John Jenkins: Fantasia Suites: String Ensemble: Score and Parts

Edited by Andrew AshbeeTen fantasia-suites for two treble viols bass viol and organ written early in the composerâ??s career and fifteen fantasia-air sets probably late productions add to the significant corpus of music for viol consort by this outstanding seventeenth-century composer who inherited and expanded the tradition of instrumental fantasias handed down from Coprario and Lawes. Recordings of the fifteen fantasia-air sets performed by the Locke Consort are available on the Channel Classics label (www.channelclassics.nl) CD number CCS 17698 distributed in the UK by Koch International. First published in 2001. Hardback

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 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’. / Date parution : 1905-07-10/ Répertoire / 3 Violons, Bas Viol et Basse Continue