Several fairly well-known figures came together in making this Alpha release; there are soprano Barbara Hannigan, the piano duo of Katia & Marielle Labèque, and the composers Bryce Dessner (of the rock band The National, but these days more concerned with avant-garde composition) and David Chalmin. All of them were pushed, in a good way, into new kinds of collaboration by Electric Fields, which combines music or, in some cases, text by Hildegard of Bingen, Barbara Strozzi, and Francesca Caccini and combines them with electronic sound. Looked at one way, the music picks up often shadowy female voices from the past and propels them into a present marked by unsettling electronics, but there’s more. One might point to the Labèque sisters, who are…

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