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Most popular songs in BBC Radio 3 playlist

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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker (Waltz of the Flowers)

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Last heard 5 months ago

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach - Flute Sonata in G major, Wq.133/H.564 'Hamburger Sonata'

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Anton Bruckner - Symphony No 8 in C Minor

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Bob Marley - Redemption Song

1980

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 20 days ago

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

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First heard 2 years ago

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Alexander Borodin - String Quartet no. 2 in D major (3rd mvt)

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 10 days ago

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

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 19 days ago

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor - Romance, Op 39

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First heard 2 years ago

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Joby Talbot - Transit of Venus

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Max Bruch - Kol nidrei Op.47

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 18 days ago

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina - Fundamenta ejus - motet for 4 voices

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 4 months ago

Elizabeth Poston - Jesus Christ the apple tree

2023-09-26

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 4 months ago

Maurice Duruflé - Quatre motets sur des themes gregoriens, Op 10

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 21 days ago

Maurice Ravel - Piano Trio in A minor

2025-03-20

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First heard 2 years ago

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Isaac Albéniz - Catalunya; Sevilla - from Suite Espanola No 1

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First heard 2 years ago

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Giuseppe Tartini - Trumpet Concerto in D major

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First heard 2 years ago

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Cécile Chaminade - Trio No.1 in G minor (3rd mvt)

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Camille Saint‐Saëns - The Swan (Carnival of the Animals)

2020-09-25

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.04%

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 11 days ago

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

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

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John Dowland - Can She Excuse My Wrongs

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Ennio Morricone - Gabriel's Oboe (The Mission)

Popularity:

7days10.09%

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 4 days ago

Antonio Vivaldi - Gloria in D major, RV.589

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

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

2020-01-10

Popularity:

7days00%

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 19 days ago

Stanislaw Moniuszko - Ballet Music for the Merry Wives of Windsor by Otto Nicolai

Popularity:

7days10.09%

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 days ago

Frédéric Chopin - Study in G flat major, Op 25 No 9 (Butterfly)

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Manuel de Falla - The Miller's Dance (The Three-Cornered Hat)

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

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Bedrich Smetana - Vltava (Ma Vlast)

1994-08-05

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 3 months ago

Edvard Grieg - 4 Symphonic Dances, Op 64 (No 1, Allegro moderato e marcato)

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 4 months ago

Dorothy Howell - 2 Pieces for Muted Strings

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 5 days ago

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

2019-10-11

Popularity:

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George Frideric Handel - Sinfonia, 'Arrival of the Queen of Sheba' (Solomon)

Popularity:

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Claude Debussy - Rêverie

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 20 days ago

Gustav Holst - The Dargason (St Paul's Suite)

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Robert Schumann - Kinderszenen

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Grażyna Bacewicz - Suite for chamber orchestra

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 25 days ago

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina - Sicut Cervus

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 6 months ago

Johann Sebastian Bach - Organ Sonata no.4 BWV.528 (2nd mvt)

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Rondo for horn and orchestra in E flat, K 371

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Richard Wagner - Lohengrin (Act 3 Prelude)

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 18 days ago

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - The Sleeping Beauty (Panorama)

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 3 months ago

Johann Sebastian Bach - Sheep may safely graze (Cantata BWV.208)

Popularity:

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Johann Sebastian Bach - Magnificat in E flat major BWV.243a (Magnificat anima mea)

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

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Annabel Rooney - Keep me as the apple of the eye

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

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

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Paul Desmond - Take Five

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 6 days ago

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

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 12 days ago

Scott Joplin - Solace

2005-11-01

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 22 days ago

Orlande de Lassus - Pelli meae consumptis carnibus

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 13 days ago

Franz Schubert - 4 Impromptus D.899 (no.3 in G flat major)

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First heard 2 years ago

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

1971

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 17 days ago

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