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Most popular songs in BBC Radio 3 playlist

Title

Popularity

First heard

Last heard

Ludwig van Beethoven - Piano Concerto No 1 in C major, Op 15 (3rd mvt)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months40.01%

12months50%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Edward Elgar - Cello Concerto in E minor, Op 85 (1st mvt)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months40.01%

12months40%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Michael Haydn - Cantata: Lauft, ihr Hirten allzugleich (Run ye shepherds, to the light)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months40.01%

12months40%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Waltz of the Flowers (The Nutcracker)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months40.01%

12months80.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 3 months ago

Aram Khachaturian - Lezghinka (Gayane)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months40.01%

12months60.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

George Gershwin - Walking the Dog (Shall we Dance)

1991-01-01

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.04%

6months40.01%

12months90.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 16 days ago

Antonio Vivaldi - Gloria in D Major, RV 589: I. Gloria in excelsis Deo

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months40.01%

12months60.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Frédéric Chopin - Study in A flat major, Op.25 no.1

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months40.01%

12months50%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Arthur Sullivan - The Pirates of Penzance (Overture)

1968-01-01

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days20.04%

6months40.01%

12months60.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a day ago

Dobrinka Tabakova - Pirin

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days20.04%

6months40.01%

12months40%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 4 days ago

Juan García de Zéspedes - Convidando está la noche

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months40.01%

12months40%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 3 months ago

Trad. - The Holly and the Ivy

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months40.01%

12months40%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 3 months ago

Claude Debussy - Première rapsodie arr. for clarinet and orchestra

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months40.01%

12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 23 days ago

Jessie Montgomery - Strum

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months40.01%

12months80.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Paul Dukas - The Sorcerer's Apprentice, symphonic scherzo

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months40.01%

12months50%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Nadia Boulanger - Cantique

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months40.01%

12months60.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 9 days ago

Frederick Delius - On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring

2012-03-05

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months40.01%

12months140.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 11 hours ago

Hugo Wolf - Italian serenade

1998-10-05

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months40.01%

12months120.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 5 months ago

Igor Stravinsky - The Shrovetide Fair (Petrushka)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days30.07%

6months40.01%

12months60.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 22 days ago

Sergey Prokofiev - The Young Juliet (Romeo and Juliet)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months40.01%

12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Edvard Grieg - Last Spring, Op 33 no 2

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.04%

6months40.01%

12months60.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 10 days ago

Josef Suk - Serenade in E flat major, Op.6 (1st mvt)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months40.01%

12months50%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre - Céphale et Procris (Overture)

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days20.04%

6months40.01%

12months60.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 4 days ago

Edward Elgar - Cello Concerto in E minor, Op 85

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months40.01%

12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Camille Saint‐Saëns - Havanaise Op.83

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months40.01%

12months110.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 5 days ago

Carlos Gardel - Por una cabeza

2024-02-02

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months40.01%

12months100.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Giuseppe Tartini - Trumpet Concerto in D major

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months40.01%

12months50%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

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

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months40.01%

12months80.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Johann Pachelbel - Canon and Gigue in D major

2023-11-03

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months40.01%

12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Franz Lehár - Sirens of the Ball - waltz (The Merry Widow)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months40.01%

12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

John Rutter - What sweeter music

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months40.01%

12months50%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Claude Debussy - The Snow is Dancing (Children's Corner)

2024-01-12

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months40.01%

12months50%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Arthur Bliss - Things to come (March)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months40.01%

12months80.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Edvard Grieg - Holberg Suite, Op 40

2001-01-01

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months40.01%

12months80.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Alexandre Desplat - The Grand Budapest Hotel

2020-08-28

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.04%

6months40.01%

12months40%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 13 days ago

Johann Strauss II - Tritsch-Tratsch Polka

1998-01-01

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months40.01%

12months80.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Jean Sibelius - Pohjola's daughter - symphonic fantasia, Op 49

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months40.01%

12months90.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

George Frideric Handel - Water Music Suite in D major HWV.349 (Alla hornpipe)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months40.01%

12months60.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Sergey Rachmaninov - Variations on a theme of Corelli, Op 42

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.04%

6months40.01%

12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 11 days ago

Alexander Borodin - Polovtsian dances (Prince Igor)

2005-08-01

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months40.01%

12months110.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 14 days ago

Gabriel Fauré - Cantique de Jean Racine, Op.11

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months40.01%

12months50%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 21 days ago

Florence Price - Concert Overture No 2

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months40.01%

12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 25 days ago

Felix Mendelssohn - The Hebrides Op.26

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months40.01%

12months60.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 18 days ago

Edward Elgar - Symphony no.2 in E flat major Op.63 (3rd mvt)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.04%

6months40.01%

12months60.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 9 days ago

Claude Debussy - Premiere rhapsodie

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months40.01%

12months60.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

John Luther Adams - Become Ocean

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months40.01%

12months40%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Ludwig van Beethoven - Egmont Overture

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months40.01%

12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Caroline Shaw - Entr'acte

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months40.01%

12months60.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Dmitry Shostakovich - Festive Overture Op.96

2011-12-13

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months40.01%

12months60.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 23 days ago

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

2007-11-12

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days20.04%

6months40.01%

12months100.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 3 days ago

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