The fifth episode of Stories from the Black Kitchen. In this episode we will discuss the context and the history behind the song Farewell Too Faire from John Dowland’s Third and Last Booke of Songs or Ayres (1603). A Farewell to the dying Queen…
Farewell Too Faire
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The fourth episode of Stories from the Black Kitchen. This time you we discuss the story behind White as Lillies Was Hir Face and Wofull Hart from John Dowland’s Second Booke of Songs or Ayres (1600)
White as Lillies Was Hir Face / Wofull Hart
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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
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The second episode of Stories from the Black Kitchen. This time you can hear the story behind Come Yee Heavie States of Night from John Dowland’s Second Booke of Songs or Ayres (1600) and its connections to the Second Earl of Essex and to the story of Hamlet.
Come Yee Heavie States of Night
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Photos: E.P and Maria Skiba
Between 7–10 July 2025, The Schoole of Night met at the Christuskirche in Görlitz to record John Dowland’s complete Third Booke of Songs (1603). This marks the fourth recording of Dowland’s complete songbooks.
Our Dowland recording library now includes:
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