HJ Lim plays Ravel & Scriabin HJ Lim

• 1 I. Modéré 01:17
• 2 II. Assez lent, avec une expression intense 02:06
• 3 III. Modére 01:14
• 4 IV. Assez animé 01:08
• 5 V. Presque lent, dans un sentiment intime 01:04
• 6 VI. Aseez vif 00:38
• 7 VII. Moins vif 02:35
• 8 VIII. Epilogue (Lent) 04:40
• 9 I. Andante 02:29
• 10 II. Prestissimo volante 04:38
• 11 I. Allegro. Impetuoso. Con stravaganza 10:59
• 12 I. Modéré 03:57
• 13 II. Mouvement de menuet 02:53
• 14 III. Animé 03:25
• 15 Scriabin: 2 Poems Opus 32 05:26
• 16 No. 1 in F-Sharp Major 02:45
• 17 No. 2 in D Major 01:25
• 18 La valse 11:18
• Total Runtime 01:03:57

Info for HJ Lim plays Ravel & Scriabin

Charismatic, engaging and adventurous, pianist HJ Lim captivates her audience with style, intensity and a natural flair for the theatrical whilst playing and interpreting piano repertoire with genuine brilliance. This new album is mostly made up of Scriabin sonatas (Nos 4 & 5) and Ravel waltzes (La Valse and the Valses nobles et sentimentales). Complimenting these - a Scriabin waltz (Waltz in Ab major) and a “small sonata” by Ravel (Sonatine). The repertoire therefore comes full circle, with the waltzes of Ravel with his sonatine - and Scriabin’s sonatas with his waltz - forming a solid union. These extra works also both bring fresh inspiration and a lightness to counter-balance the dark and mystical universe of the Ravel Valses and Scriabin 5th Sonata. In addition to all this – 2 poems by Scriabin, which make a lovely transition from his delightful and charming Waltz in Ab to the more shadowy and dark La Valse by Ravel.

'This is the kind of album that will save the classical music recording industry. It’s the kind of album I want to buy 20 of and hand out in the street to strangers. It’s the kind of album that, if you’ve never heard a Beethoven sonata before will convert you for life and ruin every other performance you’ll hear.' (James Rhodes, The Telegraph)

HJ Lim, piano

HJ Lim
Highly acclaimed by both audiences and musical critics all over the world, HJ Lim is praised for refreshing and rediscovering the pinnacles of the piano repertoire, and her supersonic virtuosity to carry out her innovative and creative ideas. Yet, her free, imaginative and visionary playing reminds of the finest pianists of the past. In 2010, her extraordinary decision to encompass in live concerts the complete Beethoven piano sonatas, in Paris over eight consecutive days, creates sensation in the classical music world. One year later, she recorded the complete cycle for EMI Classics, and published the sonatas into eight themes with her own essay on Beethoven sonatas which gives a powerful new insight, and becomes at the age of 24, the youngest interpreter ever to record these masterpieces, the first and the only classical pianist to ever debut at number 1 on Billboard Classical Chart and at number 1 both on US and Canada Classical iTunes chart.

HJ Lim began her musical studies at the age of three under Jong-Sun Kim and her prodigious talent was quickly recognised. Aged twelve, Lim decided of her own accord to relocate to France where she immersed herself in the musical world of the composers who had shaped her early years. Five months later she graduated from the Conservatoire National Région de Compiègne with First Prize and highest distinction in the class of Marc Hoppeler. Then she became the youngest ever person to obtain the "Diplôme d'Etudes Musicales Complètes" of Normandy in France, aged fifteen. Subsequently HJ was awarded the "Perfectionnement Cycle” for chamber music and piano at the Conservatoire National de Rouen and she received First Prize and the highest distinction. In 2003 HJ Lim commenced her studies at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris under Henri Barda and three years later she graduated with First Prize and obtained the "Diplôme de Formation Supérieur", again, with highest distinctions. She has performed with the Symphony Orchestra of Moscow Radio at the Tonhalle Zurich, Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Bilkent Symphony Orchestra, Orquestra Sinfónica Metropolitana, she made her debut at the Stadtcasino in Basel as Rising Stars, at Serate Musicali in Sala Verdi and her forthcoming appearances include recitals at Geneva’s Victoria Hall, New York’s Le Poisson Rouge and Wigmore Hall in London, at Chester Festival, Menton Festival, Annecy Classic Festival, Festspiele Mecklenburg- Vorpommern, at the Théâtre des Bouffés du Nord in Paris, at Sala Cecilia Meireles in Rio de Janeiro, while concerto appearances will bring HJ Lim into collaboration with the Hofer Symphoniker, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Münchner Symphoniker and Bilkent Symphony Orchestra.

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