Classical

Apple Music Classical was released a day after iOS 16.4 launched for iPhone users. Now, before the company even announces the iPad and Mac app counterparts, Android has received the classical music app first. Apple Music Classical is a service based on Primephonic, a classical music streaming service the company bought in 2021. After two years of development, Apple released its own version of the app, which has a similar look to Apple Music, but with new tweaks and a focus on this specific genre of music.…

You can gain access to Apple Music Classical through a subscription to Apple Music or Apple One. The app offers ad-free recordings of classical music with up to 192 kHz / 24-bit lossless audio, along with thousands of recordings that support spatial audio. It also retains Primephonic’s detailed music metadata, making it easier to browse through its massive library.Apple Music Classical’s rollout on Android beats the company’s release of an optimized app for the iPad and Mac. But as pointed out by 9to5Mac, this is likely…

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A new app update means that the Apple-owned music ID app Shazam can now integrate properly with the Apple Music Classical app for the first time.The new update is available as Shazam 15.33 and can be downloaded from the App Store.Listen upShazam has long been a great way for people to identify a song that is playing so that they can then listen to it again at a later time. The app was bought by Apple back in 2018 for a fee thought to be around $400 million. Since then, Shazam has remained available as a downloadable app…

Apple Music Classical only launched a couple of weeks ago, but I now use it so much that it feels like something that came preinstalled on my iPhone 14 Pro when I first bought it. To the untrained eye, the app may seem like a simple library trim of the main Apple Music app, keeping the same visual style and layout as the more conventional music app. Having been using it for a little while now, however, I’ve found that Apple Music Classical has some of its own improvements and quality-of-life updates that make it lovely…

Apple Music Classical is now available, though only on the iPhone at the time of writing (other platforms will be supported in due course). If you already subscribe to Apple Music, then the classical component is a free add-on, though it’s in a separate app, so you’ll need to download it separately.The iPhone SE Offers Almost Everything You Want In An iPhoneThe app’s layout and organization is a little different than you might be used to from it’s sister app as well as competitors like Spotify, so here are a selection of…

On 31 May 1926, a ship carrying the entire Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra docked in Reykjavík. The musicians stayed in Iceland for 17 days, giving 14 concerts of music by Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert at venues including a tuberculosis sanatorium. Local critic Árni Thorsteinson described the visit as “the greatest event in the history of the arts in this country.” While the rest of Europe was falling for cinema, Icelanders were getting their first taste of a full-size live symphony orchestra.Organised instrumental music…

A battle is being waged at the Westlake/MacArthur Park Metro station near downtown Los Angeles. The weapon of choice? Loud classical music.The classical music — along with floodlights at either end of the station platform — are part of a pilot program that L.A. Metro operations and security, in cooperation with law enforcement, began implementing at the station in January. In an email to The Times, Metro said the music is a royalty-free playlist it compiled of piano sonatas, symphony orchestra pieces and concertos,…

In 2023, it’s hard to love classical music. Not because of the music itself — it’s just difficult to find it. Searching for George Gershwin is as likely to bring up his own performances as it is to bring up music he composed that’s performed by other artists. The problem is that, in the metadata, classical music doesn’t just rely on the typical stuff like artist, genre, song title, or album title. There are soloists to consider, and composers, and conductors, and pieces performed by an orchestra and a choir. Apple Music…

After months of rumors, Apple finally released Apple Music Classical earlier this week. And while it might not have been everyone's idea of a good time, it's clear that plenty of people wanted to take it for a spin.In fact, Apple Music Classical was downloaded from the App Store so many times that it is now sitting pretty at the very tippy top of the App Store rankings for free apps in the United States. It's only beaten to the top spot by the U.K.'s biggest supermarket on the other side of the pond as well.Who saw that…