Barbra Streisand to Release Demo-Filled ‘Yentl’ Deluxe Soundtrack and a Career Retrospective Ahead of Fall Memoir
variety.comChris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Before she issues her memoir this November, Barbra Streisand will be giving fans a couple of soundtracks for all that reading, in the form of two music releases due shortly beforehand on Oct.
27. One is a career retrospective, “Evergreens: Celebrating Six Decades on Columbia Records,” and the other is “Yentl: 40th Anniversary Edition,” which includes a disc’s worth of previously unreleased material.
The second disc of the “Yentl” package is what will undoubtedly be most tantalizing to hardcore fans, as it includes 15 demos or alternate versions of that film soundtrack’s songs.
The bulk of the unreleased materials is 10 demos Streisand recorded in her living room accompanied by Michel Legrand on piano, recorded on a stereo cassette deck, with the singer offering narrative introductions to each track — “Streisand au naturel,” as a press release puts it.
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