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Most popular songs in BBC Radio 3 playlist

Title

Popularity

First heard

Last heard

Frederick Delius - On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring

2012-03-05

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months40.01%

12months140.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 3 months ago

Dmitry Shostakovich - Festive Overture Op.96

2011-12-13

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months20%

12months140.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Maria Theresia von Paradis - Sicilienne

2007-01-01

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days20.04%

6months50.02%

12months130.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 4 days ago

Frédéric Chopin - Nocturne in D flat major, Op 27 No 2

2024-08-26

Popularity:

7days00%

28days30.07%

6months70.02%

12months130.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 10 days ago

Scott Joplin - The Entertainer

1999-01-01

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.04%

6months80.03%

12months130.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 18 days ago

Leonard Bernstein - Wonderful Town (Overture)

2018-02-09

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months60.02%

12months130.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Christoph Willibald Gluck - Dance of the Blessed Spirits (Orfeo ed Euridice)

1995-01-01

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months70.02%

12months130.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard a month ago

Erik Satie - Je te veux

2018-04-20

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months70.02%

12months130.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 11 days ago

Elena Kats‐Chernin - Eliza's Aria (Wild Swans)

2019-03-29

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months70.02%

12months130.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard a month ago

Scott Joplin - Maple Leaf Rag

2004-07-28

Popularity:

7days00%

28days30.07%

6months80.03%

12months130.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 18 days ago

Joseph Haydn - Symphony no.59 in A major 'Fire' (4th mvt)

1990-08-22

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.04%

6months70.02%

12months130.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 13 days ago

John Tavener - Song for Athene

2019-01-18

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days20.04%

6months80.03%

12months130.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 5 days ago

Thomas Tallis - If ye love me

1988-09-01

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months70.02%

12months130.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard a month ago

Emmanuel Chabrier - Espana - rhapsody

1996-01-01

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months60.02%

12months130.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 6 days ago

Claude Debussy - Reverie

2012-01-01

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months70.02%

12months130.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard a month ago

Modest Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition

2016-04-01

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.04%

6months40.01%

12months130.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 10 days ago

Dmitry Shostakovich - Piano Concerto no.2 in F major Op.102 (2nd mvt)

2012-02-06

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.04%

6months80.03%

12months130.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 8 days ago

Claude Debussy - Tarantelle styrienne

2024-07-30

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months50.02%

12months120.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard a month ago

Johann Nepomuk Hummel - Trumpet Concerto in E flat major (3rd mvt)

2007-11-12

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months80.03%

12months120.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 20 days ago

Leonard Bernstein - Candide (Overture)

1960

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months80.03%

12months120.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 15 days ago

Maurice Ravel - Pavane Pour Une Infante Defunte

2016-01-15

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months50.02%

12months120.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 11 hours ago

Peter Ludwig Hertel - Clog Dance (La fille mal gardée)

2018-08-26

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months80.03%

12months120.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 17 days ago

Richard Wagner - Siegfried Idyll

2017-09-08

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months50.02%

12months120.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 17 days ago

Manuel de Falla - Ritual Fire Dance (El amor brujo)

2007-01-23

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months60.02%

12months120.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard a month ago

Gustav Holst - In the bleak midwinter

2021-10-15

Popularity:

7days20.18%

28days70.15%

6months70.02%

12months120.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 3 hours ago

Madeleine Dring - Festival Scherzo

2010-01-01

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months60.02%

12months120.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 2 months ago

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

1995-01-01

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months70.02%

12months120.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard a month ago

Antonín Dvořák - Symphony no.8 in G major Op.88 (3rd mvt)

2022-11-18

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months70.02%

12months120.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 23 days ago

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

1997-01-01

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days20.04%

6months80.03%

12months120.02%

First heard 10 months ago

Last heard 4 days ago

Anton Webern - Langsamer Satz

2012-09-04

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months70.02%

12months120.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 19 days ago

George Frideric Handel - Zadok the Priest

1995-01-01

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months50.02%

12months120.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard a month ago

Hubert Parry - I was glad

2019-08-30

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months70.02%

12months120.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard a month ago

Giacomo Puccini - Nessun dorma (Turandot)

1993-01-01

Popularity:

7days00%

28days30.07%

6months70.02%

12months120.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 9 days ago

Arvo Pärt - Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten

2010-03-02

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months50.02%

12months120.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard a month ago

Gioachino Rossini - The Thieving Magpie (Overture)

1989-06-15

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months50.02%

12months120.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard a month ago

Joseph Haydn - String Quartet in D major, Op.64'5 'The Lark' (1st mvt)

1977

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months60.02%

12months120.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Franz Lehár - Gold and Silver - Waltz Op.79

1995-05-17

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months70.02%

12months110.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard a month ago

Peter Warlock - Capriol Suite

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months40.01%

12months110.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Aaron Copland - Fanfare For The Common Man

1960

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months80.03%

12months110.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 8 days ago

Maurice Ravel - Rigaudon (Le tombeau de Couperin)

2013-11-05

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months50.02%

12months110.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 3 days ago

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

1990-10-01

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months50.02%

12months110.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 12 days ago

George Gershwin - Walking the Dog (Shall we Dance)

1991-01-01

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months60.02%

12months110.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 5 days ago

Eric Whitacre - Seal Lullaby

2010-01-01

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months50.02%

12months110.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 22 days ago

Johann Sebastian Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No 3 in G major, BWV 1048 (2nd mvt)

2000-09-20

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months70.02%

12months110.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 22 days ago

Sally Beamish - In the Stillness

Popularity:

7days20.18%

28days40.09%

6months60.02%

12months110.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 2 days ago

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

1981-01-01

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months60.02%

12months110.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 23 days ago

Darius Milhaud - Brazileira (Scaramouche)

2019-04-26

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months50.02%

12months110.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 6 days ago

Ralph Vaughan Williams - The Wasps (Overture)

1991-05-27

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months40.01%

12months110.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 20 days ago

Claude Debussy - En bateau (Petite suite)

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days40.09%

6months90.03%

12months110.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 6 days ago

Antonín Dvořák - Song to the Moon (Rusalka)

2021-11-19

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months40.01%

12months110.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Total: 1,000

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