This week's archival recording release is here! Chatter Sunday #563, from June 9, 2019 -- the Chatter Chamber Orchestra led by Norman Huynh in a raucous performance of Schoenberg's Chamber Symphony, opus 9. soundcloud.com/chatterabq/jun…

This piece is a riot -- an early, transitional work for Schoenberg, connecting his later harmonic experimentalism with his foundations in the Viennese musical tradition.

You can hear Viennese dance music all over this piece, and Mahler, whose symphonic aesthetics are here compressed and taut, as though viewed under a microscope. It's still reasonable to say that this piece is in E Major, but just barely.

The concert opens with Breathing, a luminous wind octet from 2007 by the renowned Icelandic composer, and inventive musical texturalist, @annathorvalds.

The group also presents--twice, on both sides of the silence!--Thomas Adès's arrangement of François Couperin's quizzical, cyclical Les Baricades Mysterieuses, which makes a lithesome amuse-bouche for the vibrant, intrepid music by Schoenberg.

Chatter Archival Recording #8: Joseph Johnson, solo cello. This one comes from the mists of history: August 2015, only a few weeks before we moved from the Kosmos on 5th Street to our current Sunday home at Las Puertas. soundcloud.com/chatterabq/aug…

We'll be presenting our first livestreamed concert from Las Puertas this coming Sunday morning, May 31, at 10:30am! This will be on our Facebook page: facebook.com/ChatterABQ/

We are live! facebook.com/ChatterABQ/

This morning's concert is now available on our Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/chatterabq/may…

The video will also still be up for a little while today! facebook.com/ChatterABQ/

"I think the combination of age and a greater coming together is responsible for the speed of the passing time. [..] In the indifferent brutality, the incessant noise, [..] I can act with clarity and meaning." youtube.com/watch?v=0_A3FF…

Chatter stands in solidarity with the June 2 music industry blackout. #blackoutuesday

Chatter is live at Las Puertas with a trio sonata by Christoph Graupner: youtube.com/watch?v=0Ijnat…

Poet Mary Oishi taking the stage now: youtube.com/watch?v=0Ijnat…

Next up! Nishani for solo viola d'amore, by Reena Esmail youtube.com/watch?v=0Ijnat…

Very many strings, one instrument youtube.com/watch?v=0Ijnat…

Chatter LIVE with 2 minutes of silence youtube.com/watch?v=0Ijnat…

2 minutes of silence live from Las Puertas #content youtube.com/watch?v=0Ijnat…

Moving on to Trio for clarinet, cello, and piano by Louise Farrenc: youtube.com/watch?v=0Ijnat…

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