Topsy-Turvy - The Music of Gilbert & Sullivan: From the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack [Soundtrack] [Import] [PR]
Allan Corduner、Dexter Fletcher、Sukie Smith、Roger Heathcott、Wendy Nottingham （Sony）CD
発売日：1999年12月7日(火)
≪関連『映画・ドラマ』タイトル≫
- 『トプシー・ターヴィー』 (1999)
曲目リスト ※試聴はAmazonでどうぞ。
- 'The Mikado': Behold! The Lord High Executioner
- 'The Mikado': Overture
- 'The Mikado': Three Little Maids From School Are We
- 'Princess Ida': Overture
- 'Princess Ida': If You Give Me Your Attention
- 'The Grand Duke': Paris Galop
- 'The Mikado': Mi-Ya Sa-Ma/A More Humane Mikado
- 'The Sorcerer': But Soft.../Why, Where Be Oi?
- 'The Yeomen Of The Guard': Alone
- 'The Mikado': The Criminal Cried As He Dropped Him Down
- 'The Yeomen Of The Guard': Overture
- 'The Mikado': A Wand'ring Minstrel I
- 'The Mikado': The Sun Whose Rays Are All Ablaze
- End Titles ('The Pirates Of Penzance'/'The Grand Duke')
- 'The Sorcerer': Incantation
- 'The Gondoliers': The Fitting
- The Lost Chord
- 'The Mikado': The Mikado: Finale, Act Two
- 'The Long Day Closes': Resolutions
レビュー (Amazon)
The producers of Mike Leigh's vibrant Topsy-Turvy took many big studio meetings seeking financing for their film. Word has it all went swimmingly until time for the pitch came--there are apparently no two words as unsettling to Hollywood film execs as "Gilbert & Sullivan." But the studio system's loss turned out to be the indie film's--and our--gain. Leigh's film brought the composers' late-19th-century mounting of their breakthrough The Mikado to an all-too-familiar life, filled with as many neuroses, foibles, and fragile egos as any modern Broadway musical. The film's score, an inviting pastiche adapted from Mikado (and other G&S staples) by veteran Carl Davis, may upset purists with its time-conscious liberties. But then, it might just win over a receptive yet unexposed new audience for whom this music may seem strangely familiar, as well it should: this is where modern musical theater began. --Jerry McCulley
