Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas – review

HJ Lim(EMI, eight CDs)Earlier in the year EMI announced their exclusive contract with the 24-year-old Korean pianist HJ Lim with the release of a two-disc set of Beethoven sonatas that included the Hammerklavier Op 106 and Les Adieux Op 81a. Now, with almost indecent haste comes the whole cycle (she omits the two little sonatas of Op 49), with each of the eight discs containing a thematic selection. For instance, the three sonatas of Op 2 appear under the heading of Assertion of an Inflexible Pe...

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