Further Listening

Karin Schaupp has recorded an extensive discography for Warner Music International and ABC Classics. Her solo debut Soliloquy (1997) for Warner Music was praised by the UK’s Classical Guitar magazine as ‘a pacesetting performance in all respects’. This was soon followed by the ARIA-nominated Leyenda and Evocation, and for ABC Classic, Dreams, Lotte’s Gift and Cradle Songs

Her chamber music collaborations have also led to a number of recordings including three albums with Saffire – The Australian Guitar Quartet, duo albums with recorder virtuosa

Genevieve Lacey (Songs Without Words) and cellist Umberto Clerici (Wayfaring), the ARIAnominated Fandango with Flinders Quartet, and the double ARIA-nominated Songs of the Southern Skies with Australian songstress

Katie Noonan. Karin and Katie’s latest release, Songs of the Latin Skies, won the 2017 ARIA Award for Best World Music Album.

Karin’s orchestral recordings include the award-winning world premiere recordings of Philip Bračanin’s Guitar Concerto, which was written for her, and Ross Edwards’ Concerto for Guitar and Strings; Spain, featuring works by Rodrigo, Bacarisse and Castelnuovo-Tedesco; and Mosaic: Australian Guitar Concertos, which includes her recording of Sculthorpe’s Nourlangie.

Flinders Quartet’s first commercial CD release, Reinventions with Genevieve Lacey, met with critical and popular acclaim, reaching #1 on the ARIA Core Classical album chart. Also on the ABC Classic label are its ARIA-nominated 2011 release, Fandango with Karin Schaupp, and an album of quartets by Sibelius, Intimate Voices. In 2018, Flinders Quartet released

The Offering, a 2CD set of four Australian works commissioned and/or premiered by the quartet.

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