Barbra Streisand - Streisand: Live In Concert (2 CD's)
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Artist: Barbra StreisandEdition: Music CD
Audio: German (Unknown); English (Original Language); German (Published)
Published: 2007-05-25
CD Release Date: 2007-05-08
Music Label: Sony
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- STREISAND BARBRA LIVE EN CONCERT 2006 (2CD)
Music CD 1
- Funny Girl Broadway Overture
- Starting Here, Starting Now
- Opening Remarks
- Down With Love
- The Way We Were
- Songwriting (Dialogue)
- Ma Premiere Chanson
- Evergreen
- Come Rain Or Come Shine
- Funny Girl
- Funny Girl
- The Music That Makes Me Dance
- My Man
- People
- People
- Entr'acte
- The Music Of The Night
- Jason's Theme
- Carefully Taught/Children Will Listen
- Unusual Way
- What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life?
- Happy Days Are Here Again
- (Have I Stayed) Too Long At The Fair?
- William Saroyan (Dialogue)
- The Time Of Your Life
- A Cockeyed Optimist
- Somewhere
- Somewhere
- My Shining Hour
- Don't Rain On My Parade
- Smile
Music reviews of Streisand: Live In Concert (2 CD's)
Music Review: An Autumnal Streisand in Concert Displays Elegance, Humor, Depth and That Still Incredible Voice
Rating: 4 Stars
Her lower register has developed a burnished throatiness, and some of her more precocious high notes escape her now. However, the lustrous glow of her voice is still very much in evidence, and the melisma and dramatic conviction remain unparalleled. In her mid-sixties, Barbra Streisand is a willful force of nature, a multi-media conglomerate based on a most singular persona, and easily the most accomplished song stylist of her generation. As expected, her Fall 2006 tour was as much a commemoration of her nearly half-century career as it was a cause célèbre for her renowned liberal causes via her foundation. I was fortunate to have seen her in San Jose in mid-November, and even if this was recorded earlier in her tour in New York, Washington, D.C. and Ft. Lauderdale, this two-disc set represents a wonderful remembrance of that evening, as well as a pristine document of a beautifully turned performance for those who missed it.
First things first, the concert is not the therapeutic exercise in self-introspection like Streisand's two previous comebacks (1994's Barbra: The Concert or 2000's Timeless: Live in Concert). She is much more relaxed with her stage patter this time and with her political conscience on relatively limited display. Neither the comedy sketch nor the pointed duets with George W. Bush impersonator Steve Bridges are included here, nor the heckling that inspired her infamous retort. Played by a 58-piece orchestra, the opening is a rousing rendition of the Broadway overture from Funny Girl, which leads to Streisand's enthusiastically greeted entrance as she sonorously sings her long-ago stand-by, "Starting Here, Starting Now". She makes a comically studied attempt at the piano to re-introduce us to her first composition, the very Gallic-flavored "Ma Premiere Chanson" (which in hindsight, sounds very much like "Lost Inside of You" from A Star Is Born).
Many of her fan favorites were expected and are accounted for here by necessity - "People", "Don't Rain on My Parade", "The Way We Were", "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?" - with the arrangements almost the same as the recorded versions but with her immaculate professionalism still making them sound fresh. There is a decidedly sentimental Funny Girl medley in which she sings the title song and "My Man" from the film version, as well as the torchy ballad, "The Music That Makes Me Dance", from the Broadway version. The second disc contains welcome additions to her repertoire - Maury Yeston's wistful "Unusual Way" from the musical Nine; Harold Arlen's WWII-era chestnut, "My Shining Hour"; and a galloping take on Rodgers and Hammerstein's "A Cockeyed Optimist" from South Pacific combined fittingly with an excerpt from William Saroyan's "The Time of Your Life".
Songs from her early performing years are sprinkled throughout - a smoky nightclub version of "Down With Love", the poignantly evocative "(Have I Stayed) Too Long at the Fair?", and of course, her signature song, the slow-tempo version of "Happy Days Are Here Again". If there is one misstep on this recording, it is not Streisand's per se but the unsubtle bombast of the stentorian popera group, Il Divo, on three ensemble tracks - "Evergreen", "The Music of the Night" and "Somewhere". The concert ends appropriately with her touching rendition of Charlie Chaplin's "Smile", though Barnes and Noble offers a bonus track in their package, "When the Sun Comes Out" which she remembers as the song that caused her stage fright in Central Park (A Happening in Central Park). If this turns out to be Streisand's valedictory live recording, it is a most worthy one.
Description of Streisand: Live In Concert (2 CD's)
STREISAND BARBRA LIVE EN CONCERT 2006 (2CD)There's a reason Barbra Streisand's 2006 tour broke the arena house record in every city it visited, and it's because she's not only a legend but (still) a performer who effortlessly twists intimacy and friendliness and fierceness into a perfect, sturdy braid. This two-disc set, which pulls performances from dates in New York, Washington, D.C., and Fort Lauderdale, will raise its share of goosebumps. For longtime fans, they'll be a reaction to songs Streisand hasn't touched since the '70s and earlier, including "(Have I Stayed) Too Long At the Fair?" and "Unusual Way," from the Broadway musical Nine. For relative newbies, they'll be a response to her between-song patter, which touches with grace, wit, and sincerity on everything from her love for her son to her political leanings to her limitations as songwriter. The voice, of course, enthralls--there it is glowing on "Carefully Taught," one of four songs that have never before appeared on a Streisand recording, and there it is again wrapping luxurious tones all around "Evergreen," one of three songs she shares with Il Divo. Streisand--diva, political dynamo, superstar--still knows how to orchestrate a showstopper. --Tammy La Gorce
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