The Early Music Show - La Reverdie - recorded at York Early Music Festival 2008

Lucie Skeaping presents highlights of a concert recorded in 2008 from the Chapter House in York Minster as part of the York Early Music Festival. The concert was given by La Reverdie, a 5-piece group founded by two pairs of Italian sisters, Claudia and Livia Caffagni and Elisabetta and Ella de Mirkovich who specialise in bringing to life the vast and varied repertoire from the Middle Ages. Doron David Sherwin is the fifth member of the group playing cornetto; they are all vocalists - and players of lute, vielle harp, rebec, percussion and recorder between them. The music in the concert traces Dufay's early Italian journeys, as he visited some of Italy's cultural centres.