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Most popular songs in BBC Radio 3 playlist

Title

Popularity

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Johann Sebastian Bach - Brandenburg Concerto no.4 in G major BWV.1049 (1st mvt)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months40.01%

12months70.01%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 17 days ago

George Butterworth - A Shropshire Lad

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months20%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 14 days ago

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach - Harpsichord Concerto in D minor, Wq 17

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months40%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 15 days ago

John Foulds - Keltic Overture, Op 28

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months20%

12months40%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 7 days ago

Ola Gjeilo - Serenity (O Magnum Mysterium)

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months30%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 6 days ago

Franz Schubert - 6 Deutsche Tänze, D820

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months20%

12months30%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 19 days ago

Aram Khachaturian - Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia (Spartacus Suite no.2)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months20%

12months20%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 9 days ago

Athanasius Kircher - Tarantella napoletana, Tono hypodorico

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months10%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 9 days ago

Ludwig van Beethoven - Sonata for Violin and Piano No 9 in A major 'Kreutzer'

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months20%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 17 days ago

Edward Elgar - Enigma Variations, Op 36 (Variation 9, 'Nimrod')

2020-01-10

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months60.01%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 23 days ago

Arcangelo Corelli - Trio sonata in C major, Op 3 no 8

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months20%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 17 days ago

Eric Coates - By the sleepy lagoon

2018-06-01

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months60.02%

12months100.02%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 15 days ago

Edward Elgar - Enigma Variations (Variation 13)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months10%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Gustav Mahler - Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (Rückert-Lieder)

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months20%

12months20%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 6 days ago

Malcolm Arnold - Sonatina for clarinet and piano Op 29

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months30%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 15 days ago

Sir Alexander Campbell Mackenzie - Burns Op.24 (3rd mvt)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months10%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Paul Taffanel - Wind Quintet in G minor

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months20%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 18 days ago

Frédéric Chopin - Ballade no.3 in A flat major Op.47

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months20%

12months30%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 20 days ago

William Grant Still - Suite for Violin and Piano (3rd mvt)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months10%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 16 days ago

Evelyn Glennie - A Little Prayer

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months60.02%

12months70.01%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 4 days ago

Jean Sibelius - Jordens sang (Song of the Earth), Op 93

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months20%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Sergey Rachmaninov - Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months20%

12months100.02%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard a day ago

Česlovas Sasnauskas - Requiem

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months20%

12months30%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 15 days ago

Arthur Sullivan - Macbeth (Overture)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months10%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Edward Elgar - Pomp and Circumstance March No.4 in G major, Op.39

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months20%

12months40%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 7 days ago

Ragnhild Hemsing - Vinterstemning

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months10%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 16 days ago

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Sonata for piano in C, K 545

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months40%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 6 days ago

Rudolf Matz - Ballade for violin, cello & piano

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months50%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 20 days ago

George Frideric Handel - Concerto grosso in D major Op.3'6

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months50%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 7 days ago

Edvard Grieg - 4 Symphonic Dances Op.64 (no.3)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months10%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 18 days ago

Hildegard von Bingen - Instrumental piece

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months30%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 2 days ago

Franz Schubert - Overture in C minor D.8 for strings

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months20%

12months20%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 22 days ago

Caroline Shaw - Partita (Sarabande)

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months20%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 7 days ago

Richard Wagner - Parsifal (Act 1 Prelude)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months20%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 22 days ago

John Dowland - Time stands still

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months40.01%

12months50%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 14 days ago

Giacomo Puccini - O mio babbino caro (Gianni Schicchi)

2021-11-12

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months50.02%

12months90.01%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 8 days ago

Frédéric Chopin - Nocturne in E flat major, Op 9 no 2

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months50%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Gaetano Donizetti - Una furtiva lagrima (L'elisir d'amore)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months20%

12months40%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 17 days ago

Johannes Brahms - Piano Concerto No. 2 (3rd mvt)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months20%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 11 days ago

Florence Price - Dances in the Canebrakes (Tropical Noon)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months20%

12months20%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 25 days ago

Charles Mouton - Pièces de Lute in C minor

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months20%

12months30%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Edward Elgar - Salut d'amour

2015-09-18

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months120.04%

12months210.04%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov - Salieri's Aria from Mozart and Salieri - opera in 1 act, Op 48

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months20%

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First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 20 days ago

Maurice Ravel - Oiseaux tristes (Miroirs)

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months20%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 7 days ago

Johann Sebastian Bach - Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 639, chorale prelude

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months20%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 16 days ago

Leroy Anderson - The Syncopated Clock

2008-06-24

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months20%

12months40%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 14 days ago

Joby Talbot - Transit of Venus

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months30%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Clarinet Concerto in A major K.622 (3rd mvt)

2025-04-04

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months80.03%

12months170.03%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 2 days ago

Isaac Albéniz - Suite española (Granada)

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months10%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard a day ago

Joseph Haydn - Cello Concerto in C major, H.7b.1 (1st mvt)

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months20%

12months30%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 3 days ago

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