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Most popular songs in BBC Radio 3 playlist

Title

Popularity

First heard

Last heard

Franz Schubert - Overture in C minor D.8 for strings

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months20%

12months20%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 21 days ago

Benjamin Britten - Playful Pizzicato (Simple Symphony)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months20%

12months40%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard a month ago

John Dowland - Time stands still

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months40.01%

12months50%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 14 days ago

Athanasius Kircher - Tarantella napoletana, Tono hypodorico

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months10%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 9 days ago

Guillaume de Machaut - Ballade 32, 'Ploures, dames'

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months20%

12months30%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 11 days ago

Richard Wagner - Parsifal (Act 1 Prelude)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months20%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 22 days ago

Franz Schubert - 6 Deutsche Tänze, D820

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months20%

12months30%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 19 days ago

Maurice Ravel - Oiseaux tristes (Miroirs)

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months20%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 7 days ago

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov - Quintet in B flat major (3rd mvt)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months40.01%

12months60.01%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 9 days ago

Imant Raminsh - Ave Verum Corpus

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months20%

12months20%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Dora Pejačević - Four piano pieces

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months20%

12months40%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 3 days ago

George Frideric Handel - Giulio Cesare in Egitto (Act 3: Sinfonia)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months10%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 8 days ago

John Dowland - Semper Dowland, Semper Dolens

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months10%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 4 days ago

Lilian Elkington - Out of the Mist

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months30%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Ralph Vaughan Williams - Folk songs from Somerset (English Folk Song Suite)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months20%

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First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 21 days ago

Johannes Brahms - Violin Concerto in D major, Op.77 (3rd mvt)

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months30%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard a day ago

Ralph Vaughan Williams - A London Symphony (3rd mvt)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months20%

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First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 9 days ago

Franz Schubert - String Quintet in C major (2nd mvt)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months10%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 19 days ago

Lili Boulanger - Psalm XXIV, LB 36

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months20%

12months30%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 23 days ago

Ennio Morricone - Cinema Paradiso (Main Theme)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months10%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 9 days ago

Felix Mendelssohn - Symphony no.4 in A major, Op.90 'Italian' (1st mvt)

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months40%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 2 days ago

Giacomo Puccini - O mio babbino caro (Gianni Schicchi)

2021-11-12

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months50.02%

12months90.01%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 8 days ago

Johann Sebastian Bach - Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 639, chorale prelude

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months20%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 16 days ago

Sergey Rachmaninov - Symphony no.2 in E minor, Op.27

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months20%

12months20%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 23 days ago

Leroy Anderson - The Syncopated Clock

2008-06-24

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months20%

12months40%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 14 days ago

Gaetano Donizetti - Una furtiva lagrima (L'elisir d'amore)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months20%

12months40%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 17 days ago

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov - Salieri's Aria from Mozart and Salieri - opera in 1 act, Op 48

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months20%

12months30%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 20 days ago

Francesco Cavalli - Salve Regina (Hail, Holy Queen)

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months40.01%

12months50%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 6 days ago

William Byrd - Mass for 3 voices (Agnus Dei)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months20%

12months40%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 13 days ago

Johannes Hieronymus Kapsberger - Toccata Arpeggiata

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months20%

12months30%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard a day ago

Maurice Ravel - Alborada del gracioso

1994

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months130.04%

12months240.04%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 2 days ago

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Clarinet Concerto in A major K.622 (3rd mvt)

2025-04-04

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months80.03%

12months170.03%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 2 days ago

Jean Sibelius - Andante Festivo

2003-09-01

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months80.03%

12months180.03%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 6 days ago

Leonard Bernstein - West Side Story (Overture)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months10%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 19 days ago

Kristina Arakelyan - Dreamland

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months20%

12months40%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 17 days ago

Johannes Brahms - Double Concerto (3rd mvt)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months40.01%

12months40%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 20 days ago

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

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months60.01%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 9 days ago

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Serenade in C minor K.388 (4th mvt)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months20%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 12 days ago

Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony no.2 in D major Op.36 (4th mvt)

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months50%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 19 hours ago

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina - Sicut Cervus

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months20%

12months60.01%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Camille Saint‐Saëns - Havanaise

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months20%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 19 days ago

Johann Sebastian Bach - Mass in B minor (Sanctus and Osanna)

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months10%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 4 days ago

Johann Sebastian Bach - Prelude and Fugue in F minor, BWV.881 (Book 2, The Well-Tempered Clavier)

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months30%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 3 days ago

Max Steiner - Gone with the Wind (main title)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months20%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 18 days ago

Benjamin Britten - Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes (Dawn)

1976-01-01

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months90.03%

12months140.02%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 10 days ago

Joaquín Rodrigo - Canario (Fantasía para un gentilhombre)

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months50.02%

12months80.01%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 7 days ago

Aaron Copland - Buckaroo Holiday (Four Dance Episodes from Rodeo)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months20%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 12 days ago

Maurice Ravel - Piano Concerto in G Major, M. 83: II. Adagio assai

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months20%

12months20%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 16 days ago

Richard Wagner - Der Engel (Wesendonck-Lieder)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months10%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 22 days ago

Claude Debussy - Clair de lune (Suite bergamasque)

2018-07-27

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months60.02%

12months120.02%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 16 days ago

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97%

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