BBC SESSIONS

This is a release which was a bit doomed to become redundant. Whilst at the time of release there weren't legitimate options for hearing the various BBC sessions these tracks were taken from, now they are more accessible: the 1976 set is available in full on Esoteric's Live From Cadigan Hall release, the 1978 session appears as bonus tracks on Esoteric's reissue of A Song For All Seasons, and the 2016 Live At the BBC Sight & Sound 3CD set contains all the BBC sessions this disc was compiled from.

It's the latter release which renders this truly inessential, because it provides the complete sessions, whereas this only offers some selected tracks from each. If you are keen on exploring live Renaissance releases beyond the Live At Cadogan Hall release, you'll probably be far more interested in the more easily available and more complete recent set than this release. Worth it only if a) you haven't already got the Esoteric reissues and/or the Sight & Sound 3CD set and b) you are very keen to collect live Renaissance but you want to do it on a very tight budget, and you don't care if the selections are a pick-and-mix from a bunch of different concerts rather than a single live set.