In Reply to: Re: Great Orchestras posted by Brian Cheney on February 10, 2007 at 17:00:02:
I finally got a chance to listen to the Philadelphia earlier in the month: teo conccerts and I luckily got access to a rehearsel session. They are good, extremely good, I have not heard the others on the list live, but the Phily had almost prefect intonation and precision, far more so than any other orchestra I have heard.
As far as their players are concerned, I believe their third seat viola player became first chair in Berline and Rattle actually wanted their new tuba player (the first female player in a major orchestra and only 22 years old) to try out for an opening in Berlin. They do need a better music director though. Watching from the Conductor's circle, behind the orchestra, I do not see how it is humanly possible to follow his beat which was non existent for the most part.Stu
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