Yeah, that's where he lost me too. Strikes me as very pretentious.
He didn't even say "classical", he was circumspect with "that moste illustriouse of musical traditionnes".
The entire thing is written in a curmudgeonly fashion, led by that massive list of musicians.
We get it, you like classical music and Spotify is a poor fit. That's... the article?
Because most of that list isn't classical music