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Most popular songs in BBC Radio 3 playlist

Title

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Antonín Dvořák - String Quartet in F major, Op 96, 'American' (Finale)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 8 days ago

Claude Debussy - Bruyères (Preludes Bk.2 no.5)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

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First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Einojuhani Rautavaara - Cantus Arcticus, Concerto for Birds and Orchestra, Op 61

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days20.04%

6months30.01%

12months60.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 3 days ago

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

2025-06-05

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 12 days ago

Arvo Pärt - Summa

Popularity:

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28days10.02%

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First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 17 days ago

Giacomo Puccini - Capriccio Sinfonico

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months50%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 7 days ago

Karl Jenkins - Palladio

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

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First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 6 days ago

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

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

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Eric Whitacre - Sing Gently

Popularity:

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Charles Gounod - Judex (Mors et Vita)

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

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Carl Maria von Weber - Clarinet Concerto no.1 in F minor Op.73 (3rd mvt)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

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First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Samuel Barber - Adagio for Strings, Op 11

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 19 days ago

Henry Purcell - Fantazia no.5 in B flat major Z.736

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 8 days ago

Henry Mancini - Moon River

1961

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 3 months ago

Camille Saint‐Saëns - Caprice for violin and piano, arr. Ysaye after Saint-Saens

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

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First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Herbert Howells - Like as the hart desireth the waterbrooks

Popularity:

7days00%

28days30.07%

6months30.01%

12months30%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Hilda Sehested - 3 Fantasy pieces

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 8 days ago

Sergey Rachmaninov - Symphony no.2 in E minor Op.27 (2nd mvt)

2023-06-30

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

12months50%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Ottorino Respighi - Spring (3 Botticelli Pictures)

1996-11-29

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

12months60.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Franz Schubert - Symphony No 8 in B Minor, D 759 'Unfinished' (1st mvt)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

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12months40%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Alessandro Marcello - Concerto in D minor for oboe and strings

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 3 months ago

Gioachino Rossini - La Cenerentola (Overture)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

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First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Béla Bartók - Concerto for Orchestra, Sz. 116

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months30%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 20 days ago

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Sonata for piano in C, K 545

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months40%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 7 days ago

Antonín Dvořák - String Quartet no.12 in F major Op.96 'American' (4th mvt)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

12months80.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 3 months ago

Rudolf Matz - Ballade for violin, cello & piano

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months50%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 20 days ago

Ester Mägi - Ballad 'Tuule Tuba' (House of Wind)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

12months40%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

John Barry - Out of Africa (Main Title)

Popularity:

7days00%

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Francis Poulenc - Sinfonietta: II. Molto vivace

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months30%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 7 days ago

Dieterich Buxtehude - Kantate No. 5 Ad Pectus - Sicut modo geniti

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Louise Farrenc - Symphony no 3 in G minor, Op 36

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Johannes Brahms - Academic Festival Overture Op.80

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months90.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 19 days ago

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Piano Sonata in B flat major, K.570

Popularity:

7days00%

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First heard 3 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Richard Strauss - Metamorphosen

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 3 months ago

Robert Schumann - Symphony no. 2 in C, op. 61

2014-11-21

Popularity:

7days00%

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Mel Bonis - Narcisse

Popularity:

7days00%

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 4 months ago

Frank Bridge - The Sea (Moonlight)

Popularity:

7days00%

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First heard 3 years ago

Last heard a month ago

George Frideric Handel - Concerto grosso in D major Op.3'6

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months50%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 8 days ago

Bob Marley - Redemption Song

1980

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

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First heard 3 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Johann Sebastian Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major, BWV 1048

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.04%

6months30.01%

12months30%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 23 days ago

Johann Nepomuk Hummel - Rondo in B minor Op.109

Popularity:

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6months30.01%

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Ralph Vaughan Williams - Norfolk Rhapsody no 1 in E minor

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

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First heard 2 years ago

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Georges Bizet - Jeux d'enfants, Op.22; Galop - Le Bal

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

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Ethel Smyth - March Of The Women

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

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John Cage - In a landscape

Popularity:

7days00%

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Sven-Eric Johanson - Fyra visor om arstiderna (4 songs about the Seasons)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

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First heard 3 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Antoine Reicha - Oboe Quintet in F major, Op 107

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months50%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 18 days ago

Georg Philipp Telemann - Concerto in A minor for Two Recorders, TWV.52:a2

Popularity:

7days00%

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First heard 2 years ago

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Giuseppe Verdi - La Traviata (Act 1 Prelude)

Popularity:

7days00%

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 3 months ago

Ludwig van Beethoven - Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 61: III. Rondo. Allegro

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

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First heard 2 years ago

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