3 Violins, Bass & Continuo
SKU: ST.MB103
Composed by Various. Edited by John Cunningham and Peter Holman. Library Volumes. Transcribed and edited by Peter Holman and John Cunningham. First published in 2018. Pages: 184. Format: Hardback. Dimensions (mm): 330 x 254 x 22. Score and parts. Stainer & Bell Ltd. #MB103. Published by Stainer & Bell Ltd. (ST.MB103).
ISBN 9790220225178.
Music for three violins and bass formed a small yet distinctive corpus of instrumental music at the Restoration court of Charles II and in the Catholic chapel of James II. Introduced to England by the German violinist Thomas Baltzar, the genre was adopted by John Jenkins, whose ten late fantasia-suites for three violins, bass viol and continuo, together with Gottfried Finger's five sonatas for the same group of instruments, constitute the bulk of this volume. Other representative works include Baltzar's own Suite in C major and Bartholomew Isaack's Ground in A minor, all fascinating progenitors of Purcell's crowning contributions to the repertoire, his Pavan in G minor and 'Three Parts upon a Ground'.
