Barbra Streisand

Streisand tours the Oscar-winning Legrand/Bergman score from the film Yentl, her directorial debut. It's a complex, lyrical song cycle of the highest quality, but one that seems to separate diehard Babs fanatics from most human beings.

It's hard to imagine any single album less likely to sell on its musical merits than Yentl,
soundtrack to the film starring, produced and directed by Barbra Streisand. Layered over
dialogue and incidental moments in the film, these songs are the private thoughts of our
heroine, sung from semi-whispers to Broadway belts by Streisand and accompanied by
Michel Legrand's violins. Though the lyrics, by Alan and Marilyn Bergman, are ma... More >