Par HOLMAN PETER. 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 FingerĀ’s five sonatas for the same group of instruments, constitute the bulk of this volume. Other representative works include BaltzarĀ’s own Suite in C major and Bartholomew IsaackĀ’s Ground in A minor, all fascinating progenitors of PurcellĀ’s crowning contributions to the repertoire, his Pavan in G minor and Ā‘Three Parts upon a GroundĀ’. / Date parution : 1905-07-10/ RĆ©pertoire / 3 Violons, Bas Viol et Basse Continue