Name: The Well-Tempered Clavier at Rienzi
Start: 2021-10-16T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-06-04T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Museum Der Bildenden Künste

Organization

Ars Lyrica Houston

Sänger

Matthew Dirst

Soloist

The Well-Tempered Clavier at Rienzi

Houston

Vereinigte Staaten

Museum of Fine Arts

Rienzi

Prelude and Fugue in B-Flat Major, BWV 866

from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1 (1722) by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Matthew Dirst, harpsichord

Single-manual harpsichord by John Phillips with decoration by Janine Johnson (Berkeley, 2021) after the work of the Gräbner family (Dresden, c1720) 

Rienzi, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

PROGRAM 1: Videotaped on May 3, 2021 | Concert broadcast premiere on Sunday, October 24 at 6 pm
PROGRAM 2: In-person performance on Saturday, October 16, 2021 at 6 and 7:30 pm
PROGRAM 3: In-person performance on Saturday, June 4, 2022 at 6 pm

Rienzi is a jewel in the crown of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. Its dramatic setting, focused on the European decorative arts, is the perfect pairing for our historically informed performances. Be transported to another time and place through these immersive musical experiences. 

Ars Lyrica Artistic Director Matthew Dirst surveys Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier with three performances of eight preludes and fugues each. Over the course of one year (May 2021, October 2021, and June 2022), Dirst will perform and record the entirety of Book 1 in the sumptuous surroundings of Rienzi, the house museum for European decorative arts of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The featured instrument, inspired by the work of the Gräbner family in Dresden in the early eighteenth century, is visually and acoustically stunning, a perfect complement to the Baroque-era décor at Rienzi.

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