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Most popular songs in BBC Radio 3 playlist

Title

Popularity

First heard

Last heard

Robert Schumann - Arabeske in C major, Op.18

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months40%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 17 days ago

Ralph Vaughan Williams - Oboe Concerto in A minor

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.04%

6months30.01%

12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 20 days ago

Julius Fucik - Entry of The Gladiators

1997-01-01

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months60.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 12 days ago

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

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

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First heard 2 years ago

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Johannes Brahms - Symphony No 2 in D major, Op 73 (3rd mvt)

Popularity:

7days00%

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First heard 2 years ago

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Edvard Grieg - Last Spring, Op 33 no 2

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Claude Debussy - The Snow is Dancing (Children's Corner)

2024-01-12

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 4 months ago

Claude Debussy - Estampes

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 20 days ago

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

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 24 days ago

Dobrinka Tabakova - Desert Swimmers

2022-08-31

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

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12months30%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 22 days ago

Arthur Sullivan - The Yeomen of the Guard (Overture)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months60.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 19 days ago

Joaquín Rodrigo - Concierto de Aranjuez (2nd mvt)

2020-10-02

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months50%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 23 days ago

Gerald Finzi - Eclogue in F major Op.10

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

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First heard 2 years ago

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Robert Schumann - Piano Sonata No 1 in F sharp minor, Op 11

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

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John Dowland - Time stands still

Popularity:

7days00%

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Giacomo Puccini - Che gelida manina (La bohème)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 3 months ago

Johann Sebastian Bach - Organ Sonata no.4 BWV.528 (2nd mvt)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 4 months ago

Frédéric Chopin - Polonaise in A major, Op 40 No 1, 'Military'

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 19 days ago

Wilhelm Stenhammar - Varnatt (Spring Night)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months60.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 14 days ago

Charles Villiers Stanford - The Blue Bird

2016-01-01

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Alice Mary Smith - The Masque of Pandora (Overture)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka - Ruslan i Lyudmila (Overture)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months60.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 24 days ago

George Gershwin - Walking the Dog (Shall we Dance)

1991-01-01

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Dorothy Howell - Humoresque

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months40%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 14 days ago

Felix Mendelssohn - A Midsummer Night's Dream Op.61 (Scherzo)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina - Stabat Mater

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days20.04%

6months30.01%

12months60.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 6 days ago

Leonard Bernstein - Mambo (West Side Story)

1961

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 17 days ago

Claude Debussy - Syrinx for solo flute

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

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12months60.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 10 days ago

Herbert Howells - Requiem

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Henry Purcell - What pow'r art thou (King Arthur)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

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

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 3 months ago

Leos Janáček - Vlci stopa (The wolf's trail) for soprano, female choir & piano

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 3 months ago

Dmitry Shostakovich - Foxtrot (Suite for Jazz Band no.1)

2002-04-15

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

George Gershwin - Piano Concerto in F

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

George Gershwin - The man I love

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 3 months ago

Igor Stravinsky - Pulcinella, ballet suite

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 25 days ago

Johann Sebastian Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No 5 in D major, BWV 1050 (1st mvt)

Popularity:

7days00%

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 3 months ago

Augusta Holmès - Overture for a Comedy

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Sergey Rachmaninov - 10 Preludes Op.23 (no.5 in G minor)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months30%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 22 days ago

Arthur Bliss - Things to come (March)

Popularity:

7days00%

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6months30.01%

12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 4 months ago

Edgar Bainton - And I saw a new heaven

Popularity:

7days00%

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 5 months ago

Maurice Ravel - Bolero

2020-11-20

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

12months90.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Frédéric Chopin - Ballade No 4 in F minor, Op 52

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.04%

6months30.01%

12months50%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 19 days ago

George Frideric Handel - Eternal source of light divine (Birthday Ode for Queen Anne)

2019-10-11

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Louise Farrenc - Symphony no.3 in G minor Op.36 (3rd mvt)

2010-10-26

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 3 months ago

George Frideric Handel - Water Music Suite in D major HWV.349 (Alla hornpipe)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 3 months ago

Darius Milhaud - Brazileira (Scaramouche)

2019-04-26

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Joseph Haydn - Keyboard Sonata in B flat major, Hob.16.41

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.04%

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 10 days ago

Joseph Haydn - String Quartet in D major Op.20'4 (4th mvt)

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 6 days ago

Jennifer Higdon - Harp Concerto (Lullaby)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 8 days ago

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