The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam tops the world. That's the official assessment of an international panel of music critics assembled by Gramophone magazine (UK). Dutch musicians are talking smack and Philadelphians are choking on their cheesesteaks.
Gramophone's Top Twenty Orchestras
1. Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam
9. Budapest Festival Orchestra
14. Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra
15. Russian National Orchestra
16. Saint Petersburg Philharmonic
17. Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
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