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Most popular songs in BBC Radio 3 playlist

Title

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George Frideric Handel - Concerto grosso in D major Op.3'6

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

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First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 8 days ago

Louise Farrenc - Symphony no 3 in G minor, Op 36

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Johannes Brahms - Academic Festival Overture Op.80

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

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12months90.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 20 days ago

John Barry - Out of Africa (Main Title)

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Piano Sonata in B flat major, K.570

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First heard 3 years ago

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Camille Saint‐Saëns - Aquarium (Carnival of the Animals)

2025-06-05

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 12 days ago

Hilda Sehested - 3 Fantasy pieces

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 8 days ago

Dieterich Buxtehude - Kantate No. 5 Ad Pectus - Sicut modo geniti

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

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Mel Bonis - Narcisse

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 4 months ago

Rudolf Matz - Ballade for violin, cello & piano

Popularity:

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First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 20 days ago

Dorothy Howell - Lamia

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 14 hours ago

Sven-Eric Johanson - Fyra visor om arstiderna (4 songs about the Seasons)

Popularity:

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First heard 3 years ago

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Ethel Smyth - March Of The Women

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

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Richard Strauss - Metamorphosen

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 3 months ago

Samuel Barber - Adagio for Strings, Op 11

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 19 days ago

Catriona McKay - Swan LK243

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

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Ferdinand Hérold - Clog Dance; Dance of the Cock and Hens (La Fille Mal Gardée)

Popularity:

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First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 18 days ago

William Byrd - Vigilate

Popularity:

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First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Ralph Vaughan Williams - Norfolk Rhapsody no 1 in E minor

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

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Edvard Grieg - Cello Sonata in A minor, Op 36

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Johann Nepomuk Hummel - Rondo in B minor Op.109

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

John Cage - In a landscape

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Georges Bizet - Jeux d'enfants, Op.22; Galop - Le Bal

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Antoine Reicha - Oboe Quintet in F major, Op 107

Popularity:

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28days10.02%

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 18 days ago

Georg Philipp Telemann - Concerto in A minor for Two Recorders, TWV.52:a2

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

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Giuseppe Verdi - La Traviata (Act 1 Prelude)

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 3 months ago

Alice Mary Smith - The Masque of Pandora (Two Intermezzi)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 18 days ago

Felix Mendelssohn - Fantasia on an Irish song 'The last rose of summer' for piano, Op 15

Popularity:

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First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Dobrinka Tabakova - Pirin

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 5 months ago

Ludwig van Beethoven - Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 61: III. Rondo. Allegro

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Franz Lehár - Sirens of the Ball - waltz (The Merry Widow)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

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First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 3 months ago

Frédéric Chopin - Polonaise in A flat major Op.53 'Eroica'

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 8 days ago

Clara Schumann - Prelude and Fugue in B flat major, Op 16 no 2

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 24 days ago

Gerald Finzi - Eclogue in F major Op.10

Popularity:

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First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 8 days ago

Luka Sorkocevic - Symphony no 3 in D major

Popularity:

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First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Amy Beach - Romance, Op 23

Popularity:

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First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 16 days ago

George Gershwin - 3 Preludes

Popularity:

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First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 8 days ago

Jean Sibelius - The Oceanides, op. 73

Popularity:

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First heard 3 years ago

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Arthur Sullivan - The Yeomen of the Guard (Overture)

Popularity:

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First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 25 days ago

Cristóbal de Morales - Jubilate Deo omnis terra

Popularity:

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First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 12 days ago

Ralph Vaughan Williams - 5 Variants of 'Dives and Lazarus'

1972-10-01

Popularity:

7days10.09%

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First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 21 hours ago

Gabriel Fauré - Cantique de Jean Racine, Op.11

Popularity:

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First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 4 months ago

Fritz Kreisler - Liebesleid - Old Viennese Dance No. 2

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 18 days ago

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina - Stabat Mater

Popularity:

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First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Franz Schubert - Symphony no.5 in B flat major D.485 (4th mvt)

Popularity:

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First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 8 days ago

Cristóbal de Morales - Parce mihi Domine

Popularity:

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First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 7 days ago

Felix Mendelssohn - Violin Concerto in E minor, Op 64 (1st mvt)

Popularity:

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First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 3 months ago

Claude Debussy - Estampes

Popularity:

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First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Scott Joplin - The Entertainer

1999-01-01

Popularity:

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First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Georges Bizet - Farandole (L'Arlésienne - Suite No 2)

Popularity:

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First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

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