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| n/a by www.slantmagazine.com |
By turns baroque, jazzy, morose, and enraptured, they're a perfect opportunity for Wainwright to showcase his capacity as a singer in terms of tone and melodic emphasis. And showcase he does, deploying his dulcet foghorn of a voice with subtlety, grace, and elasticity |
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| n/a by www.musicomh.com |
On hand, as ever, is sister and mother to crank-up the feel good factor, and a more life-affirming live album you'll not find. |
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| n/a by www.blender.com |
This compendium of pop standards is as good an introduction to the great American songbook as any. |
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| n/a by Rolling Stone |
The way opera lover Wainwright slides past notes and draws out the final syllables of lines are signatures indistinguishable from tics, and this varied music makes that all too clear. |
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| n/a by www.ew.com |
That said, if it drives anyone to Judy at Carnegie Hall--one of the best live albums ever then bravo. |
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| n/a by www.uncut.co.uk |
It might be playful, and it might be versatile, but however light-hearted it may sound initially, it ends up sounding serious. |
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| n/a by Billboard |
This song-by-song re-creation of Judy Garland's iconic 1961 Carnegie Hall performance, staged there by Rufus Wainwright in 2006, seems better-suited to a cabaret act. |
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| 3 by Aftonbladet |
En väldigt wainwrightsk idé. Att återskapa Judy Garlands klassiska livealbum från Carnegie Hall i New York, på samma ställe 45 år senare, med stor orkester. In... |
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