Andreas Scholl/Philippe Jaroussky – review

Barbican, LondonIn advance of their Purcell concert with the Ensemble Artaserse, countertenors Andreas Scholl and Philippe Jaroussky were making much of their boundary-breaking, gender-bending intentions. But the gig proved less transgressive than expected. Purcell, for starters, has already broken most boundaries for them. His songs, amalgamating the aristocratic with the demotic, transcend social structures; while his habit of withholding the sex of both lover and beloved, supposes levels of l...

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