1.   Americans who owned no other classical recording bought that album.

2.   And he seems remarkably focused on his classical recordings.

3.   Audio and video recordings of the concerts became the best-selling classical recordings ever.

4.   Classical recording, though, has always been an atypical industry.

5.   If we want classical recordings to survive, we may just have to embrace it.

6.   In Cincinnati, Shepherd disc-jockeyed an afternoon program of offbeat pop, jazz and classical recordings that would never get anywhere near the Hit Parade.

7.   It was the first classical recording to go platinum.

8.   Last December, the Eisler appeared on the front page of the influential French newspaper Le Monde as the classical recording of the year.

9.   Never or rarely moneymakers, classical recordings have, quite frankly, been an object of charity in the marketplace.

10.   Now, with the market for classical recordings in a tailspin, crossover albums have begun crowding release schedules by the major labels.