Mozart's 'Masonic Funeral Music' K.477

[Roehre]

I've just discovered that I have a 2-disc set of this with the Orchestra and Choir of the Vienna Volksoper, conducted by Peter Maag. I have NO recollection of when and where I acquired it! Must give it a spin. It's on Carlton Classics, a label I've never heard of...?

In the 1990s Carlton issued the BBC legends series.
The Maag stems from Turnabout/Vox. Got it on a 2LP set. Not bad at all I have to say.

[euthynicus]

Klemperer with the VPO in June 1968 when he was reluctantly persuaded to include it as a prelude to Mahler 9 in commemoration of Robert Kennedy who had been assassinated that week.

I became obsessed with this work a few years ago after hearing this performance. I listened to another 20 or so and none of them came close to the sombre, skeletal hunger for mourning that this one embodies. It really is like standing at a graveside.

BTW I remember the story quite differently. I thought the Testament notes said that Klemps was the person who insisted upon making the memorial gesture, and his Viennese hosts who grudgingly co-operated. So I have heard some of their truculence in the sour wind tuning and the un-coordinated ensemble towards the end. But that could be a fanciful response, of course.

Where can the Kubelik performance (and Beethoven 9) be found? I'm very curious to hear this.