The Earl of Essex

…Choakes with his mistes our mirth…

The Schoole of Night

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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…the greatest downfall I have seen in my days… John Dowland’s I Saw My Lady Weepe & Flow My Teares

The Schoole of Night

The ninth episode of Stories from the Black Kitchen. In this episode we talk about the song pair from John Dowland’s Second Booke of Songs or Ayres (1600)

“[…] Tomorrow the Earl’s household being 160 [[at] court] are dispersed, and every man to seek a new fortune. Some few are retained to attend him, where it will be her Majesty’s will to send him.This is the greatest downfall I have seen in my days, which makes me see the vanity of the world. […]“

Rowland Whyte to Robert Sidney, 1 December 1599

JOHN DOWLAND

I Saw My Lady Weepe

Flow My Teares

The Second Booke of Songs or Ayres, 1600

The Schoole of Night

Maria Skiba – soprano

Frank Pschichholz-lute

Recording: Julita Emanuiłow

Polskie Radio Dwójka

JOHN DOWLAND

Stories from the Black Kitchen

©The Schoole of Night 2025

The Life and Death of the Earl of Essex. Can She Excuse My Wrongs?

The Schoole of Night

The seventh episode of Stories from the Black Kitchen. In this episode we talk about the 2nd Earl of Essex and ‘his’ song Can She Excuse My Wrongs.

JOHN DOWLAND
Can She Excuse My Wrongs

The First Booke of Songs or Ayres, 1597

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

Recording: Michael Havenstein

Radio Bremen

JOHN DOWLAND
Stories from the Black Kitchen

©The Schoole of Night 2025