Collection "Ivan Franko. Collection of works. (mp3)". Set of 3 CDs.

I don’t know about other people, but for me from my very childhood Franko has been something large, serious, deep. Not easy at all. Not child’s. It is a man who from a hard word and fiery character – created dwellings for human spirit. And he built not one house but whole cities. Everything is there, there is enough place for all. Both saint, and earthly, and love, and happy memory, and pure knowledge – of truth. That is how exactly I imagined him from the very beginning – "the eternal revolutionary”... Only afterwards, in quite a mature age already, I discovered for myself the Franko for children, the tale-teller Franko. And, actually, I still enjoy this discovery. He managed to retell simple and known, it would seem, things and plots so... these fairy-tales are a smooth, thin border between sheer folklore and literature – and there are no slants in that or other side, everything is harmoniously balanced. Actually, I think, all of the three disks can be listened to by the whole family – but most of all it refers, certainly, to the disk with fairy-tales. That’s why, pay attention also to that "Abu-Kasym’s Sleepers" and "Fox Mykyta" are not prosaic fairy-tales but those written in verse, that is for children it is even more interesting. Well, and since these are still fairy-tales – here, unlike in “grown up’s” books, there are "pictures". That is, nice music decoration – light enough not to attract too much attention. And these tales, let me repeat that, are worth paying attention to. 

Important notice! Record is made in mp3 format. All files names are in Ukrainian.