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Most popular songs in BBC Radio 3 playlist

Title

Popularity

First heard

Last heard

Bedrich Smetana - Vltava (Ma Vlast)

1994-08-05

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months50.02%

12months90.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 20 days ago

Aaron Copland - Variations on a Shaker Hymn (Appalachian Spring)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months90.01%

First heard 10 months ago

Last heard 12 days ago

Arvo Pärt - Fratres

1995-04-01

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months50.02%

12months90.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Aram Khachaturian - Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia (Spartacus)

2007-07-02

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months20%

12months90.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

George Gershwin - Girl Crazy (Overture)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months40.01%

12months90.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Ralph Vaughan Williams - 5 Variants of 'Dives and Lazarus'

1972-10-01

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months50.02%

12months90.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 24 days ago

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - The Marriage of Figaro (Overture)

2009-01-01

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months40.01%

12months90.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 10 days ago

Arnold Schoenberg - Notturno

2020-01-17

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months40.01%

12months90.01%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Leonard Bernstein - Mambo (West Side Story)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months50.02%

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First heard a year ago

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Jean Sibelius - Symphony no.2 in D major Op.43 (1st mvt)

1975-01-01

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

12months90.01%

First heard a year ago

Last heard a month ago

Johannes Brahms - Academic Festival Overture

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months40.01%

12months90.01%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Maurice Ravel - Bolero

2020-11-20

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months90.01%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 3 days ago

Richard Addinsell - Warsaw Concerto

1998-01-01

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months60.02%

12months90.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 22 days ago

Elizabeth Poston - Jesus Christ the apple tree

2023-09-26

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

12months90.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

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

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months40.01%

12months90.01%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 25 days ago

Gustav Holst - In the bleak midwinter

2021-10-15

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

12months90.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 6 months ago

Giacomo Puccini - E lucevan le stelle (Tosca)

1979-01-01

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months50.02%

12months90.01%

First heard a year ago

Last heard a month ago

Antonio Vivaldi - Concerto in A minor 'con due violini obligati', RV 522

1996-01-01

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

12months90.01%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Edvard Grieg - Rigaudon (Holberg suite, Op.40)

2001-01-01

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months40.01%

12months90.01%

First heard a year ago

Last heard a month ago

Gabriel Fauré - Pavane, Op 50

2025-02-22

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months40.01%

12months90.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 3 months ago

Ronald Binge - The Water Mill

2017-12-13

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months50.02%

12months90.01%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Edvard Grieg - Holberg Suite, Op 40

2001-01-01

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months40.01%

12months90.01%

First heard a year ago

Last heard a month ago

Louise Farrenc - Symphony no.3 in G minor Op.36 (3rd mvt)

2010-10-26

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months90.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Aram Khachaturian - Masquerade Suite (Waltz)

1995-05-17

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months40.01%

12months90.01%

First heard a year ago

Last heard a month ago

Galina Grigorjeva - In paradisum

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months50.02%

12months90.01%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Philip Glass - Violin Concerto no.1 (2nd mvt)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months40.01%

12months90.01%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 19 days ago

Ronald Binge - Sailing By

1994-07-11

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months50.02%

12months90.01%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 11 days ago

Astor Piazzolla - Milonga Del Angel

2005-09-13

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

12months90.01%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Franz Schubert - Impromptu in A flat major D.899 no.4

2025-04-25

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months40.01%

12months90.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Henry Purcell - Sound the trumpet (Come ye sons of art)

2009-11-10

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months40.01%

12months90.01%

First heard a year ago

Last heard a month ago

Antonio Vivaldi - Stabat mater, RV 621

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.04%

6months40.01%

12months90.01%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 14 days ago

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

2019-10-11

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months40.01%

12months90.01%

First heard a year ago

Last heard a month ago

Claude Debussy - Clair de lune (Suite bergamasque)

2018-07-27

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months60.02%

12months90.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Arvo Pärt - Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten

2010-03-02

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

12months90.01%

First heard a year ago

Last heard a month ago

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

2002-04-15

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months40.01%

12months90.01%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 11 days ago

Dmitry Shostakovich - Romance (The Gadfly)

2019-05-24

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months90.01%

First heard a year ago

Last heard a month ago

Robert Schumann - Arabeske In C Major Op.18

2024-05-17

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months50.02%

12months90.01%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Cécile Chaminade - Flute Concertino, Op 107

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months60.02%

12months90.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 19 days ago

Giacomo Puccini - O mio babbino caro (Gianni Schicchi)

2021-11-12

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months50.02%

12months90.01%

First heard 2 years 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%

6months10%

12months80.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 24 days ago

Igor Stravinsky - Petrushka

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months60.02%

12months80.01%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 16 days ago

Gabriel Fauré - Berceuse (Dolly Suite, Op.56)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months50.02%

12months80.01%

First heard a year ago

Last heard a month ago

Camille Saint‐Saëns - Wedding-cake Op.76

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months80.01%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 11 days ago

Frédéric Chopin - Polonaise in A flat major Op.53 'Eroica'

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months60.02%

12months80.01%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Madeleine Dring - Festival Scherzo

2010-01-01

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months20%

12months80.01%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Symphony no.5 in E minor Op.64 (3rd mvt)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

12months80.01%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Ethel Smyth - Serenade in D (2nd mvt)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

12months80.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Ferenc Farkas - 5 Ancient Hungarian dances for wind quintet

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months50.02%

12months80.01%

First heard a year ago

Last heard a month ago

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Ave verum corpus, K 618

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months40.01%

12months80.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 22 days ago

Peter Warlock - Pieds en l'air (Capriol suite)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months40.01%

12months80.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 19 days ago

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