THERE is nothing on God's earth like the sound of a dyed-in-the-wool, mainstream German symphony orchestra.
We've got the elite German and Austrian bands, the flash Americans, the elemental Nordic outfits, the raw Russians and the supremely pragmatic UK orchestras. I will have nothing to do with the elitist Germanic grading of orchestras: they're either good or they're not.
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