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Me and my guitar

New Zealand Listener

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September 9, 2024

Australian guitarist Karin Schaupp sticks to the familiar for her Dunedin concerts.

- RICHARD BETTS

Me and my guitar

Audiences love it. I love it. But Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez is the only guitar concerto that ever gets programmed - surely classical guitarists must be sick of the thing by now?

Australian guitarist Karin Schaupp, who performs Rodrigo in two matinee concerts with the Dunedin Symphony Orchestra this month, says not. "It still feels fresh," she says. "The second movement is always beautiful, and every orchestra and conductor and cor anglais soloist plays it differently, so there's always something in it."

Doesn't she pine for something different, though? Castelnuovo-Tedesco? Or compatriot Ross Edwards' vital, tuneful Arafura Dances concerto?

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