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.

From what I’ve read this concerto is getting more recognition recently. It’s been performed more by orchestras, but due to the piece being incomplete it is not met with positive opinions.

@@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.

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.

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!

Big Recommendation: Isabelle Faust

I don't think she's not on the score. Simply her best execution beyond other violinists ever performed.

Ein Tempo gut zu phrasieren, das ist wirkliche Kunst. Wenn das Herr Riemann gewusst hätte.

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.

Robert Schuhmann - not Franz Schubert! Schubert has not written a Violin concerto sadly - to my knowledge.

It's a standard size Strad. Her frame is quite small.

It was Beethoven and Schubert, not Mendelssohn .

@@nigelmorley5414 Yes, maybe. The source I read said Mendelssohn..

Probably Beethoven Violin Concerto is a little bit longer at the start.

She doesn't need to be inspired by them at all.

incel alert!

Le talent et la beauté, ça s'appelle " la classe ! "

@@chtidede Perfect !

​@@hipolit2200Thank you for pointing yourself out.

@@edbane1656 You are dull

Dude was going mad and a few days away from killing himself. But yeah, i guess it's "not good" 😂

🤦🏾‍♀️ Shoji's bowing is amazing. One of the most sought-after bowing techniques. Stop.

@@ViolinfanaticOriginal Here you may watch a violinist with impeccable technique: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rrygnrd1mtfDoGw.html

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.

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

No one cares...

@@eduardo3331 YES, Only you care.

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.

Keep manners please Know yourself first please