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Following is a list of the 29 professionally-produced Compact Disc/Album recordings published by William Kempster.
(Four additional albums - featuring the Choral Music of Christopher Kies - are also available: click on the "Contemporary" tab)
The mp3 audio files on this site - available for complete free download - are mainly sourced from these.
All of these recordings are available at full audio resolution (44.1khz/16-bit at least) on request.
Some of these albums are available via the various streaming services, and where that is the case, the links will take you
either directly to the recording of that track or - in some cases - to the album's page.
These streaming audio files are mostly FLAC (compressed 44.1khz/16-bit).
An easy summary of most of the recordings available on these sites can be accessed by clicking the following link:
WILLIAM KEMPSTER'S RECORDINGS
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The Full Monty - Ensemble de la Rue LIVE Calgary August 31, 2008
Ensemble de la Rue: WKR1324
Sacred music by Claudio Monteverdi: 2024
LINKS COMING SOON
William Kempster: Australian Roots Vol. 2
Various Artists: WKR1224
Shostakovich/Rutter/Orff: 2024
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William Kempster: Australian Roots Vol. 1
Concertino: WKR1124
Giovanni Gabrieli/Victoria/Mozart/Elgar/Folksong arrangements/Verdi/Lutoslawski: 2024
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York Bowen: Mass in G
UNH Concert Choir with Paul Merrill (organ): WKR1324
York Bowen's unpublished Mass (World Premiere recording): 2024
(If you are interested in this work, please contact me directly)
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Miniature Masterpieces
Ensemble de la Rue: WKR1024
Byrd/Leguizamon/Pizzetti/Dallapiccola/Szymanowski/Britten/Zuccante: 2024
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John Taverner (c.1490 - 1545): Mater Christi
Ensemble de la Rue: WKR0924
John Taverner: 2024
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A Touch of the Irish
Ensemble de la Rue: WKR0824
Alexander Agricola/Pierre de la Rue/Clemens non Papa/Clare Maclean/Nicholas Maw/Percy Grainger: 2024
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Poulenc: Mass in G and Four Christmas Motets
Ensemble de la Rue: WKR0724
Francis Poulenc: 2024
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There and Back Again: Choral classics over five centuries
UNH Chamber Singers (and Concert Choir): WKR0624
Graham Howard/Morten Lauridsen/Clare Maclean/William Kempster/Gerald Finzi/Pierre de la Rue: 2024
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A Singular Voice: Kempster conducts Ross Edwards
UNH Chamber Singers: WKR0524
Ross Edwards: 2024
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Erratum et complementum
Various artists: WKR0424
Ockeghem, la Rue, Gesualdo, Mendelssohn, Rachmaninoff, Gershwin (Arlene Kies, piano), Vaughan Williams, Maclean
and Kempster: 2024
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A Grainger Sandwich (Fully Loaded)
Various artists: WKR0324
Grainger, Ravel, Szymanowski, Wesley-Smith, Kempster, Clemens and la Rue: 2024
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Charles Hubert Hastings Parry - Songs of Farewell
UNH Chamber Singers (live): WKR0224
Parry: 2024
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Pierre de la Rue - Missae
UNH Chamber Singers (live): WKR0124
Pierre de la Rue: 2024
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Renewals and Reincarnations
Cappella Nova Mundi: CNM Recordings
Beethoven, Willaert and la Rue: 2023
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J. S. Bach - Motetten
Ensemble de la Rue: EdlR 202001
Bach (The Motets): 2020
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Bavarian Connections
Ensemble de la Rue/UNH Chamber Singers: WK022019
Taverner, Vaughan Williams, J.M. Bach, Edwards, Bernstein, Adams, and Byrd: 2019
Beacons of Renaissance Polyphony
Ensemble de la Rue: WK012019
Taverner, Josquin, la Rue: 2019
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A Game of Thrones
SXSW Festival Ensemble: HBO/Giant Spoon SXSW2019
Djawadi (arr. Kempster), and Josquin/Kempster: 2019
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Eccentricities
UNH Concert Choir: CK12018
Grainger, Kempster, and Kies: 2018
far beyond the stars
Cappella Nova Mundi: CNM0117
la Rue, Mendelssohn, Parry, Praetorius, and Victoria: 2017
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Pourquoy non?
UNH Chamber Singers: UNHCS0516
Lauridsen, Kempster, and la Rue: 2016
First Impressions
UNH Concert Choir & Chamber Singers: UNHC0414
Bowen, Gurney, Bukvich, Edwards, Butterworth, Kempster, and Janáček: 2014
Connections
UNH Concert Choir & Chamber Singers: UNHC0311
Britten, Kies, Howard, Edwards, Maclean, Nielsen, and Rachmaninoff: 2011
Live 2001 - 2008
Ensemble de la Rue: EdlR200803
Bach, Elgar, Gesualdo, Verdi, and Monteverdi: 2008
Reverberations
UNH Chamber Singers & Symphony Orchestra: UNHCS0207
Kies, Grainger, Edwards, Raminsh, and Lauridsen: 2007
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Memory Pieces
Ensemble de la Rue: EdlR 200501
(reviewed in “Gramophone” June, 2007)
Josquin, la Rue, Taverner, and Stephen Adams: 2005
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The Cry
Ensemble de la Rue: EdlR 200101
(reviewed in “Gramophone” August, 2002)
Nørgård, Rautavaara, la Rue, Clemens, Taverner, and Monteverdi: 2001
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Resonance
UNH Chamber Singers: UNHCS01
Kies, Maclean, Edwards: 2001
One
Ensemble de la Rue: Arktos CD 20041
Ockeghem, la Rue, Josquin, Taverner, and Claire Maclean: 2000
AMAZONAMAZON Canada