E-R-D-zarte

Kuno Kjærbye music

Hans Magnus Enzensberger poem

Emmanuelle Bernard, baroque violin, Heidi Gröger, viola da Gamba, Andreas Arend, theorbo and Núria Sanromà Gabàs, zink (cornetto) 1-perform Kuno Kjærbyes piece E-R-D-zarte during Festival Lübecker Lauten Lust 2019.

E- R- D- zarte is a musically recreation of Hans-Magnus Enzensbergers poem Ehre sei der Sellerie from 1960  – a thirty threeyear old German hymn of despair to the celery with the image of the celery root being a small globe: “das zarte Erdherz, die sellerie, / menschlicher als der mensch, / frißt nicht seinesgleichen…” and the extended time in the fastest – the lightning: “noch der blitz, berühmt sei der blitz…”

Commissioned by the festival Lübecker Lauten Lust 2019 with composer’s fee supported from The Danish Arts Foundation/Statens Kunstfond and Danish Composers Society/KODA Culture and German funds.