Download large library from iTunes Match to iPhone

I subscribe to iTunes Match and want to download a large playlist (approximately 9,000 songs, 60 GB) to my iPhone (for use when I don't have a wifi connection).  Downloading over wifi is impossibly slow - it does a few hundred songs per day.  And it gets hung up every few hours so I have to restart.  Downloading the entire playlist would take (literally) weeks of running 24 hours per day.  This is not feasible.  I can sync the playlist through iTunes and copy to my phone if I turn off iTunes Match on the phone.  But then when I turn on iTunes Match on my phone back on (to listen to the rest of my library that won't fit on my phone) it deletes all the music already on the phone (the large playlist that I spent weeks downloading over wifi). 
Any suggestions on how to get around this problem?  Bottom line is that I want this large playlist (my favourite stuff) resident on the phone so I can listen without a wifi connection.  But I also want iTunes Match turned on so that I can listen to everything when I do have a wifi connection.  Any way to do this without downloading the playlist over wifi?
iPhone 6, 128GB, iOS 8.1.1

i have been dealing with the same issue since I started using iTunes match. it's the worst.
i recently restored my iphone 6 (same model) and now it's even doing something else.
im trying to download 1230 songs and it only even attempts to download about 100 at a time. it freezes on the rest and doesn't even put them in a queue.
this issue needs SERIOUS attention.

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