Steele, Douglas - Selected Pieces for Piano and Organ

A remarkable collection of miniatures for piano and organ by Douglas Steele, a former pupil of Bruno Walter, and then Thomas Beecham's talented assistant. The works span a 50 year period, encaspulating a career that saw the composer win many admirers for the subtlety of harmony and perfection of melody within his work.

Contents (click underlined titles to hear on the album Autumn Sequence: the music of Douglas Steele and his Circle, via YouTube)

1. Intrada

2. Prelude in D Flat

3. Pavane [1]

4. Pavane [2]

5. Pavane [3]

6. Slow Air

7. Carol

8. In the Style of a Sarabande

9. Sarabande

10. From a Holiday Sketchbook

11. A Little Lyric Piece

12. On a Birthday Morning

13. Serenade

14. Envoi

15. Musical Box

16. On the Triad

17. From an Organ Sketchbook

18. Arioso

19. Three Pieces on Hymn Tunes

20. On Norman Cocker's 'Ryburn'

21. On Gibbon's Angel's Song