Birthday boy deposes monks as America’s classical best-seller

Birthday boy deposes monks as America’s classical best-seller

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norman lebrecht

October 09, 2013

After months – it seems an eternity – of droning monks and nuns at the top of the Nielsen Soundscan sales charts, a masterpiece has finally broken through.

Must be someone’s birthday week.

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Also riding high are Helene Grimaud’s Brahms concertos (DG), Jeremy Denk’s Gldberg Variations (Warner) and Philadelphia’s Rite of Spring (DG)

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  • Michael Schaffer says:
    October 9, 2013 at 11:51 pm

    So what does that mean these days, being a classical best-seller? Roughly how many copies are we talking about?

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