Renaissance - Scheherazade And Other Stories 1975) CD Rip

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Artist: Renaissance
Title: Scheherazade And Other Stories
Year Of Release: 2014
Label: Audio Fidelity[ AFZ 183]
Genre: Rock, Progressive Rock
Quality: FLAC (image + .cue,log,scans)
Total Time: 46:12
Total Size: 434 MB(+3%)
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist

01. Trip To The Fair (10:55)
02. The Vultures Fly High (3:10)
03. Ocean Gypsy (7:09)
04. Song Of Scheherazade (24:57)

Renaissance - Scheherazade And Other Stories 1975) CD Rip

personnel :

Annie Haslam – lead and backing vocals
Michael Dunford – acoustic guitars, backing vocals
John Tout – piano, organ, backing vocals
Jon Camp – bass, bass pedals, lead vocals on track 4c, backing vocals
Terence Sullivan – drums, percussion, backing vocals

Additional musicians

Tony Cox : orchestral arrangements
London Symphony Orchestra : orchestrations

This album was the group's magnum opus in the perception of many onlookers and fans, and it still plays well, though its flaws are more evident than they were at the time. The "Song of Scheherazade," really a suite for the group supported by the London Symphony Orchestra and a chorus, started with guitarist-composer Michael Dunford, who had a personal fascination with the medieval literary work Tales of 1,001 Arabian Nights, and was realized by Dunford and his composing partner Betty Thatcher, with bassist Jon Camp and pianist John Tout. The piece, really nine sections assembled together, was one of the more ambitious works to come out of the progressive rock boom -- it fits together nicely and does have some gorgeous passages and many lyrical, powerful sections, although it also seems slightly repetitive, overstaying its welcome somewhat; additionally, it never uses the orchestra quite as effectively as one senses it might have, for anything except embellishment. Less ambitious and more completely successful are "Ocean Gypsy," "The Vultures Fly High," and "Trip to the Fair" on side one, all relatively unpretentious pieces which feature extraordinary singing by Annie Haslam.~Bruce Eder

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