Book Playlist

The Wind in the Willows Playlist

20 tracks

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Oct 19, 2026

This playlist follows the riverbank from the English countryside’s calm, pastoral rhythms into Toad’s flamboyant escapades and back toward the comforts of home and friendship. Classical and folk-tinged instrumentals evoke the changing landscape, while the songs give voice to the book’s affection for nature, companionship, and spirited mischief.

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Track List

20 songs

Enigma Variations, Op. 36: Variation IX. Adagio "Nimrod"

Edward Elgar · Britannia

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On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring

Frederick Delius · On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring

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The Hebrides, Op. 26, MWV P 7 "Fingal's Cave": Overture

Felix Mendelssohn · Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E Minor, Symphony No. 4, Athalie & The Hebrides

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To a Wild Rose

Edward MacDowell · Miniatures and Collectibles

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Molly on the Shore

Percy Grainger · Lincolnshire Posy

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Fantasia on Greensleeves

Ralph Vaughan Williams · Vaughan Williams: Tallis Fantasia; Fantasia on Greensleeves; The Lark Ascending etc.

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The Banks of Green Willow

George Butterworth · Butterworth: The Banks of Green Willow; A Shropshire Lad/ /McGunn: The Land of the Mountain and the Flood/Coleridge-Taylor: Symphonic Variations on an African Air &c.

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