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Most popular songs in BBC Radio 3 playlist

Title

Popularity

First heard

Last heard

Dmitri Kabalevsky - Colas Breugnon Op.24 (Overture)

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days20.04%

6months30.01%

12months60.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 4 days ago

George Frideric Handel - Water Music: Suite in F major, HWV 348 (Air)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.04%

6months40.01%

12months40%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 8 days ago

Maurice Ravel - La Valse

2016-01-15

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.04%

6months80.03%

12months140.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 14 days ago

Sergey Prokofiev - Symphony No 1 in D major, Op 25, 'Classical' (4th mvt)

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days20.04%

6months40.01%

12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 6 days ago

Maurice Ravel - Le tombeau de Couperin

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.04%

6months60.02%

12months80.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 12 days ago

Jean Sibelius - Finlandia, Op 26

2001-09-01

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.04%

6months100.03%

12months200.03%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 17 days ago

Maurice Ravel - Alborada del gracioso

1994

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.04%

6months100.03%

12months180.03%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 11 days ago

Johannes Brahms - Symphony No. 2 In D Major Op.73

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.04%

6months30.01%

12months40%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 24 days ago

Astor Piazzolla - Ave Maria

Popularity:

7days20.18%

28days20.04%

6months30.01%

12months40%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 8 hours ago

Meredith Monk - Ellis Island

2014-03-21

Popularity:

7days20.18%

28days20.04%

6months70.02%

12months110.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 11 hours ago

Rachel Portman - flight

2021-12-10

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.04%

6months20%

12months20%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 17 days ago

Claude Debussy - Arabesque No.1 in E major

2024-08-07

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.04%

6months60.02%

12months190.03%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 8 days ago

Richard Strauss - Horn Concerto No 1 in E flat major, Op 11 (3rd mvt)

Popularity:

7days20.18%

28days20.04%

6months20%

12months20%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 6 days ago

Anna Thorvaldsdottir - Heyr þú oss himnum á

2016-08-05

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.04%

6months50.02%

12months100.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 13 days ago

Lili Boulanger - D'un matin de printemps

1999-07-01

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days20.04%

6months90.03%

12months180.03%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 6 days ago

Modest Mussorgsky - A Night on the Bare Mountain

2016-10-14

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days20.04%

6months60.02%

12months100.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 17 hours ago

Johann Sebastian Bach - Cello Suite No 1 in G major, BWV 1007 (Prelude)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.04%

6months20%

12months60.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 18 days ago

Richard Strauss - An Alpine Symphony

Popularity:

7days20.18%

28days20.04%

6months20%

12months30%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 2 days ago

George Butterworth - The Banks of Green Willow

1993-01-01

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.04%

6months100.03%

12months190.03%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 10 days ago

Marin Marais - La sonnerie de Sainte-Geneviève du Mont de Paris

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days20.04%

6months40.01%

12months80.01%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 4 days ago

Julius Fucik - Entry of The Gladiators

1997-01-01

Popularity:

7days20.18%

28days20.04%

6months30.01%

12months50%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 3 days ago

Gioachino Rossini - The Thieving Magpie (Overture)

1989-06-15

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days20.04%

6months60.02%

12months110.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 6 days ago

Camille Saint‐Saëns - Piano Trio No 2 in E minor, Op 92

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.04%

6months20%

12months20%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 23 days ago

Elfrida Andrée - Concert Overture in D major

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.04%

6months30.01%

12months50%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 12 days ago

Jean Sibelius - Tapiola, op. 112

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days20.04%

6months30.01%

12months40%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 5 days ago

George Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue

1959

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.04%

6months120.04%

12months210.04%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 18 days ago

Evelyn Glennie - A Little Prayer

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days20.04%

6months60.02%

12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a day ago

Joaquín Rodrigo - Canario (Fantasía para un gentilhombre)

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days20.04%

6months40.01%

12months80.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 4 days ago

Maurice Ravel - Jeux d'eau

2011-06-28

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.04%

6months120.04%

12months230.04%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 12 days ago

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Ave verum corpus, K 618

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.04%

6months40.01%

12months80.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 13 days ago

Leos Janáček - Zdenka's Variations arr. for wind quintet

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.04%

6months20%

12months20%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 12 days ago

George Gershwin - Strike up the Band (Overture)

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days20.04%

6months30.01%

12months40%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 2 days ago

Percy Grainger - Molly on the shore

2012-03-01

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days20.04%

6months100.03%

12months180.03%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 4 days ago

Zoltán Kodály - Intermezzo (Hary Janos Suite, Op.35a)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.04%

6months50.02%

12months90.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 16 days ago

Christoph Willibald Gluck - Orfeo ed Euridice (Overture)

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days20.04%

6months20%

12months30%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 17 hours ago

Frédéric Chopin - Piano Sonata No 3 in B minor Op 58

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.04%

6months40.01%

12months50%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 21 days ago

Thomas Tallis - Spem in alium

2006-01-05

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days20.04%

6months90.03%

12months200.03%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 7 days ago

Orlando Gibbons - The Silver swan

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days20.04%

6months30.01%

12months70.01%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 6 days ago

Ralph Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis

1972-10-01

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.04%

6months90.03%

12months220.04%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 10 days ago

Claude Debussy - Tarantelle styrienne

2024-07-30

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.04%

6months50.02%

12months110.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 13 days ago

Johann Sebastian Bach - Oboe Concerto in G minor

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.04%

6months40.01%

12months40%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 22 days ago

Joseph Haydn - String Quartet in D minor, Op 42

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days20.04%

6months30.01%

12months50%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a day ago

Claude Debussy - En bateau (Petite suite)

2011-05-03

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days20.04%

6months90.03%

12months160.03%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 5 days ago

Emmanuel Chabrier - España

1996-01-01

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.04%

6months80.03%

12months140.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 12 days ago

George Gershwin - An American In Paris

1959

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.04%

6months120.04%

12months170.03%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 8 days ago

William Byrd - Ave verum corpus

2023-06-02

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.04%

6months50.02%

12months100.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 17 days ago

Samuel Barber - Agnus Dei

2019-01-18

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days20.04%

6months40.01%

12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 5 days ago

Alexander Borodin - In the Steppes of Central Asia

2005-08-01

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days20.04%

6months140.05%

12months230.04%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 7 days ago

Camille Saint‐Saëns - Havanaise Op.83

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days20.04%

6months60.02%

12months60.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 3 days ago

Claude Debussy - L'isle joyeuse

1989-01-01

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.04%

6months110.04%

12months180.03%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

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