L'Occhio del Cor La Reverdie & Christophe Deslignes

• Francesco Landini (ca. 1330 - 1397):
• 1Poiché partir convienmi, donna cara04:14
• 2Tante belleçe in questa donna stanno03:10
• 3Che cosa è quest'amor che 'l ciel produce04:45
• 4Nella tuo luce tien la vita mia04:19
• 5Non arà may pietà questa mia dona02:52
• 6L'alma mie piang'e mai non può aver pace04:30
• 7Gram·piant'agli ochi, greve doglia al core05:41
• 8Per un amante rio tal pena sento03:58
• 9Divennon gli ochi mie nel partir duro04:54
• 10Ochi dolenti mie che pur piangete03:49
• 11Mostrommi Amor già fra le verdi fronde03:31
• 12Che pena è questa al cor03:25
• 13Non per fallir di me tuo vista pia06:08
• 14Muort'oramai deh misero dolente04:59
• 15Guard'una volta incià verso 'l tuo servo04:38
• Total Runtime01:04:53

Info for L'Occhio del Cor

Francesco Landini was the most famous Florentine Trecento composer, known to being a multi-instrumentalist, notably a virtuoso on the organ. As known, he lost his sight at the age of 7 but, despite his disability, he excelled in the study of music and all liberal arts. Might the condition of blindness have affected the poetic production of Landini? LaReverdie together with Christophe Deslignes, investigate this hypothesis, with a new project that presents both well known masterpieces and pieces never recorded before, searching signs that might be eventually impressed in the verses and the music of Magister Coecus by the loss of his sight.

A project which fills the recent recording void on a fundamental author at the sunset of the Middle Ages, reread through a perspective never explored until now.

La Reverdie
Christophe Deslignes, organetto

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.

Booklet for L'Occhio del Cor