The program on this cd will immerse you in the Baroque world of the mandolin, a universe where exuberance and opulence are sovereign, and skittishness flirts with bizarrerie and madness. No music has been as vigorously energetic as that of the Baroque period, which is a hymn to life, feelings, and emotions, the striving for detail and beauty, le beau éternel… It is therefore a great fresco of life itself that awaits you when you enter the magical world of plucked string instruments: a plethora of images, sounds and colours, light and shadow. « Is it not strange that sheep’s guts should hale souls of men’s bodies? » Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, II, 3