Classical Commute

Classical Commute

Apple Music Classical

Updated 4 hours ago

Sometimes it’s more about the journey than the destination—and that’s never truer than when you’ve got incredible music to take you from A to B. Here’s a selection from a variety of new classical albums designed to accompany you on your morning commute, or indeed anywhere you're headed throughout the day. We regularly update this playlist, so if you like a piece of music, add it to your library.

No. 1, Valse Bohémienne

Matthew Schellhorn, Maya Magub

2:40

Sadness and Sorrow (From "Naruto") [Arr. Telleria for Solo Piano]

2:49

I. Prelude (Arr. for Violin, String Quintet & Piano by Tim Allhoff)

Norwegian String Quintet, Tim Allhoff, Eldbjørg Hemsing

1:55

Entre les gouttes

Mira

3:05

Humanity

Jérémy Hababou

2:16

I. Adagio

Engegård Quartet

5:06

No. 15, Un poco di Chopin

2:51

Baustelle No. 2 (Construction on J.S. Bach's Prelude BWV 999)

5:04

I. Allegro con espressione (Live)

4:30

III. Moderately fast

The Philadelphia Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin

2:32

No. 3 in G-Sharp Minor "La campanella"

Mariam Batsashvili

4:59

II. Allegro

La Serenissima, Adrian Chandler

3:14

No. 8 (Edit)

3:45

I. Allegro ma non tanto (Opening) [Live from the 2022 Cliburn Competition]

Yunchan Lim, Marin Alsop, Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra

2:57

III. Scherzo. Vivace – Poco meno mosso (Live)

Lorenzo Viotti, Vienna Philharmonic

7:58

No. 1 in C Major "Waterfall"

1:59

Cascade I

3:07

No. 4 in B Minor. Allegro assai (Live)

3:34

II. Allegro scherzando

Martin Helmchen, Marie-Elisabeth Hecker

6:40

V. The Silver Fairy

Daniil Trifonov

1:12

Tchaikovsky Swan Lake Variation (From Op. 20a, Scene 1, Arr. for Cello, Harp & Piano by Julian Riem)

Raphaela Gromes, Gabriella Victoria, Julian Riem

2:21

I. Allegro moderato (Live)

4:46

Sun of Justice

2:24

Merry-Go-Round of Life (Arr. Farrington for Violin & Piano) [From "Howl's Moving Castle"]

Julien Quentin, Ray Chen

3:01

Ar Lan y Môr (Arr. Isata Kanneh-Mason for Ensemble)

The Kanneh-Masons

2:34

I. Tempo giusto

Michael Alexander Willens, Kölner Akademie, Alon Sariel

6:16

Wake

Gautier Capuçon, Capucelli

4:12

I. Quarter note = 104 – Quarter note = 120

Anne Akiko Meyers, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel

6:41

Valse di fantastica

Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Irene Delgado-Jiménez, Esther Abrami

3:49

Go from my window

5:07

No. 5 in D-Flat Major. Mélisande

2:33

I. Zart und mit Ausdruck

Lorraine Campet, Nathanaël Gouin

3:06

I. Allegro

Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi

2:08

III. Allegro molto (Live)

Nicholas Collon, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra

8:58

Bye Bye Baby (Arr. for Piano by Florian Noack)

2:06

This One Swallow

1:36

Bindle Stiffs

2:40

I. Pemoengkah

Anna Geniushene, Lukas Geniušas

3:18

No. 3

3:26

III. Rondeau. Allegro

Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Chloe Chua, Hans Graf

4:20

II. Paris

Anne Akiko Meyers, David Alan Miller, Albany Symphony

3:31

No. 2 in E Major. Un poco più mosso

3:27

Etude No. 8 (Arr. for 2 Guitars and Drums by Roxane Elfasci, Baptiste Erard, and Théo Lampérier)

Théo Lampérier, Baptiste Erard, Roxane Elfasci

5:24

III. Cancan grand-mondain

Alexandre Tharaud

1:55

Bach Brandenburg Concerto Revisited (After Bach's BWV 1046: I. Allegro)

Tim Allhoff, Eldbjørg Hemsing, Norwegian String Quintet

2:13

III. Andante con moto, ma non troppo. Poco scherzoso

6:49

III. Allegro giocoso (Live)

Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra, Kent Nagano

6:20

II. Molto vivace (Live)

Vienna Philharmonic, Riccardo Muti

13:24

II. Fliegen und Schmetterlinge

Manon Galy, Léa Hennino, Célia Oneto Bensaid, Héloïse Luzzati

5:26

Remembering

Eunike Tanzil, Anna Handler, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin

3:48

Did I Ever Tell You

4:35

Nachtmusik (After the Fourth Movement of Serenade No. 13 in G Major, K. 525 "Eine kleine Nachtmusik")

4:29

No. 4, Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace

Daniel Hyde, Britten Sinfonia

3:20

My Lady Carey's Dompe (Arr. Diluka for Piano)

1:18

No. 3 in F Minor. Allegro moderato

1:41

III. Presto agitato (Live)

Nobuyuki Tsujii

6:57

I. I’m Troubled in Mind (America), Op. 59 No. 14 [Orchestration by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor; ed. Patrick Meadows, Lionel Harrison, 2012]

National Philharmonic, Michael Repper

4:57

II. Allegro moderato

Kazuki Yamada, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo

5:56

III. Finale. Presto ma non troppo

Mariam Batsashvili

3:27

The ‘Lost’ Scherzo for String Quartet

Villiers Quartet

5:14

Overture

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle

4:38

II. Danseuse à la fontaine d’Aïn-Draham

Emmanuel Ceysson, Quatuor Voce

4:02

No. 11 in A Minor "Winter Wind" (Live)

Vitaly Starikov

3:32

Ave Maria Variation (After J.S. Bach's "Prelude and Fugue No. 1 in C Major, BWV 846: I. Prelude")

Tim Allhoff, Norwegian String Quintet, Eldbjørg Hemsing

2:08

I. Presto

Schaghajegh Nosrati

5:46

III. Rondo. Molto allegro (Live)

Pekka Kuusisto, Jonathan Biss, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra

5:55

No. 1 in D Major. Allegro vivace

5:03

Shimmering Lakes

George Hart

1:53

Improvisation sur "L'hymne à l'amour"

Alexandre Tharaud

3:31

No. 8 in D Minor. Allegro moderato (Live)

3:07

III. Allegretto

Moritz Winkelmann

6:54

Obsession espagnole

Rachmaninoff International Orchestra, Mikhail Pletnev

3:47

II. Galliard

2:29

Pathos

Ludovico Einaudi

7:06

I. Allegro moderato

Artis Quartet, Silver-Garburg Piano Duo

8:20

No. 1, Ainsi chante l'amour dans l'arbre de mes veines

Chloé Dumoulin, Frédéric Lambert

3:33

III. Allegro assai

Ensemble Masques, Kathleen Kajioka, Olivier Fortin, Sophie Gent

2:51

No. 1, Homenagem ao Sertanejo Brasileiro

4:33

I. Allegro con brio

Sindy Mohamed, Mohamed Hiber, Céline Moinet, Tim Park

6:43

Habari Gani

Sphinx Virtuosi

3:38

III. Scherzo. Presto (Live)

The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

4:04

Reverie

Eunike Tanzil, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Anna Handler

2:58

II. Aria & Variationes I

The Illyria Consort, Bojan Čičić

2:53

III. Giga. Presto (Transcr. for String Ensemble by Olivier Fourés)

Marianne Piketty, Le Concert Idéal

1:48

The Eternal Olive Tree

Anouar Brahem, Dave Holland

4:00

III. Rondo. Allegro (Cadenza: Benedetti & Marsalis)

Nicholas Collon, Nicola Benedetti, Aurora Orchestra

8:48

No. 11 in B-Flat Minor. Andante cantabile

3:49

I. Largo – Allegro

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Mayumi Hirasaki

2:32

Vision

3:43

IV. Ciacona

Bojan Čičić, The Illyria Consort

5:01

No. 2a, Prelude in A Minor

0:55

III. Scherzo (Furiant). Molto vivace

Marc-André Hamelin, Takács Quartet

4:25

No. 3, Swamp-Bird

2:37

II. Scherzo. Molto vivace

Benjamin Grosvenor

2:47

II. Presto

Adrian Chandler, Katy Bircher, La Serenissima

4:14

Wiener Blut, Walzer, Op. 354 (Live)

Vienna Philharmonic, Tugan Sokhiev

9:16

Dancing Under the Meteorites

Django Bates, Dave Holland, Anouar Brahem, Anja Lechner

4:25

I. Prélude

Francesco Tristano

3:50

Lua branca (Arr. for Violin and Piano by Esther Abrami)

Esther Abrami, Kim Barbier

3:40