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During the year when I, like everyone else, was confined to home because of the pandemic, I was sometimes left with imaginary gardens that could only be visited to music. So I was able to dream of the gardens that Sammu-ramat (Queen of Assyria from 823 to 811) is said to have laid out on the top floor of her palace in Babylon, one of the Seven Wonders of the World, lost in ancient times. Following in the footsteps of Catel, Meyerbeer, Rossini, Honegger and many other composers, with whom I share nothing more than a taste for the legend of Semiramis, I have revisited the paradisiacal gardens by populating them with animal voices that I recorded in Borneo, Java and even in France. It was the imaginary orchestra of the Midi standard that provided me with the instruments, particularly for the evocation of the final fall of these rare gardens.
