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Artist: HJ Lim
Title Of Album: Beethoven Complete Piano Sonatas
Year Of Release: 2012
Label: EMI
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (Tracks, scans)
Total Time: 08:55:00 min
Total Size: 1,75 Gb

The marketing of this collection of Beethoven's piano sonatas (minus the two small student pieces of Op. 49) may have overshadowed its musical content. The charismatic Korean pianist HJ Lim first gained a following on YouTube, where she posted her work from France in order to keep in touch with her parents back home. Her gutsy decision to plunge into the entire Beethoven cycle has been released digitally by EMI, at a bargain price, and heavily advertised on Facebook. Lim's sheer ambition is displayed in her organization of the set, which is not chronological but instead uses "themes": Heroic Ideals, Eternal Feminine -- Youth, Assertion of an Inflexible Personality, Nature, Extremes in Collision, Resignation and Action, Eternal Feminine -- Maturity, and Destiny. It might be objected that these are not satisfying as categories, and indeed they don't really hold together well, nor emerge convincingly in Lim's playing, which seems to approach each piece is a sort of free-flowing, rhythmically irregular way. Yet Lim defends her programming in a remarkable set of (digital) notes, making extensive biographical references to Beethoven's own writings and those of his assistant Schindler, among others. This is quite an intellectual feat for one who has made it through the rigors of conservatory training, and in many specific locations Lim's observations are both persuasive and generative of fresh interpretations. To take just one example, the placement of the Piano Sonata No. 21 in C major, Op. 53 ("Waldstein"), in the "Nature" segment is surprising yet revelatory, as Lim turns the slow movement into a series of murky forest whispers and the finale into a blaze of sunny Romantic transcendence. She does a good job of backing up her more outrageous ideas with Beethoven's own words, many of them dealing with his always tempestuous love life, and at the local level, if not in wider thematic thrusts, her interpretations make sense, and she has the technical chops to pull them off. The best word for Lim at this point is "prodigy"; her talent is impressive but needs focus, and she gets extra points for a star quality that is well suited to the way EMI is trying to present this release. That star quality is, moreover, something much needed in mainstream classical music.

Disc: 1
  1. Heroic Ideas Sonata No.26 in Eb Opus 81a "Les Adieux"
  2. Heroic Ideas Sonata No.11 in Bb Opus 22
  3. Heroic Ideas Sonata No.29 in Bb Opus 106 "Hammerklavier"

Disc: 2
  1. The Eternal Feminine - Youth Sonata No.4 in Eb Opus 7
  2. The Eternal Feminine - Youth Sonata No.9 in E Opus 14 No.1
  3. The Eternal Feminine - Youth Sonata No.10 in G Opus 14 No.2
  4. The Eternal Feminine - Youth Sonata No.13 in Eb Opus 27 No.1
  5. The Eternal Feminine - Youth Sonata No.14 in C# minor Opus 27 No.2 "Moonlight"

Disc: 3
  1. Aspects of an Inflexible Personality Sonata No.1 in F minor Opus 2 No.1
  2. Aspects of an Inflexible Personality Sonata No.2 in A Opus 2 No.2
  3. Aspects of an Inflexible Personality Sonata No.3 in C Opus 2 No.3

Disc: 4
1. Nature Sonata No. 15 in D, Op. 28 "Pastorale"
2. Nature Sonata No.21 in C Opus 53 "Waldstein"
3. Nature Sonata No. 22 in F, Op. 54
4. Nature Sonata No. 25 in G, Op. 79

Disc: 5
  1. Extremes in Collision Sonata No.5 in C minor Opus 10 No.1
  2. Extremes in Collision Sonata No.6 in F Opus 10 No.2
  3. Extremes in Collision Sonata No.7 in D Opus 10 No.3

Disc: 6
  1. Resignation and Action Sonata No.16 in G Opus 31 No.1
  2. Resignation and Action Sonata No.17 in D minor Opus 31 No.2 "Tempest
  3. Resignation and Action Sonata No.18 in Eb Opus 31 No.3
  4. Resignation and Action Sonata No.28 in A Opus 101

Disc: 7
  1. Eternal Feminine - Maturity Sonata No.24 in F# Opus 78 "Für Therese"
  2. Eternal Feminine - Maturity Sonata No.27 in E minor Opus 90
  3. Eternal Feminine - Maturity Sonata No.30 in E Opus 109
  4. Eternal Feminine - Maturity Sonata No.31 in Ab Opus 110

Disc: 8
  1. Destiny Sonata No.8 in C minor Opus 13 "Pathetique"
  2. Destiny Sonata No.12 in Ab Opus 26
  3. Destiny Sonata No.23 in F minor Opus 57 "Appassionata"
  4. Destiny Sonata No.32 in C minor Opus 111

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