The latest album by composer Jakub Metelka (b. 1986) contains fifteen recitals in a simple song form and thus loosely follows the author's successful, technically less demanding piano cycle Malý virtuos. Metelka has imprinted the individual pieces of The Secret Garden with his distinctive melodic style, which is tonally anchored with plenty of colourful and novel harmonies that underline the slightly melancholic and mysterious character of Nocturne's pieces. Andrea Tacheza's playful accompanying illustrations help to bring out their moods.
Although it is not a complete cycle, these fifteen characteristic mood pieces, both in their programmatic titles and in their order, represent a kind of fairy tale story culminating in the magical last piece, The Secret Garden.