Any program featuring Suite No. 2 from Daphnis et Chloé by Maurice Ravel is sure to attract a crowd. Saturday night’s concert at the Snow Concert Hall was no exception.

In a classically presented program packed with French crowd favourites, musicians from Lyrebird Brass, Switzerland’s Ensemble Contrechamps, and renowned pianists Timothy Young and Kristian Chong explored the elusive properties of time. Tissages du Temps (“Weavings of Time”) championed the contribution of French music to our understanding of time, moving from the Baroque period to modern spectralism.

Lyrebird Brass – Tissages du Temps. Photo © Peter Hislop.

Starting with the tastefully familiar, Lyrebird Brass’ warm smiles and equally warm performance shone a light on individual threads of time itself. Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s Te Deum Prelude in D major – a march that was lost and later rediscovered – grounded the audience...