What a pleasure to see these talented musicians again, musicians who perform regularly in Belgium as a duo, in an intimate and audacious repertoire. This ‘Mad Lover’, this inconsolable lover whose story is told by Théotime Langlois de Swarte and Thomas Dunford, is a figure based on all the violinists who gravitated around Charles II, inspired by the prodigious Nicola Matteis. The beguiling turns of this amorous discourse, heightened by the exuberance and inventiveness of these musicians from Italy, continue to echo in the popular music of our time.