Duke d’Anjou – The Schoole of Night

Now O Now I Needs Must Part from the black kitchen

07/09/202502/11/2025The Schoole of Night

The third episode of Stories from the Black Kitchen. This time you can hear the story behind Now O Now I Needs Must Part from John Dowland’s First Booke of Song or Ayres (1597) and its connections to the failed marriage negotiations of Queen Elizabeth I with the Duke d’Anjou in 1579.

Now O Now I Needs Must Part