Irina Muresanu plays Violeta Dinescu Solo Violin Works

Name: Irina Muresanu plays Violeta Dinescu Solo Violin Works
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Label: Métier
Catalogue No: MEX 77106
EAN/UPC: 809730710629
Artists: Irina Muresanu
Composers: Violeta Dinescu
Release Date: September 2023
Genres: Violin or Viola
Periods: Contemporary
Discs: 1
Total Playing Time: 70:36
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The raw intensity of emotions in works like Aretusa, Satya I, and Il faudrait d’abord désespérer, where each note unfolds with hypnotic allure, envelops the listener in a world of transcendental states. Dive into the depths of Camus’ “The Stranger” with Pour triumpher du soleil and À chaque épée de lumière – Dinescu’s masterful use of sound effects challenges your comfort zone, evoking moments of scorching desperation and futile blankness, a testament to the composer’s acute sensitivity.

“Working with Violeta Dinescu in preparation for this recording opened, for me, a new music portal: I discovered sounds I never knew my violin possessed” – Irina Muresanu

Violinist Irina Muresanu’s performance of Dinescu’s work is astonishing, the combination of her technique and Violeta Dinescu’s imagination is so contemporary, visceral and intellectually thrilling as to create the feeling that we are hearing an entirely new instrument. This is solo work at its best, derived from wholly successful collaboration.

Track Listing

Violeta Dinescu (b.1953)

Aretusa (16:31)
Vista I - La casa è mia e non è mia (1:33)
Vista II - Non è vero ? Non è vero ? (2:09)
Vista III - Io ne rimasti talmente impressionato che la notte me lo sognai (1:30)
Vista IV. Non voglio spiegare ciò che non si spiega (1:17)
Vista V. Allucinazioni(1:22)
Vista VI. Basta lasciamo andare (1:02)
Satya I (6:48)
Il faudrait d’abord désespérer (5:11)
Für Uli (4:31)
À chaque épée de lumière (9:46)
Pour triompher du soleil (8:48)
De-ale lupului - I (3:10)
De-ale lupului - II (3:06)
De-ale lupului - III (3:09)

Reviews

Charlottesville Classical

“
This is the kind of release that excites me…Because it’s a document we’re privileged to have…artists can learn from Muresanu’s informed performances. These works push the limits of the instrument, and a little beyond. And yet they have a lyrical quality to them. These are indeed definitive performances. And ones not to be missed.
” —Ralph Graves

Oldenburg Newspaper

“
Do you have to warn against music about which a violinist declares: “She has discovered tones and sounds, that they think don’t exist on the violin?” The danger of shock is obvious with contemporary music – but not when it is by Violeta Dinescu. For all the complexity of her music, Dinescu doesn’t technically falter.
” —Horst Hollomann

InfoDad

“
Violinists will find Muresanu’s playing well worth contemplating, perhaps even emulating in comparable repertoire.
” —Mark J. Estren

Classical-Modern Music Review

“
Today we have an especially important new pairing in Romanian composer Violeta Dinescu’s Solo Violin Works as played with great finesse by violinist Irina Muresanu. The composer Violetta Dinescu fits right in with a long series of solo violin works that as experienced here really take on a lengthy and effective post-fiddle narrative, and at that violinist Irina Muresanu has a great feel for the music at hand and interjects an intuitive feel for the violin in its local excellence.
” —Grego Applegate Edwards

Pizzicato

“
[Dinescu] knows how to formulate her musical ideas with sharpness, and her inventiveness seems to unfold almost without limit. She always opens up broad emotional possibilities, which also manifest themselves in technical playing requirements as well as creative freedom. In Irina Muresanu, Violeta Dinescu has found an ideal and devoted interpreter. Muresanu succeeds admirably, intensively and effectively presenting all the possibilities of the works and the violin playing.
[“Supersonic” recording award]
” —Uwe Krusch