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I love working with an orchestra, but there are many ways to make music.

I am the conductor for life of the Staatskapelle in Berlin, which fills me with tremendous joy because I feel absolutely at one with them. When we play, I have a feeling that together we manage to create one collective lung for the whole orchestra so that everybody in the stage breathes the music in the same way.

Toting around a full orchestra on tour is very ambitious. I would consider doing a show now and then, like do a show at Radio City or Carnegie Hall with a full orchestra.

You have to change your mind with every orchestra because every orchestra has a different character.

Playing in an orchestra is where I learned the most about music.

Symphonic orchestras have almost become a glut in the market.

It's not all that different with the orchestra. There are orchestras that seem to be encased in dough, so that first you have to break through the normal routine, and clear out the openings.

Orchestras have become used to the emphasis on the separation of layers, of the ultimate precision and clarity.