Afro-Canadian soprano Measha Brueggergosman (the unusual name is a mixture of her maiden name and her husband's last name) continues with this, her third album, to show herself as a distinctive talent rather than a novelty. The trio of composers included on Surprise may seem unusual (and Brueggergosman's early champion William Bolcom must be delighted to find himself alongside the likes of Schoenberg and Satie), but actually the program is logical, consistently hanging on the edge of popular song while maintaining various ...
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Afro-Canadian soprano Measha Brueggergosman (the unusual name is a mixture of her maiden name and her husband's last name) continues with this, her third album, to show herself as a distinctive talent rather than a novelty. The trio of composers included on Surprise may seem unusual (and Brueggergosman's early champion William Bolcom must be delighted to find himself alongside the likes of Schoenberg and Satie), but actually the program is logical, consistently hanging on the edge of popular song while maintaining various degrees of contemporary distance from it. Schoenberg's Brettl-Lieder are edgy but funny cabaret songs of which a musicologist wrote that one can be grateful for their presence in an oeuvre that contains few smiles. Here and in Bolcom's Cabaret Songs to poems by Arnold Weinstein, Brueggergosman benefits from her ability to inject a note of broad humor without camping the music up. Her lusty reading of Bolcom's little vignettes of everyday life is far superior to the arch treatments...
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