Irina Mureşanu | Divine Art Recordings

Divine Art’s new-music division, Métier, will add to its already strong 2023 release schedule with a fascinating new album featuring works for solo violin by the Romanian composer Violeta Dinescu, performed by Irina Mureşanu. While these pieces are thoroughly new and complex they also have a magical approachability – a sound world in which one can be immersed even with a single sound source.

“These pieces for solo violin are structurally different, yet they have a common denominator, which is highlighted in Irina Mureşanu’s creative interpretation. Each work’s structure is determined by compositional methods and materializes in different types of notation, alongside a rhythmic-melodic precision which allows fluidity and elasticity.

In each piece, it is the initial impulse, the incipit, that triggers a continuous process of ‘becoming’ and transformation. This process lasts as long as the formational material can define the overall musical form.

The violin is a melodic instrument, with the ability to create homophonic and polyphonic textures, elements of musical construction that appear in various contexts and create spatial dramaturgy. The repeated appearance of sounds in different registers is meant to suggest their permanence in space.

The basic elements of a narrative text are thus created, from the simplest form of accompaniment, as the presence of an imaginary “music carpet”, which accompanies the fluidity of a musical discourse with different expressions to the interweaving of coexisting melodic lines.”
—Violeta Dinescu

Violeta Dinescu (b.1953) began music studies at the Ciprian Porumbescu Conservatory in Bucharest, receiving her master’s degree with distinction in 1978. In 1982 she moved to Germany where she has taught at several major music academies. She is a prolific composer of orchestral, chamber vocal and choral music, and several of her operas have been premiered successfully in recent years. She is an executive board member of the International Alliance of Women in Music. This album of solo violin works (all world premieres) marks her debut as a Divine Art group composer.

Irina Mureşanu, Romanian violinist now living in the USA, has been widely praised for her exciting, elegant, and heartfelt performances of classical, Romantic and modern repertoire. The Boston Globe said “Irresistible… not just a virtuoso but an artist’. A champion of contemporary music, Irina has a substantial discography on several labels including Avie, Albany, BMOP and Centaur. She made her debut as a ‘Divine Artist’ with her Métier album of music by fellow Romanian Dan Dediu (MSV 28621 “Hybrids, Hints & Hooks”)