Exsultate Jubilate / Motets

Album by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart & Academy of Ancient Music & Westminster Cathedral Choir & Christopher Hogwood & Emma Kirkby

Exsultate Jubilate / Motets is a collection of sacred vocal works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, principally composed in 1773 with additional motets dating from the late 1770s to early 1780s. The music sits within the Classical sacred tradition, combining agile, operatic soprano writing and lyrical melodic lines with contrapuntal liturgical textures, and it marks a stage in Mozart's development where operatic technique increasingly informed his church compositions.