Extracts from “Ah, Leave Me Not To Pine”
by Gilbert and Sullivan
Label, Year
Music Collection International, 1997
Review
Most delicious orchestral composition I can
imagine. This is why I love film music. Poetical, dramatic, romantic, divine,
magnificent. Beautiful
piano playing and capable conducting as known from Debbie Wiseman. A
masterpiece, centered around two excellent main themes, but the score also consists of several other themes, e.g.
the baroque-like “I Do Need An Audience”, the
western-like “Wilde West”, “Ah, Leave Me Not To Pine”*, and “The
Selfish Giant”. Unfortunately, the main themes become too repetitive in the second half of
the soundtrack.