Fortuna desperata: Gothic & Renaissance Organ Music Daniel Beilschmidt

• Anonymous:
• 1 Redeuntes in d [No. 232b, Buxheimer Orgelbuch, ca. 1460] 04:28
• Guillaume de Machaut (1300-1377):
• 2 Messe de Nostre Dame: Sanctus 05:20
• Anonymous:
• 3 Adesto - Firmissime - Alleluya [Motet: Robertsbridge Codex, British Library MS Add. 28550, ff.45] 03:48
• Adam Ileborgh:
• 4 Sequitur aliud praeambulum super d manualiter et variatur super a g f et c 00:24
• Anonymous:
• 5 Kyrie: Cunctipotens genitor Deus [Faenza Codex] 05:12
• 6 Gloria: Cunctipotens genitor Deus [Faenza Codex] 07:10
• Adam Ileborgh:
• 7 Praeambulum super d a f et g 01:00
• 8 Sequitur mensura sex notarum eiusdem tenoris, "Frowe al myn hoffen an dyr lyed" 03:17
• 9 Incipit Fortuna 01:14
• Antoine Busnois (1430-1492):
• 10 Fortuna desperata 02:54
• Johannes Buchner (1483-1538):
• 11 Fortuna in fa trium vocum, Tenor in Basso 03:16
• Leonhard Kleber (1495-1556):
• 12 Fortuna in fa quatuor vocum 02:06
• 13 Fortuna in mi 03:51
• Antoine Busnois:
• 14 Fortuna desperata à 6 02:42
• Paul Hofhaimer (1459-1537):
• 15 Salve Regina alternatim 09:42
• Adam Ileborgh:
• 16 Praeambulum in C et potest variari in d f g a 00:46
• Johannes Buchner:
• 17 Dantz Moss. Benczenauer 02:37
• Anonymous:
• 18 Redeuntes in mi [No. 232d, Buxheimer Orgelbuch, ca. 1460] 02:16
• Anonymous:
• 19 Tota pulchra es [St. Galler Orgelbuch] 08:05
• Johannes Buchner:
• 20 Christ ist erstanden 01:31
• Sethus Calvisius (1556-1615):
• 21 Christ ist erstanden 02:20
• Anonymous:
• 22 Christ ist erstanden [St. Galler Orgelbuch] 03:09
• Total Runtime 01:17:08

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In their GENUIN release Fortuna desperata, the foundation of the new University Church of St. Paul in Leipzig and university organist Daniel Beilschmidt celebrate the great cycles of faith and life. From ringing bells to the Zimbelstern, from the full organ to intimate dialogue with the human voice: Beilschmidt presents the new Metzler-Schwalbennest Organ in a recording that is at the same time a call for donations so the instrument can be completed. Beneath his fingers and feet, the stirring music from Machaut to Calvisius, from the 14th to the 16th centuries sounds both ancient and modern, boisterous and contemplative – a journey to the limits of the known world and beyond!

Daniel Beilschmidt, organ
Christine Mothes, vocals
Veit Heller, bells

Daniel Beilschmidt
was born in Zeulenroda in Thuringia, Germany in 1978. After getting first piano lessons at the age of 13 he attended the music-classes in Goethe-Gymnasium in Gera. From 2000 to 2006 he studied Organ at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Leipzig with Stefan Johannes Bleicher, Arvid Gast, Ullrich Böhme (Organist of St.Thomas) and Volker Bräutigam (Improvisation). 2003 he went for one year to Copenhagen to study with Hans Fagius. After his Diploma in 2006 he inscribed in the Hochschule für Musik in Weimar to conclude his organ studies with the “Konzertexamen” in 2008 with Michael Kapsner and Bernhard Klapprott (Early music). In 2002 Daniel Beilschmidt won the first price of a scholarship of the "Hans-und-Eugenia-Jütting-Stiftung Stendal". He has succesfully taken part in several competitions: in 2008 he was Ritter-Prize-winner of the "International August-Gottfried-Ritter-Competition Magdeburg/Germany" as well as he took the fourth place of the "International Bach Competition Leipzig". In 2009 Daniel Beilschmidt was assigned as University Organist in Leipzig as well as assistant organist at St.Thomas. As well as in Germany he has played concerts in Scandinavia, Ucraine and Mexico. He collaborates regularly with the Thomanerchor and the Gewandhaus Orchester and has played at the Bachfest Leipzig and the Movimento Festival Wolfsburg, a.o. with the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra and the oboist Ramon Ortega Quero. He is teaching organ and improvisation at the "Thomasschule" and the Academy for Church Music in Halle.

Christine Mothes
studied singing and recorder at the Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy University of Music and Theater in Leipzig as well as at the Escola Superior de Musica de Catalunya in Barcelona. She then continued her studies in singing with Gundula Anders and Marek Rzepka in Leipzig, focusing on early music and historical performance. Numerous master classes and further courses in the performance of medieval music with Pedro Memelsdorff, Benjamin Bagby, Kees Boeke, Jill Feldman, Pierre Hamon, Marc Lewon and Uri Smilansky rounded out her training. Together with the ensemble Metro Marina, Christine Mothes won the early music sponsorship prize of the Saarland Broadcasting Company and the Fritz Neumeyer Academy in 2009. Christine Mothes has performed at numerous music festivals in Germany and abroad together with, among others, Benjamin Bagby (Sequentia), Helmut Rilling (Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart), Reinhard Göbel, Michael Schönheit (Merseburger Hofmusik). As a singer and co-founder of La Mouvance, she has focused on the music of the 12th–15th century.

Veit Heller
finished his studies in 1994 at the University of Leipzig with a thesis about the Die Glocken und Geläute des Nicolaus Jonas Sorber (“Bells and Chimes of Nicolaus Jonas Sorber,” Frankfurt / M. 1997) and has since then published papers about the history and use of bells and bell wheels. Since 1995, he has been working as a researcher at the Museum of Musical Instruments at the University of Leipzig and has played a major role in various research projects, including among others, Die Musikinstrumente der Begräbniskapelle im Dom zu Freiberg von 1594 (“The Musical Instruments of the Funeral Chapel in the Freiberg Cathedral from 1594”) and most recently Martin und Johann Christian Hoffmann – Lauten und Geigenmacher des Barock (“Martin and Johann Christian Hoffmann – Lutes and Violin Makers of the Baroque”). At the University of Music and Theater in Leipzig, Veit Heller teaches historical instruments as well as acoustics and temperaments and accepts lectureships in the music instrument building study program at the West Saxon University of Applied Studies in Zwickau. He is also an instrumentalist with the ensembles Ioculatores and Cantilena aurea, both of which focus on the performance of the music of the Middle Ages.

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