Evergreen: Music from the Films of Barbra Streisand
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Orchestra: See Tracklist Lable (Release Year): Sonic Images Records (1999) Availability: **** Rating: ***1/2 |
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Although I am not a fan of Barbra Streisand, both in terms of her songs and films (in fact, I don't thing have seen any of her films), I am quite fond of the music from her films. I own the original soundtracks to The Way We Were, The Mirror Has Two Faces, and The Prince of Tides and I like all of them. Despite the good music from her films, I don't think that there is a compliation album of music from her films before. This is probably the first one. This album contains both previously released reordings and new recordings, with the latter ones performed by The City of Prague Orchestra. The first track from Funny Girl is the standard type of music that you will hear from a musical. In other words, it is one of those tracks that you can hear from a album of instrumental boardway music. The second track "The Way We Were" is, of course, the orchestral version of Streisand's classic song - "The Way We Were". The next track, "Main Title" from The Mirror Has Two Faces is my least favorite track of the album. It's not because of the music itself but the poor performance of it. Luckily, this is the only poorly performed track in the album. All of the other tracks are performed pretty well. The selection from Prisoner is a favorite track of mine. It has a very moving saxophone melody playing over the huge orchestra through out. The selection from A Star Is Born is another classic. So I don't have to say anymore here. The theme from The Prince of Tides has always been one of my favorite theme and The City of Prague Philharmonic gave an excellent performance of it. The last track from Yentl, which takes up a good portion of the album , is somewhat different than the other tracks. The track is conducted by the comoposer Michel Legrand himself. It is a very formal Harp concerto piece. So it does not go "straight to the point" like other tracks does. It builds up slowly and the orchestra bloosoms in the middle and end point. In general, this is a very good album if you like pop orchestra music. Every track is the core of each film score and there is really no dull moments. But as a serious film music fan, you probably want to listen some of them as a whole instead of just one track. Nonetheless, it is an enjoyable compilation would definitely not disappoint those who like to the orchestral version of some of Streisand's songs. | |
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