Christmas Memories

Product Description For a lovely evening by the fire hanging stockings and roasting chestnuts might we suggest a touch of Babs. Includes I'll Be Home For Christmas; A Christmas Love Song; Snowbound; Grown-up Christmas List; Ave Maria and more. Tienda What's a nice Jewish girl from Brooklyn cum internationally renowned pop diva doing releasing a(nother) Christmas album? Well, maintaining a long-lived American tradition, for one thing. But then, this companion piece to Barbra Streisand's 1967 A Christmas Album has a mature, jazzy charm and sometimes smoky atmosphere that don't exactly conjure chestnuts roasting by an open fire. Just as Streisand has always used music as a stepping stone to something more ambitiously dramatic, she's used the holiday season here as an excuse to explore rich emotional sentiments, if not necessarily sentimentalism itself. As on its 1960s forebear, her choice of material here is mostly as fresh as it is surprising. Among the contemporary More Usual Suspects (David Foster's "Grown-up Christmas List," "A Christmas Love Song," and "Christmas Mem'ries" by Alan and Marilyn Bergman) are gems familiar ("I'll Be Home For Christmas," "What Are You Doing Christmas Eve?") and rare (Sondheim's updated "I Remember," "It Must Have Been the Mistletoe"). While not bathos-exempt (see "Closer"), Streisand's rich, ever-expressive voice masterfully drives a collection that stretches from "Ave Maria" (Schubert's, this time) to the ecumenical timeliness of "One God." --Jerry McCulley

Detalles del producto Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No Idioma : Inglés Dimensiones del producto : 5.61 x 4.92 x 0.41 pulgadas; 3.68 Onzas Fabricante : Sony Legacy Fecha de lanzamiento original : 2001 Tiempo de ejecución : 47 minutos Producto en Tienda desde : Julio 27, 2006 Etiqueta : Sony Legacy ASIN : B00005QCNC País de origen : EE. UU. Número de discos : 1 Clasificación en los más vendidos de Amazon: nº75,725 en CDs y Vinilo (Ver el Top 100 en CDs y Vinilo) nº190 en Vocalistas Clásicos de Broadway nº834 en No Opera Vocal nº861 en Pop Tradicional de Oldies Opiniones de clientes: 4.6 de 5 estrellas 329 calificaciones Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No Idioma : Inglés Dimensiones del producto : 5.61 x 4.92 x 0.41 pulgadas; 3.68 Onzas Fabricante : Sony Legacy Fecha de lanzamiento original : 2001 Tiempo de ejecución : 47 minutos Producto en Tienda desde : Julio 27, 2006 Etiqueta : Sony Legacy ASIN : B00005QCNC País de origen : EE. UU. Número de discos : 1