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Always good when the Beeb plays Rozsa. It's a 'light' show. The programmes often contain the tail end of the previous show, or the beginning of the next: is that not par for the course, surely?

This was the BBC Concert Orchestra (I lose count of how many orchestras they have, and they help fund more) playing a cut-down adaptation of the Title music segued into the complete love theme from the suite. They play well, though the edition of the Prelude (starting with fanfare etc.) has a rounding off of the chords to make it 'happier'. Rozsa of course composed his harmonics and progressions in that score to reflect the 'archaic,' hence the preponderance of fourths and fifths etc., so the piece had sense of time and place to modern ears. A re-arranger needs to 'get' that, and some don't.

But, hey, it was there.