Searching Apple Classical for Turandot turns up scads of albums and tracks (all together in a single list…) but not the recently released major Warner recording with Radvanovsky and Kaufmann. Plus, though there's lots of stuff in lossless and hi-res, I've no way to play it back in anything but mid-res (Sonos, which does hi-res with Qobuz and Amazon, and AirPod Pros). For new recordings, Idagio often had both in PDF format.įirst impressions, I admit, but so far a disappointment. Neither it nor the recently released William Christie-conducted Platée from Vienna had liner notes, let alone libretti. To get that, I had to type Turandot Pappano (the conductor). Searching Apple Classical for Turandot turns up scads of albums and tracks (all together in a single list…) but not the just released Warner recording with Radvanovsky and Kaufmann. You want to hear Toscanini’s recording with the NBC Symphony Orchestra? You select NBC or Toscanini and bingo. Searching it for Beethoven symphony 2 presented you with a results page in two parts: a list of all the recordings and another list of the ensembles, the conductors and, for things like concertos and chamber music, the individual musicians. This is lame from start to finish and not that much better than Apple Music. Lots of big name European and American orchestras under big name conductors, though you’ll have scroll through several screens before you come across a period instrument performance (Gardiner’s, with Savall's excellent performance coming a few more screens below that). Select that and you finally get to the list of 500-odd albums that can be sorted by Popularity (the default), Name, Release Date or Duration. Select 2 and you’re presented with a preliminary list of recordings, including an unexplained/unjustified Editor’s Choice (Berlin Phil under Rattle, no thanks), followed by a list of five Popular Recordings and a See All link. Selecting it takes you to a page that lists the symphonies as above followed by 8, 2 (finally!), 1, 4 and 10 (?!). 5, 9, 6, 7 and 3 along with, I assume, the number of recordings or tracks of each. Typed “Beethoven symphony 2” (sans quotes) in the search box and the works (as opposed to albums) listed were the composer’s symphonies nos. First impression is that it seems a lot like a skin on a subset of Apple Music.įirst search test did not inspire confidence. The app was automatically loaded to my iPhone at 10 p.m.
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