Electric Fields | Alpha ALPHA980

Electric Fields

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Label: Alpha

Cat No: ALPHA980

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 9th May 2025

Contents

About

Electric Fields offers modern arrangements of centuries-old vocal music, as well as new compositions, all involving soprano, pianos, and live electronics. The meditative compositions of medieval polymath Hildegard von Bingen are the point of departure for this album. Hildegard's texts soar to the spiritual realm both in Latin and in her invented lingua ignota. Additionally, the vernacular love songs of two composers from the Italian Baroque, Barbara Strozzi and Francesca Caccini, gave inspiration for this album. Several works from American composer Bryce Dessner complete the eclectic programme. Soprano Barbara Hannigan and pianists Katia and Marielle Labèque are joined by composer/performer David Chalmin in this captivating journey through meditative and ambient musical atmospheres. Together they create an intense and unique cosmos of sound.

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Reviews

Over 63 minutes we wander between the ambient, the minimalistic, the sacred and secular, scarcely touching what a conservative ear might regard as terra firma: easily graspable melodies, steady harmonic support, music that progresses towards a goal rather than drifts.

Is there beauty in all this? Certainly, particularly when Hannigan’s fluid voice spirals high above Katia and Marielle Labèque’s patterned capers or the interesting textures generated from synthesisers, laptop, and a jungle of wiring by the French composer and musician David Chalmin.
– Geoff Brown
The Times 9 May 2025

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