SKU: BT.MUSAM996996

ISBN 9781849380140. English.

The Complete Guitar Player series has taught hundreds of thousands how to play and the accompanying songbooks have featured hits by Paul Simon, Elvis Presley, The Beatles, John Denver and many othertopartists.

Now these songbooks are available in super value omnibus editions like this one. The songs are still graded by ease of playing and everything is there... standard notation, Guitar chord boxes, full lyrics andevenstrumming patterns!

Over 180 great songs! Perfect for all players and singers!

The bonus CD contains backing tracks to 16 of the songs in the book.

SKU: BT.MUSIMP10037A

ISBN 9781843287353. English.

The Scissor Sisters came bursting into the public consciousness in 2004 with their amazing self-titled debut album. It celebrates the sexual energy of the New York nightlife and is the perfect mix of styles and influences;meldingdisco with rock, pop, ballads, funk and dance. It is so infectious they have won over even non-believers with their camp and ambiguous exuberance.

Heavy with keyboards and a healthy dose of party fun thrown in forgoodmeasure, this flamboyant melting pot band is the freshest slice of glittery rock-pop and feathered disco heard for a long time.

This book contains all the songs from the album including the hit singles TakeYourMama, Comfortably Numb and Mary all presented in Piano Vocal and Guitar Chord box format.

SKU: IS.G6129EM

ISBN 9790365061297.

Carcassi was born in Florence, Italy, and first studied the piano, but learned guitar when still a child. He quickly gained a reputation as a virtuoso concert guitarist. He moved to Germany in 1810, gaining almost immediate success. In 1815, he was living in Paris, earning his living as a teacher of both the piano and the guitar. On a concert tour in Germany in 1819, he met his friend Antoine Meissonnier for the first time. Also a famous guitarist, Meissonnier published many of Carcassi's works in his Paris publishing house. For Meissonnier he also arranged a number of popular songs for guitar that were originally written for piano, including works by Théodore Labarre and Loïsa Puget. From 1820 on, Carcassi spent the majority of his time in Paris. In 1823, he performed an extremely successful series of concerts in London that earned him great fame, both as a performing artist and as a teacher. However, in Paris, a long time passed before his talents were truly recognized, partly because of the presence of Ferdinando Carulli. Carcassi was in Germany again during autumn 1824. Afterwards he performed in London, where his reputation now gave him access to more prestigious concert halls. Finally he returned to Paris. For several years, he made concert trips from here to the most important cultural towns of Europe, including London. After a short return to performing in 1836, he quit his concert practice around 1840 and died in Paris in 1853. His most famous works are collected in his 25 Etudes op. 60. In these, he managed to blend technical skills and brilliant romantic music. This is the reason his music is still played by so many classical guitarists today.

SKU: FG.55011-589-7

ISBN 9790550115897.

Dedicated to and premiered by Petri Kumela, Pehr Henrik Nordgren's (1944-2008) Come da lontano for guitar (2003) carries ideas from Nordgren's previous work, Amor - desesperada op. 120 based on the youthful 20 poemas de amor y una cancion desesperada (1924) by Pablo Neruda. Scored for soprano, baritone, koto, shakuachi, and double bass, it was completed a few months before the work for solo guitar. Neruda came from Chile, and his language was Spanish. For the Japanese koto, a relative of the zither, Come da lontano has passages imitating a guitar. In the piece for solo guitar these passages have now returned home - from afar.

SKU: FG.55011-582-8

ISBN 9790550115828.

Tuomas Turriago's (b. 1979) Sonata for Guitar solo (2019, rev. 2020) reflects the main source of anguish of the 21st century: according to the composer things are growing so fast that we can't keep up with the pace. That is true of global warming, of population, of economy, of pandemics. The second movement builds up to a huge climax after which the material of the fist slow part returns, but in a distorted and ghost-like manner. The Sonata dies away gloomily. Janne Malinen commissioned the work and premiered it in Tampere, Finland in June 2019.