2. Karma Shadub
3. Tropus A
4. lleluja
5. O Ignis
(Recorded June 1998)
"Paul Giger, born in Switzerland in 1952, has not been content to remain in the competitive yet artistically safe world that most classical violinists inhabit. Although he has been a leading member of traditional ensembles, he has made the greatest artistic impact as a musician who plays unusual material in uncharacteristic places with unexpected people. As a young man, he wandered through Asia; on an earlier ECM New Series CD (Chartres, ECM New Series 1386 837752-2), he wandered through a cathedral, playing as he went. [...]
"Paul Giger, born in Switzerland in 1952, has not been content to remain in the competitive yet artistically safe world that most classical violinists inhabit. Although he has been a leading member of traditional ensembles, he has made the greatest artistic impact as a musician who plays unusual material in uncharacteristic places with unexpected people. As a young man, he wandered through Asia; on an earlier ECM New Series CD (Chartres, ECM New Series 1386 837752-2), he wandered through a cathedral, playing as he went. [...]
This new CD was recorded in a church in the Estonian city of Tallinn. The project came about when Giger's growing interest in writing for the human voice was nurtured by ECM's Manfred Eicher, and also by the same Estonian choir recorded here. Impressed by Giger's solo performances in this church, members of the choir asked him to join them in a new project. The sessions came together in 1998, after correspondence between Giger and Kaljuste."
—Raymond Tuttle
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