The Avant Garde Project is a series of recordings of 20th-century classical, experimental, and electroacoustic music 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.
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.
The AGP archive is a repository for AGP installments, the files of which can be downloaded from this website. Looking for a specific composer? Try the alphabetical index.
AGP1 - Josef Anton Riedl
Mechanical Musical Instruments Supplements mirror
AGP48 - Trio Instrumental Electroacoustique mirror
AGP49 - Bernard Parmegiani, Alain Savouret mirror
AGP50 - Paul Hindemith, Das Marienleben mirror
AGP51 - Gilbert Amy I mirror
AGP57 - The World of Harry Partch mirror
AGP58 - Pauline Oliveros and Others mirror
AGP59 - Morton Subotnick II mirror
AGP60 - Wilhelm Killmayer mirror
AGP61 - Wilhelm Killmayer and Luigi Nono mirror
AGP62 - Wolfgang Rihm, "Jakob Lenz" mirror
AGP63 - Hans Werner Henze I mirror
AGP64 - Hans Werner Henze II mirror
AGP65 - Hans Werner Henze III mirror
AGP66 - Hans Werner Henze IV mirror
AGP67 - Alexander Goehr I mirror
AGP68 - Alexander Goehr II mirror
AGP69 - Total Improvisation mirror
AGP70 - Peter Maxwell Davies I mirror
AGP71 - Peter Maxwell Davies II mirror
AGP72 - Milton Babbitt mirror
AGP73 - Richard Craig, Solo Flute mirror
AGP74 - Jean Dubuffet mirror
AGP75 - Francois Bayle, Erosphere mirror
AGP76 - Peter Maxwell Davies III mirror
AGP77 - Maurice Ohana I mirror
AGP78 - Maurice Ohana II mirror
AGP79 - Jean Dubuffet II mirror
AGP80 - Christian Wolff I mirror
AGP81 - Christian Wolff II mirror
AGP82 - 9th International Contemporary Music Festival mirror
AGP83 - Berio Conducts Berio mirror
AGP84 - Italian Composers mirror
AGP85 - Horatiu Radulescu mirror
AGP86 - Robert Wittinger mirror
AGP87 - Heinz Holliger mirror
AGP88 - Harrison Birtwistle I mirror
AGP89 - Harrison Birtwistle II mirror
AGP90 - Harrison Birtwistle III mirror
AGP91 - Harrison Birtwistle IV mirror
AGP92 - German Orchestral Music I, 1980-82 mirror
AGP93 - German Orchestral Music II, 1976-78 mirror
AGP94 - German Orchestral Music III, 1967-75 mirror
AGP95 - German Orchestral and Chamber Music IV, 1959-66 mirror
AGP96 - Two Students of Olivier Messiaen (Gaussin, Yoshida) mirror
AGP97 - Donald Erb mirror
AGP98 - Kompositionsstudio Karlheinz Stockhausen, Ensemble mirror
AGP99 - Iannis Xenakis mirror
AGP100 - Igor Stravinsky, Chamber Music 1918-1923 mirror
AGP101 - Karlheinz Stockhausen, Klavierstucke I-XI mirror
AGP102 - Henry Kaiser, Outside Pleasure LP mirror
AGP103 - Henry Kaiser, Outside Aloha Pleasure CD mirror
AGP104 - Mauricio Kagel, Luc Ferrari mirror
AGP105 - Christian Clozier, Jacques Lejeune mirror
AGP106 - US Electronic Music I: Arthur Kreiger et al. mirror
AGP107 - US Electronic Music II: Tod Machover mirror
AGP108 - US Electronic Music III: Neil Rolnick, Barton McLean mirror
AGP109 - Horatiu Radulescu, Inner Time II mirror
AGP110 - Horatiu Radulescu, Sensual Sky & Iubiri mirror
AGP111 - Horatiu Radulescu, Clepsydra & Astray mirror
AGP112 - Othmar Schoeck I, Nachhall & Das stille Leuchten mirror
AGP113 - Othmar Schoeck II, String Quartets mirror
AGP114 - Othmar Schoeck III mirror
AGP115 - Claude Ballif, Un coup de dés mirror
AGP116 - Claude Ballif II mirror
AGP117 - Iancu Dumitrescu mirror
AGP118 - John Cage, Lejaren Hiller, et al. mirror
AGP119 - Lejaren Hiller mirror
AGP120 - Lukas Foss I mirror
AGP121 - Lukas Foss II mirror
AGP122 - Donald Erb II mirror
AGP123 - US Electronic Music IV: Columbia-Princeton mirror
AGP124 - US Electronic Music V: Bulent Arel, Mel Powell mirror
AGP125 - More Francois Bayle mirror
AGP126 - US Electronic Music VI: Charles Dodge mirror
AGP127 - Ramon Zupko mirror
AGP128 - US Electronic Music VII mirror
AGP129 - US Electronic Music VIII - Dartmouth Competition mirror
AGP130 - US Electronic Music IX mirror
AGP131 - Spanish Vocal Music mirror
AGP132 - Werner Heider I mirror
AGP133 - Werner Heider, Hans Zender mirror
AGP134 - Henry Kaiser, It's a Wonderful Life mirror
AGP135 - Charles Chaynes, Vocal Music mirror
AGP136 - Charles Chaynes, Instrumental Music mirror
AGP137 - Charles Chaynes, Erzsebet (opera) mirror
AGP138 - Ulpiu Vlad I mirror
AGP139 - Francois Bayle - Grande Polyphonie, 24-bit LP mirror
AGP140 - Bernard Parmegiani - De Natura Sonorum, 24-bit LP mirror
AGP141 - ReR Quarterly, volume 1, number 1 mirror
AGP142 - ReR Quarterly, volume 1, number 2 mirror
AGP143 - ReR Quarterly, volume 1, number 3 mirror
AGP144 - ReR Quarterly, volume 1, number 4 mirror
AGP145 - Hungarian Steam Locomotives mirror
AGP146 - Zdzislaw Piernik I, tuba (!) mirror
AGP147 - Zdzislaw Piernik II, tuba (!) mirror
AGP148 - Ivo Malec - Triola, 24-bit mirror
AGP149 - Stravinsky - Symphony of Psalms, Canticum Sacrum mirror
AGP150 - Schoenberg - String Trio, op. 45 (two performances) mirror
AGP151 - Alban Berg mirror
AGP152 - Paul Hindemith, Kammermusiken 1-7 mirror
AGP153 - Paul Hindemith, Kammermusiken 1-7 mirror
AGP154 - Vienna Wind Soloists mirror
AGP155 - US Electronic IX - Meyer Kupferman mirror
AGP156 - US Electronic X - Tenney, Melby mirror
AGP157 - US Electronic XI - Andrew Rubin, Tragoedia mirror
All installments have now been configured so that files can be downloaded either from the home site or from our lightning-quick UK mirror site (which is much faster even for downloading from North America). For AGP1-36, select either the first or second column of buttons on the index page for each installment. For AGP37 and later, select the index page either on this server or on the mirror site by clicking on the corresponding link for each installment below.
AGP1-74 are also mirrored here, through the generosity of another AGP partisan.
The audio files in all AGP installments are FLAC files. FLAC is a lossless compression format that decompresses to produce CD-quality WAV files. For information on the use of FLAC files, see Technical Information.
If you would prefer MP3 files, dedicated AGP partisans are hosting AGP installments converted to 192kbps MP3 here and here. Be mindful that some of the musical information is lost as a result of MP3 compression. For optimal sound quality, FLAC files are always preferable.
Looking for a specific composer? Try our alphabetical index.
Don't know where to start? Try one of our editor's choice sampler CDs.
Or if you like to follow the herd, here is a list of the AGP top twenty.
Or you may be interested in some of my own personal favorites.
