Music to Inspire Travel

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

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

BBC Playlister Breakfast Music Box
Listen to all the works in the list above in BBC Playlister. Follow the Music Box playlist in Spotify to hear new works as they're added.
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