Apple Music Classical

Apple

About this app

Get the app designed specifically for classical music. Available to Apple Music subscribers at no additional cost. Instantly find any recording in the world’s largest classical music catalog with search built for the genre. Enjoy the highest audio quality available (up to 24-bit/192 kHz Hi-Res Lossless) and hear classical favorites like never before in Spatial Audio—all with zero ads.

Apple Music Classical also makes it easy for beginners to get to know the classical genre thanks to hundreds of Essentials playlists, insightful composer biographies, deep-dive guides for many key works, and intuitive browsing features.

The Ultimate Classical Experience
• Get unlimited access to the world’s largest classical music catalog (over 5 million tracks) with everything from new releases to celebrated masterpieces, plus thousands of exclusive albums.
• Search by composer, work, conductor, or even catalog number, and find specific recordings instantly.
• Listen in the highest audio quality (up to 24 bit/192 kHz Hi-Res Lossless) and enjoy thousands of recordings in immersive Spatial Audio with Dolby Atmos.
• Know exactly who and what you’re listening to thanks to complete, accurate metadata.
• Learn about each classical period with The Story of Classical audio guides.
• Dig deeper as you listen, with insightful album notes, descriptions of key works, and thousands of composer biographies.
• Browse booklets for thousands of albums including in depth liner notes, translations, and more.

Requirements
• Requires an Apple Music subscription (Individual, Student, Family, or Apple One).
• Availability and features vary by country and region, plan, or device. The list of countries where Apple Music Classical is available can be found at https://support.apple.com/HT204411.
• Apple Music Classical is available on all Android phones running Android 9 (‘Pie’) or later.
• To listen to music on Apple Music Classical, you must have an internet connection.

Ratings and reviews

Very glitchy app. Most of the time it does not want to actually play any tracks. I find I have to add it to my library, then use Apple Music to play it. A really stupid issue, since any music app needs to first and foremost PLAY music, not just be a glorified search tool for another app. At this point I only keep this app because it does make searching for classical music easier than Music does. But having to switch back and forth to play anything is really annoying.

The app too often fails to work. When it does work, its great, but when it doesn't, it's rather useless. I currently can browse all the songs, but when you click play, it loads indefinitely and nothing plays. No matter what song I select morning plays. I've uninstalled and reinstalled the app and still the same issue. Others have reported similar this happening in other reviews.

I think the concept of this app is amazing, I search for a symphony or opera and for some of the popular pieces there can be hundreds of recordings!!!! And I can search by composer, performer, orchestra, there is so much detail. I get to hear music in recommendations that I would never heard before. It gives me hope that classical music won't die out out as older generations pass on. I get there are a few bugs here and there but I also think people underestimate how important this app is.

What’s new

This update contains stability and performance enhancements.