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Looking for a story to fall asleep to, to ride with on a long drive, or to share at bedtime? Start here.

We read the folk tales and classics of every culture on Earth — complete and unabridged, never excerpts — in fresh English translations, performed by our cast of voices. The fairy tales of Ireland and Japan. The legends of India and Nigeria. Jamaica, the Netherlands, the Cherokee, the Norse — and the Russia of Pushkin and Krylov. The stories your grandmother knew, and stories from shores you've never heard — every culture in the spotlight, no one missed.

New tales arrive every week. Pick a shelf, press play, and let the world's grandmothers talk you to sleep.

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  • S147 · E14
    October 29 · 1 hr 5 min

    Russian Tsar Era Classics — Fathers and Sons, Part 3, by Ivan Turgenev

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Russian Tsar Era Classics — Fathers and Sons, Part 3, by Ivan Turgenev Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices. Ivan Turgenev's "Fathers and Sons" (1862) — the great novel of the generation gap — in a fresh in-house English translation, performed by the KacheliTV cast. The complete novel is presented in six parts; this is Part 3 of 6 (Chapters 15–18). May 1859. Arkady Kirsanov comes home from university to his father's estate, Marino, bringing his friend Yevgeny Bazarov — a young medical student and a nihilist, who believes in nothing but what can be dissected, measured, and proved. In a few weeks Bazarov turns the quiet house upside down: he quarrels with Arkady's elegant uncle Pavel Petrovich over everything the older generation holds dear, charms the servants and peasant children, and then, in the town and at the estate of the widow Anna Sergeyevna Odintsova, meets the one force his philosophy cannot dissect. Turgenev's complete novel, carried as written — all twenty-eight chapters, from the dusty highway to the little village graveyard. The chapters: 0:26 — Chapter Fifteen: "What order of mammal?" — the hotel visit, Odintsova's story, a botanizing proposal 9:59 — Chapter Sixteen: Nikolskoye — Katya and the Princess, Mozart at the piano, "trees in a forest" 31:46 — Chapter Seventeen: fifteen days — Bazarov's unrest, Timofeich's errand, "everything, or nothing" 55:14 — Chapter Eighteen: the confession — "I love you, foolishly, madly" — and her answer Source: Ivan Turgenev (1818–1883), «Отцы и дети» ("Fathers and Sons"), first published in the journal Russky Vestnik, February 1862 — public domain. Russian text via ilibrary.ru. Fresh in-house English translation made for this performance; no existing translation used. Dramatized performance by the KacheliTV cast: narrated by Violetta, with Scratch as Bazarov, Felix as Arkady, Amos as Nikolai Petrovich, Silas as Pavel Petrovich, Magnolia as Anna Sergeyevna Odintsova, Lulu as Fenechka, Orson as Vasily Ivanich, Madame de Pamplemousse as Arina Vlasyevna, Bruno as Sitnikov, Morgana as Kukshina, and Mira as Katya. Music: the theme (Bandoneo Street Romance) opens and closes this part and returns briefly between the chapters. No music plays under the narration. Season 147 — Russian Tsar Era Classics, Episode 14. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud.

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  • S147 · E13
    October 29 · 1 hr 31 min

    Russian Tsar Era Classics — Fathers and Sons, Part 2, by Ivan Turgenev

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Russian Tsar Era Classics — Fathers and Sons, Part 2, by Ivan Turgenev Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices. Ivan Turgenev's "Fathers and Sons" (1862) — the great novel of the generation gap — in a fresh in-house English translation, performed by the KacheliTV cast. The complete novel is presented in six parts; this is Part 2 of 6 (Chapters 8–14). May 1859. Arkady Kirsanov comes home from university to his father's estate, Marino, bringing his friend Yevgeny Bazarov — a young medical student and a nihilist, who believes in nothing but what can be dissected, measured, and proved. In a few weeks Bazarov turns the quiet house upside down: he quarrels with Arkady's elegant uncle Pavel Petrovich over everything the older generation holds dear, charms the servants and peasant children, and then, in the town and at the estate of the widow Anna Sergeyevna Odintsova, meets the one force his philosophy cannot dissect. Turgenev's complete novel, carried as written — all twenty-eight chapters, from the dusty highway to the little village graveyard. The chapters: 0:26 — Chapter Eight: the bailiff, the peasants, and the estate's slow decline; Pavel alone with his thoughts 15:22 — Chapter Nine: in the garden — Bazarov makes Fenechka's acquaintance and charms little Mitya 21:50 — Chapter Ten: two weeks at Marino — work, idleness, and the great quarrel between Pavel and Bazarov 49:22 — Chapter Eleven: Nikolai in the bower — sad thoughts, the cello, and Fenechka calling him in 57:50 — Chapter Twelve: the provincial town — a "young" governor, Kolyazin, and the invitation to the ball 1:08:28 — Chapter Thirteen: Kukshina's rooms — emancipation, champagne at breakfast, and a name first heard: Odintsova 1:21:15 — Chapter Fourteen: the governor's ball — Anna Sergeyevna's entrance, the mazurka, an invitation to Nikolskoye Source: Ivan Turgenev (1818–1883), «Отцы и дети» ("Fathers and Sons"), first published in the journal Russky Vestnik, February 1862 — public domain. Russian text via ilibrary.ru. Fresh in-house English translation made for this performance; no existing translation used. Dramatized performance by the KacheliTV cast: narrated by Violetta, with Scratch as Bazarov, Felix as Arkady, Amos as Nikolai Petrovich, Silas as Pavel Petrovich, Magnolia as Anna Sergeyevna Odintsova, Lulu as Fenechka, Orson as Vasily Ivanich, Madame de Pamplemousse as Arina Vlasyevna, Bruno as Sitnikov, Morgana as Kukshina, and Mira as Katya. Music: the theme (Golden Monologue) opens and closes this part and returns briefly between the chapters. No music plays under the narration. Season 147 — Russian Tsar Era Classics, Episode 13. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud.

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  • S167 · E1
    October 29 · 23 min

    Folk Tales of Corsica — Part 1

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Folk Tales of Corsica — Part 1 Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices. The premiere of a new shelf: three Corsican tales from J.-B. Frédéric Ortoli's "Les contes populaires de l'île de Corse" (Paris, 1883), in a fresh in-house English translation made for this series — selected tales from the Tallano district of southern Corsica, told to the collector by the people named below. In The Three Oranges, the innocent Marie is driven from her father's palace by a stepmother's slander. Hungry in a strange garden, she opens three oranges — and learns, fountain by fountain and lake by lake, exactly how much water a fairy needs. In The Soup of Stones, poor Anne, with six children crying for food and nothing in the house, wraps three stones in paper and pretends they are meat on the boil — until a beggar knocks, asks to warm himself, and lifts the lid. And in Saint Peter's Mother, a saint searches the book of his mother's life for one single good deed, and finds a leaf of a leek. The tales: 0:39 — The Three Oranges (told in 1882 by Rosalinda Mattei, of Zoxa-di-Tallano) 7:27 — The Soup of Stones (told in 1882 by Mademoiselle Marie Ortoli, of Olmiccia-di-Tallano) 20:22 — Saint Peter's Mother (told in 1881 by A. Joseph Ortoli, of Olmiccia) Source: Jean-Baptiste Frédéric Ortoli (1861–1907), "Les contes populaires de l'île de Corse," Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, 1883 — public domain; lawful copy via the Internet Archive. Fresh in-house English translation from the French; no existing translation used. These are selected tales, not the complete volume. Held for a future ruling: The Three Apples of Mariucella, The Three Brothers and the Virgin, and The Shepherd and the Month of March. Excluded by name under this channel's standing content law: The Three Toads, The Donkey of the Golden Sequins, The Priest and His Mistress, and Malia. Narrated by Amos. Music: the theme (Imperial Violin Masquerade) opens and closes this episode and returns briefly between the stories. No music plays under the narration. Season 167 — Folk Tales of Corsica, Episode 1. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud.

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  • S166 · E1
    October 29 · 27 min

    Folk Tales of the Iroquois — Part 1 (The Origin of Stories · Bald Eagle Sends Mud Turtle Around the World · Boy Rescued by a Bear · Why the Chipmunk Has the Black Stripe on His Back)

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Folk Tales of the Iroquois — Part 1 (The Origin of Stories · Bald Eagle Sends Mud Turtle Around the World · Boy Rescued by a Bear · Why the Chipmunk Has the Black Stripe on His Back) Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices. Part one — the premiere of a new shelf. Four Seneca tales of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Confederacy), collected by Jeremiah Curtin and Erminnie A. Smith, heard in the collectors' English exactly as printed. In The Origin of Stories, told by Henry Jacob, the orphan Poyeshaon — taken in and raised by an old woman who finds him in the woods — hunts birds for her table until, mending an arrow in a clearing, he hears a voice ask, "Shall I tell you stories?": a great round stone, which, when the whole village gathers with meat and bread, tells of a world before this one — and so storytelling itself begins. In Bald Eagle Sends Mud Turtle Around the World, the chief of the birds orders Mud Turtle to travel around the world and learn how many kinds of people there are and what they do, and Turtle reports on peoples who gather nuts, who live by corn and fish, and who build canoes and set traps — until Bald Eagle sends him out a second time to watch one settlement more closely. In Boy Rescued by a Bear, told by a grandson of Cornplanter from the Cattaraugus Reservation, a little boy lost below a cliff is found by a mother bear, who takes him to her den and raises him with her two cubs, carrying him the winter through until men from the village, tracking a bear, discover the child rhyming and playing with the cubs. And in Why the Chipmunk Has the Black Stripe on His Back, Mouse — the chipmunk — flees a quarrelsome Bear, hides beneath a fallen tree, and squeezes out so close under his great paw, again and again, that the paw's light touch leaves the black stripe her grandchildren carry to this day. The episode opens and closes with its theme, Imperial Violin Masquerade, heard also briefly between the stories. Chapters 0:39 The Origin of Stories 15:31 Bald Eagle Sends Mud Turtle Around the World 22:54 Boy Rescued by a Bear 24:50 Why the Chipmunk Has the Black Stripe on His Back The remaining tales of these collections are not read in this part. Held for the owner's ruling by name: The Friendship of an Otter · The Old Man's Lessons to His Nephew · How the Bear Lost His Tail · Origin of the Constellations · Origin of Wampum · the creation narratives (The Creation of Men · The Creation of Man · A Genesis Tradition · A Tale of the Sky World). Ceremonial and sacred material in these collections — the Thanksgiving Address liturgy, the cosmology and medicine-society material — is held by class and is not read. Excluded by name: The Man-Eating Wife, the Little Old Woman and the Morning Star · Coon Deceives Crawfish · The Crawfish and the Raccoon · The Fox and the Rabbit · The Race Between the Turtle and the Bear · The Snake with Two Heads · Infant Nursed by Bears · Origin of Tobacco. Standing on the bench for Part 2: The Boy Who Learned the Songs of Birds · The Pigmies and the Greedy Hunters. No claim of completeness for these collections is made. From Jeremiah Curtin's Seneca Indian Myths (1923) and Seneca Fiction, Legends, and Myths, with J. N. B. Hewitt (1918), and Erminnie A. Smith's Myths of the Iroquois (1883) — all public domain, the collectors' English as printed; these are their texts, not new translations. Narrated by Morgana. Theme: Imperial Violin Masquerade. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud.

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  • S164 · E1
    October 29 · 26 min

    Folk Tales of Sardinia — Part 1 (The Bird That Flew Away · The Ogre and the Two Godmothers · The Two Brothers · The Bear and the Three Sisters · The Enchanted Bird)

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Folk Tales of Sardinia — Part 1 (The Bird That Flew Away · The Ogre and the Two Godmothers · The Two Brothers · The Bear and the Three Sisters · The Enchanted Bird) Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices. Part one — the premiere of a new shelf. Five folk tales of Sardinia from the south of the island, the Campidano, collected by Francesco Mango with Emilia Lippi-Mango and published in his Novelline popolari sarde (1890) — heard here in a fresh English translation made from Mango's own Italian. In The Bird That Flew Away, a king's young servant answers two impossible questions — how many stars are in the sky, and how far it is to the Region of the Sun — with a ball of string and an invitation to count together. In The Ogre and the Two Godmothers, Maria climbs to the Ogre's castle on her godmother's errand and will not come down; her sweetheart stays below, three magic balls buy their flight across seas of water, fire and thorns, and the Ogre's own gift of magic waters lifts the curse from her face. In The Two Brothers, the poor brother who speaks kindly at the red gate receives a wishing wand, while his rich brother's rudeness is answered by whips — until pity, and a share of the treasure, close the story. In The Bear and the Three Sisters, a merchant's youngest daughter keeps her promise to a Bear, reads at his table while he sleeps, refuses every richer suitor — and her tears at his still body break the spell and wake a king. And in The Enchanted Bird, a black bird steals a spinner's thread night after night until she opens the forbidden room; a year later his ring turns up in her cake at the queen's feast, and he claims her as his bride. The episode opens and closes with its theme, Imperial Violin Masquerade, heard also briefly between the stories. Chapters 0:39 The Bird That Flew Away 5:00 The Ogre and the Two Godmothers 12:09 The Two Brothers 18:46 The Bear and the Three Sisters 22:33 The Enchanted Bird The remaining tales of Mango's volume are not read in this part. Held for the owner's ruling by name: The Leaf of the Rose · The Poor Woman's Daughter. Excluded by name: The Fisherman and the Devil · The Death of the Poor Man · The Mother and the Daughter · The Master and the Servant · Solomon's Counsels · The Two Godfathers · The Prince and His Wife · The Three Sisters · The Two Godmothers · The Schoolmistress and the Stepdaughter · The Thirteen Bandits. Standing on the bench for later parts of this shelf: Once There Was · The Little Whistle · The Devil · The Greedy Girl · The Cheating Widow · The Foolish Shepherd · The Girl Who Hated Smoke · The Three Stupid Girls. No claim of completeness for Mango's book is made. From Novelline popolari sarde, by Francesco Mango (Palermo, 1890), public domain — the Campidanese tales of southern Sardinia in a fresh English translation from Mango's Italian. Narrated by Madame de Pamplemousse. Theme: Imperial Violin Masquerade. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud. Season 164, Episode 1.

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  • S165 · E1
    October 28 · 18 min

    Folk Tales of the Inuit of Baffin Land — Part 1

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Folk Tales of the Inuit of Baffin Land — Part 1 Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices. Eight tales of the Inuit of Baffin Land, from Cumberland Sound, open a new shelf on KacheliTV. A woman fashions her old seal-skin jacket into a walrus and her trousers into a caribou, and must set their heads right before they go free. A girl who would not marry is turned to stone on her cliff, and travellers still hear her voice as they pass. Seven sledges hunting a bear rise into the sky and become a constellation. Two little girls invent thunder and lightning at play, and keep the boy they stole. An owl is outwitted by a lemming at the door of her own burrow; an owl repays a raven's painting with a whole lamp of oil; a family of foxes hides inside a whale and talks a wolf pack out of its dinner; and a hungry traveller is fed all winter by the skeleton people of Padli. In this episode: 0:53 — Origin of the Walrus and of the Caribou 2:41 — The Echo 4:06 — The Hunters Transformed into a Constellation 5:14 — Origin of Thunder and Lightning 8:23 — The Owl and the Lemming 10:18 — The Owl and the Raven 11:53 — The Foxes 13:50 — The Huts of the Skeleton People This premiere reads eight of the volume's Cumberland Sound tales. Held for the owner's ruling by name: The Lost Sisters · Iqallijuk and Nipernook · The Woman Who Married a Stone · The Wigwam of the Dead · Kamuk and His Mother-in-Law · The Man Who Mended a Broken Skull · The Two Brothers · Innerjulik. Held as sacred-class material: the Tales of Angakut, the Tales of Spirits (the Tornait), the volume's accounts of angakok practice and its Inuktitut texts. Not read on this shelf: the Sedna tellings · Kiviuq · Iggiayuk · The Orphan Boy Who Was Caught by a Whale · the tale of the two women who got themselves husbands · Ipi, Who Visited the Dead · and the remaining origin and animal tales that turn on a killing, every one of them named in the shelf's canon file; the tales from the west coast of Hudson Bay printed in the same volume belong to another shore and are not billed here. No claim of completeness is made for the volume. From The Eskimo of Baffin Land and Hudson Bay by Franz Boas (Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, Vol. XV, 1901), public domain — the eight tales complete as printed, in the book's order, in Boas's printed English. The volume's notes were collected by Capt. George Comer, Capt. James S. Mutch and the Rev. E. J. Peck, as its title page records. Narrated by Bruno. Theme: Imperial Violin Masquerade. Season 165 — Folk Tales of the Inuit of Baffin Land, Episode 1. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud.

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  • S163 · E1
    October 28 · 28 min

    Folk Tales of the Hausa People — Part 1: The Orphan · Miss Salt, Miss Pepper · The Beautiful Maiden and the Hartebeest · The Three Youths | KacheliTV World Classics

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Folk Tales of the Hausa People — Part 1 (The Orphan · Miss Salt, Miss Pepper · The Beautiful Maiden and the Hartebeest · The Three Youths) Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices. Part one — the premiere of a new shelf. Four folk tales of the Hausa people from R. Sutherland Rattray's Hausa Folk-Lore (1913) — the tales of Maalam Shaihu, collected, transliterated and translated by Rattray — heard in Rattray's English exactly as he printed it. In The Orphan, a dying mother leaves her daughter in trust to her fellow wife; the stepmother's cruelty — the sick girl left standing with the water-pot on her head while task after task is found — ends when the wind carries the maiden to the hut of the thigh-bone and his interpreter the dog, whose single grains of rice and corn test her patience and raise her above her persecutors; and when the stepmother sends her own daughter down the same road, the harvest is envy itself: he who sows evil, it comes forth in his own garden. In Miss Salt, Miss Pepper, Salt, Daudawa, Spice, Onion-leaves and Pepper set out to visit the beautiful youth Daskandarini; only despised Daudawar-batso, who follows behind because she smells, will stop to rub the old woman's back at the stream — and she alone learns the youth's name, and is raised up as mistress over them all. In The Beautiful Maiden, a chief offers his daughter to whoever hoes furthest and runs fastest, and the chameleon wins both — riding his magic hoe, then riding the hartebeest's tail as a needle — which is why the hartebeest's eyes bear the marks of tears to this day. And in The Three Youths, the king of prayer, the prince of bowmen and the king of wrestlers, carrying their maidens home, find the stream risen: prayer parts the water, arrows bridge it, and the wrestler leaps it in a wrestling throw. The episode opens and closes with its theme, Imperial Violin Masquerade, heard also briefly between the stories. Chapters 0:38 The Orphan, Showing That He Who Sows Evil, It Comes Forth in His Own Garden 15:39 Miss Salt, Miss Pepper, and the Rest 23:08 The Beautiful Maiden, and How the Hartebeest Got the Marks under Its Eyes Like Teardrops 25:48 The Three Youths, and How They Used Their Skill to Circumvent a Difficulty The remaining tales of Rattray's two volumes are not read in this part. Held for the owner's ruling by name: The World · How the Whip and the 'Maara' Spoon Came to the Haunts of Men · The Doctor Who Went a Pilgrimage to Mecca on a Hyena · The Orphan of the Coat-of-Skin Saying · A Jealous Man and What Befell Him · A Great Friendship, and How It Was Put to the Test · Muusa (Moses) · The Spider and the Crows. Excluded by name: How Brothers and Sisters First Came to Quarrel · The Boy and the Old Woman, and the Wasp · A Chief, and How His Sons Observed His Funeral · A Witch, and How the Baby of the Family Outwitted Her · A Chief and His Cook · A Hunter and His Son · A Maiden and the Pumpkin · The Gawo-Tree and the Maiden · The Water of Ladi · The Lizard and the Hyena · The Beetle, and How He Got His Thatching Done · The Spider and the Lion · The Spider and the Dodo. Standing on the bench for later parts of this shelf: A Test of Skill · A Giant, and the Cause of Thunder · The Spider, the Hippo, and the Elephant · The He-Goat · The Lion and the Leopard. No claim of completeness for Rattray's book is made. From Hausa Folk-Lore, Customs, Proverbs, Etc., by R. Sutherland Rattray (Oxford, 1913), public domain — the tales of Maalam Shaihu in Rattray's English translation as printed; this is his translation, not a new one. Narrated by Scratch. Theme: Imperial Violin Masquerade. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud.

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  • S159 · E1
    October 28 · 36 min

    Folk Tales of the Pawnee — Part 1 | KacheliTV World Classics

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Folk Tales of the Pawnee — Part 1 (The Ghost Wife · The Ghost Bride · The Boy Who Saw A-ti'-us · How the Deer Lost His Gall · Yellow Fox · Coyote and Bear · Coyote and Prairie-Chicken · How Rabbit Lost His Tail · The White and the Black Rats) Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices. Part one — the premiere of a new shelf. Nine tales of the Pawnee people — the Chaui, Kitkehahki, Pitahauirat and Skidi bands, as the books name them. From George Bird Grinnell's Pawnee Hero Stories and Folk-Tales (1889): in The Ghost Wife, a dead wife agrees to return to her husband and child if no one lifts the curtain for four days; in The Ghost Bride, a young man finds the girl he loved waiting in the emptied village, and must not speak her name; in The Boy Who Saw A-ti'-us, two swans carry a starving boy through the famine winter to the lodge of A-ti'-us, and he comes back with the buffalo; in How the Deer Lost His Gall, a race on the prairie is run for a wager of galls; and in Yellow Fox, a boy lost in a blizzard is led home by a buffalo bull singing the Father's song. From George A. Dorsey's The Pawnee: Mythology (1906), four Coyote tales told by Skidi tellers: Coyote bluffs Bear out of a fine plum-wood bow; Coyote's song-duel of poisons names only Prairie-Chicken's favourite foods; Rabbit leaves his tail on a willow limb and Turtle sets it right; and Magpie's songs give the White Rat earth-nuts, the Black Rat artichokes, and the people both. The episode opens and closes with its theme, heard also briefly between the stories. Chapters 0:39 The Ghost Wife 4:41 The Ghost Bride 9:26 The Boy Who Saw A-ti'-us 22:55 How the Deer Lost His Gall 24:33 Yellow Fox 27:10 Coyote and Bear 29:51 Coyote and Prairie-Chicken 32:05 How Rabbit Lost His Tail 34:18 The White and the Black Rats Much of both books is not read on this shelf. Held for the owner's ruling by name: Ti-ke-wa-kush, the Man Who Called the Buffalo (the book itself calls it a true and sacred story) · Turtle's War Party · Coyote and the Dancing Turkeys · Coyote and the Turkeys Roll Down the Hill · Coyote and the Artichoke. Excluded by name after a full reading: The Boy Who Was Sacrificed · Pa-hu-ka'-tawa · A Story of Faith · The Bear Man · The Snake Brother · O're-ka-rahr · The Dun Horse · the eight Hero Stories as a section · Coyote Tales Nos. 117–121, 123–128, 130, 131, 140, 142–144 and 148 in Dorsey. The Morning Star, sacrifice and bundle material found in both books is excluded as a class and is never read here. No claim of completeness for either book is made. From Pawnee Hero Stories and Folk-Tales by George Bird Grinnell (New York, 1889) and The Pawnee: Mythology (Part I) by George A. Dorsey (Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1906), both public domain — the nine tales complete, in book order within each source, in the collectors' printed English. Dorsey's tellers: White-Eagle, Young-Bull and Woman-Yellow-Corn, of the Skidi; his preface credits James R. Murie. Narrated by Mira. Theme: Bandoneo n Street Romance. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud.

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  • S160 · E1
    October 28 · 20 min

    Kurdish Tales — Part 1: Khalil-Beg, Son of Lesko · The Shepherd Siso · Mambapir · Mullah Bazid | KacheliTV World Classics

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Kurdish Tales — Part 1 (Khalil-Beg, Son of Lesko · The Shepherd Siso · Mambapir · Mullah Bazid) Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices. Part one — the premiere of a new shelf. Four Kurdish (Kurmanji) tales from Alexandre Jaba's Recueil de notices et récits kourdes (St. Petersburg, 1860), in a fresh in-house translation from Jaba's French. In Khalil-Beg, Son of Lesko, an Armenian-born convert risen to governor shames a proud agha who scorned his low birth by gift after gift — a thoroughbred horse, a sable pelisse, a watch — until the agha bows three times in a single day. In The Shepherd Siso, a Kurdish shepherd hosts two disguised dervishes with bread and milk, never guessing one is Sultan Murad himself; visiting "Baba Mourad" at the palace, he drinks his coffee from a wooden bowl with bread in it — and is loaded with honours and villages. In Mambapir, a rich and ignorant nomad pays the imam thirty sheep to have his name read in the Friday sermon, not knowing the imam has in fact called him "a big dog" in Arabic. And in Mullah Bazid, the preacher who tells his flock to give their spare coat and half their bread to the poor is furious when his wife applies the sermon at home: "my recommendations were for the people, and not for me!" The episode opens and closes with its theme, Bandoneo Street Romance, heard also briefly between the stories. Chapters 0:37 Khalil-Beg, Son of Lesko 5:49 The Shepherd Siso 13:28 Mambapir 18:06 Mullah Bazid Of the remaining récits in Jaba's collection, five stand on the bench for later parts of this shelf. Held for the owner's ruling by name: The Avarice of the Mullahs · Mullah Muhammed · Tetedi Abdullah Pasha · Doctor Mir-Ali · The Measuring of Koroglu. Excluded by name: Mirzo Resho · Deli Ismail Agha · Mehmedi Qulpi · The Girl Barnik · Adile-Khanum · Siyahmed and Semsi · Ali Nasran · Pergo · Sekir-Aya Senk · Sumo · Mir Az-ed-din and his servant Kulo · The Captivity of Jaubert — in each, enacted killing or mutilation is the substance, pivot or climax. No claim of completeness for Jaba's book is made. From Recueil de notices et récits kourdes, by Alexandre Jaba (St. Petersburg, 1860), public domain — a fresh in-house translation from Jaba's printed French, the tales in the order given in the programme above. Jaba's Kurdish teacher, Mela Mahmud Bayazidi, is credited as the source of much of the material he collected. Narrated by Lulu. Theme: Bandoneo Street Romance. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud.

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  • S161 · E1
    October 28 · 22 min

    Altai Tales — Part 1

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Folk Tales of the Altai — Part 1 (The Merchant · The Bride-Father's Riddle · Sartaktai Käsär · Sary Art · Altyn Tschötschü, the Golden Cup · The Iron Mountain · Tölös, Mundus and Kotschkor Mundus · Schydar Ubang) Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices. Eight tales from the high Altai, told by the Altai people and taken down in the southern Siberian mountains in the 1860s. A merchant's three sons dream of the wives they will have: the elder two marry well, but the youngest's dream-bride is a frog — and at the father's feast her singing outshines them all, and the beauty hidden in her wins him the whole inheritance. A bride's father will give his daughter only to the wooer who can come neither in a fur nor without one, neither on the road nor off it, neither on horseback nor without a horse. Sartaktai Käsär begins the great stone bridge over the Katun, and leaves his footprint pressed into the rock and the road cut through the cliffs of the Chuya. At Sary Art, above the Chuya's source, God himself came down on horseback — and while his horse's hoofprint endures there, the end of the world is still far away. On Mount Orshulang, God makes the Golden Cup spring, whose water never warms in summer and never freezes in winter, so that people and cattle may drink. An Oirot army waits three years for the Iron Mountain to sink in one place, and beyond the sea finds a people who have never known war. And Shydar Ubang, crushed by the Russian prince's tribute, strews his copper money from three hundred camels on the bank of the Irtysh, so the soldiers stop to gather it while he slips away. Fresh in-house English translations from the German texts, made for this series — no existing translation used. A first selection; more Altai tales follow in later parts. Chapters: 00:37 The Merchant 06:34 The Bride-Father's Riddle 09:15 Sartaktai Käsär 10:57 Sary Art 11:49 Altyn Tschötschü, the Golden Cup 13:04 The Iron Mountain 18:03 Tölös, Mundus and Kotschkor Mundus 20:16 Schydar Ubang Source: Wilhelm Radlov, Proben der Volkslitteratur der türkischen Stämme Süd-Sibiriens, Part I (St. Petersburg, 1866) — tales and legends of the Altai people (Altaians and Teleuts), recorded by Radlov on his Siberian journeys. Public domain. Narrated by Violetta. Instrumental opening and closing theme: Golden Monologue, heard again briefly between the tales. Left for later parts or held under the channel's content rules: the warrior tales of Tardanak, Täktäbäi Märgän and Kan Püdäi, The Two Princes, the animal tales of Schünü and Janar Kusch, and The Literate Boy; Tschiwalkow's fables belong to another collector's voice; the seer's tale of Altain Sain Salam and The Official's Son are held for review.

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  • S154 · E1
    October 28 · 22 min

    Tibetan Tales — Part 1

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Tibetan Tales — Part 1 Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices. Part one — the premiere of a new shelf. Three tales from Tibetan Tales Derived from Indian Sources, Anton Schiefner's translation of the Tibetan Kah-gyur rendered into English by W. R. S. Ralston (1882) — read as printed. In The Magician's Pupil, a Brahman youth serves a Chandala magician for the spell that fetches out-of-season fruit from the Gandhamadana mountain; one night of devotion earns him the teaching early, he spends the gift the moment he has it — and ingratitude costs him everything. In The Flight of the Beasts, a vilva tree falls into a lake, six hares flee the noise, and every beast in the forest flees the rumour of it, each stronger than the last, until one lion walks the story back to its empty source. And in The Virtuous Animals, a partridge, a hare, a monkey and an elephant take the five vows beneath a fig-tree — not to kill, not to steal, no unlawful unions, no falsehood, no intoxication — and their quiet example converts a kingdom. The episode opens and closes with its theme, Bandoneo Street Romance, heard also briefly between the stories. Chapters: 0:39 — The Magician's Pupil 5:23 — The Flight of the Beasts 10:53 — The Virtuous Animals Three more of the book's tales stand held for a later ruling and are not read here: Viśvantara · The Gazelle and the Hunter · The Dumb Cripple. The book's remaining tales stand excluded by name in the shelf register after a full reading, and no claim of completeness for the book is made. Schiefner's own introduction says plainly that these are Indian tales preserved in the Tibetan Kah-gyur, with little specially Tibetan about them beyond their language — the shelf bills them exactly so. From Tibetan Tales Derived from Indian Sources, from the Tibetan of Anton Schiefner by W. R. S. Ralston (Trübner, 1882), public domain — Ralston's English text, read as printed. Narrated by Amos. Theme: Bandoneo Street Romance. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud.

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  • S158 · E1
    October 28 · 35 min

    Folk Tales of Scotland — Part 1: The Tale of the Hoodie · The Story of the White Pet · Bailie Lunnain · The Inheritance · The Master and His Man | KacheliTV World Classics

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Folk Tales of Scotland — Part 1 (The Tale of the Hoodie · The Story of the White Pet · Bailie Lunnain · The Inheritance · The Master and His Man) Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices. Part one — the premiere of a new shelf. Five folk tales of the West Highlands of Scotland from J. F. Campbell's Popular Tales of the West Highlands (Edinburgh, 1860–62), heard in Campbell's English exactly as he printed it — his own translation of tales taken down from Gaelic tellers in 1859–61. In The Tale of the Hoodie, a farmer's youngest daughter weds a hoodie crow who is a man by day; when a forgotten comb breaks the spell she follows him over hill and hollow, learns smithying to shoe her own hands and feet, and crosses the hill of poison to win him back with a ring and a feather in the broth. In The Story of the White Pet, a sheep marked for the Christmas killing runs away with a bull, a dog, a cat, a cock and a goose; the six rout a band of thieves with one great shout and keep the counted money in peace. In Bailie Lunnain, a young Gael dreams three times of the Bailie of London's daughter, and on the road to claim her out-talks a Saxon gentleman in riddles — a net sown in a street, a mother, a house and a bridge carried on the journey — until the Bailie himself gives the bride by the hand. In The Inheritance, three brothers find their dead father's gold drawer empty, and an old friend's tale within the tale draws out the thief. And in The Master and His Man, a servant hired for what seed he can catch in his mouth at the thrashing compounds three grains over seven years until he crops every acre his master has. The episode opens and closes with its theme, Imperial Violin Masquerade, heard also briefly between the stories. Chapters 0:38 The Tale of the Hoodie 7:25 The Story of the White Pet 13:43 Bailie Lunnain 25:58 The Inheritance 31:54 The Master and His Man More of Campbell's tales are not read in this part. Held for the owner's ruling by name: The Chest · Murchag a's Mionachag. Excluded by name: The Young King of Easaidh Ruadh · The Battle of the Birds · The Brown Bear of the Green Glen · The Poor Brother and the Rich · the Fables as a set (two salvaged to the bench) · The Smith and the Fairies · The Tale of the Queen Who Sought a Drink From a Certain Well · The Three Widows · The Widow and Her Daughters · How the Fox Took a Turn Out of the Goat · The Hen · The Keg of Butter · The Fox and the Little Bonnach · The Bulls · How the Een Was Set Up. Standing on the bench for later parts of this shelf: The Three Wise Men · The Reason Why the Dallag is Called the King's Fish · The Three Questions, and the short beast tales. No claim of completeness for Campbell's four volumes is made. From Popular Tales of the West Highlands, Orally Collected, with a Translation, by J. F. Campbell (Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, Vol. I 1860 · Vol. II 1860 · Vol. III 1862), public domain — in book order, in Campbell's English as printed. Narrated by Orson. Theme: Imperial Violin Masquerade. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud.

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  • S147 · E12
    October 28 · 1 hr 8 min

    Russian Tsar Era Classics — Fathers and Sons, Part 1, by Ivan Turgenev

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Russian Tsar Era Classics — Fathers and Sons, Part 1, by Ivan Turgenev Ivan Turgenev's "Fathers and Sons" (1862) — the great novel of the generation gap — in a fresh in-house English translation, performed by the KacheliTV cast. The complete novel is presented in six parts; this is Part 1 of 6 (Chapters 1–7). Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices. May 1859. Arkady Kirsanov comes home from university to his father's estate, Marino, bringing his friend Yevgeny Bazarov — a young medical student and a nihilist, who believes in nothing but what can be dissected, measured, and proved. In a few weeks Bazarov turns the quiet house upside down: he quarrels with Arkady's elegant uncle Pavel Petrovich over everything the older generation holds dear, charms the servants and peasant children, and then, in the town and at the estate of the widow Anna Sergeyevna Odintsova, meets the one force his philosophy cannot dissect. Turgenev's complete novel, carried as written — all twenty-eight chapters, from the dusty highway to the little village graveyard. The chapters: 0:52 — Chapter One: "Is there still no sign of them?" — Nikolai waits on the highway; Arkady comes home, bringing a friend 8:08 — Chapter Two: the dust of the road — father and son embrace; Bazarov is presented, and unsettles the house 12:12 — Chapter Three: "A candidate at last" — the first evening: Pavel's English toilet, and frogs after supper 24:21 — Chapter Four: the household at Marino — the servants, the peasants' troubles, a house quietly out of date 33:37 — Chapter Five: Bazarov up before everyone — dissecting, measuring, and the morning's first argument 47:46 — Chapter Six: Nikolai tells how he met his wife; Arkady answers with the story of Uncle Pavel 54:47 — Chapter Seven: Pavel Petrovich's story — the guards, the duel of honour, and Princess R., the sphinx Source: Ivan Turgenev (1818–1883), «Отцы и дети» ("Fathers and Sons"), first published in the journal Russky Vestnik, February 1862 — public domain. Russian text via ilibrary.ru. Fresh in-house English translation made for this performance; no existing translation used. Dramatized performance by the KacheliTV cast: narrated by Violetta, with Scratch as Bazarov, Felix as Arkady, Amos as Nikolai Petrovich, Silas as Pavel Petrovich, Magnolia as Anna Sergeyevna Odintsova, Lulu as Fenechka, Orson as Vasily Ivanich, Madame de Pamplemousse as Arina Vlasyevna, Bruno as Sitnikov, Morgana as Kukshina, and Mira as Katya. Music: the theme (Imperial Violin Masquerade) opens and closes this part and returns briefly between the chapters. No music plays under the narration. Season 147 — Russian Tsar Era Classics, Episode 12. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud.

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  • S103 · E8
    October 28 · 22 min

    The Musical Break — Imperial Street Masquerade

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! The Musical Break — Imperial Street Masquerade Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices. Season 103 · Episode 8 — the eighth of the Musical Break specials on KacheliTV World Classics. Tonight's musical break opens the doors of a grand salon: six brilliant pieces — violin, piano, bandoneon and more — each introduced by your host, Benedetto, and played in full. We begin in full dress with Imperial Violin Masquerade, a masked ball in music, and the piano answers as a charming rogue in Gangster Piano Symphony. Then the street answers the salon: Bandoneon Street Romance, a romance breathed out on an evening street corner. Feline Grace returns indoors — small paws on polished floors, miniatures of perfect poise — before the windows open for Avian Impressions, all quicksilver flight and dawn-chatter, and Ancient Canopy closes the evening under an old forest roof, deep, cool and sun-dappled. THE PROGRAMME 0:00 Imperial Violin Masquerade 3:50 Gangster Piano Symphony 7:17 Bandoneon Street Romance 11:09 Feline Grace 14:52 Avian Impressions 18:46 Ancient Canopy THE MUSIC Six instrumentals from the house library, played here in full: Imperial Violin Masquerade · Gangster Piano Symphony · Bandoneon Street Romance · Feline Grace · Avian Impressions · Ancient Canopy. Every piece is announced before it plays; between the announcements the music stands alone, with no words over it at all. Music: instrumentals from the house library, played in full. Spoken introductions by Benedetto, your Musical Break host — the music itself is wordless throughout. KacheliTV · musical break · salon music · violin and piano · instrumental music · relaxing music · Imperial Violin Masquerade · Gangster Piano Symphony · world classics

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  • S147 · E18
    October 28 · 1 hr 22 min

    Russian Tsar Era Classics — Woe from Wit, Part 2, by Alexander Griboyedov

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Russian Tsar Era Classics — Woe from Wit, Part 2, by Alexander Griboyedov Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices. Alexander Griboyedov's "Woe from Wit" (written 1822–24) — the most quoted play in the Russian language — in a fresh in-house English translation, performed by the KacheliTV cast. Barred by the censors from the stage and from full publication, it circulated hand to hand in manuscript until all Russia knew it by heart: a verse comedy of wit, love, and a society that would rather declare a clever man mad than have to listen to him. Part 2 of 2. Part 1 carried Chatsky's return to Moscow after three years abroad — and his first collisions with the world of Famusov's house, where Sophia's heart belongs, in secret, to her father's meek secretary Molchalin. Now comes the ball: Moscow on parade, a whispered word that runs round the room until the whole city knows it — Chatsky has gone out of his mind. And in the small hours, the departures: Repetilov's secret society, a conversation overheard on the stairs, and the truth about Sophia's midnight visitor, before Chatsky's final cry: "My carriage! My carriage!" The complete play concludes. The acts: 0:00 — Act Three: the ball — Moscow on parade, and the rumour that runs round the room 46:43 — Act Four: the departures, Repetilov's secret society, a conversation overheard, and "My carriage! My carriage!" Source: Alexander Griboyedov (1795–1829), «Горе от ума» ("Woe from Wit"), written 1822–24; first published 1833 (censored); complete text published 1862 — public domain. Russian text via ilibrary.ru, cross-checked against 24glo.com. Fresh in-house English translation made for this performance; no existing translation was used. Nothing has been cut: across the two parts, the complete play — all four acts — is performed in full, in order. Period racial descriptors in Khlestova's speeches are rendered with neutral modern wording in the translation; no fact, event or sentence is altered. Dramatized performance by the KacheliTV cast: narrated by Orson, with Felix as Chatsky, Amos as Famusov, Violetta as Sophia, Silas as Molchalin, Bruno as Skalozub, Lulu as Liza, Scratch as Repetilov, Madame de Pamplemousse as Khlestova, Magnolia as Natalia Dmitrievna, Benedetto as Platon Gorich, Morgana as the old Countess Khryumina, and Mira as her granddaughter. Music: "Imperial Violin Masquerade" (KacheliTV instrumental library) — between the acts, and closing theme. No music under the narration. Season 147 — Russian Tsar Era Classics, Episode 18 (Part 2; Part 1 is Episode 8 — the season's numbering follows production order, and the two parts sit consecutively in the playlist). The shelf so far: Lefty, by Nikolai Leskov · The Queen of Spades, by Alexander Pushkin · The Overcoat, by Nikolai Gogol · The Death of Ivan Ilyich, by Leo Tolstoy · The Lady with the Dog, by Anton Chekhov · The Tales of Belkin, by Alexander Pushkin · Woe from Wit, by Alexander Griboyedov · The Government Inspector, by Nikolai Gogol · White Nights, by Fyodor Dostoevsky · Fathers and Sons, by Ivan Turgenev. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud.

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  • S147 · E8
    October 28 · 1 hr 7 min

    Russian Tsar Era Classics — Woe from Wit, Part 1, by Alexander Griboyedov

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Russian Tsar Era Classics — Woe from Wit, Part 1, by Alexander Griboyedov Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices. Alexander Griboyedov's "Woe from Wit" (written 1822–24) — the most quoted play in the Russian language — in a fresh in-house English translation, performed by the KacheliTV cast. Barred by the censors from the stage and from full publication, it circulated hand to hand in manuscript until all Russia knew it by heart: a verse comedy of wit, love, and a society that would rather declare a clever man mad than have to listen to him. Part 1 of 2. Alexander Chatsky comes home to Moscow after three years abroad, still in love with Sophia Famusov, the girl he grew up with. But Sophia's heart is given — in secret, at midnight — to her father's meek and silent secretary, Molchalin, and her father is grooming the bluff, braid-loving Colonel Skalozub for a son-in-law. Chatsky speaks his mind, as he always has — and Moscow quietly begins to find its answer to him. (Acts Three and Four are in Part 2.) The acts: 0:00 — Act One: morning at Famusov's — a night visitor, a stopped clock, and Chatsky's return 29:57 — Act Two: the calendar, the career of a courtier's back, "And who are the judges?", and a fall from a horse Source: Alexander Griboyedov (1795–1829), «Горе от ума» ("Woe from Wit"), written 1822–24; first published 1833 (censored); complete text published 1862 — public domain. Russian text via ilibrary.ru, cross-checked against 24glo.com. Fresh in-house English translation made for this performance; no existing translation was used. Nothing has been cut: across the two parts, the complete play — all four acts — is performed in full, in order. Period racial descriptors in Khlestova's speeches are rendered with neutral modern wording in the translation; no fact, event or sentence is altered. Dramatized performance by the KacheliTV cast: narrated by Orson, with Felix as Chatsky, Amos as Famusov, Violetta as Sophia, Silas as Molchalin, Bruno as Skalozub, Lulu as Liza, Scratch as Repetilov, Madame de Pamplemousse as Khlestova, Magnolia as Natalia Dmitrievna, Benedetto as Platon Gorich, Morgana as the old Countess Khryumina, and Mira as her granddaughter. Music: "Imperial Violin Masquerade" (KacheliTV instrumental library) — opening theme and between the acts. No music under the narration. Season 147 — Russian Tsar Era Classics, Episode 8 (Part 1; Part 2 follows as Episode 18 — the season's numbering follows production order, and the two parts sit consecutively in the playlist). The shelf so far: Lefty, by Nikolai Leskov · The Queen of Spades, by Alexander Pushkin · The Overcoat, by Nikolai Gogol · The Death of Ivan Ilyich, by Leo Tolstoy · The Lady with the Dog, by Anton Chekhov · The Tales of Belkin, by Alexander Pushkin · Woe from Wit, by Alexander Griboyedov · The Government Inspector, by Nikolai Gogol · White Nights, by Fyodor Dostoevsky · Fathers and Sons, by Ivan Turgenev. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud.

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  • S103 · E7
    October 28 · 22 min

    The Musical Break — Luminous River Vision

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! The Musical Break — Luminous River Vision Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices. Season 103 · Episode 7 — the seventh of the Musical Break specials on KacheliTV World Classics. Tonight's musical break flows: six pieces of springs, rivers and shining water from the house library, each introduced by your host, Benedetto, and played in full. We begin where the wild current settles, with Calm After the Current, and follow the water on: a hillside spring with a long memory in The Spring Remembers, light living in the water in Luminous Springs. La Rive des Esprits waits on a mystical riverbank at the edge of the visible world; The River's Dying Vision dreams of every valley the old river ever watered; and Tampa Across the Water carries the melody the last of the way home, across the bay at evening. THE PROGRAMME 0:00 Calm After the Current 3:42 The Spring Remembers 7:02 Luminous Springs 10:56 La Rive des Esprits 15:01 The River's Dying Vision 18:53 Tampa Across the Water THE MUSIC Six instrumentals from the house library, played here in full: Calm After the Current · The Spring Remembers · Luminous Springs · La Rive des Esprits · The River's Dying Vision · Tampa Across the Water. Every piece is announced before it plays; between the announcements the music stands alone, with no words over it at all. Music: instrumentals from the house library, played in full. Spoken introductions by Benedetto, your Musical Break host — the music itself is wordless throughout. KacheliTV · musical break · water music · springs and rivers · instrumental music · relaxing music · The Spring Remembers · Tampa Across the Water · world classics

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  • S103 · E6
    October 28 · 21 min

    The Musical Break — Midnight Saxophone Lament

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! The Musical Break — Midnight Saxophone Lament Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices. Season 103 · Episode 6 — the sixth of the Musical Break specials on KacheliTV World Classics. Tonight's musical break belongs to the night: six pieces that begin at dusk and wander toward stillness, each introduced by your host, Benedetto, and played in full. We begin as the light goes down, with Convergence at Dusk, then go deeper: a saxophone after hours in Midnight Forbidden Saxophone, a lone pool of light in Spotlight After Midnight. January Lament grieves softly the way winter itself grieves; La Partenza is a farewell at the door in the small hours, a melody that keeps glancing over its shoulder; and Winterstille lays the quietest music of the night over everything, like first snow. THE PROGRAMME 0:00 Convergence at Dusk 3:33 Midnight Forbidden Saxophone 7:30 Spotlight After Midnight 11:10 January Lament 14:32 La Partenza 18:01 Winterstille THE MUSIC Six instrumentals from the house library, played here in full: Convergence at Dusk · Midnight Forbidden Saxophone · Spotlight After Midnight · January Lament · La Partenza · Winterstille. Every piece is announced before it plays; between the announcements the music stands alone, with no words over it at all. Music: instrumentals from the house library, played in full. Spoken introductions by Benedetto, your Musical Break host — the music itself is wordless throughout. KacheliTV · musical break · night music · saxophone · instrumental music · relaxing music · Midnight Forbidden Saxophone · Winterstille · world classics

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  • S103 · E5
    October 28 · 20 min

    The Musical Break — Forbidden Palace Nocturne

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! The Musical Break — Forbidden Palace Nocturne Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices. Season 103 · Episode 5 — the fifth of the Musical Break specials on KacheliTV World Classics. Tonight the tales take a rest, and a single voice steps forward to sing: the cello. Your host Benedetto introduces every piece before it plays, and each one is heard in full. Five pieces for the cello, and one encore. We begin behind palace doors with Forbidden Palace Cello, deep and secretive; The Cello's Unfinished Promise reaches toward something it loves and leaves the last word unsaid. Istanbul Cello Nocturne drifts like lamplight on dark water, and Desert Cello Rhapsody sings out across open sand, bold and free. The Friend's Cello brings the evening home — the cello as an old companion, warm and faithful to the last note — and then, by way of an encore, a piece whose title says everything: LOVE. THE PROGRAMME 0:00 Forbidden Palace Cello 3:21 The Cello's Unfinished Promise 6:38 Istanbul Cello Nocturne 9:50 Desert Cello Rhapsody 13:20 The Friend's Cello 16:57 LOVE THE MUSIC Six instrumentals from the house library, played here in full: Forbidden Palace Cello · The Cello's Unfinished Promise · Istanbul Cello Nocturne · Desert Cello Rhapsody · The Friend's Cello · LOVE. Every piece is announced before it plays; between the announcements the music stands alone, with no words over it at all. Music: instrumentals from the house library, played in full. Spoken introductions by Benedetto, your Musical Break host — the music itself is wordless throughout. KacheliTV · musical break · cello · instrumental music · classical crossover · relaxing music · Forbidden Palace Cello · Istanbul Cello Nocturne · world classics

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  • S147 · E10
    October 28 · 1 hr 22 min

    Russian Tsar Era Classics — The Government Inspector, Part 2, by Nikolai Gogol

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Russian Tsar Era Classics — The Government Inspector, Part 2, by Nikolai Gogol Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices. A dramatized performance by the KacheliTV cast, in a fresh English translation made for this recording. Part 2 of 2. A small provincial town is thrown into panic by the news that a government inspector is coming — incognito. The Mayor and every official in town have something to hide, and when a penniless young traveller from the capital is mistaken for the dreaded inspector, they fall over themselves to bribe, flatter and feast him. Ivan Khlestakov, a nobody with a vivid imagination, rises to the occasion magnificently — until the real inspector is announced. Gogol's comedy of fear, vanity and corruption has been delighting and stinging audiences since 1836, and it has lost none of its bite. The Acts 00:00 Act Four — every official and petitioner comes to pay court — and to pay 0:50:18 Act Five — triumph, a betrothal, a letter read aloud — and a gendarme at the door Theme music: "Bandoneo_n_Street_Romance" (instrumental), heard between the acts and at the close. No music plays under the narration. Source: Nikolai Gogol, «Ревизор» (The Government Inspector), first performed and published in 1836 — public domain. Russian text via ilibrary.ru. Translated fresh into English for KacheliTV; no existing translation was used. The cast: Lulu (narrator), Orson (the Mayor), Felix (Khlestakov), Scratch (Osip), Magnolia (Anna Andreyevna), Violetta (Marya Antonovna), and the KacheliTV company.

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