Alpstein is the second album by Swiss violinist Paul Giger

Paul Giger

Paul Giger , is a Swiss violinist and composer. He plays contemporary classical music, jazz, and free improvised music, and specializes in extended techniques....

 recorded in 1990 and 1991 and released on the ECM label.

Reception

The Allmusic review by Mark W. B. Allender awarded the album 4 stars stating "Violin virtuoso Paul Giger revisits his roots with this, his second solo recording, Alpstein, which features pieces for violin, saxophone, and percussion based on the folk traditions of the Alpstein region of Switzerland... This recording features the saxophone work of Jan Garbarek and the percussion of Pierre Favre. Both add an incredible warmth to the recording on the pieces they are featured on".

Track listing

All compositions by Paul Giger

1. "Zäuerli" - 3:07
2. "Karma Shadub" - 13:39
3. "Alpsegen" - 12:38
4. "Zäuerli" - 1:51
5. "Zäuerli" - 2:18
6. "Chuereihe" - 17:33
7. "Chlauseschuppel" - 4:09
8. "Trogener Chilbiläbe" - 7:00
   • Recorded at Trogen, Switzerland in 1990 and at Rainbow Studio on Oslo, Norway in 1990-1991

Personnel

• Paul Giger
  Paul Giger
  Paul Giger , is a Swiss violinist and composer. He plays contemporary classical music, jazz, and free improvised music, and specializes in extended techniques....
  
   - violin
  Violin
  The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....
  
  
• Jan Garbarek
  Jan Garbarek
  Jan Garbarek is a Norwegian tenor and soprano saxophonist, active in the jazz, classical, and world music genres. Garbarek was born in Mysen, Norway, the only child of a former Polish prisoner of war Czesław Garbarek and a Norwegian farmer's daughter...
  
   - tenor saxophone
  Tenor saxophone
  The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor, with the alto, are the two most common types of saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B, and written as a transposing instrument in the treble...
  
  
• Pierre Favre
  Pierre Favre (musician)
  Pierre Favre is a Swiss jazz drummer and percussionist born in Le Locle, Switzerland, perhaps most noteworthy for his work with Irene Schweizer....
  
   - percussion
• Musicians from Appenzell, Switzerland - Silvesterchlauseschuppel, Schellenschötter