go to concert halls if the persons playing it had had a chance to talk to beethoven or bach or tchaikovskyer of it would be different, what they hear if they could talk to the composer. >> i think a level of naturalist, a level of risk-taking. a level of let's -- at the moment i'm on tour with the orchestra, and they specialize in this, they brought together this sense of here and now, let's just try that. they are so free as musicians. i think a lot of our environment, although i am never one of those musicians to complain about the beauty of the silence and the focus and the concentration that is within a classical music concert hall. i think it's one of the most precious things to experience on both sides. but -- in saying that there is an element of tension and a lack of just normal human interaction that i think is sometimes -- we suffer a little bit from that. >> i heard you on a radio program one day talking about over-practicing. and how you don't want to do -- you don't want to do too much practicing. explain to me about what you meant by being weary of over-practicing. >> i think

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it gave us such world famous names as pushkin and dostoyevsky, tchaikovsky and shostakovich, pavlovayshnikov. the hermitage museum, started by catherine the great in 1764, is considered to be the oldest art museum in the world. it boasts a collection so large that if you stopped for only 10 seconds in front of every work, it would take over three years just to get through it all. peterhof, the lavish russian answer to versailles, was the summer residence of the czars. its fountains, especially the grand cascade, are as popular today as they were 300 years ago. dubbed "venice of the north," st. petersburg was built on more than 100 islands in the delta of the neva river, connected by 342 bridges across hundreds of small rivers and canals. an open-air museum of incredibly diverse architecture, st. petersburg has seen it all -- revolutions, uprisings, changes of regime. it even changed its name three times. what has not changed, though, is its founders dream -- to have the city become a cultural capital and a meeting point for every country in the world. >> and it looks like, next year,