B-Five Recorder Consort

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B-Five Recorder Consort
OriginEurope
Years active2003 (2003)–present
LabelsCoviello Classics
MembersMarkus Bartholomé,
Katelijne Lanneau,
Thomas List,
Silja-Maaria Schütt,
Mina Voet
Website www.b-five.eu

B-Five Recorder Consort is a European recorder quintet. The centerpiece of the ensemble's programs forms the consort music of the renaissance period. In addition to that the musicians try to establish a new repertoire for recorder quintet in collaboration with different composers.

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History

Founded 2003 in Barcelona. The ensemble appeared at the MAfestival (Bruges), the Klara Festival (Brussels), the Festival de Música Antigua (Barcelona), with NDR (North German Broadcasting Corporation, Hamburg), at the Franconian Summer (Nuremberg), and the Festival of Early Music in St. Ruprecht (Vienna).

Collaboration with composers:

Discography

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