Website/Catalog  (2020)  Page(s) 328.  Includes photo(s).
 
Violonista Costa, Camprubí Nadal, Ceprià; 1935, polyantha, red passing to deep purple-pink, shrub, large and fine form, very decorative buds, floriferous, fragrant, Sensation X Shot Silk, vigorous growth, +st Cerificate of Merit NRS England 1935 and Gold Medal Pedr. [Pedralbes] 1935, bibliography: RE - MCF10

Newsletter  (Aug 2016)  Page(s) 4.  Includes photo(s).
 
[From "Roses of the Spanish Civil War", by Darrell g.h. Schramm, pp. 2-8]
When Cebria Camprubi Nadal (1889-1972) introduced a hybrid tea in 1936, he named it ‘Violinista Costa.’ Francisco Costa (1891-1959), who taught at Barcelona’s Conservatory of Music, was so enormously popular that one admiring critic wrote that the public was addicted to his art. According to the renowned composer Joaquin Turina, Costa was the most inspired and Bohemian of Spanish violinists. Naming the rose for him in a dangerous and difficult time was surely Camprubi’s way of showing both praise and gratitude for the gift of music.
The rose is a large one, growing on a very stalwart bush to about three feet high. The blossom’s color varies somewhat, sometimes vermillion with outer petals rose-pink, sometimes rose-pink or vermillion with orange highlights, sometimes even orange-gold with pink outer petals—all the colors of fiery flamenco. It remains one of Camprubi’s most well known roses.

Newsletter  (Feb 2014)  Page(s) 16.  Includes photo(s).
 
[From "Seven Disappearing Roses", by Darrell g.h. Schramm, pp. 11-17]
‘Violinista Costa’ was bred by the Catalonian hybridist Carlos Camprubi.....in ....1936. A sturdy hybrid tea with stout canes and huge, unfriendly prickles, it grows as wide as a wine barrel but not as high. This loose and ruffled rose varies from intense rose pink to deep rose or red, with orange highlights and some touches of yellow at the base. The center can be a darker shade than the outer rim of petals. Overall, it seems to flare with the color of flames. A light scent wafts from the bloom. The rose was named to honor Francisco Costa, famed Catalonian violinist of Barcelona who toured much of Europe, giving concerts in the first four or five decades of the 20th century.

Book  (2000)  Page(s) 615.  Includes photo(s).
 
‘Violinista Costa’ = Moderne - Buisson à grandes fleurs / Hybride de Thé – tons rouges, remontant. Description… petit rosier très épineux.. valeur sûre au jardin, capable de s’adapter à toutes sortes de situations et à se plier aux fantaisies du jardinier… A noter, lorsqu’on vient de le tailler et d’étêter ses fleurs fanées, on a les doigts délicieusement parfumés à l’eau de rose… Camprubi, Espagne, 1936. ‘Sensation’ * ‘Shot Silk’.

Book  (Feb 1993)  Page(s) 216.  
 
Violinista Costa Large-flowered hybrid tea. Parentage: 'Sensation' x 'Shot Silk'. Spain 1936. Description and cultivation... The lightly scented flowers are an intense pink with definite orange tones and yellow at the base...

Website/Catalog  (1982)  Page(s) 40.  
 
Violinista Costa (Hybrid Tea)  Shapely flowers freely produced on a healthy plant with glossy foliage. The colour is deep silvery pink with even deeper undertones which are at times, almost red. Well armed with thorns. 1936 (C) 3 x 3’.

Book  (1978)  Page(s) 92.  
 
Violinista Costa is a strange colour, pink and orange red, glowing well against its background of dark foliage. Probably it will need some medicine for mildew and blackspot, and it is one of the roses which persuade people not to grudge it that trouble. It was introduced in 1936 by Carlos Camprubi Nadal, having been bred from 'Sensation' x 'Shot Silk'. 

Book  (1958)  Page(s) 418.  
 
Violonista Costa. HT. (Camprubi Nadal, '36.) Sensation X Shot Silk. Large, well formed, fragrant, red to deep purplish red. Vig. (28)

Article (misc)  (1954)  Page(s) 42.  
 
Violinista Costa 28 chromosomes.

Book  (1953)  Page(s) 140.  
 
Mr. W. F. Bennett, Dunedin, NZ.
Older roses of high merit:  Violinista Costa (not a show rose but every garden should have a specimen).