The Week in Reviews, Op. 507: Paul Huang, Augustin Hadelich, Ehnes Quartet, Yura Lee

July 8, 2025, 4:00 PM · In an effort to promote the coverage of live violin performance, Violinist.com each week presents links to reviews of notable concerts and recitals around the world. Click on the highlighted links to read the entire reviews.

Violinist Paul Huang. Photo by Marco Borggreve.

Paul Huang performed Bruch’s Scottish Fantasy with the Grant Park Orchestra and Osmo Vänskä.

Chicago Classical Review: "Huang’s playing was unfailingly incisive and technically immaculate in the virtuosic sections of the Scherzo and the playfully insistent, kilted-clans-going-to-battle finale. But what really came across was the well, fantasy, element in this Scottish Fantasy, with the soloist leaning into the Scottish melodies and making the most of its rhapsodic qualities. Huang’s freely lyrical performance served up a solo highlight, not just of the summer but of the year."

Augustin Hadelich performed Beethoven’s Violin Concerto with the Hong Kong Philharmonic and Jaap van Zweden.

MyNews: "Hadelich’s interpretation was both bold and meticulously considered – accompanying melodic lines were blurred by the soloist’s countermelodies with the subtlety of watercolour, while the Kreisler cadenzas were rendered with such technical finesse they seemed to emerge organically from Beethoven’s own idiom."

The Ehnes Quartet, Yura Lee and others performed at Seattle Chamber Music Society's 2025 summer festival.

Bach Track: "Enescu’s Violin Sonata no. 3 in A minor received an especially transfixing account as violinist Yura Lee seemed to summon elemental forces with her dusky low register and folk-inflected phrasing, while Inon Barnatan coaxed an almost ritualistic sonority from the keyboard, at times rhapsodic, at others percussive."

Julian Rhee, A Far Cry and elucidator Jeremy Eichler performed "The Dreams and Requiems of German Music," at Rockport Chamber Music Festival.

The Boston Musical Intelligencer: "This blending of performance with musings about music’s role as a cultural/historical repository and its lament about death and the senseless destruction of war, made for an intellectually stimulating and moving experience."

Inmo Yang performed Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto with Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and
Jonathan Nott.

Bach Track: "Even in the animated finale, Yang’s virtuosity was more refractive than incendiary, casting a cool, analytical light."

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