HJ Lim

“It’s easy to see why she rapidly became so highly acclaimed, for she has a powerful, charismatic and captivating presence on stage and her technique is quite prodigious.” (International Record Review, April 2012)

“The brilliant young Korean-born pianist HJ Lim found an eager audience in fellow Beethoven obsessive John Suchet, as she describes why her first recording had to be the great man’s complete piano sonatas.” (Classic FM Magazine, April 2012)

“it’s perhaps appropriate that the most successful recordings here should be of the fast movements: the finale of No.10 goes like the wind and that of Sonata No.4, Op.7 keeps a lovely balance between hell-for-leather speed and delicately sprung rubato, while its opening movement has a wonderfully fast-flowing urgency. Some of the quirkier movements are joyfully characterised, and there are times when Lim’s tone colour attains magnificence.” (BBC Music Magazine, CD Reviews, April 2012)

“HJ has made her own luck, bypassed the international piano competition route and become an online sensation. With a major label behind her, there is little doubt that we shall be hearing a lot more of the delightful Ms. Lim.” (International Piano (cover feature), February 2012)

“HJ Lim’s interpretation of the Fugue has an electrifying vitality – her formidable virtuosity is shown to best effect here...these first recordings show a spirited virtuoso with a high level of structural awareness. The release of her next Beethoven sonatas recording is eagerly awaited.” (Fono Forum Magazine, March 2012)

"The finale’s thoroughly brutal exposition and subsequent scattergun conclusion are anything but traditionally ladylike, and prove to be this volume’s highlight. Proving one’s chops at such a young age doesn’t enter into it – Lim tramples nimbly and with invention as much as she does with respect. Volume two ought to be another triumph." (BBC Music, February 2012)