Apple Music now has classical music iOS app in addition to a web front-end which was released towards the back end of last year. Concertino transforms Apple Music into a classical music jukebox allowing you to browse composers, genres and periods, create playlists of multi-movement works, start no-nonsense radio stations and more.
The rationale behind Concertino according to its developer is that “Classical music demands a very different approach: it is based on composers, works, performers (a plenty of them) and movements. Concertino brings the complex structure of classical music to Apple Music. It combines composers and works info from the Open Opus library with automated analysis of the Apple Music metadata.”
Concertino iOS app features
- Designed for classical music – say goodbye to tracks and welcome multi-movement works.
- 220 composers and tens of thousands of works, conveniently organised: A to Z, popular, essential, by genre, by period. Set favourite composers and works and browse directly to them.
- Full credits of its performers: orchestras, conductors, soloists, singers, chamber groups.
- Radio stations – the typical classical music online radio is pure chaos: the ‘sacrificial dance’ from “The Rite of Spring”, one prelude from “The Well-Tempered Clavier”, then a slow movement from some Mozart piano concerto… stop this erratic movement swapping and embrace a classical radio that makes sense.
- Multi-movement set playback. Albums and tracks are convenient for popular music but not suitable at all for classical music and its large, fragmented works. Say hi to a classical music player designed for multi-movement sets, that presents both a detailed view of each movement and a global progress bar of the work as a whole.
An active Apple Music subscription is needed for full music playback and the app is compatible with iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices.
The app can be downloaded from the Apple App Store here.
