La Reverdie, stylized as "LaReverdie", is an Italian group performing polyphonic

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and Renaissance music.

Group members

* Elisabetta de Mircovich - vocal,

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* Claudia Caffagni - vocal, lute, psaltery * Livia Caffagni - vocal, flute,

* Doron David Sherwin - vocal,

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Discography

* 1990 - ''Bestiarium''. Animals in the Music of the Middle Ages - Nuovo Era 6970, reedited with new track order as Cantus 9601 * 1992 - ''Speculum amoris''. Lyrique d'Amour médiéval, du Mysticisme à l'érotisme - Arcana A336 * 1993 - ''Guinevere, Yseut, Melusine''. The heritage of Celtic womanhood in the Middle Ages - Giulia "Musica Antiqua" GS 201007 * 1993 - ''O Tu Chara Sciença''. Musique de la Pensée Médiévale - Arcana A29 - Arcana A332 * 1994 - ''Laude di Sancta Maria''. Veillée de chants de dévotion dans l'Italie des Communes - Arcana 34 * 1995 - ''Suso in Italia Bella''. Musique dans les cours & cloître de l'italie du Nord - Arcana A38 - Arcana A320Gramophone - Volume 74, Issues 880-883 -1996 Page 99 "La Reverdie (Claudia Caffagni, Livia Caffagni, Elisabetta de' Mircovich, Ella de' Mircovich, Doron David Sherwin, Mauro Morini, ... " * 1997 - ''Insula Feminarum''. Résonances médiévales de la Féminité Celte - Arcana A311 * 1999 - ''Legenda Aurea''. Laudes des Saints au Trecento italien - Arcana 304 * 1998 - ''La Nuit de Saint Nicholas''. La Reverdie et chant grégorien - Arcana A72 * 1999 - ''Historia Sancti Eadmundi''. De la liturgie dramatique au drame liturgique - Arcana A43 * 2001 - ''La Reverdie en Concierto''. Festival Internacional de Santander - RTVE Música 65131 * 2001 - ''Nox-Lux''. Musique française et anglaise des XIII^e et XIV^e siècles - Arcana A 307 * 2002 - ''Voyage en Italie'' - Arcana 317 * 2003 - ''

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: Sponsa regis''. La Victoire de la Vierge dans l'œuvre d'Hildegard von Bingen. La Reverdie et chant de Saint Bernard - Arcana A314 * 2005 - ''

Jacopo da Bologna Jacopo da Bologna (fl. 1340 – c. 1386) was an Italian composer of the Trecento, the period sometimes known as the '' Italian ars nova''. He was one of the first composers of this group, making him a contemporary of Gherardello da Firenze ...

, Madrigali e Cacce'' - Arcana A327 * 2006 - ''

Guillaume Dufay Guillaume Du Fay ( , ; also Dufay, Du Fayt; 5 August 1397(?) – 27 November 1474) was a French composer and music theorist of the early Renaissance. Considered the leading European composer of his time, his music was widely performed and repr ...

, Missa Sancti Jacobi'' - Arcana A342 * 2009 - ''Carmina Burana'', sarcasmes sacrés - Arcana A353 * 2013 - ''I Dodici Giardini,'' Arcana

Festivals

La Reverdie have performed in numerous early music festivals. An incomplete list is given here: * ''Festival Cusiano di Musica Antica'' (

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1987, 1988, 1991, 1992, 1994,1995, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2007) * ''Il Canto delle Pietre'' (Autunno Musicale di

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1990, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2001, 2007) * ' (1992, 2000) * ''Festival van Vlaanderen'' (

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, 1992, 1993, 1995, 2005, 2007) * ''Netwerk voor Oude Muziek'' (

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, 1994, 2004) * ''Festival de Mùsica antiga'' (

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, 1995) * ''Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde'' (

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, 1996) * ''Semana de Musica Antigua'' (

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, 1997) * ''Festival de San Sebastian'' (2009) * ''Rhein-Renaissance ‘97'' (

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1997) * ''Rencontres Internationales de Musique Médiévale'' ( Le Thoronet) * ''Festival Musicale Estense'' ( Modena 1999, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007) * ''Settembre Musica'' (Turin, 1997, 1999) * ''MiTo'' (Milan/Turin 2006) * '' Trigonale'' (Austria, 2009) * ''I Concerti del

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'' (2002) * ''Settimane Musicali di

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'' (2002, 2009) * ''Festival Musique en Catalogne Romane'' (Perpignano, 2004) * ''Festival Pergolesi-Spontini'' (

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, 2005) * ''

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Festival'' (2005, 2007, 2015) * ''York Early Music Festival'' (2008)

References

External links

LaReverdie website
{{Authority control Italian musical groups Mixed early music groups