‘Lachrimae Caravaggio’: Musical Europe in the Age of Caravaggio
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.