Middlemarch

Middlemarch, the award-winning 1994 dramatisation of the famous 1874 novel by English writer George Eliot (aka Mary Anne Evans).  
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middlemarch
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middlemarch_%281994_TV_serial%29
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108858/
The audio is in stereo, somewhat unusual for that time, but serves the excellent musical score very well.