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Arcangelo and three excellent singers performed 17th-century music inspired by Shakespeare in a vivid and amusing performance. Lipstick and pashmina anyone?

Dame Emma Kirkby and Jakob Lindberg delight with an intimate and varied programme on the theme “Heroines of the Golden Age” at Brighton Early Music Festival. 

The Belgium-based vocal ensemble presented a programme of vocal and choral delights from 17th century England with mixed results. 

Jordi Savall directs a multi-lingual, multi-cultural voyage through Europe's war-torn past.

Until the last decade or so, becoming involved in the historically-informed performance practice (HIPP) movement – which involves performing on instruments of a composer’s historical period – was not so “hip.