The Deluxe Editions are great new editions to the Sony Music catalogue. Giving the fan two great albums for the price of one.

This version has Barbra's Streisand's amazing albums 'Encore' and 'Partners' which both charted very highly on the Australian ARIA charts and would make the perfect gift this mother's day.

Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway
Columbia Records/Sony Music Australia are pleased to release Barbra Streisand's 'Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway' album, which features 10 new Streisand duets of Broadway classics with some of the biggest stars in Hollywood, plus 4 bonus tracks by Streisand. The inspired new musical pairings on 'Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway' include Alec Baldwin, Antonio Banderas, Jamie Foxx, Anne Hathaway, Hugh Jackman, Seth MacFarlane, Melissa McCarthy, Chris Pine, Daisy Ridley, Patrick Wilson, and a spectacular virtual duet with Anthony Newley.

The greatest star to ever come out of Broadway, Streisand returns to her roots with 'Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway.' The legendary performer rose to unprecedented fame while starring on Broadway beginning with her stage debut in "I Can Get It For You Wholesale" in 1962 and then as comedienne Fanny Brice in the Broadway production of "Funny Girl" in 1964, earning Tony nominations for both turns. Streisand's vey first record album, 1963's 'The Barbra Streisand Album,' which earned Grammys for Album of the Year and Best Female Vocal Performances, featured several Broadway standards. In 1985 Streisand released 'The Broadway Album' and in 1993 'Back to Broadway;' both albums went multi-platinum.

With the longest span of number one albums in history - six decades - Streisand has recorded 52 gold, 31 platinum and 13 multi-platinum albums in her career. She is the only woman to make the All-Time Top 10 Best Selling Artists list. Her last album, Partners, is her first #1 in ARIA album chart history and her first #1 since 1980's Guilty.

Widely recognized as an icon in multiple entertainment fields, Streisand has attained unprecedented achievements as a recording artist, actor, concert performer, producer, director, author and songwriter. Streisand has been awarded two Oscars, five Emmys, ten Golden Globes, eight Grammys plus two special Grammys, a special Tony award in 1970, and two CableACE Awards – the only artist to receive honours in all of those fields of endeavour.

Partners
Consummate performer and all-time best-selling female artist Barbra Sreisand releases her upcoming duets album, 'Partners'! The album features duets with some of music's greatest and most iconic male voices including Michael Bublé, John Legend, Stevie Wonder, Billy Joel, and John Mayer, with production duties handled by Kenny "Babyface" Edmonds & Walter Afanasieff.

'Partners' features brand new recordings of some Barbra's most classic songs including "The Way We Were," "People," "Evergreen," "Somewhere" and more, with some classic tracks from her duet partners – "New York State Of Mind" (Billy Joel) and "Love Me Tender" (Elvis Presley) - plus brand new tracks.

Actress/ singer Barbra Streisand is the only artist ever to receive Oscar, Tony, Emmy, Grammy, Directors Guild of America, Golden Globe, National Medal of Arts and Peabody Awards and France's Légion d'honneur as well as the American Film Institute's Lifetime Achievement Award. An eight-time Grammy Award winner, she is the only performer to have Number One albums in five consecutive decades. According to the RIAA, her 51 gold albums, 30 platinum albums and 18 multi-platinum albums exceed all other female singers. The RIAA also notes that her 72.5 million album sales tops its list of album sales by a female singer. Barbra is the only female among the top ten album-selling recording artists. A millennium poll by the Reuters news agency identified her as the favorite female singer of the 20th Century.