How was the Royal Albert Hall as a venue?
It’s a special place, although at the time it was not acoustically the best. Fortunately that doesn’t come across on the tape! What material can we look forward to on these upcoming albums? We were promoting Novella at the time and have three tracks from there. We also have the favourites; “Mother Russia,” “Running Hard,” “Carpet of the Sun,” “Song of Scheherazade” and finish off with “Ashes are Burning.” At that time I think it was only the third time we’d ever done “Scheherazade” on stage. How do these versions compare to the Live at Carnegie Hall concert? I think they’re a bit different. All our music’s arranged within that certain framework, but there’s a certain flexibility within that. Because of the way it was recorded, there are some different orchestral pieces that you can hear on Royal Albert which you can’t on Carnegie Hall. What other things are you working on? I’m doing a couple of acoustic albums with Stephanie which will incorporate a bit of violin, cello and piano, and
