La Reverdie

The painstaking attention to authenticity with which laReverdie prepares its programs is only one of the numerous means through which the ensemble strives to communicate the vitality, meaning and unaffected harmony of everything it presents to its audience.
A particular attention is given to the wide and mostly unexplored repertoire of "sacred theatre": liturgical dramas and dramatic liturgy, collective representations, manifestations which evoke the religiousness of an age whose echoes are not extinguished yet. The aim is not so much to meticulously catalogue a collection of archaeological relics as it is to faithfully reconstruct the musical heritage of the Middle Ages as a living fragment of a culture long since past but not lost.
laReverdie has enjoyed the regular collaboration of various other musicians: among the others Doron David Sherwin, one of the leading specialists of cornetto, as well as a versatile arranger, singer and percussionist.
laReverdie has been a customary guest at a number of the most prestigious festivals of early music in Europe. The group has recorded for the Italian State Radio RAI, the Bayerischer Rundfunk, Südwest Rundfunk, WDR (Germany), BRT3 (Belgium), ORF 1 (Austria), Antenna 2 (Portugal), RNe and RTVE (Spain), Radio 2 (Polonia), Radio Televizija Slovenja (Slovenia), Espace2 (Svizzera), KRO Radio4 (Olanda) and France Musique, as well for ARCANA with the co-sponsorship of the WDR. Its most recent recordings received very often the highest award from the French monthly Repertoire des disques compacts and the Diapason d'Or of the month; the CD "Speculum Amoris" received the Diapason d'Or de l'Année from the French press in 1993. The ensemble is giving seminars on several repertoires of the music of the Middle Ages in various Italian Institutions, and since 2003 teaches in the medioeval section of the XXXV International Course of Ancient Music in Urbino; together with Aliamusica of Parma, under the patronage of the Department of Musicology of the local University, she has instituted and regularly collaborates with an comprehensive project of educational initiatives in the field of early music.

A72
La Nuit de Saint Nicholas

A346
Historia Sancti Eadmundi

12/06/2009
(I) Orvieto
De Stella Nova

21/06/2009
(I) Jesi, Festival Cantar Lontano
Musica nella Commedia di Dante

11/07/2009
(I) Mantiglia Monferrato (Asti), Musica nelle Pievi
De Stella Nova

06/08/2009
(I) Polizzi Generosa (Palermo), Festival La Macchina dei sogni
Carlo Magno reale e immaginario

08/08/2009
(I) Stresa (Verbania) - Stresa Festival
Medioevo al femminile

12/08/2009
(E) San Sebastian
Carmina burana

13/08/2009
(E) Jaca
Carmina burana

22/08/2009
(I) Aosta
Lyra mistica

27/08/2009
(B) Antwerpen, Festival Laus Poliphoniae
Missa coram Papam, missa magna

06/09/2009
(CH) Payerne
De Stella Nova

13/09/2009
(A) Maria Saal, Festival Trigonale
Nox Lux

18/09/2009
(I) Arezzo
De Stella Nova

26/09/2009
(P) Loulé
Dufay, Viaggio in Italia

15/11/2009
(I) Napoli, Festival Pietà dei Turchini
De Stella Nova