Barbra Streisand - Love is the Answer
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Artist: Barbra StreisandEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Published: 2009
CD Release Date: 2009-09-29
Music Label: Sony
Product features:
- Barbra Streisand - Love Is The Answer (standard Version
- Here's To Life
- In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning
- Gentle Rain
- If You Go Away (Ne Me Quitte Pas)
- Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most
- Make Someone Happy
- Where Do You Start?
- A Time For Love
- Here's That Rainy Day
- Love Dance
- Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
- Some Other Time
- You Must Believe In Spring
Music reviews of Love is the Answer
Music Review: Fine Standards Album
Rating: 4 Stars
On this Diana Krall produced/assisted set, Barbra Streisand once again shines. Even sweeter may be the fact that the set surprisingly tops the Billboard 200 Albums Chart, beating out stiff competition from continually rising rock band Paramore (Brand New Eyes) as well as Pop-R&B diva Mariah Carey (Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel), albeit numbers were within 12,000 copies of each other. Conservative in scope, spacey, and achieving a certain jazzy ambiance, Love is the Answer, may not be revolutionary by any means, but it is one incredibly solid album. Most noteworthy is the fact that at a 'young' 67 years in age, Barbra Streisand sounds as if she's barely aged, vocally. Her voice is still pure, and subdued as a jazzy-club singer. Through the fifty-nine minute effort (in the standard edition), Barbra sounds astounding. The grand orchestration further makes 'Love is the Answer' as a worthy Grammy contender when it is eligible (2011; it misses the cut-off for the 2010 awards).
The album opens with the beautiful, spacey "Here's To Life", which finds Ms. Streisand accompanied by an extremely well mixed grand piano and lush string orchestrations. The track proves to be a perfect opener. Followed by another sensitive, though beautiful "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning", Mrs. Streisand once again maintains a certain purity, almost ethereal quality about her vocals; there is a natural innocence one can hear and feel as they imagine Streisand hearkening back to music's 'glory' days. As the tempo picks up, one can imagine they are in a jazz club sitting with their lover and feeling the 'romance' in which Streisand so magnificently extracts from these classic pop and jazz songs.
"Gentle Rain" doesn't deviate from the laid-back, pure style of "Here's to Life" or "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning", providing yet another lovely and restrained performance in which space contributes to the overall potency. "If You Go Away (Ne Me Quitte Pas)" begins with a simple acoustic guitar, giving the track a different flavor, sans acoustic grand piano. Slightly over a minute into the performance, upright bass, grand piano, and strings join in and provide a fine background to support Streisand's sensitive, yet passionate vocals.
"Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most" finds Streisand evoking the vocal affections of jazz with 'speech-like vocals', jazz phrasing, and impeccable nuance. While "Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most" should sound incredibly dated, a new beauty is born; something is special about this performance. Jazzed-up, modest piano work opens up the sweet, endearing standout "Make Someone Happy". "Where Do You Start?", "Time for Love" are as lush and solid as everything else. "Here's the Rainy Day" begins with a lovely flute solo with accompaniment before Streisand places her signature vocal stamp on the track; additionally a fine piano solo appears performed by Diana Krall.
"Love Dance" begins with sparse guitar, accentuating the timbre of Streisand's vocal, again shaping the track into an 'atmospheric' feel, not unlike Krall's solo album work. Streisand does great justice to one of my favorite songs of all, "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes", a timeless classic. "Some Other Time" and bonus track "You Must Believe in String" don't break the consistency established by Streisand from the get-go.
Well produced by all means (kudos to Diana Krall), exceptional song choice, and great, spot-on vocals by Streisand make Love Is the Answer a fantastic traditional pop album. Don't be surprised if 'Love' is a top Grammy contender in the 2011 ceremony. 4+ stars.
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Love is the Answer - One disc containing 13 songs (with orchestra) in a jewel box.Broadway & Vocalists CDs
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