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Most popular songs in BBC Radio 3 playlist

Title

Popularity

First heard

Last heard

Edward Elgar - Introduction & Allegro

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

12months80.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 3 months ago

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

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months50%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 23 days ago

Henry Purcell - Let mine eyes run down with tears, Z.24

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months40%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 20 days 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

Felix Mendelssohn - Symphony No 5 in D major, Op 107, 'Reformation'

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.04%

6months30.01%

12months40%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 15 days ago

Ludwig van Beethoven - Piano Concerto No 1 in C major, Op 15 (3rd mvt)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months60.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 24 days ago

Luka Sorkocevic - Symphony no 3 in D major

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months80.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 11 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

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

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.04%

6months30.01%

12months30%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 13 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

Claude Debussy - Estampes

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months60.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 20 days ago

Henry Purcell - Sound the trumpet (Come ye sons of art)

2009-11-10

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

12months90.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Wilhelm Stenhammar - Varnatt (Spring Night)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months60.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 14 days ago

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

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Amilcare Ponchielli - Dance of the Hours (La Gioconda)

2012-01-01

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

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12months60.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 22 days ago

Edvard Grieg - Last Spring, Op 33 no 2

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

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

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months40%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 24 days 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

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

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

12months40%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

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

2024-01-12

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

12months50%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 4 months ago

Sergey Prokofiev - The Young Juliet (Romeo and Juliet)

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months80.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 5 days ago

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

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

12months40%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Gerald Finzi - Eclogue in F major Op.10

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

12months80.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Christian Sinding - The Rustle of Spring (6 Pieces Op.32)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months50%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 24 days ago

Giacomo Puccini - Che gelida manina (La bohème)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

12months60.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 3 months ago

Herbert Howells - Requiem

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

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12months50%

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

John Dowland - Time stands still

Popularity:

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28days00%

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12months50%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

John Adams - Tromba lontana

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 4 months 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

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

George Gershwin - 3 Preludes

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

12months30%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 4 months ago

Dobrinka Tabakova - Desert Swimmers

2022-08-31

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months30%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 22 days ago

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

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months60.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 19 days ago

Michael Tippett - Steal away (5 Spirituals from A Child of Our Time)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

12months50%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Claude Debussy - Reverie

2012-01-01

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

12months90.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month 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

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

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 3 months ago

Richard Strauss - Serenade in E flat major, Op.7

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

John Ireland - Satyricon

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

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12months30%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Edgar Bainton - And I saw a new heaven

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 5 months ago

Maurice Ravel - Valses nobles et sentimentales

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months60.01%

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

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

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

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12months30%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 22 days ago

Igor Stravinsky - Pulcinella, ballet suite

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months40%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 25 days ago

Arthur Bliss - Things to come (March)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 4 months ago

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

2019-10-11

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Ronald Binge - The Water Mill

2017-12-13

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months60.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Jennifer Higdon - Harp Concerto (Lullaby)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months40%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 8 days ago

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