Breaking: Apple launches dedicated classical streaming

The corporation has just announced Apple Music Classical, ‘a brand new standalone app designed specifically for classical music’.

This is just an announcment, no independent person has tested it yet. The launch is on March 28. It rRequires an Apple Music subscription.

Apple says:
Apple Music Classical offers:

– The world’s largest classical music catalogue with over 5 million tracks and works from new releases to celebrated masterpieces.

– Thousands of exclusive albums.

– The ability to search by composer, work, conductor, or even catalogue number, and find specific recordings instantly.

– The highest audio quality (up to 192 kHz/24 bit Hi-Res Lossless) with thousands of recordings in immersive spatial audio.

– Complete and accurate metadata to make sure you know exactly what work and which artist is playing.

– Thousands of editorial notes including composer biographies, descriptions of key works, and more.

You can watch a trailer here.

That’s all foks, for the moment.