Lukas Foss: Griffelkin

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Recording Release Date

May 2003

SACD Recording

Recording Length

Disc 1: 61:45

Disc 2: 40:50

Lukas Foss (1922-2009)

Kendra Colton

Boston Modern Orchestra Project
Gil Rose, conductor

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Track listing

Disc 1

Griffelkin (1955)

Act I (Prologue)

'When the moon grows round and the dark grows double'

'You haven't swept up very snugly'

'Hurry up now! Light the fire!'

Dance - 'You have learned to bewitch'

'O Grandmother, you mean I can play in the world'

'Head over heels now here I come!'

'Bottle, we're off!'

'I'll try over there across the square'

'Good morning. Good gracious, you look like the devil'

'I've made a mistake'

'Why, why can't you leave us'

'Did you turn them back into stone?'

'Where have you been?'

'Have I been dreaming?'

'Now you can see, I'm a master of magic'

'Come dance, come dance, round and round'

'Toys! Fiddlers, drummers!'

'Oh no! Oh no! Who would believe it!'

Disc 2

'O, dark winds will haunt me'

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[CD Review] BMOP's recording of Foss's Griffelkin receives perfect score

Artistic Quality: 10 Sound Quality: 10

Lukas Foss composed Griffelkin for the NBC television network, which broadcast the opera on November 6, 1955. Although Griffelkin is based on a children’s fable, Foss wanted it to appeal to listeners ages “8 to 80,” so he wrote in a very accessible though not simplistic musical style—and the story has enough of a mature subtext to interest adults as well as children (as all good “children’s” music must).

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