Scheherazade and Other Stories
Occupation
- Vocals: Annie Haslam
- Keyboards, background vocals John Tout
- Bass, vocals Jon Camp
- Drums, percussion: Terence Sullivan
- Acoustic guitar, backing vocals Michael Dunford
Scheherazade and Other Stories is the sixth studio album by the British progressive rock group Renaissance. It was released in July 1975.
Background
To Easter of 1975 was Annie Haslam with Roy Wood of ELO, Dick Plant ( the producer of Turn of the Cards) and his wife out to dinner. Someone suggested to go before to Hampstead Heath, where there was a funfair (English " fair" ). When they got there, no one was there ( engl. "nobody there" ), it was already after midnight. The next day, Annie Haslam called Betty Thatcher, the writer of the Renaissance, and told " We went to the fair and there what nobody there. ". Betty Thatcher wrote the song from my trip to the Fair.
Song of Scheherazade is no interpretation of the symphonic poem by Nikolai Rimsky -Korsakov. It is based, like the work of Rimsky -Korsakov, on the story Arabian Nights, was fascinated by the Michael Dunford.
When recording played by the London Symphony Orchestra, the orchestral arrangements are from Tony Cox.
Title list
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Reviews
" The Suite" Song Of Scheherazade " is very varied, from the Bläserfanfare exaggerated and ballad songs with catchy, but never cheap melodies, orchestral interludes, a fugue-like part up to the bombastic finale. Motives and melodies are introduced and later included in a different context again: so shall symphonic prog. Perhaps the sounds one or the other part a bit much film music moderately, but what the heck. , This plate is simply beautiful "
"This 24 minutes epic piece is one of the most impressive suite in the whole progressive genre and, maybe, the most refined. Highly recommended masterpiece! "