Short Stories by Anton Chekhov Audio Book 2: Talent and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov, Pyotr Tchaikovsky - 17 January 2010

This is a second book in the series of Chekhov’s Short Stories containing 5 new stories narrated by Max Bollinger in English (unabridged). Following release of first volume featuring tastefully integrated natural audio effects such as sounds of garden birds, clouds and other ambient backgrounds, several stories in this new 65-min CD feature occasional piano music accompanying the narration. The music in this release is based on original compositions of Pyotr Tchaikovsky, a distinguished Russian composer of Romanic era. Audiences will be able to experience Europe’s age of Enlightenment through these literary and musical treasures in this new production.

Stories in Audiobook 2

01 Talent

02 Anyuta

03 The Helpmate

04 Ivan Matveyitch

05 Polinka

CD Running Time: 65 min

About The Author

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (Антон Павлович Чехов) 1860 – 1904, one of Russia's most cherished storyteller, playwright and one of the greatest dramatists of all time. Chekhov himself described his plays as comic satire: "All I wanted was to say honestly to people: 'Have a look at yourselves and see how bad and dreary your lives are!' The important thing is that people should realize that, for when they do, they will most certainly create another and better life for themselves. I will not live to see it, but I know that it will be quite different, quite unlike our present life.”

About The Composer

Pyotr Ilyich Chaikovskiy (Пётр Ильич Чайковский) 1840 – 1893, Russian composer of the Romantic era. Chaikovskiy achieved worldwide recognition during his lifetime, was awarded an honorary doctorate at Cambridge University. In 1891 the Carnegie Hall program booklet proclaimed him to be one of the greatest living musicians. Music critics praised him as "a modern music lord". In Russia Chaikovskiy was considered a national treasure, and his music admired and adored by all. He wrote some of the most popular concert and theatrical music in the current classical repertoire, including the ballets Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker, the 1812 Overture, his Piano Concertos, his Symphonies, and the opera Eugene Onegin.

About The Translator

Constance Clara Garnett 1861 — 1946, English translator of nineteenth century Russian Literature. Following her visit to Russia in 1893 where she met Leo Tolstoy, Constance started translating Russian literature, which became her life's passion and resulted in English language versions of dozens of volumes by Tolstoy, Pushkin, Turgenev, Chekhov and other prominent Russian writers. Russian anarchist Sergei Stepniak assisted in preparation of her early works.