Browse: HJ Lim (piano)

It takes a while to 'tune in' to HJ Lim's style. Her playing of Ravel's Valses nobles et sentimentales seems a perverse denial of its dance rhythms...Yet by the final track, Ravel's La valse,... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2014, 2 out of 5 stars/4 out of 5 stars More…

She plays like a whirlwind...I have never heard the first movement of the Hammerklavier played so fast: Lim believes in honouring Beethoven's metronome direction, impossible though it may seem...Some... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2012, 3 out of 5 stars More…

When her idiosyncratic pianism is consumed in bulk, one seems method in her madness, as with Glenn Gould's. As the finale of her Hammerklavier attests, Lim is blessed - and cursed - with amazing... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…