This concert is a double-bill of different guitar flavours, with classical guitarist Karin Schaupp and flamenco guitarist Andrew Veivers each offering a different perspective on the instrument. They’ve known each other since university, both having studied with Schaupp’s mother, Isolde Schaupp, and yet, remarkably, this duo recital was their first performance together.

The concert begins with a mini-set from Schaupp, who gives lively and defined renditions of two sets of variations, beginning with Luis de Narváez’s Diferencias sobre ‘Guárdame las vacas’ from 1538 and continuing on through the centuries to Fernando Sor’s virtuosic 19th-century Variations on a Theme by Mozart Op. 9. Francisco Tárrega’s Capricho árabe comes across rather hurried, but the following transcription of Albéniz’s Torre Bermeja is a real tour de force.

Next up is a survey of types of sevillanas, beginning with Veivers’ performance of his Ida y Vuelta. Obviously there’s major differences in playing styles between classical and flamenco guitar (the golpe taps on the flamenco guitar’s tap plate, the rasgueado strumming), but here also the differences in the construction of the guitar come across strongly – Veivers’ performance is crisp, percussive and bright. Schaupp responds with a rich performance of...