Ignis (album)

2000 studio album by Paul Giger

Ignis

Studio album by

Paul Giger

Released| 2000
Recorded| June 1998
Studio| Niguliste Church
Tallinn, Estonia
Genre|

* Medieval music
* contemporary classical music

Length| 72:41
Label| ECM
ECM 1681
Producer| Manfred Eicher
Paul Giger chronology
| Schattenwelt
(1993)  | Ignis
(2000)  | Vindonissa
(2003)

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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.[1]

## Reception

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Professional ratingsReview scores

Source| Rating
AllMusic| [2]

The AllMusic review by Mark W. B. Allender awarded the album 4 stars stating "The pieces on Ignis form a body of old-world sacred music with an avant-garde sensibility."[2]

## Track listing

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All compositions by Paul Giger except as indicated

1. "Organum" (Anonymous) – 6:26
2. "Karma Shadub" – 21:01
3. "Tropus" (Notker Balbulus, Tuotilo) – 14:00
4. "Alleluja" (Notker Balbulus, Tuotilo) – 3:31
5. "O Ignis" (Hildegard von Bingen) – 27:43

### Note

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* In 2011, Ricardo Villalobos and Max Loderbauer used samples of Ignis as the basis for the track "Reshadub" on the remix album Re:ECM.

## Personnel

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* Paul Giger – violin, viola d'amore
* Marius Ungureanu – viola (tracks 1 & 3–5)
* Beat Schneider – cello (tracks 1 & 3–5)
* Tõnu Kaljuste – conductor (tracks 2–5)
* Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir

## References

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1. ^ ECM discography accessed October 31, 2011
2. ^ a b Allender, M. W. B. Allmusic Review accessed October 31, 2011