Album Review: Barbara Streisand - Partners

The collaborations on Barbra Streisand’s 34th studio album Partners often make for awkward pairings, like the ebony and whiter-than-ivory coupling of Stevie Wonder and Streisand. There are strange ethical questions raised when Streisand’s duets with the dead fail, despite today’s recording studio magic, to sound authentic. As she soars around Sinatra’s low croon, it’s a reminder of just how far this genre has been blown out of proportion. Nonetheless, her recording of What Kind Of Fool achieves some sense of emotional heights, and Lost Inside Of You successfully wraps the two singers’ voices around each other like vines.