The Romanian music holds a unique profile due to the country geographical layout and distinct historical evolution. The identity of the Romanian music was born through the cross of musical styles belonging both to the western, eastern and south-eastern European countries, by taking over particular elements of the Byzantine, Slavic, Turkish, Jewish, Greek, Armenian etc. music. The Romanian culture is fundamentally defined as a crossroad of Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, three areas of confluence, though it should not be really included in any of them.
On the Romanian territory, one may find both western religious Gregorian music, as well as eastern Byzantine and western secular cult music. Each of them left marks on our both folk and cult music. The end of the 19th as well as the first half of the 20th century represent important moments to the Romanian culture which reached a remarkable level of international affirmation, in full harmony with the European cultural trends. It was in that moment when Ciprian Porumbescu, George Enescu, Constantin Silvestri, Paul Constantinescu came up, great composers and music reference makers for the subsequent development of the Romanian musical culture. Last but not least, the Romanian music vein inspired also foreign composers, one of them being Bela Bartok.
Intemporel Romania is an amount of pieces, a sample which we hope to open the auditor’s appetite towards the originality of the sound universe inside the geographical and cultural Romanian area.
Lucian Moraru