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 the protagonists’ identities are revealed.

Goe my flocke, go get you hence

from:
Robert Dowland’s
A Musicall Banquet, 1610

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

Recording: Renate Wolter-Seevers

Radio Bremen
Sendesaal Bremen

Script: Frank Pschichholz, Maria Skiba

JOHN DOWLAND
Stories from the Black Kitchen

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