Barbra Streisand - A Christmas Album
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Artist: Barbra StreisandEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 1999-10-01
Music Label: SonyBMG Special Markets
Soundtracks:
- Jingle Bells
- Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
- Christmas Song
- White Christmas
- My Favorite Things
- Best Gift
- Sleep in Heavenly in Peace (Silent Night)
- Gounod's Ave Maria
- O Little Town of Bethlehem
- I Wonder as I Wander
- Lord's Prayer
Music reviews of A Christmas Album
Music Review: "Upsot?"
Rating: 4 Stars
With so many Christmas albums on the market, it can be something of a comfort to be able to just pour yourself a little egg nog, slip an old classic into the CD player, and prop up your feet. For many listeners, Barbra Streisand's first holiday album is just that, a true classic. Hard to believe the record is more than 40 years old, and also hard to imagine that La Streisand's interpretations of any number of classic Christmas songs were considered kind of daring for their day, but they were. Her torchy version of "My Favorite Things" was miles away from any bucolic Alpine setting, for instance. And while there have been any number of jazzed up "Jingle Bells" in the intervening years, but Babs' remains among the most charming and inventive. It's a fun opening track, which announces in its own subtle (yes, subtle) way, that Christmas may or may not be the artist's own holiday ("Upsot??), but she's more than ready to partake of the merriment.
Of course, as so many have noted, most of the album is slow tempo and reflective--and with one or exceptions--the holiday classics that just about every pop singer of the era was including on their Christmas album. No matter. Streisand brings something unique to each song, even when the arrangement is pretty standard. Her version of "Silent Night" is straightforward enough, but you hear characteristic Streisand flourishes that make her take on it a unique one. I suppose that the people who would later lambaste CLASSICAL BARBRA would likely have the same criticisms of her interpretation of "Ave Maria" on this record. Since it was just one song, however, most listeners probably listened to it, admired her willingness to tackle something a little more in the classical vein and therefore more challenging. At least, I don't recall anyone complaining about her brassy, Broadway approach to such material at the time. But then, there wasn't all that much anti-Babs backlash back in '67. You could experiment a bit back then, and not have to worry so much about the purists. And that was a good thing.
It's also a good thing to have this record available as a budget-line CD, without anything cut deleted. I do miss the original "starburst" cover though, which was classic in and of itself. sure why they had to change it, but the 70s-era photo on the budget release, while nice, seems something of an anachronism. She looks as though she's going to burst into a chorus of "Christmas At the Stoney End" here. It's quibbling I suppose, but the album dates back to the days of "big hair Barbra," not the would-be hipster of the mid-70s. But that is just packaging, after all. Content is king, and the content is pure gold--if not frankincense and myrrh.
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