Apple Music Classical hits the web, but skips the Mac

Apple Music Classical, the company’s world-class classical music streaming service, is now available on the web. Strangely, however, the service still lacks its own Mac app.

The world’s best classical music streaming service

Introduced in 2023 as an adjunct to the standard Apple Music subscription, Apple Music Classical offers a huge collection of over 5 million classical music tracks. These are organised using a system the company acquired with Primephonic, which it acquired in 2021. That system gives the streaming service more detailed information of the kid that classical music fans enjoy, including lots of detail and descriptions and guides to some of the works.

If you are a classical music lover, the extent of the curation available within the service is very hard to beat. And it’s available to anyone subscribing to Apple Music.

To mark the web launch, you can now listen to a pair of exclusive recordings via the service. These include a new recording of Julius Eastman’s Symphony No. 2 and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 2 from conductor Franz Welser-Möst and the Cleveland Orchestra.

What Apple said

Anjali Malhotra, Global Director of Apple Music Classical, said: “Apple Music Classical continues to innovate and expand on its mission to bring great musicians and their recordings to music lovers around the world all in one app. Now that the app is available on the web, Apple Music Classical’s catalog of over 5 million tracks and 50 million datapoints are now available for those who primarily use their desktops to listen to music.”

You can check the service out right here.

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