Mozart “Ergo interest… Quaere superna” K. 143

Mozart was still only a teenager when he wrote this work, but already he has truly found his compositional voice! The anonymous text returns to the theme of Mozart’s first oratorio, Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots, as the singer encourages a wavering soul to live a good life so as to be considered favourably when the Day of Judgement arrives. Mozart’s simple setting reflects the text’s aspirational tone - the aria’s opening phrase (“Quare superna”/‘Seek that which is above’) reaching upwards before dropping to a lower part of the voice for “Fuge terrena” (’flee from earthly things’) - and
the vocal line, performed subliminally here by Sarah Dufresne, suitably eschews vocal virtuosity in favour of a pleading tenderness and lyricism.
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