Ashes Are Burning is the fourth studio album by the English progressive rock band Renaissance, released in 1973 (see 1973 in music).

[2] With Ashes Are Burning Renaissance made a deliberate choice to head in a more acoustic direction, in order to accommodate their folk-influenced style and differentiate themselves from the many electric guitar-dominated bands on the scene.

uses a quote from "Tonya and Yuri Arrive at Varykino", a theme from Maurice Jarre's score for Doctor Zhivago.

[4] According to David Samuel Barr, a friend of the band who wrote the liner notes for the Tales of 1001 Nights compilation, Dunford had thought this melody to be a public domain Russian folk tune.

is also cited by Jon Camp as being a case where he and John Tout made major compositional contributions without being credited for them.

[3] The song "On the Frontier" was previously released (also in 1973) by former Renaissance member Jim McCarty's band Shoot.

[citation needed] In 2018 Esoteric Recordings announced a re-mastered and expanded edition of the album, which was released on 22 February 2019.