Accademia del Piacere

Accademia del Piacere

After the overseas expeditions of Christopher Columbus, Seville experienced its Golden Age. The city became the commercial hub and cultural hotspot of Southern Europe and, with its cathedral, possessed an attraction for musicians of the calibre of Alonso Mudarra and Francisco Peraza. The undisputed star was Francisco Guerrero: for many years kapellmeister at the cathedral and ambassador of the villancico. Accademia del Piacere turns its attention towards vocal and instrumental High Renaissance.  

Programme

• Francisco Correa de Arauxo

  Secundo tiento de quarto tono, FO 16

  1584-1664
• Francisco Guerrero

  Niño Dios d’amor herido 
  Vamos al portal 
  Improvisación sobre ‘Conde Claros’ 
  Baxóme mi descuydo 
  A un niño llorando al yelo 

  1528-1599
• Francisco Guerrero

  Si tus penas no pruevo 

• Francisco Peraza

  Tiento de medio registro 

  1564-1598
• Alonso Mudarra

  Fantasía que contrahaze el arpa en la manera de Ludovico 
  (from: Tres libros de música en cifra para vihuela, Seville 1546) 

  c1510-1580
• Francisco Guerrero

  De amores del señor 

• Francisco Guerrero

  Improvisación sobre ‘Guárdame las vacas’ 
  ¡O qué mesa y qué manjar! 
  Canite tuba in Sion 

  Programme subject to change

Musicians

• Alena Dantcheva soprano
• Gabriel Díaz countertenor
• Ariel Hernández tenor
• Jesús G. Aréjula baritone
• Rami Alqhai viola da gamba, musical direction
• Johanna Rose viola da gamba
• Carles Blanch vihuela
• Javier Núñez organ
• Daniel Garay percussion
• Fahmi Alqhai viola da gamba