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Track(s) taken from CDH55156

Little grey home in the West

composer
Hermann Löhr (1871-1943)
author of text
D Eardley-Wilmot (1883-?)

Robert White (tenor), Stephen Hough (piano)
Recording details: June 1995
Rosslyn Hill Unitarian Chapel, Hampstead, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Mark Brown
Engineered by Antony Howell
Release date: November 1995
Total duration: 2 minutes 17 seconds

Cover artwork: Poetry. Wiiliam Affleck (1868-1943)
 

Herman Löhr wrote this delightful piece in 1911. I have sung it all my life, but nothing will ever top the time it was sung to me—in person—by the Queen Mother at a private dinner party in London in 1984. I had just finished singing A Perfect Day when she asked me to sit with her a moment and talk about the beautiful old songs. I asked her if she knew one called Little grey home in the West. She answered, “Know it? Why it was one of the favourites in my youth!” Then, to my astonishment, the Queen Mother clasped my hands in hers and, waving them back in forth in rhythm, proceeded to sing the whole song to me, to the delight of the other dinner guests!

from notes by Robert White © 1995

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