La Reverdie

Italian early music ensemble La Reverdie is certainly a well-traveled Western period instrument group. Acquiring its name after middle ages verses constructed to celebrate the starting point of springtime — ergo, “reverdies” — La Reverdie was founded in 1986 by two pairs of sisters, Livia Caffagni, Claudia Caffagni, Ella de Mircovich, and Elisabetta de Mircovich. In 1989, La Reverdie added its initial and only male organ, American-born cornetto participant Doron David Sherwin, who obtained admittance when he wedded Livia Caffagni. La Reverdie frequently works with music artists beyond your group, and each member maintains distinct — and active — professions; Livia Caffagni shows recorder on the College or university of Trento, Claudia Caffagni on the Tartini Conservatory in Trieste, and Elisabetta de Mircovich can be an associate of Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca and spent some time working with the British group Sequentia. La Reverdie provides produced many recordings, mainly for the Italian label Arcana, and each you have consistently won honours and important acclaim. La Reverdie has specialized in the neglected repertoire from the monophonic middle ages secret play or liturgical crisis; recordings such as for example Historia Sancti Eadmundi and Il Festo Sancti Nicholai are representative of the trend. Almost all from the group’s various other applications are themed for some reason — Bestiaria handles the treating animals in middle ages music, O tu Chiara scientia with idea, Insula Feminarum with femininity in early Celtic lifestyle, etc. In 2006, La Reverdie celebrated its 20th wedding anniversary with its initial exploration of a long-form function with a known composer in interpreting Guillaume Dufay’s Missa Sancti Jacobi. Using the turn from the twenty-first hundred years, a few of La Reverdie’s previously Arcana releases begun to come in reissued type for the Cantus label.