Glad to see this great group get some notice on youtube. One of my favorite groups. I was fortunate enough to see them in concert over 40 years ago. I hope you enjoyed it and will listen to other works by them, particularly Ocean Gypsy.
RIP Jon Camp on bass just died recently... This is quintessential Renaissance and o1976ne of my most nostalgic ofin th eir songs. Annie's opening melody melts my heart. This is Classical & Folk influenced PROGRESSIVE ROCK. I saw them Live in 1976 & was so capivated by them and her beauty , essence and angelic voice
Happy Birthday Aaliyah! I'm very pleased that you liked Annie and the majestic orchestrations of Renaissance. They were popular when I was just graduating high school and actually got to see them perform live in NYC. Combining traditional classical style with rock was still a fairly new thing back then so for us it was quite unique. Thanks for the reaction and your insights, looking forward to the next ones!
I think you'd like their song Scheherazade. It's lengthy (20 + minutes) but may well be worth your time. What's especially amazing about that song is how well they perform it live (Live at Carnegie Hall).
Great choice for a first Renaissance experience. This is my favourite song from them. For this TV performance, it was shortened here and there, I think the studio version is more well-rounded, but it is still a great performance. I definitely recommend Carpet of the Sun for one of Annie's most beautiful performances.
Vocalist Annie Haslam was, like you, trained as an operatic singer. Some of the more accessible Renaissance songs would be: Carpet of the Sun, Northern Lights, and Let It Grow.
Happy Birthday and thank you for listening to Rennaissance. You also have a wonderful voice. If you can find it on RUclips you might enjoy hearing Running Hard by Rennaissance or perhaps Song Of Scheherazade. The latter is a bit long and I was a surprised they didn't include any musical themes from the Rimsky-Korsakov classic. But it's very good and done with a full orchestra.
There is at least one theme that's very similar to the Rimsky-Korsakov. I can't off the top of my head remember which. Or maybe they're using a similar exotic or middle Eastern scale.
Happy Birthday! I hope you will explore other Renaissance songs. Just to let you know, there are so many songs to choose from. Unfortunately, Renaissance concluded their fairwell tour this past October. I was truely lucky to see them. Annie's voice at 77 years young is still as magical and surreal as ever. At least their recordings are still available.
Classical music had a vogue amongst young people in the 1970s and bands like Renaissance, ELP, Yes and others were part of that. Pierre Boulez was promoting modern composers very heavily with the NY Philmarmonic from 1971-77 and I recall posters around Manhattan promoting new classical from Japan. I always thought that interest would continue but it did not, most young people nowadays don't know who Aaron Copland is. It's so beautiful to see a young person "re-discovering" this form of music.
Happy birthday, Aaliyah! From the far north of Germany! I think the music of the 7ties still has a lot to offer. A lot of experimental music was going on.
Yay, more Renaissance please. Check out Annie singing in the song Things I Don't Understand. This lady hits a low G and in the same song also gets to a high G# and A. Just the purest voice.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. I'm a long time fan of this group. I had my mind melted about two years ago when I discovered Nightwish. And I have been trying with no results to get Nightwish fans to listen to Renaissance. They are so much alike.
Many thanx to the birthday-girl for giving us this beautiful b-day gift! 🌈 My personal fav of this amazing &amazingly progressive band is the title track of Scheherazade and Other Stories...
Sad to report, Jon Camp (the bassist) died less than a week ago. IMHO the greatest orchestral rock band of all time ❤. Sadly only Annie & Terry are still alive now 😢
So strange that you reacted to two special bands today. Renaissance, my favourite prog band, and Band-Maid, my favourite band ever! Annie Haslam has the purest voice ever in rock and a huge vocal range. Brilliant. There are plenty of other tracks that show these aspects off better than this one as other commentors have noted. Saiki Atsumi of Band-Maid is an excellent singer with a large range and variety of styles that make her stand out from other Japanese singers. She is especially good in songs where her harmonies with the second singer, Miku Kobato are clearly defined. Miku also has a beautiful voice, best heard on the acoustic version of Sayonakidori. Thanks for these enjoyable reactions.😊
I love October Project! My favorite song from them is "Take Me As I Am." It's not often you hear a contralto in pop rock (or prog adult contemporary as I like to call them).
Renaissance is music appreciation at the next level. I saw them 25+ times back in the day! Please find Ashes are Burning or Mother Russia from their Live at Carnegie Hall album! (..or anything from that album) I was there 2 of the 3 nights in the 4th and 6th rows, so I am confident in my recommendation!
Very interesting. I liked it. At some points, this gave me a sense of being a movie medly. Loved her voice and the background singers. Great pick, and as always, great reaction.😊
I remember first hearing about Renaissance on one of the pop rock shows at the time, Midnight Special or Don Kishner's Rock Concert. When I met with all my progressive rock geeky outcasts the next day, we couldn't even complete a sentence. "Did you see --- ?" "Yes! Oh my God!" "If heaven came down to Earth -- " ""She could sing to me forever and I -- " Never once did we mention the show or the group. There was no need. We knew what each of us was so excited about.
I'm a longtime Renaissance fan, and really like the flow of their songs, and the classical arrangements. There is a shortened classical section in this song that was shortened (I don't know why), but I've heard it before in a movie directed by David Lean. It's a snow scene showing a horse drawn sleigh in Doctor Zhivago, set in Russia. And Renaissance will also use themes by Prokofiev in other works, most notably "Mother Russia", which I believe is found in this video performance.
The other Renaissance song with understand in the title (Things I Don’t Understand - from the album Turn of the Cards) actually showcases Annie’s voice better, there are some spine tingling moments both in that song and throughout that album. It also contains one of their best short songs- I Think of You.
In the early 70's I saw Renaissance in concert 3 times. They mainly played at colleges in the Northeast (New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. A great album to listen to is Live At Carnegie Hall. Annie Haslam has the purest voice!
Very nice reaction! I'll be honest: I became a bit traumatized some time ago when I found a reaction to Renaissance here in RUclips in which the person (who I generally like) described Annie's voice as "common" and uninteresting. Thank you for giving me some relief from that lingering anguish.
Happy belated birthday, Aaliyah! (from one Capricorn to another. 🙂). You seem to like multi-layered songs, so perhaps you would enjoy Progressive Rock. It is a music genre that usually features many musical themes in the same song. This being said, there is only one Annie Haslam: she is unique. In fact, she is “the” reference when it comes to female Progressive Rock vocalists: she is the best. You've made a very good first choice. Thanks for the fine reaction!
For a future Renaissance reaction, please consider doing the song "I Think Of You" It is a beautiful song, one of Renaissance's shorter songs. Annie's voice just soars and it closes with what sounds like a harpsichord. I don't think anyone else has reacted to this one.
Definitely check more Renaissance!!!!! I recommend the albums "A Song For All Seasons" from 1978 and "Azure D'Or" from 1979!!!!! You can't go wrong with any of their impressive catalog!!!!! Rest in peace Bassist Jon Camp who recently passed away at 75 on December 13th.🕉
It's a wonderful experience to discover Renaissance and their music, some of us were fortunate enough to be able to hear and see them with John Tout on the keyboards and Annie Haslam singing. The late sixties and early to mid-seventies were a great time for rock music, probably the best and so many people were exploring music and pushing boundaries and this band was a great example of this, they composed such wonderful music too. Annie is still active and seems to be very approachable, you might enjoy seeing her interview with Doug Helvering who comes from a classical music background himself ruclips.net/video/TCZztat1KeY/видео.html I'm not going to make further suggestions for the band because it's a little like going down the rabbit hole and finding so many new situations to explore. If I started I would soon find myself going through each album and track, they were so creative. But as I say, they were children of their time and others were also discovering the possibilities of music and song. You might care to listen to Gentle Giant's "On Reflection," you'd probably enjoy the for part harmonies in it and the use of different instruments within the song ruclips.net/video/_pryVmeklmQ/видео.html
That is not the audio from the RTL Luxemborg performance. They took audio from a concert in front of a live audience with an orchestra. Probably Carnegie Hall, because they are also using synthesizer, and in the performance onscreen John Tout does not have a synth among his 3 keyboards.
Don't know if this has been mentioned yet, but the bassist for Rennaissance, Jon Camp has passed away last week. He was an awesome part of this magical Group.
back in the day... the. FM radios ' nightbird' loved Renn. - they were darn good , but short lived.( the bass played a lot of ' lead ' ) Ya nailed it , they projected a kind of medieval fantasy style , often playing ten - 20 minute song suites. ( two min were taken out of this song, at least the 2 LP. Concert set. ). Anni has an interesting backstory - apparently until Her 20's She had no idea she was actually a singer....wake up one day & Yer a world class singer....(. as of 2 years or so ago )... She has legal control of the name,. still does occasional concerts , sells DVD.s
I don't think I've ever seen a reaction to Renaissance before. In fact, I rarely see anyone cite them at all. I certainly wouldn't call them prog rock though except that they do have a classical vibe at times like Emerson, Lake and Palmer. Another person I'd suggest, more from your generation, is Jacob Collier. Maybe start with Little Blue Mahogany Sessions for some acoustic with audience choir and, Moon River for insane a capella or All Night Long for up tempo multi-instrumentalism with the close harmonies of Take 6.
Hey! É uma dublagem! A música tocada neste programa de TV de Luxemburgo é diferente. Fizeram uma sobreposição do som sobre as imagens. 😮😮🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️🇧🇷
Annie Haslam's voice is incredible. This song doesn't show her range and power. Check out her singing on the studio version of Renaissance' "Things I Don't Understand" and "Ashes Are Burning".
Renaissance was actually an unique mixture of ProgRock, Folk-Rock, Classical music. I myself called it always like a kind of "fairytale music". But that special genre was a bit "in fashion" between 1970 and 1977, but then the music taste and the genres who were in fashion were others, so Renaissance got more and more a lack of fans and selling records so fiinally they had to disbanded end of the 80ies. BTW the keyboard player, the late John Tout classical trained, was heavily influenced by Russian musicians like Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Rimsky korsakov and Prokofiev and also by Chopin as far as I know. You can hear it in his music. PS Annie Haslam is still alive and lives near Philadelphia in PA. The bass player Jon Camp died in december 2024 and the Guitar player and componist of the songs Michael Dunford died :I guess in 2012.
Beautiful young woman listening a beautiful lady with vocals out of this world
Another song worth checking out is Ashes Are Burning. It's a tour de force performance.
Glad to see this great group get some notice on youtube. One of my favorite groups. I was fortunate enough to see them in concert over 40 years ago. I hope you enjoyed it and will listen to other works by them, particularly Ocean Gypsy.
Yes, Ocean Gypsy!
RIP Jon Camp on bass just died recently... This is quintessential Renaissance and o1976ne of my most nostalgic ofin th eir songs. Annie's opening melody melts my heart. This is Classical & Folk influenced PROGRESSIVE ROCK. I saw them Live in 1976 & was so capivated by them and her beauty , essence and angelic voice
Happy Birthday Aaliyah! I'm very pleased that you liked Annie and the majestic orchestrations of Renaissance. They were popular when I was just graduating high school and actually got to see them perform live in NYC. Combining traditional classical style with rock was still a fairly new thing back then so for us it was quite unique. Thanks for the reaction and your insights, looking forward to the next ones!
Wow you have done well to unearth Renaissance, Excellent Album. Her vocals are haunting
Renaissance is a deeply unappreciated band. Theyhave a deep catalog and many masterpieces. More please! 😊 And their bassist is awesome!
I think you'd like their song Scheherazade. It's lengthy (20 + minutes) but may well be worth your time. What's especially amazing about that song is how well they perform it live (Live at Carnegie Hall).
And then Ashes Are Burning from the same concert.
The way she floats the last note in Song of Scheharaze - for about 30 seconds on a super high g (g#?) is amazing
@@JeanneGrunert Yes! I know just you mean, Jeanne! I love that they go to that note and she's perfect on it! : )
Great choice for a first Renaissance experience. This is my favourite song from them. For this TV performance, it was shortened here and there, I think the studio version is more well-rounded, but it is still a great performance. I definitely recommend Carpet of the Sun for one of Annie's most beautiful performances.
Annie's voice is magical. Listen to their Live at Carnegie Hall when you get a chance
This is the Carnegie Hall version of Can You Understand, overdubbed onto this video.
Happy Birthday! You should react to "Ashes Are Burning" from the "Live at Carnigie Hall" album. It's a masterpiece!
Vocalist Annie Haslam was, like you, trained as an operatic singer. Some of the more accessible Renaissance songs would be: Carpet of the Sun, Northern Lights, and Let It Grow.
what a Great Band. Annie Haslam has a beautiful voice. I had the Pleasure of seeing them live back in the day.
Thanks for reacting to Renaissance, Aaliyah. And Happy Birthday from Sao Paulo, Brazil
Happy Birthday and thank you for listening to Rennaissance. You also have a wonderful voice. If you can find it on RUclips you might enjoy hearing Running Hard by Rennaissance or perhaps Song Of Scheherazade. The latter is a bit long and I was a surprised they didn't include any musical themes from the Rimsky-Korsakov classic. But it's very good and done with a full orchestra.
There is at least one theme that's very similar to the Rimsky-Korsakov. I can't off the top of my head remember which. Or maybe they're using a similar exotic or middle Eastern scale.
@@wardka I think you may be right about that. But they establish some very moving themes of their own.
Happy Birthday! I hope you will explore other Renaissance songs. Just to let you know, there are so many songs to choose from. Unfortunately, Renaissance concluded their fairwell tour this past October. I was truely lucky to see them. Annie's voice at 77 years young is still as magical and surreal as ever. At least their recordings are still available.
So glad to see appreciation for this immensely talented and underrated band!
Welcome to the 70's music.
The most amazing and innovative period of music.
Classical music had a vogue amongst young people in the 1970s and bands like Renaissance, ELP, Yes and others were part of that. Pierre Boulez was promoting modern composers very heavily with the NY Philmarmonic from 1971-77 and I recall posters around Manhattan promoting new classical from Japan. I always thought that interest would continue but it did not, most young people nowadays don't know who Aaron Copland is. It's so beautiful to see a young person "re-discovering" this form of music.
Renaissance are incredible!
Turn of the Cards is a great album, Black Flame and Mother Russia are two beautiful songs! ❤
That opening is one of the most sensational I've heard in prog music. The studio version is even better.
Carpet of the sun is classic as is Mother Russia.
Happy Birthday!!
Happy birthday, Aaliyah! From the far north of Germany!
I think the music of the 7ties still has a lot to offer. A lot of experimental music was going on.
Thanks so much💕
Yay, more Renaissance please. Check out Annie singing in the song Things I Don't Understand. This lady hits a low G and in the same song also gets to a high G# and A. Just the purest voice.
Ashes are Burning 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
The live version
Any version 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Happy Belated Birthday! I recommend you list to the song “Things I don’t Understand” to really experience Annie Haslam vocal range.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. I'm a long time fan of this group. I had my mind melted about two years ago when I discovered Nightwish. And I have been trying with no results to get Nightwish fans to listen to Renaissance. They are so much alike.
Thanks so much for watching too💕
I love the music that this band produced.
Many thanx to the birthday-girl for giving us this beautiful b-day gift! 🌈
My personal fav of this amazing &amazingly progressive band is the title track of Scheherazade and Other Stories...
Annie Haslam has a 5-octave range, if memory serves.
You are correct.
Sad to report, Jon Camp (the bassist) died less than a week ago. IMHO the greatest orchestral rock band of all time ❤. Sadly only Annie & Terry are still alive now 😢
So strange that you reacted to two special bands today. Renaissance, my favourite prog band, and Band-Maid, my favourite band ever! Annie Haslam has the purest voice ever in rock and a huge vocal range. Brilliant. There are plenty of other tracks that show these aspects off better than this one as other commentors have noted. Saiki Atsumi of Band-Maid is an excellent singer with a large range and variety of styles that make her stand out from other Japanese singers. She is especially good in songs where her harmonies with the second singer, Miku Kobato are clearly defined. Miku also has a beautiful voice, best heard on the acoustic version of Sayonakidori. Thanks for these enjoyable reactions.😊
There’s a similar band of the 90’s called October project. Check out their song funeral in his heart.
Wow Scott, haven't heard October project in a while. I think I have a CD somewhere. Ashes are burning is a favorite. Thanks for the wayback.
I love October Project! My favorite song from them is "Take Me As I Am." It's not often you hear a contralto in pop rock (or prog adult contemporary as I like to call them).
Renaissance is music appreciation at the next level. I saw them 25+ times back in the day!
Please find Ashes are Burning or Mother Russia from their Live at Carnegie Hall album! (..or anything from that album)
I was there 2 of the 3 nights in the 4th and 6th rows, so I am confident in my recommendation!
Very interesting. I liked it. At some points, this gave me a sense of being a movie medly. Loved her voice and the background singers. Great pick, and as always, great reaction.😊
I remember first hearing about Renaissance on one of the pop rock shows at the time, Midnight Special or Don Kishner's Rock Concert. When I met with all my progressive rock geeky outcasts the next day, we couldn't even complete a sentence.
"Did you see --- ?"
"Yes! Oh my God!"
"If heaven came down to Earth -- "
""She could sing to me forever and I -- "
Never once did we mention the show or the group. There was no need. We knew what each of us was so excited about.
I actually saw them live when they toured in support of this album. Amazing show, I still get shivers remembering it.
Songs from live at Carnegie Hall with a full orchestra really is worth a listen.
I think u would also like Curved Air
I'm a longtime Renaissance fan, and really like the flow of their songs, and the classical arrangements. There is a shortened classical section in this song that was shortened (I don't know why), but I've heard it before in a movie directed by David Lean. It's a snow scene showing a horse drawn sleigh in Doctor Zhivago, set in Russia. And Renaissance will also use themes by Prokofiev in other works, most notably "Mother Russia", which I believe is found in this video performance.
The other Renaissance song with understand in the title (Things I Don’t Understand - from the album Turn of the Cards) actually showcases Annie’s voice better, there are some spine tingling moments both in that song and throughout that album. It also contains one of their best short songs- I Think of You.
In the early 70's I saw Renaissance in concert 3 times. They mainly played at colleges in the Northeast (New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. A great album to listen to is Live At Carnegie Hall. Annie Haslam has the purest voice!
Very nice reaction! I'll be honest: I became a bit traumatized some time ago when I found a reaction to Renaissance here in RUclips in which the person (who I generally like) described Annie's voice as "common" and uninteresting. Thank you for giving me some relief from that lingering anguish.
Happy birthday!
Check out Carpet of the Sun live (Sight & Sound), another gem!
Happy belated birthday, Aaliyah! (from one Capricorn to another. 🙂). You seem to like multi-layered songs, so perhaps you would enjoy Progressive Rock. It is a music genre that usually features many musical themes in the same song. This being said, there is only one Annie Haslam: she is unique. In fact, she is “the” reference when it comes to female Progressive Rock vocalists: she is the best. You've made a very good first choice. Thanks for the fine reaction!
ASHES ARE BURNING must to be the next song,.. an incredible vocal performance !!!
Renaissance : "Northern Lights" ...... ruclips.net/video/0rarW1JycOE/видео.html :)
For a future Renaissance reaction, please consider doing the song "I Think Of You" It is a beautiful song, one of Renaissance's shorter songs. Annie's voice just soars and it closes with what sounds like a harpsichord. I don't think anyone else has reacted to this one.
A 20 day belated Happy Birthday!
Definitely check more Renaissance!!!!! I recommend the albums "A Song For All Seasons" from 1978 and "Azure D'Or" from 1979!!!!! You can't go wrong with any of their impressive catalog!!!!! Rest in peace Bassist Jon Camp who recently passed away at 75 on December 13th.🕉
This is the opening track and then the title track ashes are burning is also a masterpiece
It's a wonderful experience to discover Renaissance and their music, some of us were fortunate enough to be able to hear and see them with John Tout on the keyboards and Annie Haslam singing. The late sixties and early to mid-seventies were a great time for rock music, probably the best and so many people were exploring music and pushing boundaries and this band was a great example of this, they composed such wonderful music too.
Annie is still active and seems to be very approachable, you might enjoy seeing her interview with Doug Helvering who comes from a classical music background himself ruclips.net/video/TCZztat1KeY/видео.html
I'm not going to make further suggestions for the band because it's a little like going down the rabbit hole and finding so many new situations to explore. If I started I would soon find myself going through each album and track, they were so creative.
But as I say, they were children of their time and others were also discovering the possibilities of music and song. You might care to listen to Gentle Giant's "On Reflection," you'd probably enjoy the for part harmonies in it and the use of different instruments within the song ruclips.net/video/_pryVmeklmQ/видео.html
That is not the audio from the RTL Luxemborg performance. They took audio from a concert in front of a live audience with an orchestra. Probably Carnegie Hall, because they are also using synthesizer, and in the performance onscreen John Tout does not have a synth among his 3 keyboards.
Don't know if this has been mentioned yet, but the bassist for Rennaissance, Jon Camp has passed away last week. He was an awesome part of this magical Group.
Enjoy the next year, and again and again!
Rajah Khan is one that is quite different, but also good.
back in the day... the. FM radios ' nightbird' loved Renn. - they were darn good , but short lived.( the bass played a lot of ' lead ' ) Ya nailed it , they projected a kind of medieval fantasy style , often playing ten - 20 minute song suites. ( two min were taken out of this song, at least the 2 LP. Concert set. ).
Anni has an interesting backstory - apparently until Her 20's She had no idea she was actually a singer....wake up one day & Yer a world class singer....(. as of 2 years or so ago )... She has legal control of the name,. still does occasional concerts , sells DVD.s
Annie Haslam had one of the legendary voices of her time. More please.
This is just the top of a very deep rabbit hole for this group. Enjoy your journey. If you want suggestions please let me know.
Not the best song to judge her voice but this band is so beautiful, they made so many great iconic symphonic progressive rock songs.
Ocean Gypsy 🔥🔥🔥
Happy B-Day ✌
I don't think I've ever seen a reaction to Renaissance before. In fact, I rarely see anyone cite them at all. I certainly wouldn't call them prog rock though except that they do have a classical vibe at times like Emerson, Lake and Palmer.
Another person I'd suggest, more from your generation, is Jacob Collier. Maybe start with Little Blue Mahogany Sessions for some acoustic with audience choir and, Moon River for insane a capella or All Night Long for up tempo multi-instrumentalism with the close harmonies of Take 6.
Hey! É uma dublagem! A música tocada neste programa de TV de Luxemburgo é diferente. Fizeram uma sobreposição do som sobre as imagens. 😮😮🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️🇧🇷
R.I. P. Jon Camp
Annie Haslam's voice is incredible. This song doesn't show her range and power. Check out her singing on the studio version of Renaissance' "Things I Don't Understand" and "Ashes Are Burning".
Annie Haslam is great. Please react to Karen Carpenter. Suggest, 'Superstar.'
Hello 👋
Renaissance was actually an unique mixture of ProgRock, Folk-Rock, Classical music. I myself called it always like a kind of "fairytale music". But that special genre was a bit "in fashion" between 1970 and 1977, but then the music taste and the genres who were in fashion were others, so Renaissance got more and more a lack of fans and selling records so fiinally they had to disbanded end of the 80ies. BTW the keyboard player, the late John Tout classical trained, was heavily influenced by Russian musicians like Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Rimsky korsakov and Prokofiev and also by Chopin as far as I know. You can hear it in his music. PS Annie Haslam is still alive and lives near Philadelphia in PA. The bass player Jon Camp died in december 2024 and the Guitar player and componist of the songs Michael Dunford died :I guess in 2012.