Chamber music recital, May 18, 1976

Recorded during a live performance at Oakland Recital Hall, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 18, 1976, program no. 266 of the Department of Music’s 1975-1976 season.Robert Whaley, tuba ; Phyllis Rappeport, piano ; Donald Bullock, trumpet (3rd work).1st work originally for horn and piano; 3rd work for trumpet, tuba, and piano; 4th work originally for recorder and continuo.Reel 1: Adagio and allegro, op. 70 / Robert Schumann -- Three essays for solo tuba. (8:29) Prelude ; (11:38) Interlude ; (13:57) Postlude (1973) / William Penn.Reel 2: Whispers of heavenly death (1975). Whispers of heavenly death, murmur'd I hear ; (5:38) Footsteps gently ascending, mystical breezes wafted soft and low ; (8:59) Ripples of unseen rivers, tides of a current flowing, forever flowing, (or is it the plashing of tears, the measureless waters of human tears?) ; (11:08) Mournfully slowly they roll, appearing and disappearing ; (14:19) Some soul is passing over / Donald J. Para.Reel 3: Sonata in G minor, op. 1, no. 2 / George Frideric Handel -- (20:41) Nocturne, op. 48, no. 1, in C minor ; (22:38) Nocturne, op. 27, no. 2, in D-flat major ; (26:20) Ballade, op. 52, in F minor / Frédéric Chopin -- Sonatine (1963). (30:12) Défilé ; (32:31) Sérénade ; (35:12) Finale / Jacques Castérède