LaReverdie: forty years of (re)inventing the sound of the Middle Ages

In the beginning, it was a family affair: when sisters Claudia and Livia Caffagni and sisters Elisabetta and Raffaella de Mircovich founded laReverdie in the 1980s, medieval music was still almost uncharted territory: rarely taught and seldom programmed, it required performers to delve into manuscripts, treatises, images, and texts to discover how to recover a vanished sound. Forty years later, the musicians have lost none of their taste for unexplored paths.