The pocket garden
The Pocket Garden (1978) is an orchestral suite in 13 movements by Sergiu Celibidache .
“The Pocket Garden” was created in close collaboration with children and is also - in the tradition of impressionistic children's ballets - intended for children. But the music also has points of contact with Maurice Ravel and Igor Stravinsky .
The sentences have the following titles:
- Children come in!
- Master Wind makes tulips sing
- Drake's sermon
- Maple seeds are puzzling
- No more call to heaven for the old fir tree
- Bug dance
- Fish night song
- Broom stallion on a wild ride
- My hedgehog, where are you?
- Green prayer
- Thanks chatter. One hedgehog became two
- It's raining into the watering can
- That's all
Celibidache places special emphasis on the sound of the "Taschengarten". For example, the second movement, “Master Wind lets tulips sing”, shows an idyllic swaying and swaying of woodwinds (tulips) accompanied by muted strings , harp and celesta sounds (wind). The 7th movement “Fish Night Song” is composed polyphonically ; Celibidache uses the phenomenon that the listener can only hear a few voices at the same time, similar to how you can only see a few at a time in a lake full of fish. A mixture of Tibetan temple sounds and lyrical melodies make up the 10th movement “Green Prayer”. In the 12th movement, "It's raining in the watering can", he artistically imitates the sound of raindrops.
"The Pocket Garden" was released in 1979 in a recording with the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra on Deutsche Grammophon as a benefit production for the UNICEF children's aid organization . The recording is now also available on CD . "The Pocket Garden" is currently the only composition by Celibidache (several symphonies and a requiem are also known ) that is available on sound storage media. It is also the only work that he officially recorded against his fundamental rejection of "conserved music", although he never conducted it in a concert. It was not until the 10th anniversary of his death on August 14, 2006 that she was given the concert premiere in the Herkulessaal of the Munich Residenz ; the Junge Münchner Philharmonie played under the direction of the Celibidache student Mark Mast .