Recital Ioana Cristina Goicea & Andrey Gugnin

• Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828):
• 1 Rondo in D Minor, Op. 70, D. 895 “Rondo Brilliant” 14:50
• George Enescu (1881 - 1955): Sonata No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 25 "Dans le caractère populaire roumain":
• 2 Sonata No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 25 "Dans le caractère populaire roumain": I. Moderato malinconico 09:09
• 3 Sonata No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 25 "Dans le caractère populaire roumain": II. Andante sostenuto e misterioso 08:24
• 4 Sonata No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 25 "Dans le caractère populaire roumain": III. Allegro con brio, ma non troppo mosso 08:01
• Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897): Violin Sonata No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 108:
• 5 Violin Sonata No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 108: I. Allegro 08:14
• 6 Violin Sonata No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 108: II. Adagio 04:39
• 7 Violin Sonata No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 108: III. Un poco presto e con sentimento 02:54
• 8 Violin Sonata No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 108: IV. Presto agitato 05:44
• Violin Sonata in A Minor "F-A-E":
• 9 Violin Sonata in A Minor "F-A-E": III. Scherzo in C Minor, WoO 2 05:40
• Total Runtime 01:07:35

Info for Recital

Violin-lovers can relive the magic between Competitions, because 2017 winner Ioana Cristina Goicea’s new album, Recital, was recently released on the Atoll label.

The album includes repertoire by George Enescu, (a nod to Ioana’s Romanian heritage), and music by Johannes Brahms and Franz Schubert completing the offering. The recording is based on the finale live performance of Ioana Cristina’s 2018 winner’s tour with Andrey Gugnin (winner of the 2016 Sydney International Piano Competition).

Ioana described it as “one of the most intensive, tiring and exciting experiences for me so far.”

“I would say this positive pressure made us give everything in that important moment, and hopefully the people listening to our recording will feel it,” she says.

An album is never just the work of the musicians – and Ioana is quick to acknowledge this.

“From the beginning, we [Andrey, myself and Wayne, the producer] just understood and interacted perfectly with each other,” she says.

The producer’s role is usually invisible to the listeners, but it’s incredibly important. Wayne Laird, the producer of this album says he views his role as “giving the artists the best opportunity to achieve a result they will be proud of later. This includes recording multiple takes if they want to rerecord sections they’re not happy with. I’m expected to have a musical point-of-view and share it frequently if necessary. But with Ioana Cristina and Andrey they are not only exceptional players, but they had toured this programme together, so it was easy to feel almost redundant as they played to their own, combined, very high standard!”

If the album was recorded last year, you might wonder why you’ve had to wait so long… Wayne gives us the answer about what goes on behind the curtain in postproduction. “On location, while recording, we are not hearing the result coming from the microphones in an ideal listening environment. Later, separate from the recording, the sound and the performance is evaluated more objectively, repairs are made from recorded takes to remove audience or environment noises, and the multiple microphones used at the sessions are mixed at various levels into a finished sound,” he says.

Ioana Cristina Goicea, violin
Andrey Gugnin, piano

Ioana Cristina Goicea
is one of the outstanding violinists of her generation. She won First Prize at the 2017 Michael Hill International Violin Competition in New Zealand, with critics praising her passionate performance and describing her as “a new star in the musical firmament.” In 2018 she won First Prize at the German Music Competition in Bonn and was a laureate of the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis. In 2019 she became a prize winner of the prestigious Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels.

Ms. Goicea has performed at renowned venues and festivals in Europe, Asia, America, New Zealand and Australia, among them the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, the Melbourne Recital Centre, the Bozar Brussels, the Queen Elisabeth Hall Antwerp, the Shanghai Concert Hall, the Athenaeum Bucharest, the Townhall Auckland and the Slovak Philharmonic Bratislava.

She has performed as a soloist with the Belgian National Orchestra, the Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie, the Auckland Philharmonia, the Indianapolis Symphony, the George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra Bucharest, the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, the National Radio Orchestra Bucharest, the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn, the Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie and the Baden-Baden Philharmonic.

In addition to her career as a soloist, the young violinist is also an avid chamber musician. In 2015, together with pianist Andrei Banciu, she won Second Prize and the Young Duo Award at the International Competition “Premio Trio di Trieste”. In 2016 she participated in the Chamber Music Academy of the Heidelberger Frühling Music Festival, in 2017 she was invited to the Hitzacker Festival and its Academy, and in 2018 she took part in the prestigious Verbier Festival Academy.

Ioana Cristina Goicea was born into a family of musicians in Bucharest in 1992. She is studying with Krzysztof Węgrzyn at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media. She previously studied with Mariana Sîrbu at the University of Music and Theatre “Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy” Leipzig and with Petru Munteanu at the University of Music and Theater in Rostock.

The violin: As a scholarship holder of the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben and prizewinner at the 21st Deutscher Musikinstrumentenfond Music Competition, Ioana Cristina Goicea plays a Giambattista Guadagnini violin (Parma, 1761) generously loaned to her by the Federal Republic of Germany.

This album contains no booklet.