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Most popular songs in BBC Radio 3 playlist

Title

Popularity

First heard

Last heard

Claude Debussy - La cathédrale engloutie (Preludes, Book 1)

1994

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months60.02%

12months120.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 5 days ago

Chevalier de Saint-Georges Joseph Bologne - Ballet music (L'amant anonyme)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months20%

12months20%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 12 days ago

Modest Mussorgsky - A Night on the Bare Mountain

2016-10-14

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months60.02%

12months100.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 10 days ago

Fanny Mendelssohn - String Quartet in E Flat major

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months40%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 6 days ago

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

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months20%

12months50%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Guillaume de Machaut - Ballade 32, 'Ploures, dames'

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months20%

12months30%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 7 days ago

Robert Schumann - Piano Quartet in E-Flat Major, Op. 47: IV. Finale. Vivace

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months10%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 21 hours ago

Joan Armatrading - Symphony No.1

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months10%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 10 days ago

Alma Mahler-Werfel - Three Songs

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months10%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 20 days ago

Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No 1 in C major, Op 21 (4th mvt)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months20%

12months20%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 14 days ago

Ralph Vaughan Williams - Folk songs from Somerset (English Folk Song Suite)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months20%

12months30%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 10 days ago

Aram Khachaturian - Sabre Dance (Gayane)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months20%

12months50%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 24 days ago

Jean Sibelius - Finlandia, Op.26

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months10%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 4 days ago

Ralph Vaughan Williams - A London Symphony (3rd mvt)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months20%

12months20%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 14 days ago

Jean Sibelius - Violin Concerto in D minor, Op 47

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months20%

12months30%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 days ago

Luigi Boccherini - String Quintet in E major, Op.11'5 (3rd mvt)

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months40.01%

12months50%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 14 hours ago

Franz Schubert - Impromptu in E flat major, D.899 no.2

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Giuseppe Verdi - Caro Nome (Rigoletto)

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months20%

12months30%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 4 days ago

Maurice Ravel - Le tombeau de Couperin

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months60.02%

12months80.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 21 days ago

Edward Elgar - Salut d'amour

2015-09-18

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months70.02%

12months210.04%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 15 days ago

Franz Schubert - Octet in F major D.803 (3rd mvt)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months20%

12months20%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 9 days ago

Engelbert Humperdinck - Dream Pantomime from Hansel and Gretel

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months20%

12months30%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 9 days ago

Carl Nielsen - Dance of the Cockerels (Maskarade)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months20%

12months50%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 8 days ago

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

2025-04-04

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months60.02%

12months100.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month 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

Domenico Scarlatti - Sonata in A major Kk.322

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months10%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 20 days ago

Padre Antonio Soler - Keyboard Sonata no.90 in F sharp minor

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months20%

12months30%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 24 days ago

Franz Schubert - String Quintet in C major (2nd mvt)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months20%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 22 days ago

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina - Sicut Cervus

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months40.01%

12months50%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 21 days ago

Joaquín Rodrigo - Canario (Fantasía para un gentilhombre)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months40.01%

12months80.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 13 days ago

Johann Sebastian Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No.5 in D major, BWV.1050 (1st mvt)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months20%

12months40%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 22 days ago

Eric Fenby - Rossini on Ilkla moor

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months20%

12months30%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 5 days ago

Nino Rota - Otto e mezzo (Eight and a Half)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months20%

12months30%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 8 days ago

Giacomo Puccini - Suor Angelica: Intermezzo

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months10%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 8 days ago

Ludwig van Beethoven - Sonata no. 29 in B flat major Op.106 (Hammerklavier) for piano; ii Scherzo

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months10%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 days ago

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Symphony No 39 in E flat major, K 543 (4th mvt)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months30%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 12 days ago

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

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov - Serenade Op.37

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months30%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 3 days ago

Benjamin Britten - Hymn to St Cecilia

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 16 days ago

Johann Sebastian Bach - Prelude and Fugue in F minor, BWV.881 (Book 2, The Well-Tempered Clavier)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months20%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 11 days ago

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach - Cello Concerto No 2 (3rd mvt)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months10%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 19 days ago

Johan Svendsen - Violin Romance in G major, Op 26

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months30%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Giacomo Puccini - Nessun dorma (Turandot)

1993-01-01

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months20%

12months100.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 4 days ago

Orlande de Lassus - Missa Osculetur me

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months20%

12months30%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 4 days ago

Richard Wagner - Der Engel (Wesendonck-Lieder)

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months20%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 5 days ago

Luigi Boccherini - Fandango (Guitar Quintet No 4 in D major)

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months10%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 4 days ago

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

2024-08-26

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months100.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 4 days ago

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

2018-08-26

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months110.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 8 days ago

Béla Bartók - Romanian folk dances Sz.68 orch. from Sz.56 (Orig. for piano)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months20%

12months30%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 12 days ago

John Ireland - A London Overture

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months10%

12months20%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 22 days ago

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