“That pianists regularly play the classics of the repertoire and skillfully incorporate them into their concert and album programs is a given fact. But to make the most popular pieces for solo piano under the title “K(now)n Piano” the focus of a double album right away, as Jimin Oh-Havenith does, requires both courage and a...Read More
21 popular piano pieces are performed by Jimin Oh-Havenith on her latest album on Audite, including Mozart’s Turkish March, Beethoven’s Für Elise, Schubert’s Impromptu op. 90/4, Chopin’s Nocturne op. 27/1, Gottschalk’s Le Bananier op. 5, Liebestraum No. 3 and La campanella by Liszt, Debussy’s Claire de lune and Pärt’s Für Alina. A feel-good program played...Read More
Jimin Oh-Havenith plays out every detail and radiates a calmness that is convincing. She plays the E major Sonata Op. 109 sovereign and finely balanced in sound. A beautifully crafted recording, far removed from the mainstream music business.Read More
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