Beowulf Recording (fwd)

[clevin@ripco.com (Craig Levin)]

Poster: clevin@ripco.com (Craig Levin)

Eogan:

> Numerous times I have heard sound recordings of Beowulf being read aloud
> in Old English, often to the accompanyment of a harp or rote.  Always
> interesting to hear, but since I do not speak Old English, I wouldn't want
> to listen to the whole epic that way.

I dunno. I don't speak Italian, but Verdi wouldn't be the same in
English.

> 	Recently, however, I was watching a PBS series called _The Story
> of English_, and in the second episode, _The Mother Tongue_, they had a
> proffessor (from Oxford, I beleive-- I can't recall his name, although I
> plan on watching the video again soon and finding out who he is), playing
> a rote, and *singing* Beowulf in Old English.  This is the first time I
> had heard Beowulf being sung rather than spoken, and it was beautiful.
> Now, of course, I am obsessed with the idea of finding a recording of
> Beowulf being sung in Old English.  Can anyone suggest such a recording to
> me, or let me know how I could find one?

I was at the 30th International Congress on Medieval Studies 2
years ago in Kalamazoo, where Benjamin Bagby, a member of
_Sequentia_, a group that pecializes in exacting recreations of
mediaeval music, performed Beowulf for us all. You might start
looking under his name or under that of the group.

Pedro de Alcazar, AoA
Barony of Storvik, Atlantia
Pursuivant Extraordinary and Junior Minion
Or, six Castles Vert within a Bordure Gules semy of Roundels Or
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