The fourteenth episode of Stories from the Black Kitchen. In today’s episode we discuss a song from John Dowland’s First Booke of Songs (1597):
Deare, if you change, I’ll never chuse again…
What initially presents itself as a conventional love song is, upon closer examination, revealed to contain a veiled depiction of a constant, immutable, and in effect divine figure — Queen Elizabeth.
JOHN DOWLAND
Stories from the Black Kitchen
The Schoole of Night
Maria Skiba – soprano
Frank Pschichholz – lute
Recording: Michael Havenstein
Radio Bremen
Sendesaal Bremen
Script: Frank Pschichholz, Maria Skiba
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