I have been an Apple Music subscriber for several years now and I do see it as better than Spotify as long as you are in the Apple ecosystem of products.
However, in the last couple of years, while even in my own Spotify days (yes, I used to subscribe to it), I have always loved movie/TV film score music. It is a controversial subject in the classical music scene to call score music “classical music,” but I do deem it as such since I believe it is a modern take on classical music.
This is why if someone were to find my playlist of score music, they’d see a lot of “Doctor Who” (all hail Murray Gold), “Harry Potter,” “Fantastic Beasts,” “Divergent,” and other scores on it. I do insert simple classical music and anything with an orchestra in it too just for convenience reasons too.
Classical is my favorite genre of music because even though it does not have words in most cases, as an introvert that needs a break from other people and their voices, classical music has layers to it. It has words without saying anything. It has emotion where emotion needs to be. I’d say classical music is essentially the soundtrack of our lives where we like it or see it that way.
With all of that said, Apple Music has a huge catalog of classical music new and old. Through it, I have been able to expand on my love of the art and craft.
Artists, musicians, and groups I have come across and have found to love more have been Hauser, the London Symphony Orchestra, and John Metcalfe just to name a few. On top of that, the reading and dark academic playlists have been great to listen while I’ve at work, reading, writing, etc.
Another thing I want to point out is that it made me aware of the song “Clare de Lune” by Claude Debussy, which has become one of my most-favorite songs of all time out of all forms and types of music.
I also feel as though this is an Apple Music-only thing since I hardly ever hear about people talking about classical music on Spotify across social media, but Apple Music subscribers do tend to be more expressive about classical music on it. Perhaps it is all due to the service’s dedicated Apple Music Classical app that was released on the iPhone and iPad last year?
Either way, classical music, which was already my favorite music genre of them all before, has become an even bigger part of my daily life.
With that said, I hope to find even more classical music to listen to as we enter the autumn season in less than two months here in the U.S., along with more of it as we enter the holiday/Christmas season.
