David Thomson and Gillian Munro perform ‘So Go to Him and Say to Him’ from Gilbert and Sullivan’s Patience.

A touching and romantic duet between Patience and Grosvenor, as they declare their love for each other with witty libretto by W.S. Gilbert and delightful music by Arthur Sullivan.

In this operetta, premiered in 1881, two absurdly pretentious poets vie for the adoring attentions of ‘the young ladies’. Gilbert was lampooning the then fashionable ‘aesthetic’ movement.