The phrase "a classical recording of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific audio or video recording of classical music or performances.
Example: "I recently purchased a classical recording of Beethoven's symphonies, and it has quickly become one of my favorites."
Alternatives: "a classical music recording of" or "a recording of classical works".
"Fifty Shades of Grey" sends a classical recording to the top of the charts.
Mr. Ax, a versatile pianist with exquisite touch yet fully capable of bravura dazzlement, and Mr. Bronfman, a bravura pianist fully capable of exquisite touch, create fine synergy on a new Sony Classical recording of Rachmaninoff's works for two pianos.
He surpassed that with his Four Seasons recording, which won a listing in the Guinness Book of World Records as the bestselling classical recording of all time.
The album became the most influential "electronic" classical recording of all time, smashing the borders between classical and synthesized music.
He cites the glory years of Columbia Masterworks (the former entity of Sony Classical) as an example of how a classical record label should be conducting its business, and writes that Goddard Lieberson, the visionary record executive who ran it, was "a trained composer and a critic".
Westenra is now 16, and has a £3m, five-album deal under her belt, to which, this week, she added the fastest selling debut classical record of all time.
Kennedy's 1989 recording of Vivaldi's work with the English Chamber Orchestra has sold over 3m copies and is one of the bestselling classical records of all time.
But this month, his latest release is a recording of a 40-year-old symphony which, 15 years after its composition, became in the early 90s one of the bestselling classical records of all time.
His recording of Vivaldi's Four Seasons is still the biggest-selling classical record of all time, but he now devotes only about three months of the year to the classical repertoire, such is his interest in jazz.
The symphony made little impact outside Poland when it was written, but when the London Sinfonietta's recording was played during Classic FM's first week on air in September 1992, it went straight to the hearts of a post-Thatcher public hungry for some easily consumed spiritual music and became one of the biggest-selling contemporary classical records of all time.
