As a special gift for the festive season, we continue our celebration of Christmas with Saint Robert Southwell with recordings of his Christmas poems in the pronunciation which the saint would have used himself when declaiming his verse. Close your eyes and imagine yourself back in the days of yore in Tudor England…
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1x2aYf1moB9GQ84FjBwp6HdBHFzMFJjWt/view
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1N1pnhqbGgT8ff1rv-5ZcdrLDG39Okzje/view
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yKNT7HgEhAo0YbsXEdwSxi2CqsXwFrfA/view
From Professor Navrocki’s email to me: Please receive a Christmas gift from me: four audio recordings of St’ Robert’s poems (one attached file below + three links to Google Disc as the files are larger); The two recordings from 2018 come from a Christmas performance entitled ‘The Spirit and Taste of Christmastide’ (set in Tudor context; costumes, music, even a real meat pie that I had cooked the night before). I organized the event with students from our literature/linguistic reconstruction club. Here, two female students recite ‘The Nativity of Christe’ and the famous ‘The Burning Babe’. Two other recordings are from a 2019 performance entitled ‘The Divine Infant’s Timeline – the poetry of St. Robert Southwell’. These recordings are with accompanying music composed electronically by a student of mine. The recitations are by two male voices this time. The pieces are ‘The Return out of Egypt’ and ‘Christ’s Childhood’. The latter was performed by myself as the student who was to do it had lost her voice the night before. Pity as her version would have been smashing. All the recitations are in Original Pronunciation, following prof. David Crystal’s model of OP. You can use the recordings as you wish, I grant you the copyright.
