NDR Vokalensemble / Kammerakademie Potsdam / Klaas Stok

• Opera

Commissioned by Vienna’s »Tonkünstler-Societät« (»Society of Musicians«), Mozart wrote the cantata »Davide penitente« (»David repents«) for Lent, using parts of his large-scale Mass in C minor. He follows in the footsteps of composers including Johann Sebastian Bach with this cantata, written for a benefit concert in aid of widows and orphans of professional musicians. In Bach’s Christmas Oratorio and Mass in B minor, he presented top-class music that had already been composed in a new form.

PERFORMERS

NDR Vokalensemble choir

Kammerakademie Potsdam orchestra

Klaas Stok director

PROGRAM

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Kyrie in D minor, KV 368a

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Maurerische Trauermusik (Masonic Funeral Music) in C minor, KV 479a

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Litaniae de venerabili altaris sacramento, KV 243

- Interval -

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Davide penitente