IN THE BEGINNING

Worthless for real fans, but could provide a good entryway to RENAISSANCE if available. These classic albums are near or full masterpieces of symphonic prog, beautifully fusing folk, soft rock, and classical. This compilation set truncates a few of the songs (for no apparent reasons). Stick to the originals, "Prologue" and "Ashes are Burning". The material here is VERY good, but much better on the original albums, due to length and sound quality.

I don't even know if this is still in print, I have it on LP though, sucky.