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Henry Fogel, president of the League of American Orchestras<\/a> and former President of the Chicago Symphony, has amassed a huge collection of LP’s and CD’s over the years, and he’s created an online database (at HenrysRecords.org<\/a>) of all the information from these recordings (including personnel, timings, etc.).\u00c2\u00a0 It’s a great resource if you’re looking for any information about music from the recorded era.\u00c2\u00a0 Fogel doesn’t have everything ever released, but he has a good chunk of it!<\/p>\n For example, this weekend we are doing Brahms’ Third Symphony.\u00c2\u00a0 What can we find out from the database?<\/p>\n He’s got 46 recordings of this work, the earliest dating from 1928 (Stokowski and the New Philharmonia Orchestra).\u00c2\u00a0 Of interest to a lot of musicians are the various timings of earlier performances.\u00c2\u00a0 It gives an indication of what has happened to tempi over the years.\u00c2\u00a0 For example, the Brahms seems to have gained heft over the years, starting out with early performances around 31:00, and expanding to 41:00 in the 1990’s.\u00c2\u00a0 I’d expect the opposite to have happened, so this was useful information for me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Henry Fogel, president of the League of American Orchestras and former President of the Chicago Symphony, has amassed a huge collection of LP’s and CD’s over the years, and he’s created an online database (at HenrysRecords.org) of all the information from these recordings (including personnel, timings, etc.).\u00c2\u00a0 It’s a great resource if you’re looking for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1025,115,168],"tags":[563],"class_list":["post-2115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-performance","category-music","category-recordings-music","tag-henry-fogel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-y7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":867,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/03\/21\/fogel-on-flanagan\/","url_meta":{"origin":2115,"position":0},"title":"fogel on flanagan","author":"Charles Noble","date":"March 21, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Former ASOL and Chicago Symphony president Henry Fogel weighs in on the Flanagan Report. What I have learned, in four years of visiting and spending a day with 125 different American symphony orchestras, is that it is impossible to generalize - but that a great many of them have been\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "bloggers"","block_context":{"text":"bloggers","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/bloggers\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":778,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/02\/15\/henry-fogel-on-how-orchestras-look\/","url_meta":{"origin":2115,"position":1},"title":"henry fogel on how orchestras look","author":"Charles Noble","date":"February 15, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Henry Fogel, former administrator of the Chicago Symphony, has a post about the visual aspect of orchestral performance.\u00c2\u00a0 Not much new ground covered, but some interesting questions raised. 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