Barbra Streisand - Love Is The Answer CD (2009)

The first full-length collection of new studio recordings from eight-time Grammy award winner Barbra Streisand since 2005's Guilty Pleasures. Love Is The Answer showcases the artist as a singer of emotional clarity, depth and maturity, offering the listener a selection of heartfelt late-night meditations on love's powers, heartbreaks and solaces. It provides an opportunity for Streisand to work for the first time with the Grammy-winning Canadian jazz artist Diana Krall and her quartet (piano, guitar, bass, drums) who bring a refined and sensual poignancy to the album's sophisticated and subtle accompaniments.

Rounding out the album's smoky after-hours ambience with his sublime orchestrations is the legendary songwriter ("The Shadow of Your Smile") and Grammy-winning arranger Johnny Mandel (who worked with Streisand on her 1993 Back to Broadway album and arranged/co-produced Krall's 1998 Grammy-winning When I Look In Your Eyes).

The deluxe version of the album is a two-disc package that features the Mandel arranged orchestra versions on disc one and quartet counterparts on disc two featuring Barbra accompanied only by quartet (piano, bass, guitar & drums).

Deluxe Edition

Liner Note Authors: Diana Krall; Jay Landers; Barbra Streisand.

Recording information: Capitol Studios, Hollywood, CA.

Photographers: John Clayton; Mary Maurer; Barbra Streisand.

Arranger: Johnny Mandel.

Personnel: Anthony Wilson (guitar); Jeff Hamilton (drums).

Audio Mixer: Al Schmitt.

Track:
Love Is The Answer CD DISC 1: WITH ORCHESTRA:
1. Here's To Life
2. In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning
3. Gentle Rain
4. If You Go Away (No Me Quitte Pas)
5. Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most
6. Make Someone Happy
7. Where Do You Start?
8. Time For Love, A
9. Here's That Rainy Day
10. Love Dance
11. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
12. Some Other Time
13. You Must Believe In Spring

Love Is The Answer Songs DISC 2: QUARTET VERSIONS:
1. Here's To Life
2. In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning
3. Gentle Rain
4. If You Go Away (Ne Me Quitte Pas)
5. Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most
6. Make Someone Happy
7. Where Do You Start?
8. Time For Love, A
9. Here's That Rainy Day
10. Love Dance
11. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
12. Some Other Time
13. You Must Believe In Spring

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