On the border between the Renaissance and the Baroque, Alfonso Ferrabosco the Younger created an inner world full of noble thoughts and tranquil emotions with his Consort Music. Far away from the tangible world, sad and comforting, dark and healing… No wonder Ferrabosco's close friend and poet Ben Johnson described his music as "The Soule of Heaven".A new CD of B-Five, featuring Sofie Vanden Eynde, lute

With this new CD-project the recorder players of B-Five deepen their love for English Consort Music. The centerpiece of this album is Ferrabosco's collection of breathtaking pavanes and enchanting almains. With their warmly sounding Renaissance flutes B-Five captures this rarely heard and to great extent never recorded music. B-Five's agile ensemble play and their characteristic organic sound let Ferrabosco's music dance at the intersection point between frivolous hunger for life and thoughtful resignation.
Lute player Sofie Vanden Eynde joins B-Five and draws a golden rim around this programme with the whispering of her strings. On this CD she also performs some exquisite solopieces for lute by Ferrabosco's father: Alfonso Ferrabosco the Elder.
The cd-booklet will feature a literary short story by Belgian author Annemarie Peeters on the intriguing questions that frame the personal lives of father and son Ferrabosco.The unique story of B-Five...

Barcelona, 2003. Five recorder students almost blow their teacher away. "This sounds so good," he says, "you have to keep playing together." That’s what they do. Hailing from four different countries, they continue to visit each other after their studies. They buy an insanely beautiful set of Renaissance instruments, they mould their sound, they start looking and keep looking. For the best in their flutes, from large bass to soprano: a wonderful conversation between like-minded spirits.
Today, more than fifteen years later, B-Five has become one of the best recorder ensembles in the world. Their organic harmony, their superior craftsmanship, but especially their intense musicality, convince the press and public everywhere.

"B-Five plays with verve, imagination and a wealth of seemingly improvised ornamentation... I was amazed and delighted again and again with the wonderful wealth of textures and moods B-Five's players made with their instruments." (International Record Review)

"One of the best recorder CDs of the last ten years!"
(Klassik Heute on B-Five's album 'In search of Dowland')

The Soule of Heaven - A new CD by B-Five and Sofie Vanden Eynde