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Music to Inspire Travel

A playlist of listeners’ suggestions for music to inspire going on great journeys.

BBC Playlister Breakfast Music Box

Breakfast brings you a Music Box of pieces recommended by listeners to guide and inspire you throughout the year.

You can listen to the whole collection of works in BBC Playlister.

Composer Title
Bedrich Smetana Ma vlast (My country): Vltava (Moldau)
Hans Christian Lumbye Copenhagen Steam Railway - galop
Gustav Holst A Somerset Rhapsody Op.21, No.2
Jacques Offenbach Tales of Hoffmann: Barcarolle
Felix Mendelssohn Symphony No.4 Op.90 in A major 'Italian': III. Con moto moderato
Sir Richard Rodney Bennett Murder on the Orient Express: Waltz
Frank Bridge Vignettes de Marseilles for piano: En Fete
Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov La Mer Op.28
Pietro Mascagni Cavalleria rusticana: Intermezzo
John Foulds Holiday Sketches Op.15: IV. Bells at Koblenz
Roger Vignoles Songs of Travel: No.2 Let Beauty Awake
Douglas Lilburn Aotearoa: Overture
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Souvenir de Florence for string sextet Op.70: II. Adagio cantabile
Heitor Villa-Lobos Bachianas Brasileiras No.2 for orchestra: IV. Toccata (O Trenzinho do Caipira)
Duke Ellington Take the ‘A’ Train
Charles Camilleri Concertino No.4 Summer Nights in Malta: 3rd movement
Thomas Weelkes Thule, The Period of Cosmography
Richard Strauss Aus Italien, Op.16: IV. Neapolitanisches Volksleben
Giacomo Meyerbeer L'Africaine (The African Maid), Act I: Overture: L' Africaine, Act IV: Marche indienne (Indian March)
Edward Elgar In the South 'Alassio', Op.50, Concert Overture
Manuel de Falla Nights in the Garden of Spain: III. En losjardines de la Sierra de Cordoba
Eric Coates By the Sleepy Lagoon
Bryn Terfel Ar Lan Y Mor
Joaquín Rodrigo Concierto de Aranjuez for guitar and orchestra: I. Allegro con spirito
Ferde Grofé Grand Canyon suite
Jacques Ibert Escales
Jie Chen Yellow River Piano Concerto: III. ‘The Yellow River in Wrath’
Ernst Toch Geographical Fugue
Oscar Hammerstein Whizzin away along the track (from Carmen Jones)
Burt Bacharach Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid: South American Getaway
Traditional Italian, arranged by Filippo Azzaiolo Chi passa per'sta strada

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