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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Chicago Symphony Orchestra (USA)

As Riccardo Muti’s 13-year tenure as Music Director draws to a close, the great Chicago orchestra – whose recorded legacy is as long as it is broad (think of the treasures from Fritz Reiner, Sir Georg Solti and Daniel Barenboim) – is sounding terrific. Its vaunted brass balanced by string playing of enormous cultivation and lyricism, its winds as eloquent as ever. Muti’s repertoire in Chicago has taken some surprising turns and this month’s release of music by three living composers shines a new light of the great Italian maestro’s autumnal years on the podium.

Glass. Montgomery. Raimi Riccardo Muti (CSO Resound, 7/23)

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