The week Schubert dared the devil to play it 他說這只是一廂情願，然後把六首全錄了下來

Lukas Geniušas / Sinfonieorchester St. Gallen / Modestas Pitrėnas — Schubert/Liszt: Wanderer Fantasy · Tchaikovsky: Concert Fantasy

Genre類型

Classical / Piano & Orchestra

Label廠牌

Alpha Classics

Format介質

CD / Hi-Res / Streaming

Schubert finished the Wanderer Fantasy in 1822, took stock of what he had written, and reportedly grumbled that only the devil himself could play it. Three decades later Liszt arranged the thing for piano and orchestra, ostensibly an act of grandeur but in practice a quiet favor: the soloist now gets to hand half the weight to the strings. Geniušas pairs it with Tchaikovsky's almost never-programmed Concert Fantasy, another showpiece that was written to be a little too much for one person. The wager of the disc is that virtuosity sounds most relaxed when it has somewhere to lean. A Leeds and Queen Elisabeth laureate, Geniušas plays with a clean, unfussy touch that knows exactly what it's wrestling. My pick of the four. 舒伯特 1822 年寫完《流浪者幻想曲》，回頭一看自己都嫌難，據說抱怨只有「魔鬼本人」彈得動。三十年後，李斯特把它改成鋼琴與樂團版——名義上是擴編成炫技大場面，實際上是替獨奏者卸了一半的力。Geniušas 這張把它和柴可夫斯基那首幾乎沒人演的《音樂會幻想曲》並置，兩首都是「存心寫得過火」的炫技品；可一旦被樂團接住，反而顯出一種從容。他是 Leeds 與伊麗莎白女王雙料得主，觸鍵乾淨，從不賣弄難度。這是本期我的首選——不是因為它最討喜，而是它最清楚自己在跟什麼較勁。

Marc Sabbah — J.S. Bach: Cello Suites Nos. 1–6, BWV 1007–1012

Genre類型

Classical / Solo Viola

Label廠牌

Arr. for Viola

Format介質

CD / Hi-Res / Streaming

Celestial Power — Celestial Power

Genre類型

Psych / Experimental / Drone

Label廠牌

Feeding Tube Records

Format介質

LP / Digital

Feeding Tube Records has spent years as a reliable home for the gnarled and the underbuilt, and this self-titled set—four long tracks, no apologies—fits the house style. The music spreads rather than develops: psychedelic, droning, pushed along by long currents of electricity, the sonic equivalent of treating a half-finished house as an echo chamber. It isn't interested in being pretty; it's interested in how far in you're willing to walk. Bandcamp Daily made it an Album of the Day on the eighteenth, and the cover—a tall, portrait-shaped slab of cosmos—reads as its own quiet manifesto: this was not made to sit in a square feed. Best met alone, late, with nothing else running. Feeding Tube 這塊招牌，多年來專收最毛糙、最不肯打磨的那一檔。這張同名只有四首，但每首都鋪得很開——迷幻、嗡鳴、長段的電流往前推，像把一間沒裝修完的房子直接當成了迴音室。它不在乎好不好聽，在乎的是你能不能一直往裡走。Bandcamp Daily 在 6/18 把它選為當日推薦。連直幅的封面都是個訊號：這不是一張為方格子社群做的碟。適合在深夜單獨面對，不適合拿來配咖啡。

yulia — Kindness, She's so Jealous

Genre類型

Emo / Glitch Pop / Indietronica / Shoegaze

Label廠牌

Plooptown Records

Format介質

Digital / LP

yulia call themselves an "alternative internet band from texas and new jersey," which is roughly all the biography on offer. There was no label campaign and no press; the record simply appeared, and by its second day the user score on Album of the Year had climbed to the high eighties on the strength of listeners alone. Twelve tracks, fifty-four minutes, opening on "good morning, kindness" and closing on "goodnight, kindness"—a whole day rendered as an album—before the title track detonates and runs, by itself, past nineteen minutes. Emo tears, glitch static, shoegaze smear: one early review described it as "if sweet trip made a wet dream." The nerve here isn't technical. It's the willingness to go this long and this unkempt and assume someone will stay to the end. Today's most worthwhile surprise. 一支自稱「來自德州和新澤西的網路樂團」，履歷大概就這麼多。沒有廠牌造勢、沒有樂評，碟自己冒出來，發行第二天，AOTY 的用戶分就靠聽眾一路衝到將近 90。12 軌 54 分鐘，開場叫《good morning, kindness》，收尾叫《goodnight, kindness》，像把一整天寫成了一張專輯——然後最後一首同名曲，自己一個人佔掉 19 分 08 秒。emo 的眼淚、glitch 的雜訊、shoegaze 的糊牆混在一起，有人形容「像 sweet trip 做了一場濕夢」。它的膽量不在技術，而在於敢這麼長、這麼不修邊幅，還篤定有人會聽完。今天最該點開的意外。