Product Description

'The Essential Barbra Streisand' is a comprehensive two disc overview of the Brooklyn-born singer's career. The set contains eleven UK top forty singles, as well as her only no.1,'Woman In Love'. It also contains many songs from her career on stage and screen.

Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. A Sleepin' Bee
2. Cry Me A River
3. I Stayed Too Long At The Fair
4. Lover, Come Back To Me
5. People
6. My Man
7. Second Hand Rose
8. He Touched Me
9. Don't Rain On My Parade
10. Happy Days Are Here Again (from A Happening In Central Park)
11. On A Clear Day (You Can See Forever)
12. Stoney End
13. Since I Fell For You
14. What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life?
15. The Way We Were (from solo album)
16. All In Love Is Fair
17. Lazy Afternoon
18. Evergreen (Love Theme from "A Star Is Born")
19. My Heart Belongs To Me
20. You Don't Bring Me Flowers (Duet with Neil Diamond)
21. The Main Event/Fight
22. No More Tears (Enough Is Enough) (Duet with Donna Summer)

Disc 2:

1. Woman In Love
2. Guilty (Duet with Barry Gibb)
3. Comin' In And Out Of Your Life
4. Memory
5. Papa, Can You Hear Me?
6. A Piece Of Sky
7. Putting It Together
8. Not While I'm Around
9. Send In The Clowns
10. Somewhere
11. All I Ask Of You
12. Children Will Listen
13. As If We Never Said Goodbye (from Back To Broadway)
14. I Finally Found Someone (Duet with Bryan Adams)
15. Tell Him (Duet with Celine Dion)
16. I've Dreamed Of You
17. Someday My Prince Will Come (Bonus Track/Previously Unreleased)
18. You'll Never Walk Alone (Bonus Track/Previously Unreleased)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1178 in Music
• Released on: 2007-07-09
• Number of discs: 2

Amazon.co.uk Review
Barbra Streisand's bravado made her one of the 1960s' overnight sensations. This 40-cut Essential Collection 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 1983s 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 1970s, a diva summit with Celine Dion led to the car wreck of 1997s "Tell Him". Essential wraps up with previously unreleased takes of "Someday My Prince Will Come" and "You'll Never Walk Alone". --Rickey Wright

Customer Reviews

Collection
I think the last reviewer (Dr Powell) bought the wrong album (Il Divo are on the live album sir!.. ah bless)
A superb collection of her finest songs.

Warning: Il Divo is NOWHERE on this CD
For those of you who are thinking about buying this CD because of Barbara Streisand doing a duet with Il Divo....BEWARE: Il Divo is nowhere to be found on this double CD. This is false advertising by Amazon. This CD is a compilation of selected favorites from her earlier CDs, which still show off Barbara's fantastic voice. However, I think the public deserves to be warned about the misleading promotion of Il Divo in a double CD that doesn't include them.

Love Barbra!!!!
I have listened to these two CDs so many times! I love every song on this CD. Barbra Streisand is the best, she has an amamazing voice, and this is one cool album! If you don't have this CD you should get it! Barbra's amazing voice and talent will make you fall in love with her!!!