LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Vibrate: The Best of Rufus Wainwright will be released March 4 by Universal Music Enterprises (UMe). The new collection’s single-disc and digital edition features 17 standout songs that define one of modern music’s most innovative talents, as well as a brand new recording, “Me and Liza.” A 2CD and digital deluxe edition adds 16 rare live and studio tracks.
Vibrate: The Best of Rufus Wainwright encapsulates a career in music that is like no other. From the 1998 release of his debut album to 2012’s Out of the Game, Rufus Wainwright has played it his way, refusing to be categorized while establishing himself as one of contemporary music’s very best songwriters, singers and performers.
For those already familiar with Wainwright’s impressive body of work, this collection will delight. For everyone else, Vibrate: The Best of Rufus Wainwright serves as a solid gold introduction.
Highlights include “Going to a Town,” “Hallelujah,” “The Art Teacher,” “Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk,” and the new song, “Me and Liza,” co-written with Guy Chambers. The deluxe edition adds live versions of some of Wainwright’s best-known songs, recorded at Kenwood House in 2010, plus “The Maker Makes” from Brokeback Mountain, “La Complainte de la Butte” from Moulin Rouge, the new song “Chic and Pointless,” and “WW111,” which has never before been available on a physical release.
Without doubt, Rufus Wainwright has established himself as one of his generation’s great male vocalists and songwriters. The New York-born, Montreal-bred singer/songwriter has released seven acclaimed studio albums and two live albums, including his acclaimed GRAMMY® nominated Rufus Does Judy At Carnegie Hall.
Wainwright has also collaborated with many artists, including, most recently, Robbie Williams, co-writing and dueting on the title track of his Swing Both Ways album. He has also worked with the Pet Shop Boys, Shirley Bassey, Elton John, Antony, David Byrne, Joni Mitchell, Robert Wilson, Lou Reed, Boy George, and Mark Ronson.
In 2009 his first opera, “Prima Donna,” premiered at the Manchester International Festival, followed by a run at Sadler’s Wells in 2010 and an American premiere for New York City Opera in February 2012 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
Wainwright has just been commissioned by the Canadian Opera Company to write his second opera, based on the story of the Roman Emperor Hadrian and Antinoos. The new opera will premiere in Toronto in October 2018.
His tours with and without a band are equally acclaimed. From Glastonbury to the Royal Opera House via Radio City Music Hall, Carnegie Hall, and the Hollywood Bowl, Rufus Wainwright has proven himself to be quite the showman.
He has also performed many notable shows with some of the world’s best orchestras, including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, playing a selection of his own songs and his Shakespearean Sonnets.
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Vibrate:
The Best of Rufus Wainwright
1. Going to a Town (Release
the Stars)
2. Out of the Game (Out of the Game)
3.
Me and Liza (NEW SONG)
4. Hallelujah (Shrek)
5. Oh What
A World (Want One)
6. April Fools (Rufus Wainwright)
7.
Poses (Poses)
8. Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk (Poses)
9.
Vibrate (Want One)
10. The One You Love (Want Two)
11.
I Don't Know What It Is (Want One)
12. The Art Teacher (Want
Two)
13. Go or Go Ahead (Want One)
14. Dinner At
Eight (Want One)
15. Foolish Love (Rufus Wainwright)
16.
Sometimes You Need (Out of the Game)
17. Grey Gardens (Poses)
18.
Tiergarten (Release the Stars)
Deluxe
Edition [Disc 2]
1. Bitter Tears (Out of the Game)
2.
The Maker Makes (from Brokeback Mountain soundtrack)
3.
Across The Universe (Poses bonus track)
4. La Complainte de
la Butte (from Moulin Rouge soundtrack)
5. Chelsea Hotel
No.2 (bonus track on Want Two)
6. Chic and Pointless (NEW
SONG, produced by Guy Chambers)
7. WW111 (physical release debut;
composed with Guy Chambers)
8. Jericho (Live from the Artists’ Den,
spring 2012)
9. Montauk (Live from the Artists’ Den, spring 2012)
10.
If Love Were All (Live at Kenwood House, summer 2010)
11. Do It
Again (Live At Kenwood House, summer 2010)
12. Zing! Went the
Strings of My Heart (Live At Kenwood House, 2010)
13. Memphis
Skyline (Live At Kenwood House, 2010)
14. Martha (Live at Kenwood
House, 2010)
15. One Man Guy (Live at KCRW, June 2001)
16. Jo
Whiley BBC interview (Royal Opera House, July 2011)
