This afternoon, the newly minted Martingale Ensemble recorded the chamber versions of Mahler’s Fourth Symphony and Debussy’s Prelude to Afternoon of a Faun in front of a specially invited audience at Portland State University’s Lincoln Performance Hall. PSU’s own Ken Selden conducted. It was one of those situations where it was nice to have people in the hall to give a more performance aspect to the occasion, and at the same time to have time between movements to tune and loosen up before continuing on. It was a nice hybrid between a studio recording and a live concert. Things went quite well, and we’ll have a patch session on Sunday evening to tidy some things up a bit. I’ll write more about this over the weekend.