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Paul Giger (born 1952 in Herisau, Switzerland), is a Swiss violinist and composer. He plays contemporary classical music, jazz, and free improvised music, and specializes in extended techniques.
He has released seven CDs on the ECM label and collaborated with the Hilliard Ensemble, Jan Garbarek, Pierre Favre and Marie-Louise Dähler.
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ECM is an independent record label founded by Karl Egger, Manfred Eicher and Manfred Scheffner in Munich in 1969. While ECM is best known for jazz music, the label has released a variety of recordings, and ECM's artists often refuse to acknowledge boundaries between genres. ECM's motto is "the most beautiful sound next to silence", taken from a 1971 review of ECM releases in Coda, a Canadian jazz magazine.
Heinz Robert Holliger is a Swiss virtuoso oboist, composer and conductor. Celebrated for his versatility and technique, Holliger is among the most prominent oboists of his generation. His repertoire includes Baroque and Classical pieces, but he has regularly engaged in lesser known pieces of Romantic music, as well as his own compositions. He often performed contemporary works with his wife, the harpist Ursula Holliger; composers such as Berio, Carter, Henze, Krenek, Lutosławski, Martin, Penderecki, Stockhausen and Yun have written works for him. Holliger is a noted composer himself, writing works such as the opera Schneewittchen (1998).
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Manfred Eicher is a German record producer and the founder of ECM Records.
Art Lande is an American musician who was born in New York City, United States, on 5 February 1947.
David Darling was an American cellist and composer. In 2010, he won the Grammy Award for Best New Age Album. He performed and recorded with Bobby McFerrin, Paul Winter Consort, Ralph Towner and Spyro Gyra and released many solo albums. Among these were 15 recordings for ECM.
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Nik Bärtsch is a Swiss pianist, composer, bandleader, record producer and author from Zürich.
Tõnu Kaljuste is an Estonian conductor.
Nouvelle Vague is a 1990 French film written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard. It follows the story of hitchhiker Lennox credited as Lui (He), taken in by a wealthy industrialist, Elena Torlato-Favrini or Elle (She), played by Domiziana Giordano. The film was entered into the 1990 Cannes Film Festival. It has never been released on any home video format in North America, but the audio was issued as a 2CD set by ECM.
Rolf Lislevand, is a Norwegian performer of Early music specialising on lute, vihuela, baroque guitar and theorbo.
Alpstein is the second album by Swiss violinist and composer Paul Giger, recorded in 1990 and 1991 and released on ECM later in 1991.
Schattenwelt is the third album by Swiss violinist and composer Paul Giger, recorded in May 1992 and released on ECM the following year.
Ignis is the fourth album by Swiss violinist and composer Paul Giger, recorded at St. Nicholas Church, Tallinn, Estonia in June 1998 and released on ECM in 2000.
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Marie-Louise Dähler is a Swiss harpsichordist. As such, she is a basso continuo player, chamber music partner and soloist with a focus on improvisation.
Thomas Demenga is a Swiss composer and cellist.
