Pompoir, Da Costa

The Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra reinvigorates two of Mozart’s best-known works in its brand-new recording Heavenly Mozart with conductor Rachael Beesley and fortepiano soloist Neal Peres Da Costa, releasing 10 November for digital download or streaming via ABC Classic, and on CD on the ARCO label.

This album is a bold reimagining of Robert Schumann's beloved song cycle, Dichterliebe, based on the artists' cutting-edge research into the earliest surviving recordings of singers and pianists - including musicians directly connected to Schumann. The musical result is jarring at first, and then increasingly compelling: a creative freedom and rhetorical flair bordering on wildness, which belies the years of careful study of historical source material that made such risk-taking possible.

Cult violinist Alexandre de Costa continues his successful Stradivari series. This time, chansons and pop songs are on the program - from Edith Piaf and Charles Aznavour to Freddie Mercury and Leonard Cohen, in original arrangements for violin and orchestra.

Cult violinist Alexandre de Costa continues his successful Stradivari series. This time, chansons and pop songs are on the program - from Edith Piaf and Charles Aznavour to Freddie Mercury and Leonard Cohen, in original arrangements for violin and orchestra.