The sixteenth episode of Stories from the Black Kitchen. In today’s episode we discuss song no V. from John Dowland’s Second Booke of Songs or Ayres (1600).

Mourne, mourne, day is with darknesse fled

It is a song wherein day is made night, baleful vapours enwreath the earth, and all is become other than it ought.

The Schoole of Night
Maria Skiba – soprano
Frank Pschichholz – lute

Recording: Julita Emanuiłow

Polskie Radio Dwójka

JOHN DOWLAND
Stories from the Black Kitchen

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