Apple today announced that Apple Music Classical, the world’s most successful classical music app, is now available in CarPlay, the smarter, safer way to use an iPhone while driving. With the integration of Apple Music Classical with CarPlay, listeners worldwide can now access recommendations on Home, browse all editorial playlists and access their Library.
Through Siri 18.1, users can also search in CarPlay for composers, artists, works, and instruments in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Dutch with additional languages to follow. Additionally, CarPlay users can get directions, make calls, send and receive messages, and enjoy their favourite music – all on their car’s built-in display.
Apple Music Classical makes it easier to find any recording in the world’s largest classical music catalog with fully optimized search built specifically for classical, offers the highest audio quality available including high-resolution lossless, and allows listeners to experience many classical favourites in a whole new way with immersive spatial audio. With expertly curated playlists and insightful composer biographies as well as the addition of over 50 thousand booklets, featuring in-depth liner notes, translations, and more, Apple Music Classical is the best place for classical music lovers.
Additionally, Apple recently launched the Apple Classical Top 100, the definitive list of today’s most popular classical albums globally. The weekly chart, the most compelling and informative chart for classical fans, combines five data sources from over 165 countries to form a complete view of what’s happening in classical music.
Apple Music Classical’s ongoing partnerships with many of the world’s leading venues, opera companies, and orchestras offer Apple Music Classical listeners 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.
Apple Music subscribers can enjoy Apple Music Classical at no additional cost.
For more information, www.apple.com/music