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. 

AGP1-62 are now available for direct download in the archive at dream.cs.bath.ac.uk/AvantGardeProject

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Our third Hans Werner Henze installment includes two concert suites based on motion picture soundtracks composed by Henze, and an arrangement by Henze of an oratorio by Giacomo Carissimi. The movie Swann in Love (1984) is represented by twelve variations for orchestra, and the movie Katharina Blum (1975) is represented by a concert suite for orchestra. While the music in these works was originally written to accompany motion pictures, it includes some of the most gratifying harmonies I have heard by Henze. His arrangement of Carissimi's Jepthe is scored for an intriguing collection of flutes, plucked string instruments, and percussion--producing timbres that are unmistakably from the twentieth century.

The torrent includes a PDF files with liner notes from the two LPs these works appeared on (see pp. 12,15,16).

Equipment used for A/D conversion: Lyra Helikon phono cartridge, Linn LP12/Lingo turntable, Linn Ittok tonearm, Audioquest LeoPard tonearm cable, PS Audio PS2 preamplifier, Kimber PBJ interconnect, M-Audio Audiophile USB A/D converter. 

17 - Katharina Blum [27:09]
18 - Swann in Love [21:34]
19 - Jepthe [27:40]

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.