With the voting open for the 2021 Orchestra of the Year Award, Copenhagen-based music journalist and broadcaster Andrew Mellor joins Gramophone's Editor in Chief, James Jolly, to talk about ensembles from the UK, Italy, Germany and Canada. This is the only award chosen by our readers and an international audience of music-lovers. Visit our Gramophone Awards 2021for the list of the ten nominated orchestras and to vote. But before you do, listen to the ensembles on ten specially curated playlists on Gramophone on Apple Music in lossless audio. Gramophone Podcasts are presented in association with Wigmore Hall.