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Most popular songs in BBC Radio 3 playlist

Title

Popularity

First heard

Last heard

Frederick Delius - The Walk to the Paradise Garden (A Village Romeo and Juliet)

1997-01-01

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days20.04%

6months50.02%

12months120.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 4 days ago

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor - Clarinet Quintet in F sharp minor (2nd mvt)

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days20.04%

6months30.01%

12months30%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 5 days ago

Camille Saint‐Saëns - Cello Concerto no.2 in D minor Op.119 (2nd mvt)

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months10%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 5 days ago

Florence Price - Dances in the Canebrakes (Nimble Feet)

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months10%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 6 days ago

Trad. - Scarborough Fair

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months40.01%

12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 7 days ago

Felix Mendelssohn - Piano Trio No 1 in D minor, Op 49 (Finale)

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months10%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 5 days ago

Dmitry Shostakovich - Foxtrot (Suite for Jazz Band no.1)

2002-04-15

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months40.01%

12months80.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 5 days ago

Louise Farrenc - Nonet in E flat major Op.38 (3rd mvt)

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months30%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 7 days ago

Jean Sibelius - Symphony No 4 in A minor, Op 63 (1st & 2nd mvts)

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months10%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 6 days ago

Franz Schubert - Octet in F major, D 803 (3rd mvt)

2025-04-17

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months20%

12months100.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a day ago

Leonard Bernstein - Symphonic Dances from West Side Story

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months60.02%

12months100.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 7 days ago

Jacques Ibert - Three Short Pieces

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months20%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 4 days ago

Jean Sibelius - The Oceanides, Op 73

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months20%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 5 days ago

Grażyna Bacewicz - Serenade for orchestra

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months20%

12months30%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 8 days ago

Jean‐Marie Leclair - Badinage & Chaconne from Deuxieme Recreation de musique d'une execution facile

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months20%

12months20%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 5 days ago

Hugo Alfvén - Shepherd Girl's dance (The Mountain king)

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months60.02%

12months120.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 5 days ago

Camille Saint‐Saëns - Danse macabre Op.40

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days20.04%

6months50.02%

12months90.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 6 days ago

Jacobus Clemens non Papa - Carole magnus eras

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months20%

12months40%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 6 days ago

Johann Franz Xaver Sterkel - Duet No 3 for 2 violas

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months20%

12months30%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 8 days ago

Meredith Monk - Ellis Island

2014-03-21

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days20.04%

6months70.02%

12months120.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 days ago

Edward Elgar - Elegy Op.58

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months20%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 7 days ago

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

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days20.04%

6months30.01%

12months30%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 days ago

Léo Delibes - Waltz (Coppelia)

2007

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months60.02%

12months120.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 5 days ago

Franz Schubert - Piano Trio in E flat major, D.929 (2nd mvt)

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months40%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 6 days ago

Luigi Boccherini - Quintet No. 4 in D Major G 448 IV. Fandango

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months10%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 4 days ago

Bedrich Smetana - The Bartered Bride (Overture)

2012-09-11

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months80.03%

12months160.03%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 6 days ago

Domenico Scarlatti & Walter Gieseking - Chaconne on a Theme by Scarlatti after Keyboard Sonata in D minor K 32

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months20%

12months30%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 8 days ago

Leonard Bernstein - Mambo (West Side Story)

1961

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months80.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 6 days ago

Manuel Ponce - Scherzino mexicano

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months20%

12months20%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 3 days ago

Duchess Maria Antonia of Bavaria - Sinfonia from 'Talestri, Regina delle Amazzoni' - Dramma per musica

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months20%

12months30%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 3 days ago

César Franck - Piano Quintet in F minor

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months20%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 6 days ago

Ludwig van Beethoven - Adagio in E flat (WoO.43 No.2) for mandolin and piano

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months20%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 7 days ago

Antonio Vivaldi - Summer (The Four Seasons)

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months10%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 4 days ago

Muriel Herbert - Loveliest of trees

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months10%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 5 days ago

William Grant Still - Summerland

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months20%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 7 days ago

Florence Price - Symphony no.1 in E Minor (3rd mvt)

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months20%

12months50%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 days ago

Sergey Rachmaninov - Waltz (2 Pieces for piano 6 hands)

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months20%

12months20%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 6 days ago

Percy Grainger - Molly on the shore

2012-03-01

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days20.04%

6months80.03%

12months180.03%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a day ago

Johannes Brahms - Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat, op. 83

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months10%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 7 days ago

Christoph Willibald Gluck - Ballet music from 'Paris e Helena'

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months20%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 8 days ago

François Couperin - Les baricades mistérieuses (Pieces de clavecin - ordre no. 6)

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months40%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a day ago

Johann Strauss II - Die Fledermaus (Overture)

1976-01-01

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days20.04%

6months60.02%

12months110.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 5 days ago

Johannes Brahms - Clarinet Sonata No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 120 No. 1: II. Andante

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months10%

First heard 3 days ago

Last heard 3 days ago

Ralph Vaughan Williams - The Roadside Fire (Songs of Travel)

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months10%

First heard 3 days ago

Last heard 3 days ago

Hildegard von Bingen - O choruscans lux stellarum

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months10%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 2 days ago

César Franck - Violin sonata in A major (4th mvt)

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months40.01%

12months100.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 7 days ago

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov - The Sea and Sinbad's Ship (Scheherazade Op.35)

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months10%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 7 days ago

Édouard Lalo - Symphonie espagnole Op.21 (5th mvt)

1981-01-01

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months50.02%

12months130.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 3 days ago

Edward Elgar - Symphony no.2 in E flat major Op.63 (3rd mvt)

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days20.04%

6months40.01%

12months60.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 7 days ago

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

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months20%

12months20%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 5 days ago

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