There are some albums you listen to. And then there are albums that feel like music history sitting in your hands. Barbra Streisand’s new project, “The Secret Of Life: Partners, Volume Two,” is exactly that.

Think about it for a second. On one record, you get the voices your parents grew up with and the artists filling today’s playlists. Paul McCartney and Bob Dylan. James Taylor and Sting. Sam Smith, Hozier, Ariana Grande, Mariah Carey, Tim McGraw, Laufey, Josh Groban, and more. One woman in the middle, holding all of those eras together.

When she chooses to sing with a newer artist, it is like she is writing their name into the story of popular music. At the same time, icons like McCartney still call the sessions with her “nerve wracking,” because sharing a mic with an EGOT winner is no small thing.

In one track, you can hear what the article is talking about: a 1960s standard, reimagined by a woman who helped define that era, now sharing space with one of today’s most respected singer songwriters. Their traded lines and quiet harmonies feel like a handoff between generations, proof that Streisand is really honoring the past while actively inviting younger voices into the same timeless story. It is the album’s mission in one song.

If the new album shows Barbra building fresh bridges, this moment with Josh Groban reminds you how deep some of those bridges already go. Their duet on “Somewhere” comes from the first Partners project, and it is no accident that Groban is the only guest invited back for Volume Two. The performance feels like a promise kept: her clear, dramatic voice wrapped around his powerful, classical tone on a song about hope and a better world.