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Most popular songs in BBC Radio 3 playlist

Title

Popularity

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Dmitri Kabalevsky - Colas Breugnon Op.24 (Overture)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months40.01%

12months60.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months 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

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

Paul Dukas - The Sorcerer's Apprentice, symphonic scherzo

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months40.01%

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

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

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months40.01%

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First heard 2 years ago

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Richard Wagner - The Ride of the Valkyries (Die Walküre)

1989-01-01

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months40.01%

12months80.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 4 months ago

Carlos Gardel - Por una cabeza

2024-02-02

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months40.01%

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months 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

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

2007-11-12

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days20.04%

6months40.01%

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 3 days ago

Hildegard von Bingen - Ave Generosa

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month 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

Igor Stravinsky - The Shrovetide Fair (Petrushka)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days30.07%

6months40.01%

12months60.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 22 days ago

Maurice Ravel - Rapsodie Espagnole

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months40.01%

12months80.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 3 days ago

Johann Strauss II - Tritsch-Tratsch Polka

1998-01-01

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Gustav Holst - Mercury, the winged messenger (The Planets)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months40.01%

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Claude Debussy - Première rapsodie arr. for clarinet and orchestra

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months40.01%

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 23 days ago

Jessie Montgomery - Strum

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

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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

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov - Dance of the Tumblers (Snow Maiden Suite)

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days20.04%

6months40.01%

12months60.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 5 hours ago

Camille Saint‐Saëns - Havanaise Op.83

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months40.01%

12months110.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 6 days ago

Ermanno Wolf‐Ferrari - Two orchestral intermezzi from 'I Gioielli della Madonna', Op 4

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months30%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 7 days ago

Herbert Howells - Requiem

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 6 days ago

Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka - Ruslan i Lyudmila (Overture)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

12months50%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Jacques Ibert - Flute Concerto

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days20.04%

6months30.01%

12months60.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 6 days ago

Leonard Bernstein - Mambo (West Side Story)

1961

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 7 days ago

Henry Purcell - What pow'r art thou (King Arthur)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months30%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 14 days ago

Richard Rodgers - Oklahoma!; Overture

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

12months30%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Samuel Barber - Agnus Dei

2019-01-18

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

12months80.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 3 months ago

Alexander Glazunov - Symphony no.5 in B flat major Op.55 (2nd mvt)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

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12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Reynaldo Hahn - A Chloris

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Fanny Mendelssohn - Excerpts from Songs Without Words, Op 6 (1846)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

12months40%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Aaron Copland - Quiet City

2002-12-24

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

12months60.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 4 months ago

Franz Schubert - Piano Trio in E flat major, D.929 (2nd mvt)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months40%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 7 days ago

Claude Debussy - Jeux de vagues (La mer)

2008-05-27

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months80.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 21 days ago

Fanny Mendelssohn - String Quartet in E flat major (4th mvt)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Erich Wolfgang Korngold - Straussiana

2019-08-30

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Ester Mägi - Bucolic

Popularity:

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28days00%

6months30.01%

12months50%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Benjamin Britten - Playful Pizzicato (Simple Symphony)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months40%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 8 days ago

Hannah Peel - Sunrise through the Dusty Nebula

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 3 months ago

Ronald Binge - The Water Mill

2017-12-13

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 8 days ago

Howard Cable - The Banks of Newfoundland

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

12months40%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Joseph Haydn - String Quartet in D major Op.20'4 (4th mvt)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

12months30%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 3 months ago

George Gershwin - I got rhythm

2016-10-14

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months60.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 20 days ago

Johannes Brahms - Double Concerto for Violin and Cello in A minor, op. 102

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

12months40%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Horn Concerto no 1 in D major, K412

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months30.01%

12months40%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 11 days ago

Giacomo Puccini - Che gelida manina (La bohème)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

12months80.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Gabriel Fauré - Cantique de Jean Racine

Popularity:

7days00%

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 4 months ago

Francis Poulenc - Sonata for violin and piano

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 4 months ago

John Dowland - Time stands still

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.04%

6months30.01%

12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 12 days ago

Giuseppe Verdi - The Force of Destiny (Overture)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.01%

12months30%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

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