (US)[1]
Recorded	June 20–22, 1975 with Record Plant Remote
Venue	Carnegie Hall, New York City, New York
Genre	Progressive rock
Length	103:16
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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AllMusic	[2]

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.

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

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[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

8. "Ashes Are Burning" - 23:50

Expanded edition

CD 1 - 2019 re-mastered & expanded edition

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Prologue"	Michael Dunford	7:35
2.	"Ocean Gypsy"	Dunford, Betty Thatcher	7:55
3.	"Kiev" (Previously unreleased on CD - announced as "Snow Fell in Kiev")	McCarty, Thatcher	8:09
4.	"Can You Understand?"	Dunford, Thatcher	10:20
5.	"Carpet of the Sun"	Dunford, Thatcher	4:15
6.	"Running Hard"	Dunford, Thatcher	9:43
7.	"Mother Russia"	Dunford, Thatcher	10:48

CD 2 - 2019 re-mastered & expanded edition

No.	Title	Length
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.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Prologue" (BBC Radio One "In Concert" - 25 March 1976)	Michael Dunford	8:02
2.	"Running Hard" (BBC Radio One "In Concert" - 25 March 1976)	Dunford, Thatcher	10:13
3.	"Ocean Gypsy" (BBC Radio One "In Concert" - 25 March 1976)	Dunford, Betty Thatcher	5:46
4.	"Mother Russia" (BBC Radio One "In Concert" - 25 March 1976)	Dunford, Thatcher	10:25
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

• Annie Haslam – lead and backing vocals
• Michael Dunford – acoustic guitars, electric guitar, backing vocals
• John Tout – keyboards, backing vocals
• Jon Camp – bass, lead vocals on "The Sultan" and "Kiev", backing vocals
• Terence Sullivan – drums, backing vocals, percussion

Additional musicians

• New York Philharmonic 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

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. 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.