Gramophone's Orchestra of the Year Award is the only Gramophone Classical Music Award decided by public vote (vote here). The 10 orchestras nominated this year are:

BBC Philharmonic (UK), Berliner Philharmoniker (Germany), Chicago Symphony Orchestra (USA), Le Concert des Nations (Spain), Danish National Symphony Orchestra (Denmark), Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen (Germany), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra (Finland), London Philharmonic Orchestra (UK), Orchestre de Paris (France), National Symphony Orchestra (USA)

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London Philharmonic Orchestra (UK)

After a deeply impressive period (2006-21) with Vladimir Jurowski as Principal Conductor, which had the orchestra playing with astounding power and conviction (witness the glorious Stravinsky album that came out last September, ES noting ‘the LPO’s most articulate playing’) they are now in the care of Edward Gardner. Again, magnificent ensemble and characterful solo work are to the fore – prime characteristics of the new partnership’s gloriously daring, and fantastically executed, first recording together, Michael Tippett’s The Midsummer Marriage. With its annual immersion in opera, as the house ensemble at Glyndebourne, reaping rich dividends, this is a recording that demonstrates what a superb ensemble the LPO is in a city not exactly short of magnificent symphony orchestras.

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