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Update: 12pm, 8th October 2013

Well, the results are in, and voting is closed... thanks to everyone who took part in this poll. We’ve been overwhelmed by the interest it’s attracted and delighted by everyone’s enthusiasm. And we’re proud to announce that the winner of the World’s Favourite Orchestra poll is:

The Cleveland Orchestra

The Clevelanders finished with an impressive 20.3% of the vote. In second place is the RTÉ Concert Orchestra, Ireland, with 12.4%, and in third is the Berlin Philharmonic with 8.5%. Here’s the full top 20.

An honorable mention as well for the locked-out Minnesota Orchestra, who finished at number 22.

A few more stats for you: since we launched this on 6th September, we had 11,895 votes from 97 countries, with 46% coming from North America and 48% from Europe (just 9%from the UK). You voted for 417 different orchestras overall.

Congratulations to all the orchestras who were voted for, and thanks again to everyone who joined in with this. We hope you get to hear your favourite orchestras soon!

And here’s the full list of the top 100 orchestras:

1 Cleveland Orchestra

2 RTÉ Concert Orchestra

3 Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

4 London Symphony Orchestra

5 Philadelphia Orchestra

6 Detroit Symphony Orchestra

7 Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra

8 Czech Philharmonic Orchestra

9 Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam

10 Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig

11 Russian National Orchestra

12 Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra

13 Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

14 Chicago Symphony Orchestra

15 Video Game Orchestra

16 Ulster Orchestra

17 European Union Youth Orchestra

18 Milan Symphony Orchestra, “La Verdi”

19 Oregon Symphony Orchestra

19 Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra

21 Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

22 Minnesota Orchestra

23 Boston Symphony Orchestra

24 Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar

24 San Diego Symphony

26 New York Philharmonic

27 Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra

28 Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra

29 London Philharmonic Orchestra

30 Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia

31 Orquestra Sinfónica Portuguesa

32 Chamber Orchestra of Europe

33 Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

34 Dresdner Philharmonie

34 Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

36 Borusan İstanbul Philharmonic Orchestra

37 Rotterdam Philharmonic

38 City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

39 Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

39 San Francisco Symphony

39 Staatskapelle Dresden

42 Danish National Symphony Orchestra

43 Los Angeles Philharmonic

43 RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra

45 Adelaide Symphony Orchestra

45 Bilkent Symphony Orchestra

45 Dallas Symphony Orchestra

45 Lucerne Festival Orchestra

45 Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra

50 Cincinnati Symphony

50 Poznan Philharmonic Orchestra

52 Cape Philharmonic Orchestra

52 Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin

52 Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

52 Nashville Symphony

52 St Louis Symphony Orchestra

57 Metropolitan Opera Orchestra

57 Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo

59 Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra

60 St Michel Strings

61 Baltimore Symphony Orchestra

61 Britten Sinfonia

61 Budapest Festival Orchestra

61 Naples Philharmonic

61 Vienna Symphony Orchestra

66 Academy of St Martin in the Fields

66 BBC National Orchestra of Wales

66 The Hallé Orchestra

69 Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra

69 Montreal Symphony Orchestra

71 West-Eastern Divan Orchestra

72 Berner Symphonie Orchester

72 Gulbenkian Orchestra

72 Munich Philharmonic Orchestra

72 Robert-Schumann-Philharmonie

72 Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

72 Royal Scottish National Orchestra

72 Scottish Chamber Orchestra

72 Staatskapelle Berlin

72 Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra

81 Academy of Ancient Music

81 Bamberg Symphony

81 Colorado Symphony

81 Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra

81 Seattle Symphony

81 Tonhalle Orchester Zürich

81 Toronto Symphony

88 BBC Symphony Orchestra

88 Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra

88 English Baroque Soloists

88 Ensemble Intercontemporain

88 Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra

88 Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester

88 Hungarian Nationa Philharmonic Orchestra

88 North Carolina Symphony

88 Orchestre Revolutionaire et Romantique

88 Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra

88 Utah Symphony

99 Euphonia Toronto

99 Explorchestra

99 Freiburger Barockorchester

The Bachtrack team

8th October 2013

Which is your favourite orchestra? Why? At Bachtrack, we have listings for so many orchestras – 466 currently have events on the site – that it can be difficult to keep up with them all, and to see what makes them all special. But we’d like to know which one – out of all the world’s orchestras – you call your favourite.

How you judge it is up to you – maybe it’s the one you think is the best technically, or the one whose sound you love the most. Maybe it’s the one you’ve been going to hear for the longest time, or the one who plays on the most of your favourite CDs. Maybe there’s an orchestra whose programming makes them stand out as particularly important to you, or one whose conductor makes the biggest impression. Whichever orchestra’s playing has touched you the most – that’s the one we want to hear about.

Please fill out the form below to vote – we’re asking for your email just to ensure that people don’t vote twice, and your location so that we can see what opinions are like around the world – and feel free to use the comments section as well to defend your choice. We’d love to hear your stories about the orchestra you care about the most, and why they mean so much to you.

Voting closed at midnight on Monday 7th October.