Yentl

Performer: Original Soundtrack/Barbra Streisand
Engineer: Don Hahn; Keith Grant
Producer: Dave Grusin; Alan Bergman; Marilyn Bergman; Phil Ramone; Barbra Streisand
Distributor: Sony Music Distribution (

Notes: Composed by Barbra Streisand. Audio Remixers: Don Hahn; Jim Boyer; Tommy Vicari. Recording information: A & M Recordin; Lion Share Recording Studios; Olympic Studios, London, England; Village Recorders, Los Angeles, CA. Photographer: David James. Arrangers: Dave Grusin; Michel Legrand. Billed as both a Barbra Streisand album and as an original motion picture soundtrack, Yentl contains the songs, sung by Streisand and written by Michel Legrand and Alan and Marilyn Bergman, that the character played by Streisand sings as internal monologues in the film, sometimes with spoken dialogue interspersed. (The album is filled out by "studio versions" of two of the songs, "The Way He Makes Me Feel" and "No Matter What Happens," played on contemporary electronic instruments, rather than in the orchestral settings used for the rest of the songs.) With such a thematic base, the music has an unusual consistency, and written specifically for Streisand, it makes use of her emotional expressiveness, phrasing, and timing as a singer. But it was also written as a complement to the film and on its own comes across as a group of isolated musical plot highlights rather than as a coherent song cycle. (Yentl won an Academy Award for Best Original Song Score.) ~ William Ruhlmann

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