Renaissance – A Song For All Seasons – CD

Clamshell Box

A NEWLY RE-MASTERED 3 CD EXPANDED CLAMSHELL BOXED SET EDITION OF THIS CLASSIC RENAISSANCE ALBUM.FEATURING 16 BONUS TRACKS INCLUDING THE ENTIRE CONCERT RECORDED AT THE TOWER THEATER, PHILADELPHIA IN DECEMBER 1978 RELEASED IN FULL FOR THE FIRST TIME.WITH ILLUSTRATED BOOKLET WITH A NEW ESSAY AND A REPRODUCTION OF THE ORIGINAL ALBUM POSTER. Esoteric Recordings is pleased to announce the release of a newly re-mastered and expanded 3CD clamshell box edition of the classic album, “A Song for All Seasons” by RENAISSANCE. Released in March 1978, the album featured the song “Northern Lights”, a Top Ten hit single in the UK and Europe, and was a successful hit album in the UK, USA and Canada. By the late 1970s the line-up of highly gifted vocalist Annie Haslam, Michael Dunford (acoustic and electric guitars), John Tout (keyboards, vocals), Jon Camp (bass, acoustic & electric guitars, vocals) and Terry Sullivan (drums, percussion) had recorded a series of acclaimed albums that fused classical music influences with progressive rock and had earned a loyal following in Europe and had enjoyed wider success in the United States and Japan.Working with producer David Hentschel (who had also produced the albums “A Trick of the Tail” and “Wind and Wuthering” for Genesis), the material on “A Song for All Seasons” was some of the most carefully crafted work of the band’s career. Flying in the face of the prevailing musical fashions of the time, “A Song for All Seasons” would be the band’s most successful album in Europe and is one of their best-loved works.This expanded edition has been newly re-mastered from the original master tapes and features 16 bonus tracks, including the previously unreleased promotional edit and a “Top of the Pops” recording of “Northern Lights”, along with a BBC Radio session from August 1978.

Disc: 1
1 Opening Out
2 Day Of The Dreamer
3 Closer Than Yesterday
4 Kindness (At The End)
5 Back Home Once Again
6 She Is Love
7 Northern Lights
8 A Song For All Seasons
9 Northern Lights Promotional Single Edit
10 Day Of The Dreamer BBC Session – 19th August 1978
11 Midas Man Bbc Session ⓠ19th August 1978
12 The Vultures Fly High BBC Session – 19th August 1978
13 Northern Lights “Top Of The Pops” Version

Disc: 2
1 Can You Understand (Live 1978)
2 Carpet Of The Sun (Live 1978)
3 Things I Don’t Understand (Live 1978)
4 Opening Out (Live 1978) (Previously Unreleased)
5 Day Of The Dreamer (Live 1978)
6 Midas Man (Live 1978)

Disc: 3
1 Northern Lights (Live 1978)
2 A Song For All Seasons (Live 1978)
3 Touching Once Is So Hard To Keep (Live 1978)
4 Ashes Are Burning (Live 1978)