The music itself is sensitively played but with understatement as conducted by Andrew Mogrelia.
The obbligato flute part was sensitively played by David Haslam.
The guitar part was sensitively played by William Anderson, who gave the work's premiere.
Set in Hong Kong in 1960, "Days of Being Wild" centers on a well-heeled bounder named Yuddy, sensitively played by Leslie Cheung.
And finally, the profound 25th Variation, while always sensitively played, was never painfully lyrical; the playing was not quite attentive enough to the music's passing dissonances and resolutions.
All are sensitively played and well recorded, but would have benefited from a larger complement of strings.
Later, when her trusted friend Jean (sensitively played by Chad Willett) asks Joan, "Where's all this going?
The slow movement, though filled with sensitively played passages, was not so convincing.
When the young, victorious Octavius (sensitively played by Adam O'Byrne) announces, "The time of universal peace is at hand," the effect is chilling, and everyone's perspective is widened.