Tom Service: Who should have won Gramophone's orchestral beauty pageant?

Well, to get one inside the top five isn't bad: the London Symphony Orchestra has been acclaimed the fourth best orchestra in the world. Not my words, but those of Gramophone magazine, whose December edition is out today and contains a chart of the 20 finest symphony orchestras in the world - have a look at the complete list here. There's a self-consciously international feel to the list, as well as the panel, with critics from the US, China, Korea and Europe. Alas, there is no other British r...

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