Apple has announced Apple Music Classical, a new app dedicated to classical music. According to Apple, the largest collection of classical music and in the highest sound quality.
With Apple Music Classical’s optimized search, you can quickly and easily find a piece in the world’s largest collection of classical music, in the highest sound quality. Apple Music Classical offers hundreds of curated playlists, thousands of exclusive albums, insightful composer biographies, guides to major works, intuitive navigation, and much more.
Apple Music Classical
• The world’s largest collection of classical music with over 5 million songs and works, from new pieces to award-winning masterpieces.
• Thousands of exclusive albums.
• The ability to search by composer, work, conductor or catalog number and instantly find specific recordings.
• The highest sound quality, (up to 192 kHz/24-bit Hi-Res Lossless) with thousands of spatial audio recordings.
• Complete and accurate metadata, so you know exactly which work and which artist you are listening to.
• Thousands of editorial notes, including biographies of composers and descriptions of major works.
Exclusive content
Apple works closely with some of the world’s best-known classical musicians and leading classical music institutions to bring new and exclusive content and recordings to Apple Music Classical listeners.
Apple Music Classical also lets listeners see new and exclusive artwork, including a series of unique, high-resolution digital portraits of many world-famous composers. These were specially created by a diverse group of artists, using the color palettes and artistic influences of the period in question. The result is a series of highly detailed portraits.
Watch the trailer for Apple Music Classical here
Price and availability
Apple Music Classical will be available later in March. Apple Music subscribers can download and use the Apple Music Classical app for free. You can pre-order the app here in the App Store. If you do this, Apple Music Classical will automatically download on the day of launch. Must for this Update automatically are enabled.
• Apple Music Classical launches on March 28 and is available to pre-order now.
• Requires subscription to Apple Music (Individual/Student/Family or Apple One)
• Available worldwide where Apple Music is offered, except China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan (these regions to follow later).
• Apple Music Classical is available on all iPhone models with iOS 15.4 or later.
• Apple Music Classical for Android is coming soon.
• To listen to music on Apple Music Classical, you must be connected to the Internet.
