The Suite from Things to Come

[sawyl]

I'd forgotten just how good Arthur Bliss' score for the 1936 film Things to Come really is until I happened to catch it the march on the radio. Here's the suite conducted by the doyen of film music composition, Bernard Herrmann:

ETA: Coincidentally John Holbo has just posted about the forthcoming blu-ray edition of Things to Come over on Crooked Timber...