BBC Radio 3

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Most popular songs in BBC Radio 3 playlist

Title

Popularity

First heard

Last heard

Gioachino Rossini - Largo al factotum (The Barber of Seville)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Johannes Brahms - Academic Festival Overture

2013-01-01

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months40.01%

12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Ralph Vaughan Williams - Oboe Concerto in A minor

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.04%

6months30.01%

12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 20 days ago

Ludwig van Beethoven - Piano Sonata No 32 in C minor, Op 111

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

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

2019-03-29

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months10%

12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 5 months ago

Richard Strauss - Also Sprach Zarathustra Op.30 (Introduction)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months40.01%

12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 23 days ago

Giacomo Puccini - Nessun dorma (Turandot)

1993-01-01

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Aaron Copland - Buckaroo Holiday (Rodeo - 4 dance episodes)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months40.01%

12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 19 days ago

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

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months20%

12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

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

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Henry Purcell - When I am laid in earth (Dido and Aeneas)

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 5 days ago

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Symphony no.4 in F minor Op.36 (3rd mvt)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months20%

12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Giacomo Puccini - E lucevan le stelle (Tosca)

1979-01-01

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months40.01%

12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 20 days ago

Maurice Ravel - Boléro

2025-02-03

Popularity:

7days20.17%

28days20.04%

6months40.01%

12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a day ago

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Horn Concerto No 4 in E flat major, K 495 (3rd mvt)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months40.01%

12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

George Gershwin - Walking the Dog (Shall we Dance)

1991-01-01

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Igor Stravinsky - The Shrovetide Fair (Petrushka)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months40.01%

12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony no 8 in F major, Op 93

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months40.01%

12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

John Gardner - Tomorrow shall be my dancing day

2009-11-17

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months70.02%

12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 4 months ago

Cecilia McDowall - Standing as I do before God

Popularity:

7days00%

28days30.07%

6months50.02%

12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 16 days ago

Leonard Bernstein - Mambo (West Side Story)

1961

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 17 days ago

Eric Whitacre - Seal Lullaby

2010-01-01

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months40.01%

12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 6 days ago

Alice Mary Smith - The Masque of Pandora (Overture)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

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

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Frédéric Chopin - Barcarolle in F sharp major Op.60

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months50.02%

12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 16 days ago

Frédéric Chopin - Fantaisie-impromptu in C sharp minor, Op.66

2009-11-23

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days20.04%

6months40.01%

12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 5 days ago

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

2010-10-26

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 3 months ago

Bill Evans - Peace Piece

1959

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days20.04%

6months50.02%

12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 6 days ago

Joseph Haydn - Divertimento for 2 flutes and cello in C major, Hob.4.1, 'London trio' No 1

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months40.01%

12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

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Gustav Mahler - Symphony no.5 in C sharp minor (4th mvt)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 4 months ago

Gabriel Fauré - Après un rêve

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months40.01%

12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Cecilia McDowall - Adoro te devote

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Edward Elgar - Cello Concerto in E minor, Op 85

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months40.01%

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 3 months ago

Pietro Mascagni - Intermezzo (Cavalleria rusticana)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 3 months ago

Einojuhani Rautavaara - Cantus Arcticus, Concerto for Birds and Orchestra, Op 61

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 8 days ago

Reynaldo Hahn - A Chloris

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months20%

12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 4 months ago

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

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months50.02%

12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 16 days ago

Gioachino Rossini - La danza (Soirées musicales)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months40.01%

12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

John Adams - China Gates

2025-01-03

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months20%

12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 15 days ago

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Symphony no.6 in B Minor 'Pathétique' (3rd mvt)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Romeo and Juliet - fantasy overture

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 3 months ago

Arnold Bax - 4 Orchestral Sketches (Dance in the Sun)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 4 months ago

Cécile Chaminade - Automne, Op 35 No 2

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Joseph Haydn - Cello Concerto no.2 in D major H.7b.2 (3rd mvt)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months20%

12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Edvard Grieg - Holberg Suite, Op 40

2001-01-01

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 4 months ago

William Byrd - Ave verum corpus

2023-06-02

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months10%

12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

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Claude Debussy - Fêtes (Nocturnes)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months20%

12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 12 days ago

Arthur Bliss - Things to come (March)

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 4 months ago

Chan Ka Nin - Four seasons suite

Popularity:

7days00%

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6months30.01%

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

George Frideric Handel - Where'er you walk (Semele)

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months20%

12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 6 days ago

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