The 10th episode of Stories from the Black Kitchen. Today we discuss a transformation of the myth of Icarus that happens in song no. X from John Dowland’s Third and Last Booke of Songs (1603)
JOHN DOWLAND
Love stood amaz’d at sweet beauties paine
from:
The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Aires, 1603
The Schoole of Night
Maria Skiba – soprano
Frank Pschichholz – lute
JOHN DOWLAND
Stories from the Black Kitchen
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The sixth episode of Stories from the Black Kitchen. In this episode, we will discuss all of John Dowland’s songbooks, their interrelationships and contexts.
JOHN DOWLAND
Complete Lute Songs
The First Booke of Songs or Ayres, 1597
The Second Booke of Songs or Ayres, 1600
The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Airs, 1603
A Musicall Banquet, 1610
A Pilgrimes Solace, 1612
The Schoole of Night
Maria Skiba – soprano
Frank Pschichholz-lute
Recording: Julita Emanuiłow, Renate Wolter-Seevers, Michael Havenstein
Radio Bremen
Polskie Radio Dwójka
JOHN DOWLAND
Stories from the Black Kitchen
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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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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:
On Monday, June 30 we started the rehearsals for the recording of John Dowland’s entire Third Booke of Songs (1603). The Third Booke is a tale of love and death, courtly intrigues and great politics. It is a farewell to Elizabeth I and Essex.
The recording is planned for next week.
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