With her album dedicated to the music of Johannes Brahms, pianist Jimin Oh-Havenith continues her outstanding recording career, following a series of CDs in recent years featuring solo piano works by Robert Schumann. Her new album totals over three hours of music and includes genres that Brahms developed after composing his three large scale piano sonatas in her youth: variations and character pieces - fantasies, ballades, rhapsodies, and intermezzi, distinguished by compositional innovation, new techniques, and expressive depth, becoming landmarks in 19th century piano literature. Pianist Jimin Oh-Havenith offers interpretations that are well-suited to these scores, full of reverie, emotion and vituosity.

Jimin Oh-Havenith, an exceptional South Korean musician who is 65 years old, was born in Seoul and is now based in Germany. She studied at the National University in her hometown and at the Musikhochschule in Cologne. After moving to Germany, she developed an important artistic career and formed a successful duo with her husband, the German pianist Raymund Havenith, who passed away in 1993. Following this tragic loss, she interrupted her concert career and focused on teaching, serving as a professor at the conservatories in Mainz and Frankfurt. She returned to the concert stage in 2013. So far she has recorded 11 albums covering a wide stylistic range from Bach to contemporary music, with a particular emphasis on the Romantic repertoire. Jimin Oh-Havenith describes Brahms's music as "absolutely unique and profound," and her substantial interpretation highlights these qualities of the German composer's works.

This album, recorded in November 2024 at the Leibniz Hall in Hanover, was released on January 9th, 2026, by the German label Audite.