Avant Garde Project torrent 153 is up and running

[loudav]

AGP NEWS: After whetting your appetite with three new installments, the AGP will be off for the next two weeks. In the meantime, AGP partisans may be interested in some 24-bit torrents of non-avant-garde but timbrally and musically interesting recordings by Atrium Musicae Madrid, directed by Gregorio Paniagua, that I'll be uploading over the next few days.

CALLING ALL AGP PARTISANS: I'd love to include any or all of the following out-of-print CDs in the AGP. If you have one or more and would be willing to make and upload FLAC files, I'd be most grateful. I can walk you through any part of the process you're unfamiliar with. Scans of the CD booklets would be appreciated as well, if you're set-up to make them.

Recordings of Janacek's two string quartets by either the Medici or Gabrieli quartets
Bartok's 44 Duos for two violins, performed by Itzhak Perlman and Pinchas Zukerman
Berg's Lulu, performed by (among others) Anja Silja, Christoph von Dohnanyi, and the Vienna Philharmonic
Hindemith Kammermusiken performed by Concerto Amsterdam

You can readily find my email address at avantgardeproject.org. Thanks!

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AGP153 completes Paul Hindemith's collection Die Sieben Kammermusiken, one of the central publications of Paul Hindemith's early maturity. Other recordings of this collection are available on CD, but this one does not appear to be. It is performed by Ensemble 13 Baden Baden, and was published in 1978 as a 3LP set on Deutsche Harmonia Mundi (1 C 65-99721/23). The excellent recording was produced by Paul Dery, Anita Forst, and Wolfgang Wlorczyk, and engineered by Anton Enders and Norbert Klövekorn.

The transcription is very clean and detailed. The torrent (actually) includes a PDF file (which I forgot to include with AGP152) with scans of the extensive notes in German from the booklet that came with the set, including names of the performers in each work. The PDF file also has the notes in English from another recording I have of this collection, for the benefit of AGP partisans who don't read German well.

Check it out at:

http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5093116

Enjoy!

[CD]

Late responding, but the Gabrieli's recordings of the Janáček quartets are on the 5-disc box of J's chamber and orchestral works put out by Decca.

[loudav]

The LP set? Yes, that's the one I have. But I'm looking for the CD reissue.

[Opus106]

I believe Corey was referring to the 5-CD set: http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/Decca/4755232.

[loudav]

Excellent--thank you both so much for pointing this out to me before I included the two works in the AGP. I should check with presto more often.