Apple Music Classical is a proudly niche app. If you are now thinking I am unlikely to need to search for a specific Mozart aria, I get it. And after playing around with it for a day, I am ready to issue a snap judgment: Assuming you don’t already have a Lydia Tár-scale collection of rare Decca LPs, Apple Music Classical is the best way to immediately listen and learn.

Most importantly for Apple, I have been endlessly frustrated with how the big streaming platforms (Spotify, in my case) handle classical music. (Like I said, I’m getting old.) Before I knew it I was rubbing shoulders with LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy at a Carnegie Hall celebration of Steve Reich and sitting through five hours of Wagner on a weeknight. I started to enjoy going to concerts where everyone wasn’t watching through their damn phone. My uncle got me symphony tickets for Christmas. It happened slowly: I went to an opera on a whim. I have no formal background or training in classical music, but I feel like I am close to Apple’s ideal consumer for the new app-simply an enthusiastic listener. And today, Apple released an app dedicated exclusively to streaming the stuff, Apple Music Classical. This summer, Bradley Cooper is following up A Star is Born by directing and starring in Maestro, a biopic of the towering conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein. The New York Philharmonic just announced the splashy hire of superstar conductor Gustavo Dudamel and opened a blingy renovation of its concert hall (thanks to $100 million from the music mogul David Geffen). Tár, Todd Field’s caustic portrait of a celebrity conductor, was the most critically consequential movie of last year. It might just be because I am getting old, but suddenly it seems like classical music is newly cool.

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