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Poll
Question: Well?
Option 1: VPO votes: 6
Option 2: BPO votes: 1
Option 3: LSO votes: 1
Option 4: SD votes: 6
Option 5: Concertgebouw votes: 6
Option 6: Like it matters votes: 11
Title: Yet another poll: Vote for your favorite "big five" EUROPEAN orchestras
Post by: Mark on June 22, 2007, 03:45:49 AM
I went for the bottom option ...  ::)
Title: Re: Yet another poll: Vote for your favorite "big five" EUROPEAN orchestras
Post by: Harry on June 22, 2007, 03:46:59 AM
Me too! ;D
Title: Re: Yet another poll: Vote for your favorite "big five" EUROPEAN orchestras
Post by: MISHUGINA on June 22, 2007, 03:51:45 AM


*bah, damn post edit. fine........*
Title: Re: Yet another poll: Vote for your favorite "big five" EUROPEAN orchestras
Post by: Maciek on June 22, 2007, 05:10:42 AM
Pardon my abbreviation ignorance but what is SD? :-[
Title: Re: Yet another poll: Vote for your favorite "big five" EUROPEAN orchestras
Post by: Harry on June 22, 2007, 05:15:28 AM
Quote from: Maciek on June 22, 2007, 05:10:42 AM
Pardon my abbreviation ignorance but what is SD? :-[

Southhampton-Dorchester Orchestra, Mark forgot the O. ;D
Title: Re: Yet another poll: Vote for your favorite "big five" EUROPEAN orchestras
Post by: Maciek on June 22, 2007, 05:21:43 AM
Ah! An easy choice then! :D
Title: Re: Yet another poll: Vote for your favorite "big five" EUROPEAN orchestras
Post by: Sergeant Rock on June 22, 2007, 05:57:39 AM
Bogus poll. Most of my favorites aren't on the list. My Top 5:

Staatskapelle Berlin

Gewandhausorchester Leipzig

Czech Philharmonic

Concertgebouw

Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz (if you saw the blonde violist, you'd understand why this orchestra makes the Top Five  ;D )

Sarge
Title: Re: Yet another poll: Vote for your favorite "big five" EUROPEAN orchestras
Post by: knight66 on June 22, 2007, 06:56:31 AM
Quote from: Maciek on June 22, 2007, 05:10:42 AM
Pardon my abbreviation ignorance but what is SD? :-[

A social disease. I voted for the final option.

Mike
Title: Re: Yet another poll: Vote for your favorite "big five" EUROPEAN orchestras
Post by: Mark on June 22, 2007, 07:21:39 AM
Quote from: Maciek on June 22, 2007, 05:10:42 AM
Pardon my abbreviation ignorance but what is SD? :-[

Staatskapelle Dresden
Title: Re: Yet another poll: Vote for your favorite "big five" EUROPEAN orchestras
Post by: BachQ on June 22, 2007, 07:24:04 AM
Quote from: Mark on June 22, 2007, 03:45:49 AM
I went for the bottom option ...  ::)


....... no surprises there .........
Title: Re: Yet another poll: Vote for your favorite "big five" EUROPEAN orchestras
Post by: Mark on June 22, 2007, 07:24:45 AM
Quote from: D Minor on June 22, 2007, 07:24:04 AM

....... no surprises there .........

Are you saying I'm gay? Or that I have zero taste? ;D
Title: Re: Yet another poll: Vote for your favorite "big five" EUROPEAN orchestras
Post by: mahlertitan on June 22, 2007, 09:15:46 AM
Quote from: Mark on June 22, 2007, 07:24:45 AM
Are you saying I'm gay? Or that I have zero taste? ;D

come now, what could put that idea into your head?
Title: Re: Yet another poll: Vote for your favorite "big five" EUROPEAN orchestras
Post by: not edward on June 22, 2007, 09:50:19 AM
Quote from: Mark on June 22, 2007, 07:24:45 AM
Are you saying I'm gay? Or that I have zero taste? ;D
Some straight guys like to go for the bottom option too. ;)
Title: Re: Yet another poll: Vote for your favorite "big five" EUROPEAN orchestras
Post by: Papy Oli on June 22, 2007, 10:50:56 AM
any relation to bum notes ? ...i'm new to that classical thingy, you know ...



  :P ::)
Title: Re: Yet another poll: Vote for your favorite "big five" EUROPEAN orchestras
Post by: Maciek on June 22, 2007, 11:31:23 AM
Quote from: Mark on June 22, 2007, 07:21:39 AM
Staatskapelle Dresden

Thanks. :)
Title: Re: Yet another poll: Vote for your favorite "big five" EUROPEAN orchestras
Post by: david johnson on June 22, 2007, 12:49:21 PM
final option here, but i really do enjoy the many bpo and lso recordings i have!
i must add the bruckner orkest of linz, l'orchestra de la suisse romande, and the bavarian radio symphony.

dj
Title: Re: Yet another poll: Vote for your favorite "big five" EUROPEAN orchestras
Post by: Bonehelm on June 22, 2007, 03:52:45 PM
VPO is godlike.
Title: Re: Yet another poll: Vote for your favorite "big five" EUROPEAN orchestras
Post by: Lethevich on June 22, 2007, 05:09:29 PM
Another vote for Bavarian RSO, CzPO and Staatskapelle Berlin meriting inclusion if the LSO is...
Title: Re: Yet another poll: Vote for your favorite "big five" EUROPEAN orchestras
Post by: M forever on June 23, 2007, 12:37:00 AM
Polls like these here are totally pointless. If you think you know and appreciate good orchestral playing enough to distinguish these orchestras from each other and from allegedly "lesser" ones, head over to Mystery Orchestra (http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,1699.0.html) and analyze the samples of orchestral playing. You should all be able to instantly tell which of the orchestras in the samples are truly "big" ones, and which aren't, and which orchestras you are actually listening to. And also tell us why.

See you there!
Title: Re: Yet another poll: Vote for your favorite "big five" EUROPEAN orchestras
Post by: val on June 23, 2007, 12:59:03 AM
The Berlin Philharmonic.
Title: Re: Yet another poll: Vote for your favorite "big five" EUROPEAN orchestras
Post by: Que on June 23, 2007, 01:03:02 AM
Question: your favourite five?

If I am supposed to choose five, why are there only five to choose from? :P

Conclusion: silly poll.

Q
Title: Re: Yet another poll: Vote for your favorite "big five" EUROPEAN orchestras
Post by: Mark on June 23, 2007, 01:10:27 AM
Perhaps it's time I explained what I didn't think I'd have to when I created this (as M rightly puts it) 'pointless poll'. It was an act of lampoonery; a response to the other, very similar poll currently running, with its rather parochial (i.e. US-biased) focus. I had a fit of pique when I saw that other poll, and this one was my knee-jerk reaction. So of course, it wasn't meant to be taken seriously. And yes, Que, the grammar is poor ... all part of my lampoonery, you see? ;)

Anyway, with apologies to all who've posted here (thank you, anyway :)), and to the author of the poll which this one is mocking, I shall lock up here and let this nonsense die.