Barbra Streisand

Barbra Streisand – Guilty (1980/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 42:03 minutes | 465 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia

The biggest selling album of Barbra Streisand’s career is also one of her least characteristic. The album was written and produced by Barry Gibb in association with his brothers and the producers of the Bee Gees, and in essence it sounds like a post-Saturday Night Fever Bee Gees album with vocals by Streisand. Gibb adapted his usual style somewhat, especially in slowing the tempos and leaving more room for the vocal, but his melodic style and the backup vocals, even when they are not sung by the Bee Gees, are typical of them. Still, the record was more hybrid than compromise, and the chart-topping single “Woman in Love” has a sinuous feel that is both right for Streisand and new for her. Other hits were the title song and “What Kind of Fool,” both duets with Gibb. (The song “Guilty” won a Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal by Duo or Group.) ~ William Ruhlmann
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Barbra Streisand – Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 43:40 minutes | 509 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia

“ENCORE: MOVIE PARTNERS SING BROADWAY” is the new album from Barbra Streisand. The album features 10 new Streisand duets of Broadway classics with some of the biggest stars in Hollywood. The inspired new musical pairings include Anne Hathaway, Daisy Ridley, Patrick Wilson, Hugh Jackman, Alec Baldwin, Chris Pine, Antonio Banderas, Jamie Foxx, Seth MacFarlane, and a spectacular virtual duet with Anthony Newley. This album follows 2014’s “Partners”, which debuted at # 1 on the Billboard Top 200, and received Platinum Certification.

The greatest star to ever come out of Broadway, Streisand returns to her roots with “ENCORE: Movie Partners Sing Broadway.” The legendary performer rose to unprecedented fame while starring on Broadway beginning with her stage debut in “I Can Get It For You Wholesale” in 1962 and then as comedienne Fanny Brice in the Broadway production of “Funny Girl” in 1964, earning Tony nominations for both turns. Streisand’s vey first record album, 1963’s “The Barbra Streisand album,” which earned Grammys for Album of the Year and Best Female Vocal Performances, featured several Broadway standards. In 1985 Streisand released “The Broadway Album” and in 1993 “Back to Broadway;” both albums went multi-platinum.

With the longest span of number one albums in history – six decades – Streisand has recorded 52 gold, 31 platinum and 13 multi-platinum albums in her career. She is the only woman to make the All-Time Top 10 Best Selling Artists list. With the release of her last album, “Partners,” Streisand has had 33 albums make the Top 10 on the US charts. She is the only female artist to have achieved this milestone, tying her with Frank Sinatra. With ten, Streisand is the female artist with the most number one albums in Billboard’s history. Widely recognized as an icon in multiple entertainment fields, Streisand has attained unprecedented achievements as a recording artist, actor, concert performer, producer, director, author and songwriter. Streisand has been awarded two Oscars, five Emmys, ten Golden Globes, eight Grammys plus two special Grammys, a special Tony award in 1970, and two CableACE Awards the only artist to receive honors in all of those fields of endeavor. Streisand received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama this past November. Her many other honors include the American Film Institute’s Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Endowment for the Arts Medal, three Peabody Awards and the French Légion d’Honneur. She is also the first female film director to receive the Kennedy Center Honors. Streisand is a devoted philanthropist who works tirelessly to fight for what she believes in. A woman of action, Streisand founded The Barbra Streisand Women s Heart Center at Cedars-Sinai and co-founded the Women’s Heart Alliance, helping to raise awareness and push for more research into women’s heart disease, the leading cause of death among women.
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Barbra Streisand – Classical Barbra (1976/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 40:14 minutes | 816 MB | Genre: Clasical, Vocal, Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Masterworks

Barbra Streisand is one of the most distinguished pop singers of our generation. She showed there was no limit to her talents when she released Classical Barbra. The masterpiece is her groundbreaking classical crossover album from 1976. It made a definitive statement in the classical music realm. Glenn Gould praised her voice as “one of the natural wonders of the age, an instrument of infinite diversity and timbral resource.” It remains one of the first and still one of the greatest records we know today as “classical crossover.” Nominated for Best Classical Performance – Vocal Soloist at the GRAMMYS®, the album would go on to be certified gold. The work now includes two previously unreleased bonus tracks: “An Sylvia, D.891” and “Auf dem wasser zu singen, D.774.” Joined by the Columbia Symphony Orchestra led by Claus Ogerman, Streisand performs in English, French, Italian, Latin and German. It features art songs and arias by a range of European composers from Handel and Schumann to Debussy and Faure. Absolutely essential.
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Barbra Streisand – Barbra Streisand’s Greatest Hits Volume II (1978/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 37:18 minutes | 390 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia

Released in 1978, this greatest hits compilation features some of Barbra Streisand’s greatest hits from the years 1970-1978. It has been certified 5x Platinum by the RIAA.
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Barbra Streisand – Back to Brooklyn (Live) (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:19:22 minutes | 827 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia

Back to Brooklyn is the eighth live album by Barbra Streisand, which was released in the US on November 25, 2013. The album was recorded over two nights in October 2012 during the Barbra: Live tour stop, held at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center. The album peaked at number 189 on the Top Current Albums chart. It also charted in Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
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Barbra Streisand – Back to Broadway (1993/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 50:14 minutes | 542 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia

“Back to Broadway” is the twenty-sixth studio album by Barbra Streisand, released in 1993. The album was Streisand’s second collection of songs from Broadway musicals, after 1985’s “The Broadway Album”. It debuted at number 1 on the Billboard 200 chart and gave her the title of “only female artist to have a number one album in four different decades”. The album has been certified 2× Platinum by the RIAA, her fifth album to do so.
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