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Most popular songs in BBC Radio 3 playlist

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Igor Stravinsky - Pulcinella Suite (Sinfonia)

Popularity:

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First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 9 days ago

Fritz Kreisler - Schön Rosmarin - Old Viennese Dance no.3

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First heard 3 years ago

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Franz Liszt - Orpheus

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First heard 3 years ago

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

Popularity:

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First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 25 days ago

Kate Bush - This Woman's Work

1989-10-16

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First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Max Bruch - Kol nidrei Op.47

Popularity:

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First heard 3 years ago

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Antonín Dvořák - Piano Quintet no.2 in A major Op.81 (3rd mvt)

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First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 14 days ago

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

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First heard 3 years ago

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Gioachino Rossini - La danza (Soirées musicales)

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First heard 3 years ago

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Johann Sebastian Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No 3 in G major, BWV 1048 (2nd mvt)

2000-09-20

Popularity:

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First heard 3 years ago

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Steve Reich - Electric Counterpoint (Fast)

Popularity:

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First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 4 days ago

Max Bruch - Violin Concerto No 1 in G minor, Op 26 (2nd mvt)

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Edward Elgar - Enigma Variations, Op 36 (Variation 9, 'Nimrod')

2020-01-10

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First heard 3 years ago

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Edvard Grieg - Holberg Suite, Op 40

2001-01-01

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First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 24 days ago

Robert Schumann - Piano Quartet in E flat, Op.47 (3rd mvt)

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First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 15 days ago

Florence Price - An Elf on a Moonbeam

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First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 3 months ago

Gabriel Fauré - Après un rêve

Popularity:

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First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 4 months ago

Fanny Mendelssohn - Piano Sonata in C minor

Popularity:

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First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 19 days ago

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

Popularity:

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First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Luise Adolpha Le Beau - Cello Sonata Op.17 (3rd mvt)

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First heard 3 years ago

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Claude Debussy - Syrinx for solo flute

Popularity:

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First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 20 days ago

Liza Lehmann - If no one ever marries me (The Daisy Chain)

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First heard 3 years ago

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

Popularity:

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First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 18 days ago

Dani Howard - Argentum

Popularity:

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First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 20 days ago

Petko Stainov - Horsemen, ballad for men's choir

Popularity:

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First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 9 days ago

Franz Schubert - 3 Songs: 'Liebesbotschaft', 'Heidenroslein' and 'Litanei auf das Fest'

Popularity:

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First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Rebecca Dale - Salve Regina

Popularity:

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First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 6 days ago

Rachel Portman - flight

2021-12-10

Popularity:

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First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 17 days ago

Carl Maria von Weber - Oberon (Overture)

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First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Joseph Haydn - Divertimento for 2 flutes and cello in C major, Hob.4.1, 'London trio' No 1

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First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 4 months ago

Ennio Morricone - Gabriel's Oboe (The Mission)

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First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Pauline Viardot - Havanaise

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First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 9 hours ago

Arvo Pärt - Morning Star

Popularity:

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First heard 3 years ago

Last heard a month ago

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

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First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Joaquín Rodrigo - Concierto de Aranjuez

Popularity:

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First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 7 days ago

Gertrude van den Bergh - Rondeau, Op 3

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First heard 3 years ago

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Gerald Finzi - Introit, Op 6

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First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

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

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First heard 3 years ago

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Dorothy Howell - Lamia

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First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

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

2025-06-05

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Sergey Rachmaninov - Variations on a theme of Corelli, Op 42

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First heard 3 years ago

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Bedrich Smetana - Vltava (Ma Vlast)

1994-08-05

Popularity:

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First heard 3 years ago

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Dora Pejačević - Life of Flowers, Op 19

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First heard 3 years ago

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Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina - Sicut Cervus

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First heard 3 years ago

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Jessie Montgomery - Starburst

Popularity:

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First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 4 days ago

Giles Farnaby - Fancies, Toyes and Dreams

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First heard 3 years ago

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Bozidar Sirola - Missa Poetica

Popularity:

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First heard 3 years ago

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Arnold Bax - 4 Orchestral Sketches (Dance in the Sun)

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Thea Musgrave - Loch Ness - a postcard from Scotland for orchestra

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First heard 3 years ago

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Bob Marley - Redemption Song

1980

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