Venite alla danza! La Reverdie

• Anonymous: De Patre principio:
• 1 Anonymous: De Patre principio 02:23
• La Seste Estampie [Royal]:
• 2 Anonymous: La Seste Estampie [Royal] 03:09
• Guiraut d’Espaigna: Ben volgra, s’esser poges:
• 3 d’Espaigna: Ben volgra, s’esser poges 04:58
• Anonymous: Stella splendens:
• 4 Anonymous: Stella splendens 06:47
• Chi vuol ballare a righoletto:
• 5 Anonymous: Chi vuol ballare a righoletto 06:18
• Trotto:
• 6 Anonymous: Trotto 02:47
• Amor mi fa cantar alla francescha:
• 7 Anonymous: Amor mi fa cantar alla francescha 03:27
• Gherardello da Firenze: Non ti fidare che oggi è sì pocha fé:
• 8 Firenze: Non ti fidare che oggi è sì pocha fé 05:21
• Guillaume de Machaut (ca. 1300 - 1377): Moult sui de bonne heure nee:
• 9 Machaut: Moult sui de bonne heure nee 05:23
• Anonymous: Isabella:
• 10 Anonymous: Isabella 07:59
• Dame vailants / Amis, de tant que / Certainement puet:
• 11 Anonymous: Dame vailants / Amis, de tant que / Certainement puet 03:48
• Franco Sacchetti (1332 - 1400), Francesco Landini (ca. 1335 - 1397): Benedetta sia la state:
• 12 Sacchetti, Landini: Benedetta sia la state 06:19
• Guillaume Dufay (1397 - 1474): Ce jour de l’an:
• 13 Dufay: Ce jour de l’an 03:23
• Guglielmo Ebreo da Pesaro: Falla con misuras:
• 14 Pesaro: Falla con misuras 05:41
• Total Runtime 01:07:43

Info for Venite alla danza!

Venite alla danza! is the project with which La Reverdie intends to celebrate its 40th anniversary. Since 1986, the ensemble has explored a wide range of vocal and instrumental repertoires from the 13th to the 15th century but has never attempted a programme entirely dedicated to dance. It’s time to do it!

The project is entirely dedicated to the different forms of medieval dances, in which the role of voice and instruments is paradoxically interchangeable. The theme of dance allows us to cross the Middle Ages far and wide, entering monasteries, the world of popular devotion, the courts and public entertainments. Dances celebrated the joy of life and were present in the various manifestations of daily life, always as a form of social sharing. The repertoire is extremely varied: from 13th- to 15th-century dances to Italian laude and pilgrimage dances, from Italian ballate to French ballade, virelai and rondeaux, together with French and Italian instrumental dances that bring the listener up to the middle of the 15th century. A programme that dispels the idea that dance music was only instrumental music!

La Reverdie

La Reverdie
In 1986 two pairs of young sisters from Italy (Claudia e Livia Caffagni, Elisabetta ed Ella de Mircovich) founded the Medieval ensemble LaReverdie: the name, derived from a poetic genre that celebrates the return of Spring, reveals perhaps the principal trait of a group that for 25 years now has captivated audiences and critics alike for the variety in its approach to the vast and varied musical repertoire of the Middle Ages and first Renaissance.

Since 1993 the famous cornetto player Doron David Sherwin is member of the group, both as player and singer.

In 2008 Ella de Mircovich, who had led several projects - basically conceived from an anthropological and literary point of view - dealing with a mainly North European repertoire, said farewell to the group: a divorce due to overwhelming artistical disagreements.

Presently the ensemble performs in groups from three to fourteen musicians, depending on the repertoire.

The deep research, together with the experience achieved thanks to the long and intense activity, have made laReverdie an absolutely unique ensemble, both for the extraordinary enthusiasm they share and communicate to their audiences, as well as for their assured and natural virtuosity in playing and singing.

They have recorded 18 Cds, 14 for Arcana and co-produced by the German broadcast company WDR, which have received various awards from the European press, such as the Diapason d’Or de l’Année (the first awarded to an Italian ensemble in the category of Early Music), eight Diapasons d’Or, thirteen 10 de Répertoire, three 10 from Crescendo, two ffff from Télérama, three “5 stars’ from Musica and one A from Amadeus. In 2000 the Festival International de Santander chose a live recording of a concert given by the group that year to be issued as a CD with the title laReverdie en Concierto. The recent CD "Carmina Burana - Sacri Sarcasmi" (Arcana A353) is one of the three Finalist 2010 Midem Classical Awards in the category Early Music.

Since 1997 the group’s members have been involved in teaching at summer courses as well as masterclasses and regular instruction at institutes.

laReverdie has collaborated, for special project, with Franco Battiato, Moni Ovadia, Carlos Nunez, Teatro del Vento.

For the 2010 season of Ravenna Festival laReverdie, together with Gérard Dépardieu, presented a specially created program of music together with selected readings from the Confessions of St. Augustine in the Basilica of Santa Apollinare in Classe to widespread critical acclaim.

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