For more than fifty years, the writer couple Alan and Marilyn Bergman have been a major contributor to the Great American Songbook. The couple, married in 1958, write lyrics for film, theater and television set by famous composers such as , , , and others. Barbra Streisand was only an eighteen-year-old singing actress in Greenwich Village when she met the couple and from that moment on a particularly
… warm, loving relationship developed. Their muse has already performed more than fifty songs, including the award-winning song The Way We Were (from the film A Star Is Born) and the score for Yentl (with music by Legrand). Streisand's studio album What Matters Most is an exclusive tribute to the Bergmans, in which she performs precisely those songs she had never recorded before. The theme of the songs, contained in elegant poetry, is - how could it be otherwise - love in all its colorful nuances. Hollywood's best musicians under the direction of conductor and arranger provided the atmospheric and subtle accompaniment. (SvdP)more
