The history of classical music, connected
The history of classical music is a web of connected stories, from medieval plainchant to the twentieth century. Sonatique lets you follow them: from a period to its composers, from a composer to a concerto, from the concerto to the ensembles that play it and the albums that recorded it. And each day brings something new to start from.
Browse the way the music is connected
Classical music is easier to understand once you see how it fits together. The Browse screen opens the catalogue twelve ways: composers, pieces, periods, genres, instruments, places, ensembles, choirs, conductors, singers, librettists and poets, and record labels. Every page links onward, so reading about a composer leads to their works, a work leads to the people who perform it, and a place leads to the music written or first heard there.
When you would rather not choose, the Discover tab offers a starting point: a Spotlight, the Masterpieces, the Great Composers, rows of pieces by genre, and the famous venues where the repertoire came to life. Browsing is free with a Sonatique account; some featured pieces, and genre lists beyond their first ten pieces, are part of Sonatique Premium. Period pages set the scene for each era, describing how its music sounds and why it changed, with the dates that frame it.
Classical composers, albums and labels
Composer pages bring a composer's story and works together, with links to hear them on your streaming service and Explore this Piece for the questions you have about their life and music. Album pages list the works a recording contains and the people who made it, and label pages gather a label's albums in one place.
Because everything is linked, you can move from a symphony to an album that recorded it, and from there to the conductor, the orchestra or the label, without starting a new search each time. Performer pages work the same way: a biography, links to their recordings, their upcoming concerts and the albums they appear on.
Something new every day
Home changes daily. It opens with Today's Piece, a single work to start from, and gathers what else the date holds: composers and performers born or died today, what happened on this day in music history, a lesser-known work worth hearing, a performer in the spotlight, performances on video, and scores and portraits from the Images collection.
Choose a religious tradition in Settings, from Catholic, Orthodox, Lutheran and Anglican to Reformed, Moravian, Methodist, Jewish or Ecumenical, and Home adds sacred music from that tradition. Turn on the daily notification and Today's Piece arrives once a day; tap it to open the piece.
Listen and watch on the services you already use
Sonatique does not play music itself, and it does not ask you to change how you listen. Pieces, composers, albums and labels link straight to Apple Music, Spotify, Tidal, Deezer, YouTube Music and Amazon Music, so the recording opens in the app you already use.
Piece pages open their Listen section with a performance video when one is available, and Home collects performances on video each day. They open in their own app, one tap away from the story of the music you are about to hear. Up to three streaming icons also sit at the top of every piece page.
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