This time last year Toronto’s Diapente(1) and Montreal’s Comtessa(2) performed together at St. Thomas’ Anglican. On Saturday afternoon they were together again in the same venue for a programme of music by Guillaume de Machaut. Considering it was works by one composer the programme was really very varied.
On Friday evening Toronto’s Diapente Renaissance Quintet [1] combined with Montreal based medieval music ensemble Comtessa [2] to create an intriguing programme at St. Thomas’ Anglican. The concert was titled Across the Channel : English and French Music of the Hundred Years War; which was more or less accurate! The works; vocal and instrumental, actually spanned from the 13th century to the latter half of the 15th; so a rather longer span than the war, but the “English and French” bit was true enough. Unlike the war, Scots and Gascons were notably absent!
