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Inspector Morse, Volume 1

by: Original Soundtrack

Release Date November 12, 1996
In 1994, I was fortunate enough to spend 6 weeks taking courses on the grounds of Balliol College, Oxford University. In that beautiful, halycon summer, I felt as if all my days were accompanied by Barrington Pehloung's haunting theme from the Inspector Morse series.

I had been a big fan of the series from the beginning, more than half in love with the paradoxally sensitive and irrascible Morse. But while watching the series, I found my *true love* in the City of Oxford itself. Morse without the dreaming spires of Oxford is like Holmes without his foggy, Victorian London... only a shell of his true personality. During my sojourn there, I found that Pheloung's music intimately captured that symbiotic relationship between ... Read More: