Barbra Streisand

Barbra Streisand – Yentl – 40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:46:39 minutes | 1,08 GB | Genre: Film, Bandes originales de films
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Barbra Streisand – Yentl – 40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:46:39 minutes | 1,08 GB | Genre: Soundtrack, Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia – Legacy

2023 marks the 40th anniversary of the release of the film and soundtrack ‘Yentl’. The movie established Barbra Streisand as a director of uncommon depth and sensitivity. Her efforts were rewarded with two Golden Globe awards – one for Best Motion Picture Musical, and most notably, another for Best Director. Barbra was the first woman to win in this prestigious category. This anniversary edition of the ‘Yentl’ OST runs over 2 discs: Disc one features the original ‘Yentl’ soundtrack. Disc two features 15 tracks that Barbra recorded as demos in her living room – on a stereo cassette deck – in order to get the movie made – with Barbra narrating each track. The recordings feature Barbra accompanied only with Michel Legrand on piano.

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Barbra Streisand – Evergreens – Celebrating Six Decades on Columbia Records (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:18:55 minutes | 803 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia – Legacy

‘Evergreens’ celebrates Barbra Streisand’s 60 years signed to Columbia Records. The album features 22 songs – 1 song from every studio album that Barbra has released. The songs were hand selected by Barbra as some of her favourite songs throughout her career – many are deep tracks. None of these tracks, with the exception of ‘Evergreen’ have appeared on a compilation album befor

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Barbra Streisand – Evergreens – Celebrating Six Decades on Columbia Records (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:18:55 minutes | 803 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover

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Barbra Streisand – Live At The Bon Soir (Remastered) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:09:16 minutes | 1,26 GB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia – Legacy

Recorded in November 1962, this album marks the first official release of the legendary Greenwich Village Nightclub shows and includes 24 newly mixed performances from the original master tapes in Barbra’s personal collection. With the release of this album, Columbia Records celebrates 60 years of making records with Barbra Streisand, the artist with the longest continuous catalog on the label and the only artist – male or female – on any label to chart #1 albums in every decade since the 1960s.
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Barbra Streisand – Rose Of New York City: 1961-1962 (2009)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:18:51 minutes | 1,11 GB | Genre: Pop
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Barbra Joan Streisand (English: Barbra Joan Streisand, pronounced [ˈstraɪsænd], that is, Strysand; b. April 24, 1942, Brooklyn, New York, USA) is an American singer and actress who also achieved success as a composer, film director, producer and political activist. Winner of two Oscars in the categories “Best Actress” and “Best Original Song”, as well as Emmy, Grammy and Golden Globe awards. She is one of a small group of people who have been awarded Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Awards (however, only three of them were her competitive awards), being one of two artists in this category who also won the Peabody Award.
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Barbra Streisand – Rose Of New York City: Barbra, 1961-1962 Live Recordings (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:16:56 minutes | 1,17 GB | Genre: Pop
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With her highly resonant and sophisticated vocal prowess, charismatic personality, and strongly independent spirit, Barbra Streisand rose to fame as one of the most creatively and commercially successful performers of her lifetime. As a singer, Streisand’s rise was remarkable not only because her popularity was achieved in the face of a dominant musical trend – rock & roll – which she did not follow, but also because she used her vocal skills as a stepping stone to other careers, as a stage and film actress and as a film director. From the start, she was a lauded performer, earning a Tony nomination and New York Drama Critic’s prize for Best Supporting Actress for her Broadway debut in the 1962 musical comedy I Can Get It for You Wholesale. Multiple Grammy and Academy Awards followed, including winning two Grammys for her 1963 debut album The Barbra Streisand Album, a best actress Oscar for her film debut in 1968’s Funny Girl, and Grammy and Oscar for her work in 1976’s A Star Is Born. Her film work has had an equal cultural impact, and includes classics like the aforementioned Funny Girl, 1972’s What’s Up, Doc?, and 1973’s The Way We Were with Robert Redford. She is also the first woman to win best director at the Golden Globes for 1984’s Yentl, in which she also starred and supplied the soundtrack. Nonetheless, her singing remains dominant, with 11 number one albums, the most for any woman, including for 1964’s People, 1980’s Guilty with Barry Gibb, 1997’s Higher Ground, and 2014’s Partners. She returned to the Top 20 with 2018’s Walls and has showcased rare and unreleased material from throughout her career on her Release Me and Release Me 2 collections. Among her other accolades are five Emmy Awards, a Kennedy Center Honors prize, four Peabody Awards, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and nine Golden Globes. Away from performing, Streisand is an outspoken civil rights and environmental activist and created the Streisand Foundation. Born in 1942 and raised in Brooklyn, New York, she struggled briefly as an actress and nightclub singer in New York during the early ’60s before landing her first part in a Broadway show, I Can Get It for You Wholesale, in 1962. The cast album for that show, as well as a subsequent appearance on a studio revival of Pins and Needles, were her first recordings. Signed to Columbia Records, she released her first album, The Barbra Streisand Album, in 1963. It became a Top Ten, gold-selling record, thus paving the way for Streisand’s status as one of the best-selling recording artists of the early ’60s. But despite three successful albums by early 1964, Streisand turned her back on potentially lucrative concert bookings in favor of a starring role in the Broadway show Funny Girl, in which she appeared for more than two years. The song “People” from that show became her first Top Ten single, and the People album her first chart-topping LP. She turned to television in 1965 with My Name Is Barbra, the first of five network specials. In 1967, Streisand went to Hollywood to film Funny Girl, for which she would win an Academy Award. But by 1970, with her second and third films flopping and her recording career flagging in the face of rock, she seemed consigned to Las Vegas before turning 30. Instead, she returned to hitmaking with a Top Ten cover of Laura Nyro’s “Stoney End” and a successful non-singing performance in the comedy The Owl and the Pussycat. In the ’70s, Streisand successfully combined her musical and film acting interests, first in The Way We Were, a hit film with a theme song that became her first number one single, and then with A Star Is Born, which featured her second number one single, “Evergreen,” a song she co-wrote. From that point on, every album she released sold at least a million copies. In the late ’70s, she found recording success in collaboration: her duet with Neil Diamond, “You Don’t Bring Me Flowers,” hit number one, as did “No More Tears (Enough Is Enough),” a dance record sung with Donna Summer. She had her biggest-selling album in 1980 with Guilty, which was written and produced by Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees and contained the number one hit “Woman in Love.” In 1983, Streisand’s first directorial effort, Yentl, became a successful film with a Top Ten soundtrack album. In 1985, The Broadway Album returned her to the top of the charts. The year 1991 saw the release of Just for the Record…, a box set retrospective, and her second film as a director, The Prince of Tides. Streisand returned to the concert stage in 1994, resulting in the Top Ten, million-selling album The Concert. In 1996, she directed her third film, The Mirror Has Two Faces, and in 1999 she released A Love Like Ours. Timeless: Live in Concert, which was recorded at her Las Vegas show on New Year’s Eve 1999, was released on both CD and DVD in 2000. A year later, the new holiday album Christmas Memories arrived, followed in 2003 by a sequel to The Broadway Album entitled The Movie Album. A deluxe CD/DVD reissue of the original Guilty appeared in 2005 and was followed a month later by Guilty Pleasures, a new album that reunited Streisand with Gibb. She returned to the concert stage in 2006, a move that was documented in the 2007 Sony release Live in Concert. For her final release of the decade, Streisand turned her attention to jazz standards, and Love Is the Answer found her singing such songs as “Here’s to Life” and “In the Wee Small Hours.” Released in 2011, What Matters Most: Barbra Streisand Sings the Lyrics of Alan and Marilyn Bergman, featured ten Bergman tracks that the singer had never tackled, including “The Windmills of Your Mind” and “So Many Stars.” In 2012, a collection of previously unreleased material came to light, featuring tracks collated from hundreds of hours of ’60s acetates and 48-track tapes by Streisand and co-producer Jay Landers. Titled Release Me, the compilation includes recordings from 1967-2011 that provide a wonderful representation of her varied career. Streisand toured heavily in support of the release. One of the biggest dates on the tour was her first-ever show on her home turf, at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, which featured guest appearances from trumpeter Chris Botti and poperatic trio Il Volo. The show was recorded, and released in 2013 as the double live album Back to Brooklyn. In 2014, Streisand returned with the Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds-produced duets album Partners, featuring such guest artists as Michael Bublé, Andrea Bocelli, Lionel Richie, and John Mayer. Two years later, she followed up with Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway, which found her duetting on classic Broadway musical numbers alongside Alec Baldwin, Anne Hathaway, Hugh Jackman, and others. Both releases topped the Billboard 200. Streisand launched a concert tour in support of the Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway release, with the star performing 16 shows in 14 cities between August 2016 and May 2017. Streisand’s December 5, 2016 performance in Miami was documented on both audio and video; an album, The Music… The Mem’ries… The Magic!, was released in December 2017, while an accompanying concert video debuted on Netflix on November 22, 2017. The following year, she issued the Grammy-nominated Walls, a politically minded, socially conscious album borne out of her concerns over the state of the world and American democracy. It hit number six in the U.K. and reached number 12 on the Billboard 200. Her second volume of rare and previously unreleased material, Release Me 2, arrived in August 2021. – William Ruhlmann
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Barbra Streisand – The Way We Were (1974/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 35:24 minutes | 376 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia

“The Way We Were” is Barbra Streisand’s 1974 record. The album hit number 1 on the Billboard albums chart and remained there for two weeks and became a double platinum album by the RIAA. The Way We Were features singles “The Way We Were,” “Something So Right,” and “What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?”
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Barbra Streisand – The Music…The Mem’ries…The Magic! (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:50:45 minutes | 1,17 GB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia

The long-standing traditions of Broadway and nightclub stardom were beginning to fade under the influence of rock & roll and the changing tides of popular culture when Barbra Streisand got her big break in the stage musical I Can Get It for You Wholesale in 1962. But Streisand’s outsized talent and personality helped keep a glimmer of that brand of show biz glamour alive throughout a career that’s spanned six decades, and even in 2016, Streisand doesn’t just give a concert, she puts on a show. Streisand launched a 16-date concert tour following the release of her album Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway in August 2016, and The Music … The Mem’ries … The Magic! is a live album that preserves her December 5, 2016 performance in Miami. For this tour, Streisand took her fans down memory lane for a look at her past as a performer, as well as offering her own musings on her life, her career, and the world around her. Considering Streisand was 74 years old when this was recorded, her voice is in remarkably good shape; there are clearly notes she can’t hit any more, but she glides around them gracefully, and if there are moments where one can sense a strain in her instrument, her phrasing is clever enough to camouflage them. And most of the time, Streisand still possesses the vocal clarity she had in her youth, while her charisma and sense of drama are as powerful as ever. Along with her singing, Streisand delivers plenty of well-rehearsed patter that puts the songs in context while also giving her space to crack jokes (some of them even funny) and talk about her concerns (primarily the environment, politics, and the future of our children). This show was clearly a lovefest for all parties concerned, with the audience often shouting out requests and encouragement, and while there’s something just a bit disingenuous about Streisand’s efforts to sound surprised and bashful at the way her fans adore her, it’s clear they eat it up as much as any part of her act. And if Jamie Foxx seems an unlikely choice to give a spiel about Streisand’s brilliance in this show, their duet on “Climb Ev’ry Mountain” absolutely works. 55 years into one of the most remarkable careers in American show biz history, Barbra Streisand is still a masterful vocalist and performer, and The Music … The Mem’ries … The Magic! is a master class in how a legend gives her audience the show they want and makes the experience sound fresh and vital, even on songs she’s literally been singing for decades.
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Barbra Streisand – Release Me 2 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 33:51 minutes | 641 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia – Legacy

There is no one like Barbra Streisand. There’s never been a singer like her. As Release Me 2 proves over and over again, even a duet with a frog puppet can be magic if it includes her voice. But… Release Me 2 is pure audible catnip, a career-stretching, for-fans release of all previously unreleased tracks (and companion to 2012’s first volume). Like any truly great singer, Streisand makes each song here her own. Most comfortable in lush arrangements that allow her to soar, and ever willing to wade into schmaltz no matter how many violins
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Barbra Streisand – People (1964/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 33:30 minutes | 341 MB | Genre: Pop
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“People” was Barbra Streisand’s fourth studio album, released in 1964. The title track was a newly recorded version of the hit song from the Broadway musical “Funny Girl” in which Streisand starred. It was her first album of many to #1 on the Billboard Album Chart.
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Barbra Streisand – Partners (Deluxe) (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:11:04 minutes | 847 MB | Genre: Pop
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“Partners” is Barbra Streisand’s new album, featuring 12 inimitable new Streisand duets with the world’s greatest male vocalists. This is the legendary artist’s first duets album in more than a decade, and debuts new studio recordings of Streisand classics and others songs.
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Barbra Streisand – Love Is The Answer (2009)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 58:44 minutes | 593 MB | Genre: Pop
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Even before their first session together, Barbra Streisand and collaborator Diana Krall designed Love Is the Answer as a deeply emotional record: “each song an exploration concerning matters of the heart.” And with the arrangements of maestro Johnny Mandel simply drawing occasional shading around Streisand’s expressive voice — and often leaving her voice as the only instrument — the album goes well beyond the usual saloon-song tropes to become a heart-wrenching experience with virtually every song. Additionally, although much was made of the collaboration, Krall’s piano stays in the background, and Streisand’s is the only voice heard. But the song choices also were tailored to maximize the emotional impact of Love Is the Answer, and Streisand’s incomparable voice. Nearly every song is a classic of tender balladry, despite the fact that none had been put on album by Streisand before during her long career. Those facts alone should leave Streisand fans in ecstasy, as practically nothing stands in the way of her voice as she sings some of the best songs of the last century, aching and sincere with every melancholy or lovelorn ballad, tenderly strident with every (ultimately) uplifting anthem. “Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most” opens up like a flower akin to some of her best performances, and the same goes for “Make Someone Happy,” composed by the classic team of Jule Styne, Betty Comden, and Adolph Green (Styne composed the music for Streisand’s Funny Girl). Elsewhere, more classics of the American songbook — “Here’s That Rainy Day,” “Where Do You Start?,” “In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning,” “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes,” “Gentle Rain” — prove themselves irresistible to the Barbra Streisand treatment. The overall effect is that this is one of the Streisand albums most appealing to her fans and her potential fans — which includes nearly everyone who appreciates a singer singing like she’s lived every line of her songs. –John Bush
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Barbra Streisand – Higher Ground (1997/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 56:43 minutes | 586 MB | Genre: Pop
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As Barbra Streisand’s first studio album of mainstream pop material in nine years, Higher Ground is something of an oddity. Instead of devoting herself to Broadway standards or a set of radio-oriented pop tunes, Streisand has crafted a record that she intended as a tribute to the power of music as prayer. It’s an ambitious project, but for the most part it works, achieving a surprising grace. Higher Ground comprises both traditional religious songs and new material (even “Tell Him,” an overblown duet with Celine Dion, vaguely touches on that theme), with grandiose arrangements by Marvin Hamlisch. Although Streisand and Hamlisch still favor sweeping strings and bold statements — so much so that many of the songs sound remarkably similar to each other, in terms of dynamics and arrangements — the album retains its power thanks to her subtle interpretations of melody and lyrics. The end result might not quite match her latter-day masterpieces, but it’s another strong addition to her catalog. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine
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