Nobody knows what the music of ancient Rome sounded like.
As in any R zsa historical score, this review would be 100,000 words long if I were to detail each and every highlight, but particular attention must be drawn to the Overture, which was originally written to be performed live at the film's premi re, but for some reason never actually heard, so the recording on this album is the first one ever. It's a stunning piece, based around R zsa's fanfare-theme for Brutus, with depth to the brass writing that is simply never heard these days. It's a great piece. R zsa's romantic material is sometimes overlooked, but this piece surely shows beyond doubt that that is a mistake. While perhaps not quite as satisfying as the composer's two most renowned Roman epic scores, Quo Vadis and Ben-Hur , this reviewer still finds Julius Caesar to be one of the great scores.