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The Mad Lover


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.


Ivresse de la mélancolie Un violon, un luth : deux artistes fréquemment réunis sur la scène musicale baroque ont décliné dans cette combinaison le secret d'un alliage précieux, puisé à la source de la melancholy anglaise du XVIIe. Ce « Mad Lover », cet amant inconsolé dont Théotime Langlois de Swarte et Thomas Dunford nous content l'histoire, c'est la figure autour de laquelle tous les violonistes gravitant autour de Charles II se sont retrouvés, dans le sillage du prodigieux Nicola Matteis. Les tournures envoûtantes de ce discours amoureux, renouvelé par l'exubérance et la liberté de ces musiciens venus d'Italie, résonnent jusque dans la musique populaire d'aujourd'hui.
 
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01 The Mad Lover Suite: Ground. Aire V 03:41 $ 0.99 USD
02 Sonata sesta for violino solo: I. Adagio 01:57 $ 0.53 USD
03 Sonata sesta for violino solo: II. Allegro [1] 00:59 $ 0.27 USD
04 Sonata sesta for violino solo: III. Adagio 02:22 $ 0.64 USD
05 Sonata sesta for violino solo: VI. Allegro [2] 01:08 $ 0.31 USD
06 Improvisation for solo lute 05:34 $ 1.50 USD
07 Variations on La Folia 05:15 $ 1.42 USD
08 Fantasia in A Minor 'Alia Fantasia' 04:05 $ 1.10 USD
09 Suite in A Minor: V. Sarabanda amorosa (Adagio) 02:28 $ 0.67 USD
10 Diverse bizzarrie sopra la vecchia sarabanda o pur Ciaccona 05:08 $ 1.39 USD
11 Prelude in G Minor, ZN. 773 01:44 $ 0.47 USD
12 Violin Sonata in G Minor: I. Grave 03:19 $ 0.90 USD
13 Violin Sonata in G Minor: II. Courante 01:41 $ 0.45 USD
14 Violin Sonata in G Minor: III. Adagio 02:08 $ 0.58 USD
15 Violin Sonata in G Minor: IV. Vivace 01:03 $ 0.28 USD
16 Suite in G Major: I. Preludio 01:27 $ 0.39 USD
17 Suite in G Major: II. Grave 01:54 $ 0.51 USD
18 Suite in G Major: III. Sarabanda 03:57 $ 1.07 USD
19 Suite in G Major: IV. Aria Burlesca 02:21 $ 0.63 USD
20 Suite in G Major: V. Capriccio 01:51 $ 0.50 USD
21 Suite in G Major: VI. Giga Al Genio Turchesco 00:48 $ 0.22 USD
22 Sonata Quinta in E Minor: I. Andante 03:29 $ 0.94 USD
23 Sonata Quinta in E Minor: II. Courente 02:14 $ 0.60 USD
24 Sonata Quinta in E Minor: III. Largo 05:31 $ 1.49 USD
25 Sonata Quinta in E Minor: IV. Presto 02:25 $ 0.65 USD
26 Fantasia in C Minor, "con discretione" 04:47 $ 1.29 USD
27 A new division upon the ground bass of "John come and kiss
me"
04:51 $ 1.31 USD
28 The Mad Lover Suite: Ground. Aire III 02:01 $ 0.54 USD
  Album total 80:08
PerformerThomas Dunford
Théotime Langlois de Swarte
ComposerClancy Eccles
Daniel Purcell
Henry Purcell
John Eccles
Nicola Matteis
Nicola Matteis Jr.
Thomas Dunford

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