Essential BarbaraBarbara Cook is the greatest theatrical singer in concert that Broadway or the West End has ever known. DRG hasn't come up with this declaration. It's been said by both Stephen Holden and Anthony Tommasini of The New York Times, Sheridan Morley of The London Times and the Manchester Guardian, Frank Rich, Stephen Sondheim and the list goes on and on and on. For the past 17 years and 14 albums and one DVD, DRG has been proud to have recorded Barbara.