A SONG FOR ALL SEASONS

An extremely underated album. (Don´t let the ugly cover put you away of it!) This is Renaissance at their best, with perfect musicianship with the orchestra, on a level that i don´t think they reached with the previous albums also with orchestra. All songs are very inspired ( with the exception of She is love, which is a very boring song, but a short one) and two of the best Renaissance songs ever, The day of the dreamer and Song for all seasons. It´s, in a way, a quite dark album, and i find very interesting this kind of dark progfolk, much diferent from the darkness of Novela.

Of speacial interest is the extremely beautiful Kindness with lead vocals by Michael Dunford. Unfortunately this was, in my opinion, the last great album (and one of the best) of Renaissance, Azur d´or has a couple of nice songs, but it´s a very weak album, and the very last one whorthy to achieve.

Four stars for this excelent and fascinating album.