Here are the Top 20...
1) Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam
2) Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
3) Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
4) London Symphony Orchestra
5) Chicago Symphony Orchestra
6) Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
7) Cleveland Orchestra
8) Los Angeles Philharmonic
9) Budapest Festival Orchestra
10) Dresden Staatskapelle
11) Boston Symphony Orchestra
12) New York Philharmonic
13) San Francisco Symphony
14) Mariinsky Theater Orchestra (tours the West as the Kirov Orchestra)
15) Russian National Orchestra
16) Leningrad Philharmonic
17) Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
18) Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
19) Saito Kinen Orchestra (Japan)
20) Czech Philharmonic
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thank you.
No Academy of St. Martin In-The-Fields? No LA Symphony?
Weird list.
That struck me as weird. Were all the Catholics, Lutherans and Seventh Day Adventists in the article also identified as such?
As they say in Brooklyn: "What's up wit' dat?"
Trying to win more action in the Windy City now that Obama has won?
Georg Solti was the Vince Lombardi of the CSO.
What you really need is a great conductor, the orchestra only has to be reasonably good.
But the great ones have all passed on.
It is a crime that the NY Philharmonic is now only the 5th best in the US.
I disagree with putting the Met Orchestra so low.
What they’ve become under Levine, (especially in the Wagnerian reperatoire), is arguably in the top five. Certainly better than the Kirov under Georgiev, who with the ham-handed Bang-Bang...er Lang-Lang just murdered the Rachmaninoff Second Concerto in a recent DG recording.
The CSO was number 1 under Sir Georg. But they were also peerless when Giulini conducted.
Philly has fallen that far, huh?
Philadelphia used to be right up there. No longer.
Sad.
A classic.