Adele says ‘Hello’ to Mozart’s ‘Lacrimosa’ in this new cello-driven arrangement from The Piano Guys.

Adele’s latest single, Hello, has broken records worldwide. In its first week, Hello topped the one-week streaming record in the UK with 7.32 million plays and accumulated 27.7 million views for the accompanying music video. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is one of classical music’s most beloved composers, and his oeuvre includes over 600 works all written before his death aged 35.

What happens when you combine 2016’s biggest pop hit with the equivalent of the 18th-century classical music world?

Hello/Lacrimosa, or “Chello” is the curiously successful hybrid of the two. The Piano Guys, an American-based group consisting of Jon Schmidt, Steven Sharp Nelson, Paul Anderson and Al van der Beek, has created a mash-up of the Adele’s Hello and Mozart’s Lacrimosa (from his Requiem Mass in D). Featuring Steve Sharp Nelson on electric and acoustic cellos, with Al van der Beek on percussion and vocal textures, the mash-up is made up from 100 overlaid tracks of acoustic and electric cello...