BBC Radio 3

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Most popular songs in BBC Radio 3 playlist

Title

Popularity

First heard

Last heard

Felix Mendelssohn - The Hebrides Overture 'Fingal's Cave', Op.26

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

12months50%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Charles Villiers Stanford - The Blue Bird

2016-01-01

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

12months60.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Edvard Grieg - Holberg Suite for strings, Op 40 (Air)

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months30%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 5 days ago

Dobrinka Tabakova - Turn our captivity, O Lord

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

12months30%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 3 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

Edward Elgar - Serenade for Strings in E minor Op.20

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.04%

6months30.01%

12months40%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 16 days ago

John Ireland - Satyricon

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

12months30%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Giuseppe Verdi - Brindisi (La traviata)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

12months50%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Johann Sebastian Bach - Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

12months50%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Lili Boulanger - Cortège

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

12months30%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Trad. - The Lark in the Clear Air

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months60.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Leos Janáček - Vlci stopa (The wolf's trail) for soprano, female choir & piano

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

12months30%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 3 months ago

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

2002-04-15

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Ottorino Respighi - Bergamasca (Ancient Airs and Dances Suite no.2)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

12months30%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Gustav Holst - A Winter Idyll

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

12months30%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 4 months ago

Darius Milhaud - Brazileira (Scaramouche)

2019-04-26

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

12months60.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months 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

Eugen Suchon - Ballade for Horn and Orchestra

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months50%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 19 days ago

Franz Schubert - Piano Trio in E flat, 'Notturno'

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days20.04%

6months30.01%

12months40%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 6 days ago

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

2023-06-30

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months60.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 15 days ago

Hilda Sehested - 3 Fantasy pieces

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

12months50%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 3 months ago

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

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

12months50%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

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

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 22 days ago

Dmitry Shostakovich - Romance (The Gadfly)

2019-05-24

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

12months60.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Johannes Brahms - Academic Festival Overture Op.80

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months90.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 11 days ago

Rudolf Matz - Ballade for violin, cello & piano

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months60.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 14 days ago

Isaac Albéniz - Asturias (Suite española, Op 47)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months50%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 11 days ago

Johannes Brahms - Piano Concerto No 1 in D minor, Op 15

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months50%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 days ago

Catriona McKay - Swan LK243

Popularity:

7days00%

28days30.07%

6months30.01%

12months30%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 10 days ago

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor - Children's Intermezzo (Othello)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

12months50%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 3 months ago

Herbert Howells - A Spotless rose

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

12months30%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 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

Antoine Reicha - Oboe Quintet in F major, Op 107

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 16 days ago

Camille Saint‐Saëns - Danse macabre Op.40

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 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

Alice Mary Smith - The Masque of Pandora (Two Intermezzi)

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months50%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 days ago

Grażyna Bacewicz - Overture

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

12months30%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 3 months ago

Maddalena Laura Sirmen - String Quartet no.2 in B flat major (2nd mvt)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

12months50%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Mel Bonis - Narcisse

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

12months30%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Claude Debussy - Syrinx

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

12months60.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No 2 in D major, Op 36 (3rd mvt)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 3 months ago

Dobrinka Tabakova - Pirin

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

12months40%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Giuseppe Verdi - The Force of Destiny (Overture)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months40%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 8 days ago

John Barry - Out of Africa (Main Title)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months50%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 23 days ago

Edward Elgar - Cello Concerto in E minor, Op 85 (1st mvt)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

12months40%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 3 months ago

César Franck - Panis angelicus (Mass Op.12)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

12months40%

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 22 days ago

John Williams - Hedwig's Theme (Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone)

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months60.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 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 19 days ago

Edward Elgar - Introduction & Allegro

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

12months80.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 3 months ago

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