Kirk Eichelberger to Return to LIEDER ALIVE!

from the Eventbrite Web page for the concert being discussed

Later this month LIEDER ALIVE! will continue its tenth Jubilee season with the return of bass Kirk Eichelberger. Eichelberger’s last LIEDER ALIVE! recital took place in April of 2019, and once again he will be accompanied by Russian-born pianist Simona Snitkovskaya. His last program featured Modest Mussorgsky’s cycle of four Songs and Dances of Death. This season’s program will highlight another Russian composer, Sergei Rachmaninoff.

By my count, Rachmaninoff composed 71 art songs published in seven collections: Opus 4 (six), Opus 8 (six), Opus 14 (twelve), Opus 21 (twelve), Opus 26 (fifteen), Opus 34 (fourteen), and Opus 38 (six). Sadly, it is almost impossible to encounter any of them in performance here in San Francisco! Eichelberger will sing three of the Opus 26 songs, whose English titles are “Everything has been taken from me,” “Yesterday we met,” and “Christ is resurrected.” He will also sing one selection from Opus 14, “She is as fair as noon,” and one, “At the gate of the holy cloister,” which was only published posthumously by Pavel Lamm. The remainder of the program will be devoted to five of the folk poems from Des Knaben Wunderhorn, which Gustav Mahler composed as orchestral songs and subsequently prepared voice-and-piano arrangements: “Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen,” “Es sungen drei Engel einen süssen Gesang,” “Revelge,” “Das himmlische Leben,” and “Der Tamboursg'sell.”

This recital will begin at 5 p.m. on Sunday, January 16. As usual, the venue will be the Noe Valley Ministry, which is located at 1021 Sanchez Street, between 23rd Street and Elizabeth Street. Single tickets for all concerts in this series are $75 for reserved seating and $35 for general admission. There is also a special discounted rate of $20 for students, seniors, and working artists. Tickets in all three of these categories may be purchased in advance through Eventbrite. Ticket prices at the door will be $40 and the discounted $20 rate. Doors open at 4:30 p.m.