This has to be one of the most beautiful songs EVER written or performed. What a VOICE! What BEAUTIFUL words! What INCREDIBLE music! As the earlier post said, IMAGINE to BE IN THAT AUDIENCE!

Annie Haslam, yet another great singer that very few people will know. She sang with the Band Renaissance, brilliant voice!

The ending is mind boggling! Incredible. I saw them perform this at the Tower Theatre, Upper Darby, PA. in 75 when this was released. Or just about to be released. I was 20 years old. The impression still lasts.....🙏

My favorite single Renaissance passage ever, and one of the most beautiful works I've ever heard. Just fantastic!

So beautiful!

am picking myself in pieces all over the room at listening to this.. I listen to this album once at year. very special stuff. This is the champagne of Prog Rock albums..

When I first bought the Scheherazade Lp back in the 80's I was STUNNED. The most beautiful music ever!!!!

I'm SO glad to be old enough to have had this brilliant music be imprinted upon my soul! It is an oasis....we should endeavour to carry it forward. This world needs it.

Annie is one of great "unknowns" in the music industry.

Back in 1977, I recorded the Carnegie Hall concert out of AM radio during a summer thunderstorm. The static noise caused by lightning got into the recording. I played that tape down to the bone, so that even now I sort of expect to hear the lighting static when I listen to this song. Renaissance was such a private pleasure for me back then: I actually didn't know anyone else who had heard of them.

I had a true crush on Annie in the 80s...and I was in my 20s! If ever there was an angel come to sing in public, she was the one!

Whenever I hear her voice I just become mesmorized. She has always been a favorite of mine. The music is just superb, What a beautiful voice and tremendous talent. Truly a dying art.

Annie is the one and only.

Saw them live in 1978 (A Song for All Seasons tour). This is classical rock at it's finest...creative, unique. Song of Scheherezade is my very favorite.

One of my all time favorites. Thank you for posting this. My best Renaissance memory came when I lived in Houston in the '70s... they played a small(ish) club in the downtown area around the time of the release of their live album, and my date and I ended-up sitting right in front of the stage... no more than 4'-6' from Annie. Eye contact combined with the glorious music and vocals made for a wonderfully surreal experience!

ANNIE HASLAM!! Nada mais a dizer... Basta fechar os olhos e ouvir.

This is absolutely BEAUTIFUL

Any song can be performed in numerous ways, but a great one can will still be great no matter what way. Same with this song. To me personally, the other recordings are all fantastic, but when I got the DVD and first heard/watched this, I was absolutely floored.

Most definitely. The concert was in a small theater and my friend and I didn't get to our seats soon enough; so we got stuck in the last row of the balcony, behind the spotlight..LOL!! Didn't matter, though...Annie (and the band) had a way of making you feel like you were in the front row. Concert was unforgettable.

amazing... great the most beautiful song from renaissance ! Thanks a lot !

When I was a child , the voice of annie Haslam, clear and strange at the same time, put a spell on me... Without a doupte the only time in my life I was really in love with a voice. Thanks to her and thanks to Renaissance forever ! Phil from France

Saw them @ '75 in Syracuse NY. Like they say, her voice just better and better with age.

I love music like music loves Annie Haslam.

Ah, to find this video here after so many years...one of my favorite songs from the Sheherezade & Other Stories album. So dreamy and inspiring...just beautiful...thanks Annie

annie's voice brings sweetness to our hearts, piece of mind and keeps our souls in the most amazing condition. when she sings, we feel the spirit of scheherazade around us.

and that my friends is how its done--------sheer perfection-----------no one in todays music scene even comes close-----thank-you Annie for sharing your mesmerizing voice with us

Che voce stupenda, anche lei era una bella donna una fata.

Ah, Annie that voice! I had no idea she was still performing. The years have been very kind to her.

Magnifica..!

My kingdom for being there.

Songs of Renaissance in ’70s are very beautiful. This piece is definitely one of them.

This is the first time I've heard her speak!! just her angelic singing before! and I'm stoned! pretty fab!

J·ai adoré ce groupe et Annie pendant mes années 70

oooooohhhhh Annie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Perfection.

I have chills all over. I saw Renaissance twice, back in the late 70s/early 80s. Met Annie at NEARfest in 2004, even sat down and chatted for a few minutes. Truly a priviledge to be in the company of the "first lady of prog". She's a terrific painter too.

Angel voice

Annie....still amazing. That voice, that wonderful MEZ MER RISING. To this day I am,,,, enchanted. love u annie!

Maravillosa, gracias por compartir saludos desde Lima Perú.

Lei era nei Renaissance, tra le band che più ho amato.

I am so in love with Annie's voice. Unsurpassable.

i still want you annie

Oh yeah absolutely magnificent...captures the heart and soul...

One of the most beautiful melodies ever.

This is just magnificent!

que voz... e essa musica em si...puts, me recordo andando pelas ruas em israel, com Ipod ouvindo isso

I saw Renaissance twice in the 80s, once at Red Rocks. While there was obviously magic with the entire band at their peak, I agree with emagency that Annie, remarkably, still has IT. What a grand surprise. She obviously has a gift that doesn't fade with time. So very rare.

Absolutely fantastic! ....

Beautiful performance .. sensational ‼️

I had the fortune to have seen the earlier Renaissance (with Yardbird's Keith Relf and his sister Jane Relf) live in Switzerland around 1969/70 - with 'Kings and Queens' and many other fabulous songs. Later, around the time of this recording, I did see them with breath-taking Annie Haslam in Zurich. I still must have a cassette tape recording of that concert, in a bad audio quality though. Thanks gnrbc for posting this absolute highlight.

Whomever you are, thank you for using this uplifting quote with the second sentence increasing its meaning exponentially It is a thrill and everso encouraging to find such high minded and positive people responding to Renaissance and Moody Blues postings It makes me feel a lot better about humanity to know the high minded , the lovely and loving still have a voice and a place to resonate and hamonize with other high minded spiritual and loving people, God love you, Ic1cle Tom Loughlin, Jr

THANK you so much, Anni for this wonderful song,i appreciate your work and your Voice is so clear as in the beginning... congratiolations for this one.

Just found this set on iTunes!! Amazing and inspiring talent she is!

What a beautiful voice! You're the best Annie!

This track is from "Annie Haslam live studio concert Philadelphia 1997"dvd Her voice is still magnificent

Such an amazing voice...all time favourite Song...for my eternal Love H.V.

best ever!!!! well done!!!

Her voice is amazing still, God bless her.

Sweet! A few years ago while cleaning out the basement I found a the phonograph record "Live at Carnegie Hall", one of the best things that ever happened in 1976. We used to listen the the Renaissance albums a lot, especially that one, more than ELP. Borrowed a player, put a coin on the tonearm, and recorded it onto a DVD. By today's standards this music defies description, as timeless as Beethoven.

love her voice and the music!

Beautiful!

This is beautiful - so powerful.

Just plain awesome

I love her.

I agree. Annie is the best female prog front woman - out of all two of them! Such a huge category (I wish).

Annie Haslam rules ! The best female prog front woman.

Well, I was born in 1968, so I couldn't buy all that early Renaissance stuff when it first came out. I bought it ALL in the early 80s... from Prologue to Turn of the Cards to Ashes are Burning to Novella to Scheherazade to Song for All Seasons, Live Album, etc. etc. I was born late... but I really caught up quickly.

Can anyone say that being in this audience would not have been a life-landmark? Thank you GMRBC for making this virtual concert ticket possible Tom iLoughlin Jr

Nossa esse som eh um dos melhores!!

That was how that song is best played, true feeling of pace and sincerity. The band and sound crew deserve a huge recognition for truly beautiful music compostion and performance.

Annie que delicia escucharte !!! Porque no das un concierto en Buenos Aires, Argentina??? No esta tan lejos, o si??? La Luna esta mas lejos y fueron !!!

Amo demais

This is from her DVD Live in Philadephia 1997 though in NTSC format it will still play on British players with progressive scan, which is nearly all of them.

Wonderful stuff, luv it! :-)

Lovely. And I hope the rat at 4:02 got to safety.

Yeah...it's something that's unique to Annie along with Renaissance. When I listen to her solo, it's just not the same.

stonkinly fab

Muiiitooo booommm!

no tenia idea de su carrera solista, su voz es igual de acogedora =)

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@TheLilithFair She herself gives a lot of credit to Wood for getting her to explore her voice more on this album. Also, she probably found it easier to handle the lyrics on these songs and lend warmth. It's much tougher for the singer to emote over prog's cryptic/abstract lyrics. Annie did a great job with Renaissance too but there's evidently more heart in the singing here. Yes, especially Going Home is powerful beyond belief, she really goes for it on that song.

Wonderful work by Rave Tesar on piano.

@rematpac "History itself is my proof,experience too." - OMG

@jaamnik601 Definitely!

They were never in it for the money/fame, though. Each performed here the same as if there had been 10,000.

Has anyone heard "Scherazade the musical" composed by Micheal Dunford. I purchased the CD recently and even though 2 tracks are by Annie, "Remember Me" and "In the Stillness of the Room" it's no wonder that it got nowhere, it doesn't even follow the correct story line!

USA uses NTSC, so no need to convert. It's also region 0 (plays in all regions), so no problems there.

@rematpac Annie's renditions of If I Loved You and the Dvorak song leave those of other singers far behind and I don't say this just because she sang them or whatever (because I wouldn't rate her take on Nature Boy that highly). What can I say, people only call that immortal which is told to them to be so. Annie in Wonderland never got very popular but I haven't heard her sing better in any other studio recordings, all the virtuosity of Ren but with a lot more soul to go with it too.

@rematpac Erm, I don't think you realize or know then that Roy Wood penned an 'immortal' album called Annie In Wonderland, Annie's first solo album and those songs I referred to are off that album. Have you ever heard those songs and on what basis do you claim they are not of lasting value? Because you say so it is so? And the husband you refer to was a man in Pennsylvania, she never married Wood. You sure do know a lot, sir!

Annie starts singing at 3:03

@rematpac I think that tells me all I need about how much you know. No, my dear sir, both Carpet...and Northern Lights are both pop songs. Merely, the presence of an instrumental break does not make it prog, unless Stevie Wonder is prog in an alternative universe. Yes, it is true that prog songs don't have to be 20 minutes long, but we are talking of Renaissance here, not King Crimson and Gentle Giant. And I will comfortably take Discipline over Camera Camera and Timeline, thank you.

I almost fell asleep during the 3:10 intro... but a great voice

My last names Haslam!I wounder if we are related :D probly not.

@rematpac I think from reading this conversation (or Renaissance threads in general), it would be quite clear to all but you who is the braggart here. Somebody who sends threats on my profile must take himself WAY too seriously. :D And these 'incredible' facts are those which I myself posted on this thread and which most Ren fans would be aware of anyway, I don't need to read a book to know. But I am grateful that you only intend those to be your famous last words, do be going! :D

Kiel estas tre bela

@rematpac Ho ho and so Carpet of the Sun and Northern Lights are true prog songs? Need we get started on Camera Camera/Timeline? And what's the deal with true prog? Songs in the Key of Life and Abbey Road are not true prog albums either, so what? As for Going Home being derived from New World Symphony, we know what is Renaissance's track record appropos that, don't we?

Just listen to that last sustained note...I don't think she has held it that long even on the Carnegie or Albert Hall performances. Always striving for excellence, even in an ambience that's hardly flattering...sorry, no disrespect to those who were there that day to applaud her.

@rematpac I said the albums BETWEEN ITCOTCK and Larks, i.e. Poseidon, Lizard, Islands. And if you love Carpenters, your attempts to put down Annie In Wonderland on the grounds of not being prog is even more inexplicable. You clearly have a strong prejudice against Wood. He came up with beautiful arrangements and brought out a warm, fragile and vulnerable side to Annie's singing which is not so much in evidence with Renaissance. If you hadn't been expecting prog, you'd probably have liked it.

@rematpac So, everything written by a prog group is prog? Like how Owner of a Lonely Heart is prog, for instance? And I know what road you're going down. There is no rigid definition of prog because it is an approach and not a genre but that doesn't mean one can call straightforward pop songs prog, prog is supposed to be a 'progression' on mainstream pop/rock. An element of subjectivity doesn't mean there is no right or wrong (and if that was so, would render your precious knowledge useless)

@rematpac That's just half of the 70s lineup and after a very long hiatus. That way, even LZ reunited and Queen are still playing. Of course, judging from your earlier, disrespectful comment on 'women' (Roy Wood wrote the beautiful Rockalise FYI and the arrangements for the If I Loved You cover on the same album are beyond the grasp of the best Dunford can do) you seem to be a rather opinionated sort.