Sarah Brightman declared, at the London Royal Albert Hall concert in 1997,[4] that the song was originally written by Andrew Lloyd Webber for her, the first time he met her.
[7] To promote The Phantom of the Opera's opening in London, the production's producers, The Really Useful Group, filmed a video starring Crawford and Sarah Brightman (who did not sing).
UK 12" Single [POSPX 803][12] Position In 1993, American singer Barbra Streisand and British actor Michael Crawford released a duet version of "The Music of the Night".
"[15] Pan-European magazine Music & Media said it's "easily the most beautifully executed song" off the Back To Broadway album, adding, "It will hypnotise anyone with a taste for real voices into playing it.
"[16] A reviewer from People Magazine found that Streisand, "crossing cadenzas with Broadway's first Phantom", Michael Crawford "goes for grandeur instead of intimacy and winds up with grandiosity.
[18] Richard Harrington from The Washington Post declared it as "an anthemic duet in which Crawford's warm, theatrical subtlety is overwhelmed by Streisand's undiminishable power (just listen to her attempt to make real the phrase "tremulous and tender").