The Apple Music Classical streaming service now includes over 50,000 album booklets featuring in-depth liner notes, translations and more.

These provide music aficionados with the in-depth information they want.

Apple Music Classical goes in-depth with album booklets

Apple Music Classical streams the world’s largest classical music catalog, and includes fully optimized search and the highest audio quality available. It’s a free addition to Apple Music, but with its own application.

The thousands of album booklets that are available through the app offer multi-language liner notes, composer biographies, information about the orchestra, conductors, and soloists, plus where relevant, sung texts and opera libretti. The goal is “enriching the listener’s understanding and connection to the music,” according to Apple.

More features and content

In addition, Apple Music Classical recently added a Classical Top 100. This weekly chart combines five data sources from over 165 countries to provide the most popular classical albums globally.

The streaming service also partnering with many of the world’s leading venues, opera companies and orchestras to offer subscribers new and exclusive content and recordings, many in spatial audio. Partner organisations include Berlin Philharmonic, Carnegie Hall, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Concertgebouw Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, the Metropolitan Opera, New York Philharmonic, Opéra National de Paris, Seoul Arts Center, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Suntory Hall, and Vienna Philharmonic.

As noted, Apple Music subscribers can enjoy Apple Music Classical at no additional cost.

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The free application for the service is available for both iPhone and iPad.