Restoring music from my old iPhone 5 backup to a new iPhone 6

I've just got an iPhone 6 with 64GB memory to replace my old iPhone 5 (with the same 64GB memory). I took a full backup of my iPhone 5 before buying the new 6, and both are using the same iOS 8.0.2 version. My apps are all restored just fine, whether I try a restore from iCloud or my local computer (a MacBook Pro running 10.9.5 and iTunes 11.4 (18). But my music just doesn't get put on the new phone, no matter what I try.
I have a music library of around 4000 songs taking up 19.8GB of space on my old phone. If I restore from iCloud, it only downloads songs I have bought from the iTunes music store. If I restore from my local backup on iTunes, it copies around 1000 songs before crashing (done twice so far) - and when I try and sync again it halts at 'preparing to copy items' and happily does nothing for hours on end (left it overnight last night, no discernible difference in terms of the amount of music on the phone).
I'm trying exactly the same method of restoring from my local backup that I used a few months ago after I had to get my iPhone 5 repaired by Apple. But nothing seems to be working. I can use iTunes match (which I have on my computer, but never used on my iPhone 5), but then I have to download all the songs via the internet that I could just sync a lot faster over my local wifi connection.
Anyone have any suggestions on how to restore the music on it?

Correction: the message that iTunes hangs at for hours on end was "Waiting for changes to be applied".

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