What Matters Most Barbra Streisand Sings The Lyrics Of Alan & Marilyn Bergman

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Total Tracks: 20   Total Length: 80:14

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The revered and enduring vocalist follows up her 2009 jazz standards set Love Is the Answer (which made her the first artist to score U.S. number one albums in five consecutive decades) and 2010′s Ultimate Collection with this, her 33rd studio album. It fulfills her longstanding ambition to make a whole record of songs penned by her old friends, the award-winning husband-and-wife duo of Alan and Marilyn Bergman, whose work she has been performing for much of her career. The album, produced by Streisand herself, is solely comprised of tracks she has never before recorded, including such classics as the Oscar-winning “The Windmills of Your Mind” from the 1968 film The Thomas Crown Affair. – John D. Buchanan

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