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Most popular songs in BBC Radio 3 playlist

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Gabriel Fauré - Cantique de Jean Racine

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Gustav Holst - Venus, the Bringer of Peace (The Planets, Op.32)

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Imants Zemzaris - The Light springs

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Joseph Haydn - Trumpet Concerto in E flat major, H.7e.1 (3rd mvt)

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

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Jacques Ibert - Flute Concerto

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Frédéric Chopin - Piano Concerto no.1 in E minor Op.11 (2nd mvt)

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Gertrude van den Bergh - Rondeau, Op 3

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Johann Pachelbel - Canon and Gigue in D major

2023-11-03

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Frédéric Chopin - Nocturne in E flat major, Op 9 no 2

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Fanny Mendelssohn - Allegro moderato for piano, Op 8 no 1

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Kate Bush - This Woman's Work

1989-10-16

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Steve Reich - Electric Counterpoint (Fast)

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Francesco Geminiani - Concerto Grosso no.11 in E major after Corelli

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Antonín Dvořák - Carnival Overture, Op 92

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Hélène de Montgeroult - Étude no.41 in E flat major

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Laudate Dominum (Vesperae solennes de confessore K.339)

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Joseph Haydn - Cello Concerto no.2 in D major H.7b.2 (3rd mvt)

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Carl Nielsen - Serenata in vano

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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor - Nonet in F minor Op.2 (3rd mvt)

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Edvard Grieg - Solveig's Song (Peer Gynt Suite no.2)

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Gioachino Rossini - La danza (Soirées musicales)

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Claude Debussy - Rêverie

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Hector Berlioz - Symphonie fantastique Op.14 (Un Bal)

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

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Arnold Bax - Tintagel

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Giuseppe Verdi - String Quartet in E minor

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Amy Beach - Pastorale Op.151

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Gabriel Fauré - Sicilienne Op.78

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Petko Stainov - Horsemen, ballad for men's choir

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Hugo Alfvén - Swedish Rhapsody no.1 'Midsummer Vigil'

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Miles Davis - Blue in Green

1959-08-17

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

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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov - Dance of the Tumblers (Snow Maiden Suite)

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Alexander Borodin - Symphony No 2 in B minor (4th mvt)

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Antonio Vivaldi - Gloria in D major, RV.589

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Charles Villiers Stanford - The Blue Bird (8 Partsongs Op.119)

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Léo Delibes - Pizzicato (Sylvia)

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

2025-06-05

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Richard Wagner - Lohengrin (Act 3 Prelude)

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Edvard Grieg - Holberg Suite, Op.40 (Praeludium)

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Johann Sebastian Bach - Cello Suite No 1 in G major, BWV 1007 (Prelude)

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Samuel Barber - Adagio for Strings, Op 11

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Amy Woodforde-Finden - Kashmiri Song (4 Indian Love Lyrics)

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Modest Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition

2016-04-01

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Anna Clyne - Cello Concerto 'Dance' (When You're Broken Up)

1971

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Charles Ives - The Unanswered Question

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Florence Price - Symphony no.1 in E Minor (3rd mvt)

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Bedrich Smetana - Vltava (Ma Vlast)

1994-08-05

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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov - The Flight of the Bumblebee (The Tale of Tsar Saltan)

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