what the ruddy hell is this music ??

[pot-bellied fool]

Obviously I know this is the wonderfully strident theme to the Harry Enfield Television Show circa 1990s, but what is it? Who wrote it?

http://www.televisiontunes.com/harry_enfield_show.html

someone must know.....

[The Divine One]

If I was a betting man, I'd wager that Lord Thames will know the answer to this...

[Lord Thames]

Argh, nearly - it's an Italian operatic piece arranged for brass by Kate St John, and I can't remember what it flippin' is!

[pot-bellied fool]

Argh, nearly - it's an Italian operatic piece arranged for brass by Kate St John, and I can't remember what it flippin' is!

Nice one Lord Thames, impressive enough knowing that. Never knew the girl out of the Dream Academy was the arranger. I thought it might be Rossini, because of that thrusting bold martial quality. The answers are there if we only keep searching.

[Col Wolfe]

Argh, nearly - it's an Italian operatic piece arranged for brass by Kate St John, and I can't remember what it flippin' is!

Tammy St John's sister, pop-pickers!

[Agnes_Guano]

The theme is Or co'dadi (Soldiers' chorus) from Il Trovatore by Giuseppe Verdi, as featured in Enfield's Desert Island Discs selection.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00944cw

[pot-bellied fool]

The theme is Or co'dadi (Soldiers' chorus) from Il Trovatore by Giuseppe Verdi, as featured in Enfield's Desert Island Discs selection.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00944cw

Many thanks Agnes. I'll have to check out this Verdi bloke and find out if he did any other TV theme work.

[Agnes_Guano]

He also records as Joe Green.

[SirSlim]

He also records as Joe Green.

Indeed - he's done some great library work under that alias.