Global cello sensation HAUSER is back with Classic II, an all-new selection of his favorites among the most beautiful melodies in classical music, following up on the success of his 2020 album Classic.

For Classic II, HAUSER reunites with the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Robert Ziegler, and arranger/orchestrator Robin Smith, with whom the cellist worked closely in featuring the cello in the arrangement of each track.

Classic II reimagines instantly recognizable, song-like melodies by Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Donizetti, Dvořák, Mahler, Mozart, Rachmaninoff and Schubert, most of them written for solo instruments, voices or an entire orchestra and never before adapted for the “voice” of the cello. HAUSER also brings his singing style to two beloved melodies in the Baroque style – the Albinoni “Adagio” and the Adagio from Alessandro Marcello’s famous Oboe Concerto – as well as a pair of contemporary pieces, Michel Colombier’s “Emmanuel” and composer/pianist Yurima’s “Kiss the Rain.”

1. Albinoni Adagio
2. Mozart Adagio (From Piano Concerto No. 23)
3. Arioso
4. Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 2: Adagio
5. Slavonic Dances: Dumka
6. Emmanuel
7. Kiss the Rain
8. Serenade
9. Song To the Moon (From Rusalka)
10. Una Furtiva Lagrima (From the Elixir of Love)
11. Adagio Cantabile (From Beethoven Pathetique)
12. Intermezzo In a Major
13. Etude No. 3 In E Major "Tristesse"
14. Marcello Adagio (From Oboe Concerto In D Minor)
15. Rhapsody On a Theme of Paganini
16. Postlude No. 3
17. Lullaby