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...York Philharmonic (Sun. 2:30 p.m., CBS). Bruno Walter conducting Haydn and Berlioz...
...Adventures of Hajji Baba (Allied Artists; 20th Century-Fox). In the old days, when a Hollywood studio wanted a famous composer to write background music for a film, it had to play an expensive game of Haydn seek; nowadays, the film colony has a sort of Bach yard full of kept musical geniuses. The current favorite is a man called Dimitri Tiomkin, who has filled in the awkward pauses of High Noon, Cyrano de Bergerac and many other recent pictures with stuff that one critic called "Kaffee-Klatchaturian...
World Music Festivals (Sun. 1:05 p.m., CBS). Haydn's The Creation by Amsterdam's Toonkunst Choir...
Mozart: Motets (Soloists, chorus and orchestra directed by Felix Raugel; L'Anthologic Sonore; Haydn Society). Seven religious choruses-six jubilant, one melancholy-in Mozart's flowing counterpoint. Not up to highest recording standards, but a unique item. From Volume VII of the anthology's "Living History of Western Music from the 9th to the 19th Century...
Schoenberg:Gurre-Lieder (Chorus and orchestra of Paris' New Symphony Society and soloists conducted by Rene Leibowitz; Haydn Society, 3 LPs). The first complete LP recording of a turning-point (1901-11) masterpiece by Atonalist-to-be Schoenberg. The vast score calls for an orchestra of 155 instruments, a minimum chorus of 180 and six soloists, spins out the supernatural romance in a delicate blend of Wagner and Mahler. Performed and recorded with enthusiastic care...