 Instead, Hall chose Michael Tippett, also from East Anglia, and a friend and colleague – they had worked together at London's Royal Opera House.Tippett's "Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Corelli" plays a major role in the emotional timbre of the film.The preliminaries to filming were particularly protracted, and Blythe had many reservations about the difficulties in making a film showing "three generations in terms of work, belief, education and climate.