The Essential Barbra Streisand

Description

A career spanning collection featuring 40 of Barbr a’s
essential hits and classic tracks. Digitally remastered sound from the
original master tapes. 2 CD’s featuring 40 classic tracks. Slim line/bril
liant box packaging for CD. Full color booklet featuring rare photos.
Barbra Streisand’s bravado made her one of the 1960s’ overnight
sensations. This 40-cut compendium traces her recording career from early
tracks that frequently relay her subtlety to often impressive accommodations
with soft rock and still later vibrato-fests that find her taxing the limits
of performer’s ego and listeners’ ears. The narrative is one of direct,
sometimes showy, emotion giving way to empty displays of technique. By 1983’s
icky anthem “A Piece of Sky,” Streisand has plowed under the light touches of
“Lover, Come Back to Me” and the triumphal Central Park version of “Happy Days
Are Here Again.” Where she produced schlock masterworks when teamed with Neil
Diamond (“You Don’t Bring Me Flowers”) and Donna Summer (“Enough Is Enough”)
in the ’70s, a diva summit with Celine Dion led to the car wreck of 1997’s
“Tell Him.” Essential wraps up with previously unreleased takes of “Someday My
Prince Will Come” and “You’ll Never Walk Alone.” –Rickey Wright

Features:

Product Details:

• Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
• Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4 inches; 4.16 Ounces
• Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Legacy Recordings
• Item model number ‏ : ‎ 2110364
• Original Release Date ‏ : ‎ 2002
• Run time ‏ : ‎ 2 hours and 32 minutes
• Date First Available ‏ : ‎ July 27, 2006
• Label ‏ : ‎ Legacy Recordings
• Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ USA