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Charles Ives: Piano Sonata No.2, "II. Hawthorne" (Eric Xi Xin Liang)

Recorded on June 8th, 2024. Learned and refined in approximately 13 hours. Ives' music is always a blast to play. I wanted to revisit this piano sonata after having recorded "I. Emerson", "III. The Alcotts", and "IV. Thoreau" back in 2021 because I was playing very lightly for my home recordings before which fails at conveying the intensity. Also, it made it very tricky to practise this movement at home. On a side note, I'm recording Ives at a similar time of the year again, and I've been starting to notice a personal trend where I subconsciously prefer to play certain composers' music at a certain time of year (e.g. Ives during the Summer, Medtner during Spring, Sorabji mostly during Fall and Winter). Compared to Sorabji's music, this was relatively a breeze to learn and perform. I also have experience playing Kapustin's music so I'm pretty adept at controlling high-speed rhythms. For those unfamiliar with the context of this piece, each movement is associated with a figure of transcendentalism, a movement in the late 1820s and 1830s which centred around the core belief in the inherent goodness of people of nature. This movement depicts Nathaniel Hawthorne, an American novelist and short story writer. The entire work by Ives is saturated with references/"borrowings" from other well-known musical works (some self-referential). A sample list is below: Ives: The Celestial Railroad (borrows 80%) Ives: Piano Sonata No.1 Beethoven: 5th Symphony (opening 4 notes; appears everywhere) Beethoven: "Hammerklavier" piano sonata (opening motif and also 3rd movement textures) Debussy: Children's Corner Various works by Wagner Various American and Scottish folk songs You can read the full Cambridge paper on the piano sonata here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/15m81... It'll transform your perspective from quirky noise to pretty heavily integrated and referential passages. I'll likely quickly relearn the other movements as well and record it. Also, lol, I didn't have a 37cm wooden block lying around so I had to improvise with a 32cm ruler. It needs to be played with a solid object otherwise the cluster chord is not even enough in tone. In addition, tbh, I think Medtner's music is harder to play in general. This was not difficult at all actually. [DISCLAIMER] If you're unfamiliar with this style of music, it is suggested that you go through the description of this previous video for the necessary background:    • Kaikhosru Sorabji: Gulistān (Eric Xi ...   All movements from Opus Clavicembalisticum I've recorded:    • Kaikhosru Sorabji: Opus Clavicembalis...   All works by Sorabji I've recorded:    • Sorabji Piano Recordings (Eric Xi Xin...   At time of recording, Eric is a full-time software engineer working in Big Tech and AI, graduated from the University of Waterloo, Computer Science major. @musicforever60_official on IG:   / musicforever60_official   #piano #music #ives