Michael Schlierf – Clouds And Silver Linings (2011) DSF DSD64

Michael Schlierf – Clouds And Silver Linings (2011)
DFF Stereo DSD64/2.82MHz | Time – 01:00:32 minutes | 2,39 GB | Genre: Classical
Source: SACD | Artwork: Front cover | © Stockfisch Records SFR 357.4070.2

A Wonderful Jazz Piano Album with 14 of Michael Schlierf’s pieces arranged for several instruments!

Michael Schlierf started playing piano at the age of 5. Beginning with a classical education he later decided to learn jazz piano. Since 1985 he studied jazz and popular music at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart.

As an enthusiastic aficionado of instrumental music – Michael Schlierf lets the music do the talking. This can be felt in the music of his compositions – that language that begins where words start to fail. Stockfisch-Records releases a wonderful SACD album with 14 of his pieces arranged for several instruments: besides the piano you’ll hear string quartet, oboe, cor Anglais, flute, clarinet and harp plus saxophone, guitar, dobro, bass and drums.

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Michael Schlierf – Clouds and Silver Linings (2010/2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Michael Schlierf – Clouds and Silver Linings (2010/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:00:53 minutes | 654 MB | Genre: Jazz, Folk, Classical Crossover
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Stockfisch Records

The thoroughbred musician Michael Schlierf is at home on many stages and in many musical genres. Sound worlds full of musical images, but also full of rousing grooves emerge when the pianist and composer strides down the entire space of a rich emotional cosmos with the keys of the grand piano. Moods between cheerful joie de vivre and subdued melancholy are communicated to the listener in immediately tangible authenticity. Michael Schlierf’s first CD for Stockfisch is called Clouds and Silver Linings. It is the music itself that fills this phrase with double meaning. On the one hand there are clouds and light, sun and night – the nature that is around us and within us. And whose work in the outer world artists have always interpreted as a mirror and symbol of inner experience. This is also the case in this music, which describes an inner journey from departure and the way through the dark to the good end in the light. With this recording, one could also underlie the usual designation of what constitutes the spectacular final note of this exceptional album. Bonus track is too banal for the last sound recording of Heinz Rühmann, who reads the Vater Unser here. But that’s exactly what it is: bonus well. An exceptional musician, who on fourteen pieces without words gives the magic of a deep, rich and touching music that is as believable as Michael Schlierf himself.

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