HAUSER

  Imagine, as a very young child, being so transfixed by the sound of a cello you heard on the radio that you look around you, gather whatever you can find and try to make a cello, in the hope that you can play it, just to create that magical sound yourself. That is how it all began – in the town of Pula, Croatia – for HAUSER, the dynamic young cellist who has rocketed to fame as half of the genre-busting worldwide musical sensation 2CELLOS. With the release of Classic – his first solo album for Sony Classical – HAUSER has realized maybe the best of all possible musical dreams that dazzled that little Croatian boy. Joined for the recording by the London Symphony Orchestra, he plays some of the most beloved melodies ever written, most of them classical and never before been arranged to feature the cello. “It’s simple,” HAUSER says, when asked to describe Classic. “It’s the most beautiful, the most romantic melodies ever written in classical music – by the greatest composers – played...