laReverdie | medieval music ensemble
Since 1986 they have shared a constant attraction for medieval music that continues to inspire new ideas for research in the different and varied repertoires of the vast musical heritage ranging from liturgical chant to the great polyphony of the XVth century.
Since their beginnings they have considered it essential to combine singing with instrumental practice, developing a common language and a sound that make the Reverdie unmistakable both in the mixture of their voices and their instruments.
Venite alla danza! Crowdfunding for laReverdie's 40th anniversary
40 Years of laReverdie. Let’s celebrate… by dancing!
This year, the medieval music ensemble laReverdie celebrates its 40th anniversary.
Four decades of research, concerts, recordings and journeys through one of the richest and most fascinating musical heritages in history: from the 12th to the 15th century.
Over the years, we have followed many different paths, exploring diverse and often little-known repertoires. We have created thematic projects and programmes commissioned by festivals, such as the reconstruction of two Masses from the Avignon Codex of Apt, produced at the request of the Laus Polyphoniae Festival in Antwerp.
We have devoted entire projects to great composers such as Jacopo da Bologna, Guillaume Dufay and Francesco Landini, as well as to fundamental musical genres including Italian laude, Venetian motets and Italian madrigals.
Many of these projects have been released on CD. Over the past 15 years, however, we have also developed numerous concert programmes that have never been recorded: the recording industry has become increasingly complex, and producing an album today represents a significant financial commitment.
These have been 40 years of intense and continuous activity, throughout which we have always preserved our artistic identity.
To put it as a play on words: we make the instruments sing and the voices play.
We have taken part in special projects and outstanding collaborations (all of which can be discovered on this website) and have also ventured into contemporary music, performing works written especially for us.
We have never stopped — even when the musicians’ path has become more challenging.
The new project: Dance in the Middle Ages
To mark this important anniversary, we have chosen to embark on a new recording project entirely devoted to dance — a theme we had never explored in a systematic way, yet one that lies at the very heart of medieval culture and everyday life.
This will be an original project, grounded in research that highlights the extraordinary variety of poetic and musical genres associated with dance, challenging the long-held assumption that dance music was purely instrumental.
Through this project, we will enter convents and courts, dance alongside laudesi and pilgrims, singing and playing with an ensemble that, for this occasion, will expand in size.
We wish to celebrate our 40th anniversary together with musician friends and young talents we have encountered along our journey.
As always, we will pay particular attention to the use of historically documented instruments, drawing on iconographic and literary sources, in order to recreate a rich and coherent soundscape, faithful to the musicological foundations of the project.
The result will be a living, tangible journey across centuries and borders:
from the devotional repertoires of central Italy to transalpine influences, from noble palaces to public squares, from monasteries to pilgrims’ paths.
An experience to be listened to… and danced.
Dance thus becomes a celebration of the joy of life, a form of social interaction, and a mirror of medieval daily life.
Why we need your support
To bring this project to life, we need your help.
Our GoFundMe crowdfunding campaign will enable us to cover the costs of research, recording and album production.
Every contribution, every donation — no matter how small — will help us give voice and rhythm to this new chapter in our musical story.
A small but important detail: the GoFundMe platform does not allow rewards to be automatically linked to donations.
However, we strongly believe in exchange and gratitude, and we have decided to personally thank those who support the project.
Here is how we have imagined the different levels of support:
• up to €20 – Personalised virtual thank-you message
• up to €30 – Bootleg with an EXCLUSIVE, UNRELEASED video of one of our concerts
• €50 – Limited edition laReverdie tote bag
• €100 – CD “Venite alla danza!” + tote bag
• €150 – CD “Venite alla danza!” + tote bag + one of our previous CDs (a surprise!)
All supporters will also be personally thanked in the credits of the new CD.
After your donation, we will contact you directly to arrange the delivery of your “rewards”.
Follow us on our social channels for updates, behind-the-scenes insights and previews of the new album.
Thank you from the bottom of our hearts,
laReverdie