Best orchestras in the world

Philippe Herreweghe is the principal conductor

The Montreal should rank higher. Both under Dutoit and Nagano, they have been known to reach true excellence. I have experienced spine-tingling performances from them. As a professional violinist myself, I would rank them near the Bamberg in overall quality, i.e. in the top tier. The numerous Decca recordings of the Dutoit years give fine testimony to their abilities, which have not deteriorated.

Nagano should simply quit conducting. The worst conductor this orchestra ever had.

Until the OSM starts paying their musicians competitive salaries, it's unlikely to move up that much. Pay rates tend to hover around 30th in North America.

With their brand new state of the art concert hall, the Montreal Orchestra is on the rise and their are making more and more live recordings which is a sign of the quality of their play. With Maestro Kent Nagano at the lead, any world renown musicians are participating with the orchestra including Quebec's own international superstar pianist Alain Lefèvre.

really? ......what higher than the following four US Orchestras nowhere to be seen in this list.......Baltimore Symphony, Dallas Symphony, San Francisco Symphony and Minnesota Orchestra - all these four are way better than Kansas!

Amazing performance, beautiful rendition of Beethoven Symphony #6

Vastly improved! Inspiring under PeterOundjian.

We are taking a North American tour of major orchestras performing Mahler No. 6. The TSO's performance a few years ago was loose, bland and uninspired, almost as if it hadn't been rehearsed. Definitely deserving of its ranking here.

TSO should rank in the top 20 ! The players are fantastic, but need better guest conductors, like Haitink, Jansons, and Zinman, who can match & challenge them

I've seen both and The Montreal symphony orchestra is much better

The Montreal Symphony Orchestra is better in my opinion.

But the Oslo Phil and Bergen Phil are both superior orchestras.

go! Philippines

the best in the philippines

Hard to believe this outstanding orchestra is not higher in the list

Thank's for supporting your country and provinces orchestra by making they seem like they aren't worthy of being on this list. Winnipeg symphony orchestra is fantastic and you should probably start buying tickets!

Have been to hundreds of orchestra performances, absolutely love the energy that the Vancouver Symphony creates. I especially love Maestro Tovey's engagement with his audience.

seen something like this in germany it was very good

I don't know if those rockstars necessarily belong on his list - even though the orchestra I direct is playing one of their pieces. AND where is the Baltimore Symphony with principal Jonathan carney and Marin Alsop the awesome lady conductor???

Would be cool if it did...

It doesn't exist, please cancel it!

Does such an orchestra exist?