2008 全球交響樂團排名
1 荷蘭阿姆斯特丹皇家音樂廳管弦樂團
2 柏林愛樂樂團
3 維也納愛樂樂團
4 倫敦交響樂團
5 芝加哥交響樂團
6 巴伐利亞廣播交響樂團
7 克里夫蘭管弦樂團
8 洛杉磯愛樂樂團
9 布達佩斯節日管弦樂團
10 德累斯頓國家交響樂團
11 波士頓交響樂團
12 紐約愛樂樂團
13 舊金山交響樂團
14 馬林斯基劇院管弦樂團
15 俄羅斯國家交響樂團（RNO）
16 列寧格勒愛樂樂團（聖彼得堡愛樂樂團）
17 萊比錫布店大廈管弦樂團
18 大都會歌劇院管弦樂團
19 齋藤紀念交響樂團
20 捷克愛樂樂團
British orchestras have made little impression in a list of the world’s best. The London Symphony Orchestra, in fourth place, is the country’s sole representative among the twenty finest bands, according to a panel of leading international critics.
Seven American orchestras, four German and three Russian make the list, which is topped by the Royal Concertgebouw of Amsterdam.
The mighty Berlin Philharmonic and the refined Vienna Philharmonic are second and third respectively.
Both institutions will be unhappy with their ranking, having contested the unofficial title of world’s greatest orchestra since the mid-20th century, when they were under the batons of the conductors Herbert von Karajan and Leonard Bernstein.
The Berlin Philharmonic’s second place is at least a fillip of sorts for British music. The orchestra is now conducted by Sir Simon Rattle, a Liverpudlian, although this is rather cancelled out by the nationality of the LSO’s principal conductor. Valery Gergiev is a fiercely proud Russian and also musical director of the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra in St Petersburg, at number14 in the list.
The poll was put together by Gramophone, the classical music magazine, and limited to modern romantic orchestras (so period bands such as the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment did not get a look in). The eleven-strong panel included three British critics from the magazine, two Americans, two Asians and one each from Le Monde (France), Die Welt (Germany), De Telegraaf (the Nether-lands) and Die Presse (Austria).
James Inverne, the editor of Gramophone, said that the aim had been to compile a selection that was not “patriotic or parochial.
The full survey is published in the December issue of Gramophone, which will be available today.
High notes
1 Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
2 Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
3 Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
4 London Symphony Orchestra
5 Chicago Symphony Orchestra
6 Bavarian Radio Symphony
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 Theatre Orchestra
15 Russian National Orchestra
16 Leningrad Philharmonic
17 Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
18 Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
19 Saito Kinen Symphony Orchestra
20 Czech Philharmonic
Source: Gramophone |
