Napoleon Coste: Guitar Music

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Label
Brilliant Classics
Release Date
October 28, 2016
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    Featuring
    • COMPOSER
      COSTE, NAPOLEON
    • PERFORMER
      Flavio Apro
    Product Details
    • RELEASE DATE
      October 28, 2016
    • UPC
      5028421952550
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BRI95255
    • LABEL
      Brilliant Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
    Works
    1. No. 1 in A Minor

      Composer: Napoléon Coste

      Performer: Flavio Apro

    2. No. 2 in C Major

      Composer: Napoléon Coste

      Performer: Flavio Apro

    3. No. 3 in D Minor

      Composer: Napoléon Coste

      Performer: Flavio Apro

    4. No. 4 in D Major

      Composer: Napoléon Coste

      Performer: Flavio Apro

    5. No. 5 in E Major

      Composer: Napoléon Coste

      Performer: Flavio Apro

    6. No. 6 in A Major

      Composer: Napoléon Coste

      Performer: Flavio Apro

    7. No. 7 in A Minor

      Composer: Napoléon Coste

      Performer: Flavio Apro

    8. No. 8 in E Minor

      Composer: Napoléon Coste

      Performer: Flavio Apro

    9. No. 9 in G Major

      Composer: Napoléon Coste

      Performer: Flavio Apro

    10. No. 10 in D Major

      Composer: Napoléon Coste

      Performer: Flavio Apro

    11. No. 11 in G Major

      Composer: Napoléon Coste

      Performer: Flavio Apro

    12. No. 12 in C Major

      Composer: Napoléon Coste

      Performer: Flavio Apro

    13. No. 13 in C Major

      Composer: Napoléon Coste

      Performer: Flavio Apro

    14. No. 14 in A Major

      Composer: Napoléon Coste

      Performer: Flavio Apro

    15. No. 15 in D Major

      Composer: Napoléon Coste

      Performer: Flavio Apro

    16. No. 16 in G Minor

      Composer: Napoléon Coste

      Performer: Flavio Apro

    17. No. 17 in C Major

      Composer: Napoléon Coste

      Performer: Flavio Apro

    18. No. 18 in A Minor

      Composer: Napoléon Coste

      Performer: Flavio Apro

    19. No. 19 in A Major

      Composer: Napoléon Coste

      Performer: Flavio Apro

    20. No. 20 in D Major

      Composer: Napoléon Coste

      Performer: Flavio Apro

    21. No. 21 in G Major

      Composer: Napoléon Coste

      Performer: Flavio Apro

    22. No. 22 in A Minor

      Composer: Napoléon Coste

      Performer: Flavio Apro

    23. No. 23 in A Major

      Composer: Napoléon Coste

      Performer: Flavio Apro

    24. No. 24 in D Minor

      Composer: Napoléon Coste

      Performer: Flavio Apro

    25. No. 25 in B-Flat Major

      Composer: Napoléon Coste

      Performer: Flavio Apro

    26. I. Largo

      Composer: Napoléon Coste

      Performer: Flavio Apro

    27. II. Allegro

      Composer: Napoléon Coste

      Performer: Flavio Apro

    28. III. Vivace

      Composer: Napoléon Coste

      Performer: Flavio Apro

    29. IV. Andantino: Marche et Choir de Pélerins

      Composer: Napoléon Coste

      Performer: Flavio Apro

    30. V. Bolero

      Composer: Napoléon Coste

      Performer: Flavio Apro

    31. VI. Andante (Choir)

      Composer: Napoléon Coste

      Performer: Flavio Apro

    32. VII. Final: Allegro

      Composer: Napoléon Coste

      Performer: Flavio Apro

    33. VIII. Allegretto

      Composer: Napoléon Coste

      Performer: Flavio Apro


Napoleon Coste (1805-1883) was one of the most important and influential protagonists of the guitar in the 19th century. He was a prodigy, touring Europe in his early years giving highly successful concerts, publishing his own music, inventing new types of guitars and hybrid instruments such as the Heptacode and Decacorde, a musicologist and a highly respected teacher. His most important oeuvre for the guitar are the “25 Etudes de Genre,” concert pieces composed over the whole period of his life, miniatures of great attraction, charm, melodic inventiveness and virtuosity. Also included is the Grande Serenade Op. 30, a multi-movement concert piece to show off the player’s skills and sentiment. This recording is played with great conviction, technical command and apparent joy by the wonderful Flavio Apro, one of Brazil’s foremost guitarists, who has already successfully recorded for Brilliant Classics.