B-Five

B-Five is an international recorder consort, founded in 2003. Their main focus is renaissance music, but they also perform contemporary works written for historical instruments.

The B in B-Five stands for the cuty where its five members first met: Barcelona, where they all studied in the recorder class of Pedro Memelsdorff. After their studies, they decided to found an ensemble together, aiming to perform consort music at the highest possible level, on instruments of the highest quality. Therefore, they ordered Adrian Brown to build a set of 21 renaissance recorders, the largest set made by one builder in Europe to this day. The members each have their personal tenor recorder, sharing all other iunstruments. This means that there is no fixed order as to who plays which part, resulting in a slightly different sound depending on how the voices are distributed.

B-Five has performed on various stages in Belgium, Germany, Switzerland and Austria. They have also published four albums with music by, among others, Josquin des Prez and John Dowland, but also by contemporary composer Carl Rütti. For their album William Byrd: Consort Music and Songs, they collaborated with South-Korean soprano Sunhae Im.