Ramon Khalona said:
>One orchestra that is sorely missing from your list is Staatskapelle
>Dresden ...
I would agree that the Staatskapelle is a great orchestra, just shy of
being one of the top ten. The Leningrad/St. Petersburg Orchestra was
great under Mravinsky, but suffered from blatty brass. The Cleveland was
awesome so far as precision is concerned, but Szell's precision came at
the price of emotion. I heard a live concert with Stokowski conducting the
orchestra and realized they were much better than the recordings I'd heard.
Peace from he who is stumpf
aka Sisyphus