"I want to play something for you," said our friend, pushing back from the dinner table and going to the CD player. "Guess what this is." Through the haze of food and wine came angular, jagged, ...

THE WEEK'S TOP-SELLING CLASSICAL CROSSOVER ALBUMS, BASED ON MULTIMETRIC CONSUMPTION, BLENDING TRADITIONAL ALBUM SALES, STREAMING-EQUIVALENT ALBUMS AND TRACK-EQUIVALENT ALBUMS, AS COMPILED BY LUMINATE.

Make it big. That seems to be the primary directive in the classical crossover genre. Perhaps your average American isn't going to become a classical music fan, but there's always an appeal to music ...