Chorale Prelude on Gibbons' Angel's Song - Douglas Steel [Johannus LiVE III AGO]

Douglas Steele was educated at Carlisle Cathedral Choir School, at the Royal Manchester College of Music, and Manchester University. Before the war, he worked as secretary, librarian, and general factotum to Sir Thomas Beecham at Covent Garden. After wartime service, his career was in education, as well as a period at Manchester Cathedral as Assistant Organist to Norman Cocker. As a teacher at Chetham's School, he was one of the instigators of the transition to a specialist music school for gifted children, which it remains to this day. (Biographical details adapted from the foreword to the published volume). This piece is contained within a volume published by long-standing Manchester music shop and occasional publisher, Forsyth (Forsyth Brothers, at the time of publication. The list of subscribers, at the back of the printed edition, is extensive and includes many names familiar to the Manchester music scene at the time of publication and beyond. This volume, Volume 1, contains several piano pieces and a small number of organ pieces, including this chorale prelude on the hymn melody most usually used, today, for the hymn "Forth in Thy name, O Lord, I go". This particular piece was previously published by Novello in 1947, and was included in this album with their permission. This volume is available from Forsyth Music Shop's online store here: https://www.forsyths.co.uk/music/shee... This recording was made on a Johannus Live III AGO organ, using the sample of the fine Hill organ in the church of the Holy Name, opposite the University of Manchester on Oxford Road, Manchester. The sample sets can be heard from four positions: console, front of the church, centre of the church, rear of the church. This recording uses the rear of the church position. Steven Maxson is well known as an organist, conductor, composer, and arranger. To support his work, please leave a tip at: https://tip.wearetipjar.com/t3s/music