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Who are the competitors right now for good classical music app? I feel apple is the only player in the game. They also know what matters is the content, and t
by j7ake 3y ago
Who are the competitors right now for good classical music app?
I feel apple is the only player in the game.
They also know what matters is the content, and they’re obviously growing that content.
- mastercheif 3y agohttps://roon.app/en/ https://roon.app/en/ Roon is the only other music player that understands the difference between compositions and performances like Apple Music Classical does. What’s cool about Roon is that it applies this approach to all Music, not just classical. Roon also seamlessly merges any locally stored music you have with your libraries from Tidal, Qobuz, or KKBox, which allows you to manage all of your music from one place.
- esperent 3y ago> difference between compositions and performances What is the difference and why's it important for an app to have these categories?
- matwood 3y agoTake a piece by Mozart for example. That piece has been performed and recorded many times over the years. A classical music listener wants to be able to browse by the composition (all performances of the composition), but also by the performer (all compositions performed by player/group).
- OfSanguineFire 3y agoOne classical music composition can have multiple performances, potentially hundreds. So if you are in the mood to listen to, as a random example, Mahler’s Symphony No. 5 but are interested in how different musicians have approached that work, it is helpful to have an app that allows you to look up that composition, and see all the recordings of it with their respective orchestras and conductors shown.
- jdsnape 3y agoTo take a specific example, Pergolesi wrote a setting of the hymn ‘Stabat Mater’ (which is fantastic). So that’s the composition. But it can sound very different depending on how it is performed, my favourite performance is by Emma Kirkby. But it’s hit and miss about how that gets categorised - and it’s particularly important if the piece forms part of a set of works. I don’t want to search Emma Kirkby to find a piece by pergolesi, and I want to be able to group by composer rather than performer even through the performer is listed as the artist. Or, I might want to find other pieces performed by her from other composers.
- esperent 3y agoThe way works on Spotify is that the artists for the piece are listed as Pergolesi, Emma Kirkby. Then you can click on either artist. This seems ok for me - at least, not terrible. I can see why you'd want the two categories though. https://open.spotify.com/album/6bPCZb1WjvotzyNkg2LciV?si=doHJTBFBQm6R0QZGUMbixA&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A6bPCZb1WjvotzyNkg2LciV https://open.spotify.com/album/6bPCZb1WjvotzyNkg2LciV?si=doH...
- hombre_fatal 3y agoImagine a music app with first class support for tracking and listing remixes and covers of a given song, except here it’s classical music.
- themadturk 3y agoConductors tend to follow a certain interpretation of a composer's music. If I like the way Leonard Bernstein or Michael Tilson Thomas conducts a Mahler symphony, I'm likely to want all of Mahler's symphonies as recorded by one or the other (or, heaven help me, both), not one conducted by Leonard Slatkin (tho he's really good as well) and another one from Fritz Reiner. Though I'd make an exception if I could find the Mahler's 2nd conducted by Eugene Ormandy I grew up with in the late 1960s, though...
- cschmidt 3y ago> Roon is the only other music player that understands the difference between compositions and performances like Apple Music Classical does. Idagio mentioned in this thread does this as well. You can choose your performance by conductor / soloist / ensemble etc.
- speed_spread 3y agoTorrent + Plexamp.
- conception 3y agoIdagio is amazing and I’m really bummed for them that Apple is moving directly into this space. https://www.idagio.com/ https://www.idagio.com/
- J_Shelby_J 3y agoLoved idagio when I was subscribed.
- cpif 3y agoThere was a recently a review of Apple Classical in The New Yorker [1], which compares it to a few other services, some also mentioned in this thread. Apparently, many fare better on grouping compositions as an serious listener would appreciate. I'm not sure if the other options own their own label(s), though. It will be interesting to see how this acquisition shapes the content available on the app. [1]: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/apple-again-fails-to-save-classical-music https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/apple-aga...