Playing classical guitar duets has never been so convenient. Two copies of the music are included - one in the book and another in an easily removable insert. The accompanying CD is mixed with the first guitar panned right and the other panned left enabling you to play along with either part. Includes beautiful transcriptions and arrangements of Renaissance pieces originally composed for two lutes. The music begins at an easy level and gradually becomes more challenging as you progress through the book. Grade level: easy to early intermediate.

Father Antonio Soler was born in Spain in 1729. Priest and composer he was also a brilliant exponent of the Harpsichord and composed more than two hundred sonatas for that instrument as well as concertos for the Organ ninemasses and sixty psalm settings part of a total output of around five hundred works.  These Three Sonatas are composed for Guitar duet. Appointed Master of the Chapel to the royalmonastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial he died there in 1783.

This collection of 16 Guitar duets offers professionals teachers or students a wide variety of styles from the Baroque to the Post-Romantic periods. Some of this music is unique to the Guitar repertoire. For example the six Serenades introduce some of the most popular music of the late 19th century by Georges Bizet Franz Drdla Enrico Toselli Moritz Moszkowski Ricardo Drigo and Sigmund Romberg. The collection ends with selectedworks by Tchaikovsky and Brahms. These arrangements are skillfully crafted and will delight the intermediate student.