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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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So while the performance isn't perfect, particularly toward the end of the show (where, after two hours of performing swing tunes and jazz standards, Wainwright is understandably low on steam), it's still nice to hear the singer in his element, crooning about dinging trolleys and zinging heartstrings with flamboyancy that only he can muster.
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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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This compendium of pop standards is as good an introduction to the great American songbook as any.
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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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That said, if it drives anyone to Judy at Carnegie Hall--one of the best live albums ever then bravo.
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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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MojoThe idea remains more brilliant than the performance can hope to be; because Wainwright is very good but Judy ia unassailable. [Feb 2008, p.98]
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Q MagazineThe results are very much a labour of ubercamp. [Feb 2008, p.102]
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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.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 13 out of 16
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Mixed: 1 out of 16
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Negative: 2 out of 16
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JohnS.Dec 11, 2007went to see this concert at palladium and was blown away as am with cd. Rufus rules.
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jyotirmayadasDec 10, 2007
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IgnacioA.Dec 9, 2007Great concert.