(Early Music, May 2007) “La Revedie have recorded 18 of the 34 surviving works of Jacopo da Bologna. I am constantly amazed at the fluidity of this group’s performances of such difficoult repertory. They make the - on paper – seemingly directionless melismata of the Ars Nova seem the most logical thing in the world; and it is only with performances of this calibre (as well, of course, as monographic recordings) that composers such as Jacopo will ever be anything other than names in textbooks. An example is the way the ‘sighing’ pauses, interspersed with lengthy melodic runs, are handled in the madrigal Posando sopra un’acqua, simultaneously smooth and impassioned, or, in some ways even more impressive, the unaccompanied duet that is Un bel sparver, sung with outstanding sensitivity and blend: a visual image for the way the two voices interact would be two interwining creepers around some paradisial tree.” (Ivan Moody)
