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Rufus Wainwright

Want One

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an unabashedly honest, musically sprawling record that finds the vocalist reaching a new level of maturity.
Rufus Wainwright

Unfollow The Rules: The Paramour Session

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Praised by the New York Times for his “genuine originality,” RUFUS WAINWRIGHT has established himself as one of the great male vocalists, songwriter...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT & THE AMSTERDAM SINFONIETTA
  1. How Deep is the Ocean – Irving Berlin
  2. Foolish Love – Rufus Wainwright (CD only)
  3. excursion a Venise – Kate and Anna McGarrigle
  4. Triste Apprêts – Jean Philippe Rameau
  5. Go Leave – Kate and Anna McGarrigle
  6. Gay Messiah – Rufus Wainwright
  7. Who by Fire – Leonard Cohen
  8. All I Want – Joni Mitchell (CD only)
  9. Argentina – Rufus Wainwright
  10. I’m Going In – Lhasa de Sela
  11. L’Île Inconnue – Hector Berlioz
  12. Arachne – Rufus Wainwright
  13. Amsterdam – Jacques Brel

RUFUS WAINWRIGHT & THE AMSTERDAM SINFONIETTA

RUFUS WAINWRIGHT & THE AMSTERDAM SINFONIETTA

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The artistic kinship between Wainwright and the Amsterdam Sinfonietta is astounding and makes these live recordings into something utterly unique and breathtaking.

In January 2017 Rufus Wainwright toured with the prestigious all string ensemble Amsterdam Sinfonietta through the Netherlands. Critics and audiences of the ten concerts were enraptured by the intimacy and intensity of the program curated by Wainwright. The concerts reflected the immense bandwidth of Wainwright’s musical influences and interests from Verdi Arias to Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell, from Rameau pieces to the American songbook and French chanson and from Wainwright’s beloved Berlioz to his family’s and his own songs, some of them written for this program. Emotional center piece of the album is Wainwright’s almost 9 minute version of late Canadian singer songwriter Lhasa de Sela;s harrowing “I’m going in”, a song she wrote about her own death from cancer at the age of 37. All arrangements were created specifically for the Amsterdam Sinfonietta and around Wainwright’s voice that is truly at the peak of its power. The album was mixed by multiple Grammy winner Ryan Freeland and mastered by Ruairi O’Flaherty both in Los Angeles and is comprised of live recordings from five of the ten concerts.