C.M. von Weber Romance for Trombone and Piano

Massimo La Rosa Trombonist has recorded his debut CD featuring standard repertoire for Trombone and piano with new arrangements of Italian opera treasures and an arrangement of the Adagietto from Mahler's Symphony no. 5. Pianists on the recording are Elizabeth DeMio and Teddy Abrams. Cantando was produced and engineered by the multiple GRAMMY award winning team of Thomas C. Moore and Robert Friedrich from Five/Four Productions. The CD is available at The Cleveland Orchestra Store and from CD Baby starting October 2, 2010.
Massimo La Rosa commented on the recording process, “Working on this recording has helped continue my musical growth and has allowed me to deepen my connection with several pieces that have been very important in my professional development: the Concerto by Launy Grøndahl, Šulek’s Sonata (Vox Gabrieli) for Trombone and Piano, the Hindemith Sonata for Trombone and Piano and Weber’s evocative Romance.”
Carl Maria von Weber (18 or 19 November 1786 - 5 June 1826)[1][2] was a German composer, conductor, pianist, guitarist[3][4] and critic and was one of the first significant composers of the Romantic school.
Childhood[edit]
Weber was born in Eutin, Bishopric of Lübeck, the eldest of the three children of Franz Anton von Weber [de] and his second wife, Genovefa Weber, a Viennese singer. He was baptized Catholic on November 20, 1786 with the name Carl Friedrich Ernst, the alternative second name Maria appeared only later. His brother and sister died in infancy.[5] Both parents were Catholic and originally came from the far south of Germany. The "von" was an affectation of his father, who was not an aristocrat.
In April 1779, Franz Anton had been appointed director of the prince-bishopric orchestra, Eutin, which, however, was dissolved in 1781 because of spending cuts. He then took the position of Eutin's municipal music director. Dissatisfied with this position, he resigned in 1787 and founded a theatre company in Hamburg. After a brief stay in Vienna, he joined the theatre company of Johann Friedrich Toscani and Peter Carl Santorini, who performed in Kassel, Marburg and Hofgeismar. He tried repeatedly to establish a lasting company of his own but had only intermittent success.[5]
Franz Anton's half-brother, Fridolin, married Cäcilia Stamm and had four daughters, Josepha, Aloysia, Constanze and Sophie, all of whom became notable singers. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart attempted to woo Aloysia, composing several pieces for her. But, after she rejected his advances, Mozart went on to marry Constanze; thus Mozart's wife was a cousin of Carl Maria von Weber.
A gifted violinist, Franz Anton had ambitions of turning Carl into a child prodigy like Mozart. Carl was born with a congenital hip disease and did not begin to walk until he was four. But by then, he was already a capable singer and pianist.
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