Artist: Thomas Dunford, Théotime Langlois de Swarte Title: The Mad Lover Year Of Release: 2020 Label: harmonia mundi Genre: Classical Quality: 24bit-96kHz FLAC (tracks+booklet) Total Time: 01:20:08 Total Size: 3 1.31 GB Tracklist: 01. The Mad Lover Suite: Ground. Aire V (3:42) 02. Sonata sesta for violino solo: I. Adagio (1:57) 03. Sonata sesta for violino solo: II. Allegro [1] (1:00) 04. Sonata sesta for violino solo: III. Adagio (2:22) 05. Sonata sesta for violino solo: VI. Allegro [2] (1:09) 06. Improvisation for solo lute (5:35) 07. Variations on La Folia (5:16) 08. Fantasia in A Minor 'Alia Fantasia' (4:06) 09. Suite in A Minor: V. Sarabanda amorosa (Adagio) (2:28) 10. Diverse bizzarrie sopra la vecchia sarabanda o pur Ciaccona (5:09) 11. Prelude in G Minor, ZN. 773 (1:45) 12. Violin Sonata in G Minor: I. Grave (3:20) 13. Violin Sonata in G Minor: II. Courante (1:42) 14. Violin Sonata in G Minor: III. Adagio (2:09) 15. Violin Sonata in G Minor: IV. Vivace (1:04) 16. Suite in G Major: I. Preludio (1:28) 17. Suite in G Major: II. Grave (1:54) 18. Suite in G Major: III. Sarabanda (3:58) 19. Suite in G Major: IV. Aria Burlesca (2:21) 20. Suite in G Major: V. Capriccio (1:52) 21. Suite in G Major: VI. Giga Al Genio Turchesco (0:49) 22. Sonata Quinta in E Minor: I. Andante (3:29) 23. Sonata Quinta in E Minor: II. Courente (2:14) 24. Sonata Quinta in E Minor: III. Largo (5:31) 25. Sonata Quinta in E Minor: IV. Presto (2:25) 26. Fantasia in C Minor, "con discretione" (4:48) 27. A new division upon the ground bass of "John come and kiss me" (4:52) 28. The Mad Lover Suite: Ground. Aire III (2:01) Exalted melancholy. A violin and a lute: with this choice line-up, our pair of instrumentalists – and frequent partners on the current Baroque music scene – illuminates some aspects of an elusive amalgam that constitutes the 17th-century English notion of melancholy. The inconsolable ‘Mad Lover’ of the album title is reimagined by Théotime Langlois de Swarte and Thomas Dunford as a character from the reign of Charles II: a tale told through music from the pen of such violin virtuosos as the prodigiously gifted Nicola Matteis. Heightened by the exuberance and abandon common to those musicians transplanted from Italy, the beguiling nuances of this language of yearning and loss continue to echo in the popular music of our time