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Scotland's Dunedin Consort offers a radiant program of Purcell and his peers.

Andreas Scholl and Collegium 1704 team up for a refreshing treatment of an early repertoire.

The OAE Night Shift team and their smartphone perform Purcell in a surprisngly formal setting at Sage Gateshead. 

The countertenor voice seems to polarise opinion like no other - you either love it or hate it, there is little middle ground - and even amongst the aficionados (in whose number I count myself), there can be strong, almost tribal allegiances to one school or another and sometimes to individual proponents.