Shoji Sayaka plays Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor 

I never get tired of hearing Sayaka playing

Sayaka shoji's significant playing not only gives us one of best music, but also has firmly proved music can merge all nations into one earth nation.

彼女がたどり着いた境地が窺える名演です。ここ数年来から現在の彼女のスタイル通りの抑制され凝縮された、それでいて繊細な表現が冴えていますね。

I feel she will be a legend.Where she plays,there is an innovation. And the encore piece. She played Paganini's difficult piece like a humming.

Without any doubt Ms. Sayaka Shoji is the undisputed best violinist in the world in since 1999 ( Paganini award ). The audience can follow and understand her emotional journey - just by looking at her face as she plays with incredible technical skill. Dear Sayaka, :-) you are the music you play and thank you for such a mastery.

Sayaka , amazing! So proud of you ❤

Sayaka Shoji ,, cuanto talento , cuanta pasión y dulzura , eres la mejor ..... !!!!

Thank you, Sayaka... Now, thanks to your sweetness and passion, I see things didn't see before when listening to violin playing.

Thank you, jeseus; thank you Miss Shoji; thank you to the Moscow Philharmonic Society and to all that make this possible for us. We're so fortunate!

She is a wonder...and, oh my, that Paganini encore!

Incredible sound, an effortless and remarkable play. What's more to say? One of the best, very best performances I ever heard of this concerto.

26:18 She is smiling...that's beautiful moment!

庄司紗矢香さんの自然な演奏姿勢に好感が持てます。

She and Hascha Heifetz are wonderfull

beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!

Perhaps the sadness she is feeling, as with her other emotions, contributes to her greatness....

Magnificent.

super, danke!

You made this the best performance! And that encore of Paganini’s Nel Cor Piu Mi Non Sento (Theme) was just Stellar!

Even the performance of the same song by the same artist can be very different each time. It's interesting to listen to and compare. Sayaka Shoji is the pride of Japan.

Charming and extra ordinary beautiful.

Excellent preformance, I"ve heard for serveral times.

I absolutely love ALL her playing including the wonderful Brahms concerto. Who cares how she holds her elbow, to get that wonderful sound...she won the Paganini Competition as a teen-ager (first and only). Who knows - maybe she needed to hold it that way as a kid to control the strings. Her playing is one of a kind!

Really great violinist with full of emotions

Siempre sensible y maravillosa con el Violin entre sus manos y una escelente orquesta que la secunde.

彼女の演奏は、感情を涙腺まで持っていく。

sublime me hace volar como mariposa por los jardines de la eternidad

MARAVILLOSA OBRA¡¡. Y QUE GRAN INTERPRETACION¡¡ ES LO PRIMERO QUE LE ESCUCHO A SHOJI SAYAKA, PERO TIENE LOS KILATES DE UNA VERDADERA ARTISTA. FELITACIONES.

Sua interpretação me eleva para um mundo melhor. Brilhante!

WOW !! MAGNIFICO ! GRANDIOSO ! BELLEZA EN ESTADO PURO.

Está claro, Sayaka es una violinista excelente. Bravo bella dama 🌹🌹🌹

Beauty!!!!!!!!

en plena Pandemia, escuchar a Sayaka Shoji ,, te alegra la vida,,, siempre fuè y es la mejor en el violìn ,, !!!!

Concierto romanticista fácil de interpretar por Sayaka. Muy lindo, de Bartholdi este concierto para violín y orquesta. 🌹🌹🌹🌹

涙が出てくる。感動的な映画を観ているようだ。

「ここはこうですか。」とメンデルスゾーンと対話しながら演奏をしているようだ。人知を越えた時空間を楽しんでいる。

hace volar por los cielos del alma esa mariposa marron de medera que es el violin, SUBLIME

Recently, her Mendelssohn's Vn. concerto in 2009 , full version, was uploaded. "Bilkent Senfoni Orkestrasi 12" She talks with the students of Bilkent University,Ankara. It's a good chance to see her real personality.

How nonchalant was the encore! Supreme technique and co-ordination. The spirit of Paganini lives, and lives on, in Shoji.

演奏中は、笑顔一回だけだったと思います。演奏後の笑顔、チャーミングで、良いです。😊

Mi viene fatto di pensare che tutte le vibrazioni d'aria che chiamiamo suoni sono già tutte nell'anima di ciascuno..I musici non fanno che scoprirle armonizzarle e offrircele come noi dopo le ascoltiamo.Non potremmo gustare la musica di nessuno se non avessimo anche noi nascoste nell'anima le stesse meraviglie di suoni che ci fanno andare in visibilio.Come quelle che stiamo ascoltando adesso.

She doesn't deserve that bunch - she deserves a field.

intro. very excited.

So different is the individual reflection of life. Für mich war das die ehrlichste Interpretation dieses Violinkonzertes von Mendelson,, ohne das ego des Interpreten aufgedrängt zu bekommen. Warum soll sie denn lächeln? Sie ist doch keine Kellnerin. Und dass sie charmant sein kann, dass hat man hier und da in Interviews schon erlebt.

31:26 encore Paganini : Nel cor più non mi sento for solo violin (theme)

この曲はメンデルスゾーンも、第一楽章の主題を着想した後に、あまりにも美しすぎるメロディが故に、 第二楽章第三楽章を含めて完成させるのに、時間がかかってしまったものと、勝手に推測しています。 冒頭の主題の提示はヴィルティオーソ達の演奏を聴いて、成程と思うものが多いのですが、庄司さんの この冒頭の演奏が一番、自分の思っているものに近い演奏です。素晴らしい。益々のご活躍を期待します。

PAGANNINI encore sweet!

Нет слов чтобы выразить это чудо по достоинству... это выше наших слов !!! Само совершенство. Виолин в её руках - это её сердце - она играет себя... удивительное создание ! Святая малышня !!!

That was Ricci's favorite encore. RIP

Dice Ernesto Sabato: "como lo prueba tanto idiota aislado". He aquí el único que ha votado en contra del buen gusto. Si bien debemos respetar su decisión, es abrumadora la mayoría y más, es abrumadora la belleza de la interpretación de la Gigante SHOJI. Gracias por subirlo y BRAVO SAYAKA!!!

❤️

good

The violist in the front (the bald one) looks so much like Anton Bruckner it's uncanny!

紗矢香姫の右肘が以前よりも低くなりましたね。 当然バイオリンの傾きも変わりましたね。 Ｇ線を弾く時も肘はあまり上げていない。 肘は下へ下へ、とジェイムズエ－ネス氏が以前おっしゃってましたが、そういうことなのですかね？？？

12:11　What is the light smile of the two violinists at the back of Ms.Shoji?

Не устаю смотреть на её лицо при исполнении и Паганини,и Чайковского,и Мендельсона!..

凄いわね、日本の女の子🇯🇵が、欧州コンマスに物申す。サヤカ氏のテンションを察して楽団員もびりびりして見える。サヤカ氏は超一流オケしか許せないらしい。まこと天晴れ。この映像は泣かせてくれる。ライブの醍醐味。👏👏👏👏👏🍷

Can anyone upload Shoji's violin concerto of Ligeti in 2009？ She showed her real worth in it. The world will marvel at her genius in modern music for sure.

ELLE EST MAGNIFIQUE. jE CROIS QUE JE SUIS TOMBE AMOUREUX DE CETTE TALENTUEUSE SOLISTE.

Am I the only one who's eyes were caught by the lead 2nd violin behind Sayaka? Professional +++ (trim and good looking too) And, what's with Sayaka's 4th finger? All the top notes are with her 3rd...

what's the name of the encore song?

3楽章で、少しだけ表情が柔らかくなったんだねぇ。 それまでは、なんだか不機嫌なのかなぁって思えるくらい。 ゆえに、アンコールのチャーミングさが際立ったわけだけれども。 個人的に１～２楽章の不愛想さはおそらく、変に味付けをせずシンプルかつ極上の音を出そうと集中した結果なのかな、と解釈します。

Spellbinding!

Does anyone know the name of the piece of music that she does for an encore?

The position of her left elbow is a serious flaw. The height is not the problem. She has her whole left arm shifted toward her right arm. It is a fairly common flaw and it is done because the violinist mistakenly feels he (or she) can more easily reach things that are difficult to reach. I once heard David Oistrakh say an amazing thing. He said that the violin and the accordion have something in common. With both instruments, the farther apart your elbows are, the bigger and stronger the sound you can make. For sure, when Oistrakh played, there was a wonderful wide feeling about him.You may notice that this flaw is exaggerated when she has to reach for something, or when she is in the higher positions.In her case it's really weird because she has big hands and reaching for things that are hard to reach is one of her strengths. As she gets older she will have all kinds of physical problems (pain) unless she corrects this problem. Also, she raises her right shoulder as she approaches the frog on upbows, and this will add to her problems as she gets older. Hopefully, she will come to realize that raising her right elbow, not the shoulder, is the way to go. It is remarkable that with those two serious technical flaws she plays as spectacularly well as she does. There is one serious musical problem that she has as well. Not in the Mendelssohn concerto, but in her performance of the Beethoven concerto and the Bach unaccompanied sonatas and partitas she has bought into the horrible notion that these works should be played as some people believe they were played three centuries ago. The horrible "period instrument" folks. I cannot listen to Bach and Beethoven when played without vibrato, feeling and intelligence. THIS MUSIC DOES NOT BELONG IN A MUSEUM! It is as live and relevant and beautiful and dramatic today as it was the day it was written. It is performed by today's musicians for today's audiences and playing it the way you think it was played 300 years ago instead of the way you feel it now is an insult to this great music. Hopefully this tasteless fad will pass.

22:11

聴きやすかった　ありがとう😊

She doesn't look happy at all, and the crook of her left arm, with her elbow across her abdomen, only reinforces a sense of tension (she doesn't always hold her violin like this) and yet she plays superbly this wonderful concerto, if not as freely as she might, as though in defiance, almost under duress.

凄え…。アンコール誰の何という曲ですか？

0:52

うまいな！

though her violin holding position looks a bit awkward, but her playing is phenomenal

こんな表情のサヤカ氏、見た事がないけど？　　　人間の生身の情感があって、この演奏、悪くないです🤔🤔🤔🤔

it is great but I think this stardivarius is too long for her!

くみっぺでーすー

オケ団員の皆様の精神的次元が、 紗矢香姫様のそれとはかけ離れ過ぎていて、、、 紗矢香姫様の偉大さにオケも指揮者も ついていけない、同調不可能。 困りましたねえ❗️

さやかさん　何かつまらなそうに　弾いてますね

three starz vs 5 stars...not one of the better orchestral recording...sad. um...every performance is different because of many factors...i mean the conductor needs to use his ears a little more sensitively. The ORCHESTRA is verrrry...RUSKIE...bombastic...Mendohlsonn was much more sensitive in his compositions, IMHO...I am grateful for your posting jewuseus..um...a lot of subscribers and I love MAXIM VENGEROV when he deems to play any STRONG violin piece because he has soooo much muscle playing and his mother is not touring with him and he has the legs to keep the strong robusto sound. Um...it is now 2020...i can see 20/20. She is really someone to hear LIVE in person. The nuances are what I cannont pick through the overly strong orchestral FFFFF...they do not quite understand PPPPP...which would help in conveying emotional messagees as a contrast. Don't get me wrong this is okay, just not my fave.by any means...nyet.

A wonderful sound. Terrific. But she is not as interesting to watch. The only top class one I have seen in person was Sarah Chang earlier this year and she was fabulous to watch. I think Sarah also has a better sounding (probably more expensive) violin.

顎当てに何か異変が起きたのでしょうか？

彼女らしからぬ平凡な演奏ではないだろうか。落ち着いた大家然とした演奏とも言えるが、そこに行くのはまだ早すぎると思う。

SLOW i played this so i played this faster then you sory not very good

sayaka はめずらしく、このオケには不満だったと思う。できがあまり良くない。

One thing she did wrong is posture. She needs to move the violin up a bit more.

Shoji, another very nice performance, but not comparable to your Sibelius concerto with Sir Colin Davis and the London Orchestra. In the Sibelius you seemed to influence the emotions of the orchestra and they matched your feelings so well. In this Mendelssohn you took on the stoic, unpleasant look of the orchestra members. No smile until the third movement. No emotion in your face or body language. Not a good thing - I suspect you didn't feel the emotion of the work. You must always show enthusiasm and love for the works you perform - it influences your play. I think you were not pleased with the orchestra or the conductor - maybe both. Hide such emotions - they do not foster good stage presence. The audience did seem to really enjoy your performance though. Remember, ol' Felix was a romantic - he and Jennie Lind had quite a relationship together. Shows in his music. He did write the Wedding March you know..... Well, I still think you're great!

上手ですね〜でもなんかお仕事と割り切って淡々と弾いているような...

不機嫌なのはオケが下手くそすぎたからかな？　まあ、わかる気がするよ。Sayakaとはレベルが違いすぎだから。

The technique of holding the violin is too steep, the intonation is perfect, the violin is too big and it seems too heavy...

She will have neck probs as she gets older - so improper

表情に活気が感じられない。。。彼女らしからぬ演奏です。

Sorry to say this. Quite boring performance. So mechanical. The vibrato is of the same speed and intensity throughout. There is not much subtlty in long notes. E.g between second and third movement, the first two phrases were played exactly 100% the same way. If Mendelssohn meant it to be exactly the same he could have just written once. Go listen to many others on you tube and see for yourself.

that encore was a ripoff. she's skips the intro, plays the main theme, skips every variation. i've heard some violinists skip a *couple* of the variations, but this was really pathetic. no flames, please. i'm a fan, i appreciate her talent, but jeez.

In my opinion nobody plays with a passion that Nadia does