In this pure Beethoven programme with three heavyweight sonatas, Korean pianist Jimin Oh-Havenith shows herself to be a subtle performer with great lyrical sensitivity, who also succeeds in highlighting new aspects. Although she does not avoid contrasts, her playing is never austere, harsh or even loud. In addition, she has an absolutely brilliant technique, an...Read More

““Anyone can play the right notes!” protests the clumsy pianist in Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s Fan. Certainly, not everybody can play the right notes of Chopin’s B♭-Minor Sonata and Beethoven’s op. 111. Even the people that can, the great names, like Yuja Wang or Daniel Barenboim, might play those right notes, but as they seem to...Read More

The Korean German pianist Jimin Oh-Havenith surprises us with a Schubert and Liszt CD. At first sight perhaps not an obvious combination. After all, Liszt declared Bach and Beethoven to be his greatest sources of inspiration, yet it is no secret that the two great masters of the 19th century keyboard had much more in...Read More