{"id":6689,"date":"2026-10-27T14:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T14:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accademiaclub.com\/videos\/colombina-musica-para-los-duques-de-medina-sidonia-documental-2\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T14:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T14:06:09","slug":"colombina-musica-para-los-duques-de-medina-sidonia-documental","status":"publish","type":"videos","link":"https:\/\/accademiaclub.com\/en\/videos\/colombina-musica-para-los-duques-de-medina-sidonia-documental\/","title":{"rendered":"Colombina. The Documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"

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DOCUMENTARY<\/strong> COLOMBINA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recording and editing: F\u00e9lix V\u00e1zquez
Narration: Javier Jim\u00e9nez Cuevas
Historical research: Luc\u00eda G\u00f3mez<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Musicians<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

ACCADEMIA DEL PIACERE<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fahmi Alqhai, viola da gamba & direction<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alena Dantcheva<\/strong>, soprano
Gabriel D\u00edaz<\/strong>, countertenor
Ariel Hern\u00e1ndez<\/strong>, tenor
Jes\u00fas Garc\u00eda Ar\u00e9jula,<\/strong> baritone
Javier Jim\u00e9nez Cuevas, <\/strong>bass
Rami Alqhai,<\/strong> viola da gamba
Johanna Rose<\/strong>, viola da gamba
Carles Blanch<\/strong>, vihuela
Marta Graziolino,<\/strong> harp
Francisco Javier N\u00fa\u00f1ez<\/strong>, organ
Pedro Estevan,<\/strong> percussion
Jacobo D\u00edaz,<\/strong> shawm
David Garc\u00eda<\/strong>, sackbut
Luis Castillo<\/strong>, dulcian<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recording and editing (video and audio): F\u00e9lix V\u00e1zquez<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Filmed in the historic church of the former Convent of San Pedro de Alc\u00e1ntara<\/strong> in December 2021, this documentary explores the historical, musical and artistic context of the project \u201cColombina. Music for the Dukes of Medina Sidonia\u201d. In it, the Seville ensemble Accademia del Piacere and its director Fahmi Alqhai immerse themselves in the study and performance of their own city\u2019s most famous and, at the same time, most forgotten manuscript: the Cancionero de la Colombina. According to recent research by the scholar Luc\u00eda G\u00f3mez, this remarkable music manuscript, which contains almost a hundred pieces, was compiled in the 15th century for the Dukes of Medina Sidonia and later acquired by Hernando Col\u00f3n (Ferdinand Columbus), son of Christopher Columbus, for his impressive library. Today it is kept beside Seville Cathedral. Fahmi Alqhai and his ensemble perform a selection of its works with the vocal and instrumental forces for which the music was written, using copies of period instruments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Notes on the music<\/h4><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Undoubtedly one of the great musical monuments of the Spanish Renaissance, the Cancionero de la Colombina was very probably copied at the ducal court of Medina Sidonia, whose Seville residence stood very close to the central Plaza del Duque. For five centuries the manuscript has been held in the Colombina Library, one of the most important in Europe historically, housed in a building adjoining Seville Cathedral. Compiled in the years surrounding the discovery of America, the book was acquired in 1534 by the founder of the Colombina collection, Hernando Col\u00f3n (Ferdinand Columbus), Columbus\u2019s son and an extraordinary bibliophile. It contains almost a hundred pieces from the distinctive 15th-century Andalusian school, many of them still anonymous today and others identified as the work of Juan de Triana \u2013 a musician linked to the chapel of the ducal house \u2013 Juan Cornago and other composers of the time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Exquisitely written, the manuscript is of enormous importance as the main source of the distinctive 15th-century Sevillian school of polyphony, linked to the city\u2019s immense cathedral, then under construction, where the aforementioned Juan de Triana worked. Most of the pieces are written for three voices and are marked by that peculiar Andalusian style. It was clearly influenced by the international style that emanated from the Franco-Flemish school of polyphony (indeed, the manuscript includes pieces by Ockeghem and Urrede), but it has unique features: its own musical forms \u2013 such as villancicos in their original, typically Spanish secular form \u2013 and a passionate character explicitly acknowledged by other European composers of the time. The manuscript gains further cultural value from the crucial historical moment Seville was living through: from the city, which would thereafter hold the monopoly on trade with the Americas, its musical style would radiate to all the colonies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rarely performed and even more rarely recorded, this music was the focus of Accademia del Piacere\u2019s project, supported by a BBVA Foundation Leonardo Grant, which set itself the goal of recovering this Sevillian jewel of the Renaissance. This makes it especially rewarding for the members of the ensemble and for its director, Fahmi Alqhai.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Juan Ram\u00f3n Lara<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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