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Does It Really Make A Difference If An Orchestra Is Centuries Old?

MUSIC Posted: January 18, 2017 6:19 am

The Dresden Staatskapelle is 458 years old; the Royal Danish Orchestra (in Danish, the “Royal Chapel”) is a century older still. The Budapest Festival Orchestra, on the other hand, was founded in 1983, and many critics and listeners consider it to be easily a peer of the Dresdeners. Andrew Mellor considers the ways in which an orchestra’s institutional history might or might not affect how it plays today.

MUSIC Published: 01.11.17

Read the story in Gramophone Published: 01.11.17

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