The Avant Garde Project is a series of 20th-century classical-experimental-electroacoustic torrents digitized from LPs whose music has in most cases never been released on CD, and so is effectively inaccessible to the vast majority of music listeners today. This is wild stuff, so check it out if you've never heard this sort of music before. The analog rig used to extract the sound from the grooves is near state-of-the-art, producing almost none of the tracking distortion or surface noise normally associated with LPs. 

AGP1-59 are now available for direct download in the archive at dream.cs.bath.ac.uk/AvantGardeProject

NOTE: AGP60 has been withdrawn because 4 of 5 tracks were found to be available on CD after the torrent was initially seeded. The remaining track can be downloaded directly from the AGP archive.

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June is Hans Werner Henze month at the Avant Garde Project. With the exception of June 15, when I will be surveying icebergs in Baffin Bay and so no installment will be released, every Friday in June will feature the works of that great German composer. 

We start off with three works that were released on CD by London in 1991, from early 1970's recordings. The first two tracks were released on LP in the Decca HEAD series (HEAD 5), and the third was released on L'Oiseau Lyre (DSLO 4). The torrent includes a PDF file with images on pp. 1 and 9-10 of the liner notes from the two original LPs. The torrent was transcribed from the CD release. There are other recordings of the Violin Concerto No.2 available on CD, but none under the direction of the composer, as all of these recordings are. 

NOTE: Later Henze installments will include three works that were released on one CD in the out-of-print, multi-CD Henze Collection: Whispers from Heavenly Death, Being Beauteous, and Versuch über Schweine (Essay on Pigs). My only copies of these works are on LPs, which I have transcribed for those installments. While my LPs are in excellent condition, it would be even better to include tracks taken from CDs. If you have the CD containing those works, please contact me at lou@avantgardeproject.org.

01    - Compases Para Preguntas Ensimismadas [24:44]
02-07 - Violin Concerto No. 2 [34:30]
08    - Apollo et Hyazinthus [15:50]

NOTE: To the best of my knowledge, these recordings are currently out of print. If you know otherwise, please let me know ASAP, as I do not wish any artists to be deprived of the royalties that they so richly deserve.