16-page b/w booklet

Old tunes revealed by long-forgotten instruments, and far-back words of languages reduced to silence long ago, are taking you into Bielarusan mediaeval burghs and castles, where the Town Hall Square's vociferance, the court ball's hubbub, pensive balladry, and elevate odes can be heard.

Excerpts from avital chefs-d'oeuvre of Bielarusan written records, such as the Lay of Igor's Warfare (in Old Slavonic; psaltery; 12th c.; anonymous author), the Song of the Wisent (in Latin; lute; 1522; Mikalaj Husouski), the Statute of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (in Old Bielarusan; bagpipe; 1588; Astafij Valovic, Leu Sapieha), and Pan Tadeusz (in Polish; hurdy-gurdy; 1834; Adam Mickiewicz), are recorded here together with the 16th century Bielarusan music - works by Vojciech Dluharaj and the Krakow Royal Library Holography. A part of the album consists of mediaeval dances' concert versions with the grandeval instruments' unwonted combinations, lute and bagpipe, psaltery and monochord, jew's-harp and mandolin, bagpipe and psaltery, psaltery and lute, and many others.