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We made Apple Music Classical Try to Fans of Classical Music

Apple launched on March 28, 2023 “Apple Music Classical”, a new streaming application from its acquisition of the Primephonic classical music specialist. What is this original proposal on the streaming market is worth ? The best is to ask the main interested parties.

Faced with Spotify, Deezer, Amazon or YouTube Music, Apple Music has a new unexpected weapon: classical music. The Californian giant, which is generally associated with rap and hip-pop (Apple Music replaced Beats Music, founded by Dr. Dre), put on this elitist genre, far from interest to everyone, to make their offer more complete. Apple’s postulate is as follows: classical music, although present in all streaming applications, suffers from a hierarchy problem. Apple Music Classical is a new application precisely designed to solve this problem. Free for Apple Music subscribers (from 10.99 euros per month, 5.99 euros for students), while its competitor Qobuz, which offers the same sound quality, costs at least 14.99 euros per month, this Application hopes to convince classical music lovers to change platform.

Is Apple Music Classical up ? Let’s be honest, we know nothing about classical music. Suddenly, we decided to give the floor to three enthusiasts, capable of identifying the strengths and weaknesses of the service. Here are their opinions.

Why do we need an application dedicated to classical music ?

First, what Apple Music Classical ? Like many users of streaming services, you may wonder why a musical genre needs its own application. The answer is simple: classical music is much more complex than other genres.

“In all applications, classical music is considered any other type of music. It makes extension titles, you don’t know what you are going to listen to ” explains Corentin Durand, subscribed to the Philharmonie de Paris and great enthusiast of classical music (and incidentally ex-journalist of Numerama). Clearly, the titles of many compositions do not hold on a line, which makes them unreadable, and all start in the same way. This obliges Spotify, Deezer or Apple Music to sacrifice a lot of information, which makes the discovery of new titles very complicated. Subscribing to Spotify for several years, Corentin Durand explains that he has got into the habit of consuming classical music “Especially in concert and on France Musique”, In the absence of a good digital service at its disposal.

What can we do with Apple Music Classical, which at first glance at first glance at the normal Apple Music ? “We are at Apple, it’s fluid and intuitive”, Analysis Audrey Brahimi, the project and communication manager of the Opera National Orchestra in Montpellier. One of his favorite functions is “Instrument research, which is very practical when you want to open up to a particular repertoire, or study music”. An opinion shared by Corentin Durand, who finds very cool to be able to sort the compositions so precisely: “You can look for an instrument or if you want a sonata for example … I even listened to one of their podcasts and it was very good. »»

Apple Music Classical is not unanimous

The arrival of Apple Music Classical is praised by fans of classical music, but the third person we interviewed, Cyprien Bonsergent, a former DJ who became lovers of classical music during confinement, is a little more critical. It has an advantage compared to many other potential users of Apple Music Classical. He is a subscriber to Qobuz, very good in this area, which helps him identify the defects of the Apple service:

“This is an application for beginners. The playlists are badly made, mix the concertos, the symphonies. Whether Bach, Beethoven, each playlist is a bit mixed. They make playlists as for contemporary music, while on classical music, you can’t do the same. »»

Even if he recognizes that Apple Music Classical is “A rather intuitive application”, Cyprien Bonsurgent cannot make the comparison with Qobuz. “I learned a lot thanks to Qobuz” explains the 28 -year -old young man, who highlights “The immense work editorial and intellectual “ French service. According to him, Apple’s service is satisfied with too much. “They have worked a little better referencing, but it stops there” he deplores, after waiting for a long time the application. “It’s super nice for someone who knows nothing about it, who wants to discover an era. On the other hand, for someone who knows classical music, who is already listening to him elsewhere, he risks being disappointed. »»

The opinions of our three enthusiasts also diverge on the listening quality offered by Apple Music Classical, in particular with regard to space audio and the proposed audio formats. Audrey Brahimi deplores a “Quite reduced catalog due to the few records available in Dolby Atmos”, which is however one of the promises of the service. “” I came across catastrophic versions of Beethoven’s heroic where sound seems to be a reading of a idle vinyl “. Otherwise, when it works, “The listening quality is superb. The sound makes music in a fairly faithful way, we sometimes even have the impression of seeing the arrangement of the orchestra and where the sound of the instruments comes from. »»

Quid du lossless, the other promise of Apple ? Corentin Durand points out to us an amazing fact: the application is only available on iPhone (Apple has not yet released anything on iPad, Mac, Windows and Android). “I don’t really see how I can listen to hi-res on an iPhone” quipped the enthusiast of classical music, who would have found the application more relevant on a Mac, with a jack. Difficult to prove it, the iPhone exclusivity of Apple Music Classical, in development for two years, is very strange.

“” We sometimes have the impression of seeing the arrangement of the orchestra and where the sound of the instruments comes from “

Apple Music Classical is the new reference ?

Spotify, Deezer and other services will copy Apple Music Classical ? Nobody really believes it among our enthusiasts, who see it above all a means for Apple to assert themselves once again as “The company of CSP+”. Cyprien Bonsurgent intends to stay on Qobuz, while Corentin Durand is tried the Apple Music adventure, in the distress of Spotify. “” When you listen to a recording, you know that you lose the small flaws that make the charm of the live, the performing arts where anything can happen “, Analysis for his part Audrey Brahimi, who does not really feel targeted by this type of applications.

“The streaming services are more interested in people who listen to modern music because there are new features. Classical music, you listen to what you like. At the beginning, you listen to everything, then after, you know what you like ” explains Cyprien, who thinks that classical music fans are their own library over time. The fact remains that Apple’s proposal can only be praised by fans of classical music, finally considered by a tech giant.

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Date of experience: December 31, 2021

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