Track Listing DISC 1: 1. Funny Girl Broadway Overture 2. Starting Here, Starting Now 3. Opening Remarks 4. Down With Love 5. Way We Were, The 6. Songwriting (Dialogue) 7. Ma Premiere Chanson - (French) 8. Evergreen - (with Il Divo) 9. Come Rain or Come Shine 10. Funny Girl - (Dialogue) 11. Funny Girl 12. Music That Makes Me Dance, The 13. My Man 14. People - (Dialogue) 15. People
DISC 2: 1. Entr'acte 2. Music of the Night, The - (with Il Divo) 3. Jason's Theme 4. Carefully Taught/Children Will Listen 5. Unusual Way 6. What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life? 7. Happy Days Are Here Again 8. (Have I Stayed) Too Long at the Fair? 9. William Saroyan (Dialogue) 10. Time of Your Life, The 11. Cockeyed Optimist, A 12. Somewhere - (Dialogue) 13. Somewhere - (with Il Divo) 14. My Shining Hour 15. Don't Rain on My Parade - (Reprise) 16. Smile
| Details | | Playing Time: | 92 min. | | Distributor: | Sony Music Distribution ( | | Recording Type: | Live | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes This two-disc, 31-track set is a full capitulation of the set Barbra Streisand performed over the course of her 2006 tour. Billed as her final run of extensive live performances, the tour had the sense of A Big Event about it from the moment it was first announced. STREISAND: LIVE IN CONCERT does not stint on that feeling of importance, from the extensive, photo-heavy packaging to the pair of jam-packed discs. Covering the entirety of Barbra Streisand's musical career, from 1960s breakthroughs like "Funny Girl," "Down With Love" and "People" to later career highlights like "The Way We Were" and "Evergreen" to a trawl through the catalogue of standards. As always on her live albums, Streisand's extended stage raps are included: two riffs on the author William Saroyan and the art of songwriting are particularly enjoyable. Though perhaps not as spellbinding as Barbra Streisand was at the peak of her musical powers three or four decades before, STREISAND: LIVE IN CONCERT shows how remarkably little her vocal gifts and her skill as a live performer have diminished. Indeed, there's a magical, regal effortlessness to much of this set.
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