Here you can listen to two new songs that The Schoole recorded recently.

Image © Maria Skiba

Witchcraft by a Picture. Frank Pschichholz, Text John Donne © The Schoole of Night 2024

I FIX mine eye on thine, and there
Pity my picture burning in thine eye ;
My picture drown’d in a transparent tear,
When I look lower I espy ;
Hadst thou the wicked skill
By pictures made and marr’d, to kill,
How many ways mightst thou perform thy will?

But now I have drunk thy sweet salt tears,
And though thou pour more, I’ll depart ;
My picture vanished, vanish fears
That I can be endamaged by that art ;
Though thou retain of me
One picture more, yet that will be,
Being in thine own heart, from all malice free.

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Image © Maria Skiba

John Dowland, Deare if You Change (The First Booke of Songs, 1597), Maria Skiba & Frank Pschichholz, recorded by Michael Havenstein in Sendesaal Bremen © The Schoole of Night 2024

Dear, if you change, I’ll never choose again;
Sweet, if you shrink, I’ll never think of love;
Fair, if you fail, I’ll judge all beauty vain;
Wise, if too weak, more wits I’ll never prove.
Dear, sweet, fair, wise, change, shrink, nor be not weak;
And on my faith, my faith shall never break.

Earth with her flowers shall sooner heaven adorn;
Heaven her bright stars through, earth’s dim globe shall move;
Fire heat shall lose, and frosts of flame be born;
Air, made to shine, as black as hell shall prove:
Earth, heaven, fire, air, the world transformed shall view,
Ere I prove false to faith, or strange to you.

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