Truly extraordinary - I am delighted by the sound of the violin - clear, crisp, emotional - without once being sentimental, virtuoso without grand-standing. Perfect tempi for the 3rd set - the bow string dances the polonoaise and the legs wan to follow. I heard so many recordings were they want to take this too fast! I hope we see more of this great violinist in Frankfurt. The orchestra performs flawless as ever - the conductor is superb - I will have to save this to my favorites right away! BRAVO
She's a wonderful violinist and her TH-cam videos have millions of views. I'm surprised that she never seems to have played with the local orchestra anywhere I've lived. Hats off to the Frankfurt Radio Symphony for engaging her.
I live in NYC, we have A LOT of violinists coming here to perform. She came many years ago to perform with the NYPhil and on a small stage at Carnegie Hall. In 2019, I went to Washington DC to attend her recital at a private mansion. I would never forget that night, in fact i got to tell her how amazing she was after the concert. It seems the biggest myth to me that she doesn't get invited to NYC these days. She is phenomenal musician!
@@yawenliu6648 Indeed, I love her Shostakovich 1&2 album from 2012. I see her program this year she will play No.1 with Esa-Pekka Salonen / SF Symphony, very well deserved.
Bewegende und wunderschöne Aufführung dieses romantisch doch meisterhaft komponierten Violinkonzerts mit seidigem und fabelhaftem Klang der virtuosen Soloviolinistin und perfekt entsprechenden Tönen des hr-Sinfonieorchesters. Der kluge Maestro leitet das erfahrene Orchester im gut phrasierten Tempo und mit geschickt analysierter Dynamik und Agogik. Wahrlich wunderbar!
A very difficult concerto to successfully make congeal, for soloist, conductor and orchestra.This is a superb performance.The Langsam is one of my very favorite slow movements in the entire concerto repertoire.
It's such a shame that this work is so neglegted. It should stand on the same level as Bruch and Mendelsohn. The fact that Schumann was able to compose such a beautiful and profound piece while being deeply troubled by his disease is almost a miracle. Also, this is the best recording since Menuhin's in 1938.
It is HARD due to Schumann typically writing for piano it is very awkward in he hand...but the piece is beautiful. And such a cool story as well. One day I will finish learning it and perform it. ❤️
If you take his 3rd Symphony, the Violin Concerto, the 1st movement of his Cello Concerto, and some of his shorter poetic pieces, like Traumerai, I experience Schumann as the very summit of musical attainment in the 50 years of the middle of the 19th century between Beethoven and Brahms. How he could attain to such uniqueness after Beethoven, more so than Brahms, no? Whatever the answer, a beloved master.
Wunderschöne und lebhafte Aufführung dieses romantischen und perfekt komponierten Konzerts mit seidigem doch gut phrasiertem Ton der genialen Solovioline sowie gut harmonisierten und perfekt entsprechenden Tönen der anderen Instrumente. Der zweite Satz klingt besonders schön und echt melodisch. Im Kontrast klingt der dritte Satz echt lebhaft und auch überzeugend. Der intelligente und ebenso geniale Dirigent leitet das ausgezeichnete Orchester im veränderlichen Tempo und mit möglichst effektiver Dynamik. Alles ist wunderbar!
It is not misterious! Both Joachim and Clara heavily suppressed the work, stating that the work reflects Schumann’s deepening psychosis. Although this assessment is true to a certain extend, since the music’s dark tone and obsessive repetitions can attest that, the concerto in fact masterfully constructed and thematic material, flow of music, and orchestration are not so different from Schuman’s other major works, especially Symphony No.2 can be seen as closely related. Unfortunately, both Joachim and Clara were so influential that their negative opinions and heavy suppression took very long time to be neutralized. Therefore, this wonderful piece of music with philosophical depths has started to receive performances and recordings more and more often only lately. One other good point is that the performers quit performing the cut version, and today it is almost always played in uncut version. Isn’t the second movement one of the most beautiful and touching slow movements in violin concerto literature. Although it is both melodically and structurally quite different, it still reminds me the slow movement of Tchaikovsky’s violin concerto. Probably the difference is that, while Tchaikovsky’s slow movement is more elegiac, like an elegy, Schumann’s slow movement infused heavily with desolation and sadness, sorrow.
@@aysaraktimur2064 I understand why it was suppressed at the time. What I don't understand is why it hasn't become more popular in the century since it was first performed.
@resorcinolamide No! The piece was complete! It was Joachim’s and Clara’s negative opinions and suppression of the piece that caused it. It is in the history, now; we are lucky enough for being able to listen to this beautiful piece of music in full. 😇
Anyone who can say whether this work is good or bad is probably someone who doesn't know the beauty and spiritual dynamism of the composer's portrayal of his own life in musical notes, and the musician's reproduction of it in the sound of the notes. This record, in which Schumann's emotional pain and suffering are so beautifully expressed in his work and beautifully reproduced through his performances, is a treasure to us.
I don't hear pain and/or suffering anywhere in this concerto. It's outer movements are remarkably virile and the comparatively short slow movement is beautiful enough but hardly the expression of the kind of tortured soul so beloved of biographical listeners.
The opening of the 3rd movement is very memorable. It got stuck in my head and I didn't remember the piece, but I knew I had listened to this piece recently and remembered liking it, so I guessed. And I got it right!
Isn’t the second movement one of the most beautiful and touching slow movements in violin concerto literature. Although it is both melodically and structurally quite different, it still reminds me the slow movement of Tchaikovsky’s violin concerto. Probably the difference is that, while Tchaikovsky’s slow movement is more elegiac, like an elegy, Schumann’s slow movement infused heavily with desolation and sadness, sorrow.
It has a very sad history. It was one of the last compositions by Schumann, and Joachim to whom it was dedicated considered to keep the work without publishing when 4 months later Schumann attempted suicide. Later, Schumann said that the melody of the slow movement (a very sweet one) was dictated to him by the spirits of Mendelssohn and Schubert. In his will, Joachim stated that it shouldn't be published nor played until after 100 years of Schumann death. However, relatives of the violinst 30 years before the expected date said that the spirit of Schumann told them to publish and play it. So at that time it was for the first time played for an audience.
This is an extraordinary masterpiece for violin and orchestra, I've never heard it i, s noticed that Schubert open the way for the future violin concertos between the romanticism and post romanticism, Beethoven had reason to say that this young composer has the " Devine spark "
It is not misterious! Both Joachim and Clara heavily suppressed the work, stating that the work reflects Schumann’s deepening psychosis. Although this assessment is true to a certain extend, since the music’s dark tone and obsessive repetitions can attest that, the concerto in fact masterfully constructed and thematic material, flow of music, and orchestration are not so different from Schuman’s other major works, especially Symphony No.2 can be seen as closely related. Unfortunately, both Joachim and Clara were so influential that their negative opinions and heavy suppression took very long time to be neutralized. Therefore, this wonderful piece of music with philosophical depths has started to receive performances and recordings more and more often only lately. One other good point is that the performers quit performing the cut version, and today it is almost always played in uncut version.
A very moving work with a sad history. 15:39 This is the melody Schumann told was dictated to him by the spirits of Mendelssohn and Schubert after attempting suicide in 1854.
Ms. Shoji is marvelous, as always. As noted, it is a problematic piece with an odd history (suppression of it by Clara Schumann and Joseph Joachim). Joachim had a rough reading of it (he was distracted and unprepared, as the story goes). He never had the chance to revise it with the composer. While we can now appreciate this great concerto thanks to recordings since the late 1930s (Szeryng championed it and his recording is, predictably, wonderful), much of the solo part is in the middle register (and very little in the upper register), and the repetitions seem excessive at times. I feel Joachim simply didn't like it (it is quite awkward) and regretted not being able to make changes with Schumann himself. Be that as it may, it is a concerto that justifiably gives the performer the rare opportunity to make suble changes, as most do.
This violin concerto must have one of the longest lead-ins to the soloist's debut. It takes nerves of steel to stand in front of an orchestra for 2 minutes with nothing to do!
It was Clara and Brahmns (and none knew or revered Schumann's music more) who first had doubts about this concerto. Strickly musically, I think they are right; the work is repetitive, ponderous and lacks R.S'.s usual inventiveness. But...philosophically/aesthically, the concerto has power and beauty. So there- a mixed bag. Good we have it. The struggling Mendelsohnian effort to reach the positive in the last movement is certainly one of the saddest pieces in music.
The performers do a good job but the problem is that the concerto is not very good. It's very repetitive and as heavy as a ton of bricks. The whole piece sounds like a completed puzzle with multiple pieces misplaced.
Interesting that a composer who wrote marvelous string chamber music with soaring melodic lines would stumble with a violin concerto. Violinist friends tell me it’s just not a very good piece to show off the instrument. This soloist and orchestra did a marvelous job with this rather ungrateful concerto.
It’s a difficult work to understand, let alone play. It was beyond even Clara Schumann who suppressed publication after Schumann died. This performance is very intelligently conducted, and gets the tricky balance right. Shoji takes the first movement a little too slow, so the orchestra struggles to find the long melodic line in the tuttis I think.
Flawless performance of a totally uninspiring piece that lacks a single captivating or original idea, or even a leading thread (as is too often the case with Schumann.) Or even a notable technical bravura challenge to make up for that.
Somewhat correct about the concerto; absolutlely wrong about Schumann overall." A leading thread"?; I suggest you consult Bernstein or Jarvi on Schumann for a little musical education.
have you not listened to the slow movement ? One of the most beautiful melodies of all time, Second subject of the first movement, genuine, first rate Schumann
@peterwhyte-zl1kv Performers who understand what the notes on the page mean (beyond mere designations of sound and rhythm) play with feeling, something this violinist decidedly lacks. Long stretches of this performance consist of no phrasing, rubato, agogics, nothing -- just notes. This work needs as much help as possible as it is problematic; I applaud anyone who chooses to take it on because it's challenging. Sadly, the challenge is not met by this performer.
Ssyaka Shoji sometimes plays in a restrained way, not because she doesn't understand the music, but because she intends to let the music itself sing naturally.
This violinist is one of those who transmit something. He has such a warm, high-flying sound that is the best there is today.
Truly extraordinary - I am delighted by the sound of the violin - clear, crisp, emotional - without once being sentimental, virtuoso without grand-standing. Perfect tempi for the 3rd set - the bow string dances the polonoaise and the legs wan to follow. I heard so many recordings were they want to take this too fast! I hope we see more of this great violinist in Frankfurt. The orchestra performs flawless as ever - the conductor is superb - I will have to save this to my favorites right away! BRAVO
She's a wonderful violinist and her TH-cam videos have millions of views. I'm surprised that she never seems to have played with the local orchestra anywhere I've lived. Hats off to the Frankfurt Radio Symphony for engaging her.
Sayaka is a first class violinist.
I live in NYC, we have A LOT of violinists coming here to perform. She came many years ago to perform with the NYPhil and on a small stage at Carnegie Hall. In 2019, I went to Washington DC to attend her recital at a private mansion. I would never forget that night, in fact i got to tell her how amazing she was after the concert. It seems the biggest myth to me that she doesn't get invited to NYC these days. She is phenomenal musician!
I personally consider this recording is my reference recording of this piece from now on. The best I've ever heard.
Her other recordings of major violin concertos and sonatas are also spectacular, Brahms, Prokofiev, Paganini, Shostakovich, Sibelius, Ligeti ...
@@yawenliu6648 Indeed, I love her Shostakovich 1&2 album from 2012. I see her program this year she will play No.1 with Esa-Pekka Salonen / SF Symphony, very well deserved.
The pleasure of discovering an unknown piece from a known and beloved composer is increasingly rare as you become older!!
The most convincing version of this concerto. Great.
Just listening to her wonderful and graceful performance makes I forget about the trouble and annoyances of this transient world
Bewegende und wunderschöne Aufführung dieses romantisch doch meisterhaft komponierten Violinkonzerts mit seidigem und fabelhaftem Klang der virtuosen Soloviolinistin und perfekt entsprechenden Tönen des hr-Sinfonieorchesters. Der kluge Maestro leitet das erfahrene Orchester im gut phrasierten Tempo und mit geschickt analysierter Dynamik und Agogik. Wahrlich wunderbar!
Ein Tempo gut zu phrasieren, das ist wirkliche Kunst. Wenn das Herr Riemann gewusst hätte.
Thomas Mann
A very difficult concerto to successfully make congeal, for soloist, conductor and orchestra.This is a superb performance.The Langsam is one of my very favorite slow movements in the entire concerto repertoire.
Glad to see the Schumann concerto finally got the recognition it deserves; this is the best modern rendition; Shoji was wonderful.
World-class violin playing, gorgeous sound and noble musicianship
It's such a shame that this work is so neglegted. It should stand on the same level as Bruch and Mendelsohn.
The fact that Schumann was able to compose such a beautiful and profound piece while being deeply troubled by his disease is almost a miracle.
Also, this is the best recording since Menuhin's in 1938.
Big Recommendation: Isabelle Faust
It is HARD due to Schumann typically writing for piano it is very awkward in he hand...but the piece is beautiful. And such a cool story as well. One day I will finish learning it and perform it. ❤️
If you take his 3rd Symphony, the Violin Concerto, the 1st movement of his Cello Concerto, and some of his shorter poetic pieces, like Traumerai, I experience Schumann as the very summit of musical attainment in the 50 years of the middle of the 19th century between Beethoven and Brahms. How he could attain to such uniqueness after Beethoven, more so than Brahms, no? Whatever the answer, a beloved master.
色んな方の演奏を聞いていつも第三楽章のところでなにか物足りなさを感じていたのですが、今回、こんなに明るく、キレが良くて美しい曲だったんだと実感しました。第二楽章の美しさは本当に心に染み入ります。素敵な演奏に感謝。
so lovely to hear one of my favourite violinists playing one of my favourite but also under rated concertos in the repertoire
Wunderschöne und lebhafte Aufführung dieses romantischen und perfekt komponierten Konzerts mit seidigem doch gut phrasiertem Ton der genialen Solovioline sowie gut harmonisierten und perfekt entsprechenden Tönen der anderen Instrumente. Der zweite Satz klingt besonders schön und echt melodisch. Im Kontrast klingt der dritte Satz echt lebhaft und auch überzeugend. Der intelligente und ebenso geniale Dirigent leitet das ausgezeichnete Orchester im veränderlichen Tempo und mit möglichst effektiver Dynamik. Alles ist wunderbar!
This is a mysteriously neglected work. It speaks very deeply to Schumann's pain.
It is not misterious! Both Joachim and Clara heavily suppressed the work, stating that the work reflects Schumann’s deepening psychosis. Although this assessment is true to a certain extend, since the music’s dark tone and obsessive repetitions can attest that, the concerto in fact masterfully constructed and thematic material, flow of music, and orchestration are not so different from Schuman’s other major works, especially Symphony No.2 can be seen as closely related. Unfortunately, both Joachim and Clara were so influential that their negative opinions and heavy suppression took very long time to be neutralized. Therefore, this wonderful piece of music with philosophical depths has started to receive performances and recordings more and more often only lately. One other good point is that the performers quit performing the cut version, and today it is almost always played in uncut version.
Isn’t the second movement one of the most beautiful and touching slow movements in violin concerto literature. Although it is both melodically and structurally quite different, it still reminds me the slow movement of Tchaikovsky’s violin concerto. Probably the difference is that, while Tchaikovsky’s slow movement is more elegiac, like an elegy, Schumann’s slow movement infused heavily with desolation and sadness, sorrow.
@@aysaraktimur2064 I understand why it was suppressed at the time. What I don't understand is why it hasn't become more popular in the century since it was first performed.
@resorcinolamide No! The piece was complete! It was Joachim’s and Clara’s negative opinions and suppression of the piece that caused it. It is in the history, now; we are lucky enough for being able to listen to this beautiful piece of music in full. 😇
I guess Paradise and the Peri is more neglected than this work.
What a fantastic performance. Best Schumann Concerto I have heard since Szeryng!
That is a beautiful, crispy and so sensual interpretation of this stunning concerto.
Anyone who can say whether this work is good or bad is probably someone who doesn't know the beauty and spiritual dynamism of the composer's portrayal of his own life in musical notes, and the musician's reproduction of it in the sound of the notes. This record, in which Schumann's emotional pain and suffering are so beautifully expressed in his work and beautifully reproduced through his performances, is a treasure to us.
guess clara schumann didn't know about robert's emotional suffering, having blocked the work's publication
I don't hear pain and/or suffering anywhere in this concerto. It's outer movements are remarkably virile and the comparatively short slow movement is beautiful enough but hardly the expression of the kind of tortured soul so beloved of biographical listeners.
Extremely perfect Schumann. Precious.
The opening of the 3rd movement is very memorable. It got stuck in my head and I didn't remember the piece, but I knew I had listened to this piece recently and remembered liking it, so I guessed. And I got it right!
What a lovely performance of this underrated concerto - so nice to see a soloist who doesn't have to rely on a score!
I don't think she's not on the score. Simply her best execution beyond other violinists ever performed.
Maravilhosa essa interpretação. Violinista alto nível!!
Isn’t the second movement one of the most beautiful and touching slow movements in violin concerto literature. Although it is both melodically and structurally quite different, it still reminds me the slow movement of Tchaikovsky’s violin concerto. Probably the difference is that, while Tchaikovsky’s slow movement is more elegiac, like an elegy, Schumann’s slow movement infused heavily with desolation and sadness, sorrow.
1st movement
0:04 begins | 1:46 build up | 9:09 build up |
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I've never heard of Schumann’s violin concerto before.
It has a very sad history. It was one of the last compositions by Schumann, and Joachim to whom it was dedicated considered to keep the work without publishing when 4 months later Schumann attempted suicide. Later, Schumann said that the melody of the slow movement (a very sweet one) was dictated to him by the spirits of Mendelssohn and Schubert. In his will, Joachim stated that it shouldn't be published nor played until after 100 years of Schumann death. However, relatives of the violinst 30 years before the expected date said that the spirit of Schumann told them to publish and play it. So at that time it was for the first time played for an audience.
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This is an extraordinary masterpiece for violin and orchestra, I've never heard it i, s noticed that Schubert open the way for the future violin concertos between the romanticism and post romanticism, Beethoven had reason to say that this young composer has the " Devine spark "
Robert Schuhmann - not Franz Schubert! Schubert has not written a Violin concerto sadly - to my knowledge.
It is not misterious! Both Joachim and Clara heavily suppressed the work, stating that the work reflects Schumann’s deepening psychosis. Although this assessment is true to a certain extend, since the music’s dark tone and obsessive repetitions can attest that, the concerto in fact masterfully constructed and thematic material, flow of music, and orchestration are not so different from Schuman’s other major works, especially Symphony No.2 can be seen as closely related. Unfortunately, both Joachim and Clara were so influential that their negative opinions and heavy suppression took very long time to be neutralized. Therefore, this wonderful piece of music with philosophical depths has started to receive performances and recordings more and more often only lately. One other good point is that the performers quit performing the cut version, and today it is almost always played in uncut version.
I would think Ms. Shoji is playing a viola if I just look at a picture, It seems quite big.
It's a standard size Strad. Her frame is quite small.
How much idia did Brahms take from this concerto when he wrote his world peak D Major?
A very moving work with a sad history. 15:39 This is the melody Schumann told was dictated to him by the spirits of Mendelssohn and Schubert after attempting suicide in 1854.
It was Beethoven and Schubert, not Mendelssohn .
@@nigelmorley5414 Yes, maybe. The source I read said Mendelssohn..
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Ms. Shoji is marvelous, as always. As noted, it is a problematic piece with an odd history (suppression of it by Clara Schumann and Joseph Joachim). Joachim had a rough reading of it (he was distracted and unprepared, as the story goes). He never had the chance to revise it with the composer. While we can now appreciate this great concerto thanks to recordings since the late 1930s (Szeryng championed it and his recording is, predictably, wonderful), much of the solo part is in the middle register (and very little in the upper register), and the repetitions seem excessive at times. I feel Joachim simply didn't like it (it is quite awkward) and regretted not being able to make changes with Schumann himself. Be that as it may, it is a concerto that justifiably gives the performer the rare opportunity to make suble changes, as most do.
She is talentous and beautiful.
incel alert!
Le talent et la beauté, ça s'appelle " la classe ! "
@@chtidede Perfect !
@@hipolit2200Thank you for pointing yourself out.
@@edbane1656 You are dull
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21.40 the oboe lady 😊
This violin concerto must have one of the longest lead-ins to the soloist's debut. It takes nerves of steel to stand in front of an orchestra for 2 minutes with nothing to do!
Probably Beethoven Violin Concerto is a little bit longer at the start.
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It was Clara and Brahmns (and none knew or revered Schumann's music more) who first had doubts about this concerto. Strickly musically, I think they are right; the work is repetitive, ponderous and lacks R.S'.s usual inventiveness. But...philosophically/aesthically, the concerto has power and beauty. So there- a mixed bag. Good we have it. The struggling Mendelsohnian effort to reach the positive in the last movement is certainly one of the saddest pieces in music.
It is horribly faithful. Probably inspired by Harnoncourt's performance with Kremer. Masterful technically and conceptually.
She doesn't need to be inspired by them at all.
Very robust orchestra.
Men birinchi
A bit heavy-handed, perhaps, but very nicely done overall.
Beautiful violin concert.! Pitty this concert was not allowed to play for a long time according to Schumann's own instructions.
What violin she play?
Not Robert's best work, but a good performance nonetheless.
Suite already.
Die dirigent had danser moeten worden
Sorry I can't watch any concert with a conductor in a man-bun 😂 😂 😂
First movement too slow, lacks the drama and passionate under current necesseary to make this music really come alive
The performers do a good job but the problem is that the concerto is not very good. It's very repetitive and as heavy as a ton of bricks. The whole piece sounds like a completed puzzle with multiple pieces misplaced.
Interesting that a composer who wrote marvelous string chamber music with soaring melodic lines would stumble with a violin concerto. Violinist friends tell me it’s just not a very good piece to show off the instrument. This soloist and orchestra did a marvelous job with this rather ungrateful concerto.
It’s a difficult work to understand, let alone play. It was beyond even Clara Schumann who suppressed publication after Schumann died.
This performance is very intelligently conducted, and gets the tricky balance right. Shoji takes the first movement a little too slow, so the orchestra struggles to find the long melodic line in the tuttis I think.
Flawless performance of a totally uninspiring piece that lacks a single captivating or original idea, or even a leading thread (as is too often the case with Schumann.) Or even a notable technical bravura challenge to make up for that.
Dude was going mad and a few days away from killing himself. But yeah, i guess it's "not good" 😂
Somewhat correct about the concerto; absolutlely wrong about Schumann overall." A leading thread"?; I suggest you consult Bernstein or Jarvi on Schumann for a little musical education.
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I don't like this concert. Quite bizarre. Very cold. lack of true melodies. lack of deepness. Lack of soul. Schumann far from his best.
have you not listened to the slow movement ? One of the most beautiful melodies of all time, Second subject of the first movement, genuine, first rate Schumann
@@eduardo3331 YES, Only you care.
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She plays with very little understanding of the music.
Please explain how you know this.
@peterwhyte-zl1kv Performers who understand what the notes on the page mean (beyond mere designations of sound and rhythm) play with feeling, something this violinist decidedly lacks. Long stretches of this performance consist of no phrasing, rubato, agogics, nothing -- just notes. This work needs as much help as possible as it is problematic; I applaud anyone who chooses to take it on because it's challenging. Sadly, the challenge is not met by this performer.
Ssyaka Shoji sometimes plays in a restrained way, not because she doesn't understand the music, but because she intends to let the music itself sing naturally.
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