What might the musical Europe of Caravaggio have sounded like? Taking the Italian painter as his starting point, Jordi Savall and Hespèrion XXI journey through dances, laments and improvisations from Italy to England, via Spain and Germany. A musical portrait in chiaroscuro of a Europe poised between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. 
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With Lachrimae Caravaggio, Jordi Savall does not set out to recreate an imaginary ‘soundtrack’ to the life of Caravaggio (1571–1610), but rather to evoke through music the Europe in which the painter lived. As in Caravaggio’s paintings, light meets shadow, dance meets lament, and violence meets contemplation.
Caravaggio’s Europe in music
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