“… the arranger works with ready-made musical material but gives it a different form and sometimes also a different content. Famous music can appear in a completely unexpected sound and you can surprise the listener with new colours – with melodic or harmonic twists or new rhythmic designs. Moreover, you can either enlarge the format of your work or vice versa – reduce the composition of the performers to a minimum. For me, it requires certain knowledge of the instruments’ abilities, their sound in different registers, perfect mastery of harmony, solfeggio and polyphony, a sense of form and style, and … honestly, you just have to love it. „“

From an interview with “Die Welt” after the staging of the tetralogy of R. Wagner’s “Der Ring des Nibelungen” by J. Lebedev.