MOZART: Davide penitente / Regina coeli, K. 108

MOZART Davide penitente. Regina coeli • Morten Schuldt-Jensen, cond; Trine Wilsberg Lund (sop); Kristina Wahlin (sop); Lothar Odinius (ten); Immortal Bach Ens; Leipzig CO • NAXOS 8.570231 (53:05) In the spring of 1785, Mozart sought membership in the Tonkünstlersocietät or Composers’ Society, a Viennese charitable organization that supported the widows and orphans of composers. The Society responded to Mozart’s interest with a request for a new work to feature in their upcoming concerts. Pressed for time and already obligated to fulfill a number of other composing and performing commitments, Mozart was forced to recycle a liturgical work that had first been given in Salzburg two years earlier. Thus the C-Minor Mass, K 427, was recast to accommodate an Italian text (possibly by da Ponte) and, with two additional arias, first performed at the Composers’ Society concerts on March 13 and 15, 1785, in the National Theatre of the Hofburg. Two members of the original cast of Ab