MOZART REQUIEM AND EXSULATE, JUBILATE Andrea Lauren Brown, soprano Jody Kidwell, mezzo-soprano Kenneth Garner, tenor Ed Barra, bass
AMA DEUS ENSEMBLE, CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA Valentin Radu, conductor
PROGRAM NOTES - EXSULTATE, JUBILATE, K.165 (1773) Mozart was only a few days shy of his seventeenth birthday when he composed Exsultate, jubilate for soprano and orches¬tra. He gave it the title “motet.” Although the term today is used to mean a Renaissance or Baroque vocal work, in Italy at the time of its composition, “motet” was commonly used for a cantata for voice and orchestra.
Mozart wrote the work for the great castrato Venanzio Rauzzini which explains the usual range from high to very low notes and the coloratura style required to perform it. Mozart had met Rauzzini when the singer created the title role of Lucio Silla. It is quite probable that Rauzzini supplied Mozart with the text which is written in a Bavarian ...
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