I’ve come to appreciate his broad and slow and romantic themes in later years
I became indeed more forgiving as well. There are nice bits in later scores but overall not much is happening generally.
I do like some of those loungey efforts from the 60s and 70s too.
Yes, those with jazzy flavour. And there are those like LION IN WINTER or THE LAST VALLEY with some dramatic choral parts that rather unusual for him.