Listening Guide: Concertos

Exclusive to Apple Music Classical, Listening Guide is your informative companion on your journey through the great concertos—as you listen, time-synced text appears seamlessly on your screen providing insightful commentary and context. Listening Guide is available in the latest version of Apple Music Classical. The concerto is a chance for a solo instrument to shine against a backdrop of a symphony orchestra—and Listening Guide takes you right inside the finest of them. You’ll learn how Rachmaninoff combines passion and pyrotechnics in his Piano Concertos Nos 2 and 3, and gain an insight into the intricate partnership of orchestra and soloist in three of Mozart’s late works. Listening Guide will also help you uncover the secrets of Elgar’s melodic genius that lies at the heart of his searing Cello Concerto, and show how Tchaikovsky demands so much from violinists in a work originally thought impossible to perform. But whatever your choice of music, Listening Guide makes exploring these concertos an illuminating and exciting adventure.