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Title: Just like old times...
Review: Not since "The Broadway Album" has Streisand sounded so sure of herself. I think it's a universal opinion that this is not a "traditional" holiday collection, but any way you look at this package, it is darn good. Her last few "studio" albums were either terribly over-produced, or just plain boring. Here, she has the restraint that she displayed in her 70's recordings. This is not backround music for the Christmas holiday (that's what Johnny Mathis is for), and it is one of the few albums where she doesn't seem to be driving a "message" into our brains. Why this woman has not recorded the Sondheim songbook is beyond me! Everything, of his, she records is brilliant. I have every album/cd she has done and this is one of the best. It's intimate...like having a friend over that tells a really good story. The kind of story that loses something in translation. You gotta here it from the true source.Kudos, Barbra!
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