A Musicall Banquet

  • In Darknesse Let Me Dwell

    The seventeenth episode of Stories from the Black Kitchen. In today’s episode we discuss John Dowland’s triptych from Robert Dowland’s Musicall Banquet (1610). Farre from Triumphing CourtLady if You so Spite MeIn Darknesse Let Me Dwell Songs that are inextricably linked with the figure of Sir Henry Lee. The Schoole of NightMaria Skiba – sopranoFrank

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  • Stella, fayrest Shepherdesse. Robert Dowland’s Musicall Banquet

    The 13th episode of Stories from the Black Kitchen. In this episode we talk about Robert Dowland’s collection of songs from 1610 – A Musicall Banquet and particularly about a song to the text of sir Philip Sidney – Goe My Flocke, go get you hence. The poem comes from Sidney’s Astrophel and Stella, and

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  • Complete Lute Songs of John Dowland

    The sixth episode of Stories from the Black Kitchen. In this episode, we will discuss all of John Dowland’s songbooks, their interrelationships and contexts. JOHN DOWLANDComplete Lute Songs The First Booke of Songs or Ayres, 1597 The Second Booke of Songs or Ayres, 1600 The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Airs, 1603 A

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