Tom Service on music to play while travelling

Forget bagpipes. When it comes to Scottish mountains, only Dvořák's will doDriving from London up to the north-west Highlands of Scotland the other week, I made my own version of a songline. A songline, according to Aboriginal cultures, is a musical route across the land. OK, my songline didn't have much to do with ancient creation myths: you might more conventionally call it a pile of CDs. But the way the music seemed to imprint itself on the landscape made for some spine-tingling moments.I f...

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