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Most popular songs in BBC Radio 3 playlist

Title

Popularity

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Last heard

Alexander Scriabin - Piano Sonata no 4 in F sharp major, Op 30

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months20%

12months30%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 10 days ago

Peter Warlock - Capriol Suite

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months50.02%

12months70.01%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 14 days ago

Domenico Scarlatti - Sonata in E minor, K.81, arranged for recorder and harpsichord

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months40%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 4 days ago

Carl Nielsen - Adagio con sentimento religioso, 2nd movement from String Quartet (Op.44)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months20%

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First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 17 days ago

Sergey Rachmaninov - 13 Preludes Op.32 for piano; no.5 in G major

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months20%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 15 days ago

Béla Bartók - Romanian Folk Dances Sz.56

Popularity:

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28days10.02%

6months20%

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First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 14 days ago

Antonín Dvořák - Slavonic Dance in E minor Op.72 no.2

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months50.02%

12months110.02%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 15 days ago

Joseph Haydn - Symphony No 101 in D major, 'The Clock' (4th mvt)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months10%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 11 days ago

Francesco Cavalli - Lauda Jerusalem (psalm 147, 'How good it is to sing praises to our God')

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months40%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 21 days ago

Maurice Ravel - String Quartet in F major (2nd mvt)

2010-04-14

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months70.02%

12months150.03%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 4 days ago

Antonín Dvořák - Symphony no.8 in G major Op.88 (3rd mvt)

2022-11-18

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months60.02%

12months60.01%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 11 days ago

Gioachino Rossini - The Barber of Seville (Overture)

1961

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months110.02%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 21 days ago

Hubert Parry - Jerusalem

2007-08-03

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months30%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 10 days ago

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - The Magic Flute (Overture)

1984-01-01

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months60.02%

12months110.02%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 9 days ago

Fritz Kreisler - Liebesleid

1999-03-31

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months90.03%

12months130.02%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 13 days ago

Albert Roussel - Le Festin de l'araignee - symphonic fragments, Op 17

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months10%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 6 days ago

Claude Debussy - Clair de lune (Suite bergamasque)

2018-07-27

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months60.02%

12months140.02%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 20 days ago

Frédéric Chopin - Nocturne in D flat major, Op 27 No 2

2024-08-26

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months70.02%

12months130.02%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 19 days ago

Eleanor Daley - Upon Your Heart

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months20%

12months40%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 5 days ago

Eugene Goossens - Fantasy for nine wind instruments (Op.36)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months10%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 24 days ago

Edward Elgar - Salut d'amour Op.12

Popularity:

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28days10.02%

6months20%

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First heard 3 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Edward Elgar - La capricieuse, Op.17

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months20%

12months50%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 9 days ago

Joseph Haydn - Trumpet Concerto in E flat major

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months60.01%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 14 days ago

Florence Price - Adoration

2023-04-14

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months70.02%

12months150.03%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 9 days ago

Joseph Haydn - Cello Concerto no.1 in C major H.7b.1 (1st mvt)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months40%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 8 days ago

Arvo Pärt - The Deer's Cry

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months20%

12months50%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 6 days ago

Ola Gjeilo - Ubi Caritas

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months30%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard a month ago

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

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months40.01%

12months60.01%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 3 days ago

Christoph Willibald Gluck - Ballet music from 'Paris e Helena'

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months20%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 14 days ago

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina - Stabat Mater for 8 voices

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months20%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 16 days ago

Joseph Haydn - Cello concerto no. 2 in D major H.7b.2

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months20%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Ariel Kalma, Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer - Écoute Au Loin

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months20%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 15 days ago

Francesca Caccini - Maria, dolce Maria - from Il primo libro delle musiche a una, e due voci

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months20%

12months60.01%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 5 days ago

George Frideric Handel - Music for the Royal Fireworks (La réjouissance)

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months40.01%

12months80.01%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 5 days ago

Giovanni Battista Viotti - Duo concertante in G major

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months20%

12months30%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 9 days ago

Johann Strauss II - The Blue Danube

2009-11-23

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months20%

12months50%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 14 days ago

Gerald Finzi - Romance for String Orchestra, op.11

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months10%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 23 days ago

Fernando Sor - Introduction and variations on a theme from Mozart's Magic Flute, Op 9

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months40.01%

12months50%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 4 days ago

Maurice Ravel - Piano Trio in A minor (1914)

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months40.01%

12months50%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 5 days ago

Joseph Haydn - The heavens are telling (The Creation)

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months20%

12months20%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 4 days ago

Joan Armatrading - Love and Affection

1976-01-01

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months10%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 2 days ago

Gustav Holst - Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity (The Planets)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

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First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 19 days ago

Johann Sebastian Bach - Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden BWV.230

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months10%

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First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 24 days ago

Emilie Mayer - Symphony no.6 in E major (4th mvt)

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months20%

12months20%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 2 days ago

Claudio Monteverdi - Laetatus sum

Popularity:

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28days10.02%

6months20%

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First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 21 days ago

Pietro Locatelli - Concerto grosso in F major Op.1'1

Popularity:

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28days10.02%

6months10%

12months20%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 15 days ago

Felix Mendelssohn - Sextet for piano and strings in D major, Op 110

Popularity:

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28days10.02%

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First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 10 days ago

Claudio Monteverdi - 2 madrigals: O come sei gentile, caro augellino; Tirsi e Clori

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months10%

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First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 6 days ago

George Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue

1959

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months70.02%

12months220.04%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Claude Debussy - Beau Soir

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months40.01%

12months90.01%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 8 days ago

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