BELORUSSIAN MUSIC: Bělorusko (2CD)

ANTHOLOGY OF FOLK MUSIC. SPIRIT OF FOLK

BELORUSSIAN MUSIC

CD 1

Spring Songs (1 – 4)

Songs Trinity Sunday and St. John’s Eve (5 – 7)

Reaping Songs (8 – 12)

Autumn Harvest Songs (13 – 15)

Carols and Festive Songs (16 – 22)

Wedding Songs and Natal Songs/ Wedding (“Vyassele”) (23 – 38)

Natal Songs (39 – 42)

Total playing time: 47.37

CD 2

Non-Ceremonial Lyrical Songs (1 – 13)

Instrumental Music (14 – 31)

Total playing time: 51.35

Performers: Raisa Golovko (Vitebsk Region), Maria Avtukhovich with a group of female singers (Minsk Region), Raisa Antipenko

(Mogilev Region) et al.

Recorded in 1962-1986