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Most popular songs in BBC Radio 3 playlist

Title

Popularity

First heard

Last heard

Frédéric Chopin - Barcarolle in F sharp major Op.60

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days20.04%

6months40.01%

12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 days ago

George Frideric Handel - Water Music Suite in F major HWV.348 (Air)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months40.01%

12months60.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 12 days ago

Frederick Delius - The Walk to the Paradise Garden

1997-01-01

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months40.01%

12months60.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 5 days ago

John Tavener - Song for Athene

2019-01-18

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months40.01%

12months100.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 3 months ago

Maurice Ravel - Rigaudon (Le tombeau de Couperin)

2013-11-05

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months40.01%

12months110.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 5 days ago

Gustav Holst - St Paul's Suite, Op 29 no 2

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months40.01%

12months100.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 3 days ago

George Frideric Handel - As steals the morn (L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months40.01%

12months60.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 3 months ago

Louise Farrenc - Symphony no 3 in G minor, Op 36

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months40.01%

12months80.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 6 days ago

Richard Rodgers - My Favourite Things (The Sound of Music)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months40.01%

12months40%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 23 days ago

Max Bruch - Concerto in E minor for clarinet, viola and orchestra Op.88 (2nd mvt)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months40.01%

12months50%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 3 months ago

Mykola Leontovych - Carol of the Bells

1990

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months40.01%

12months40%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

John Rutter - Star Carol

2002-11-01

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months40.01%

12months40%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Hugo Alfvén - Shepherd Girl's dance (The Mountain king)

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days20.04%

6months40.01%

12months110.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 5 days ago

William Walton - Orb and sceptre - coronation march

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months40.01%

12months90.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No 2 in D major, Op 36 (3rd mvt)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months40.01%

12months60.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Igor Stravinsky - Symphony of Psalms

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months40.01%

12months50%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Polonaise (Eugene Onegin)

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months40.01%

12months50%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a day ago

Domenico Scarlatti - Sonata in G major, Kk.455

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months40.01%

12months40%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Johann Sebastian Bach - Sheep may safely graze (Cantata BWV.208)

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days20.04%

6months40.01%

12months50%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 days ago

Maurice Ravel - Rapsodie Espagnole

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months40.01%

12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Alice Mary Smith - Andante

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months40.01%

12months80.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 9 days ago

Giacomo Puccini - Crisantemi

2023-11-17

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months40.01%

12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 10 days ago

Dmitri Kabalevsky - Colas Breugnon Op.24 (Overture)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months40.01%

12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 19 days ago

Cécile Chaminade - Automne, Op 35 No 2

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months40.01%

12months80.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Eric Coates - By the sleepy lagoon

2018-06-01

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months40.01%

12months120.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Amy Beach - Dreaming

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days20.04%

6months40.01%

12months80.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 4 days ago

Frederick Delius - On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring

2012-03-05

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months40.01%

12months130.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Giuseppe Verdi - La donna è mobile (Rigoletto)

2024-12-30

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months40.01%

12months60.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Giacomo Puccini - Che gelida manina (La bohème)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months40.01%

12months80.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

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

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months40.01%

12months40%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 7 hours ago

Felix Mendelssohn - The Hebrides Op.26

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months40.01%

12months50%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 17 days ago

Herbert Howells - Requiem

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months40.01%

12months60.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Ralph Vaughan Williams - The Wasps (Overture)

1991-05-27

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months40.01%

12months100.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 3 days ago

Gustav Holst - Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity (The Planets, Op.32)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months40.01%

12months80.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 14 days ago

Gerald Finzi - Romance Op.11

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months40.01%

12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 23 days ago

Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni - Adagio In G Minor

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months40.01%

12months80.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 18 days ago

John Barry - The Beyondness Of Things

1998-01-01

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months40.01%

12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Alice Mary Smith - The Masque of Pandora (Overture)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months40.01%

12months70.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

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

1989-01-01

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months40.01%

12months90.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

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

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months40.01%

12months50%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 14 days 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 13 days ago

Florence Price - String Quartet No 1 in G major (2nd mvt)

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days20.04%

6months40.01%

12months50%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 6 days ago

Bedrich Smetana - Vltava (Má vlast)

1994-08-05

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months40.01%

12months90.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 4 months ago

Johann Sebastian Bach - Preise dein Glücke, gesegnetes Sachsen (Canata BWV.215)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months40.01%

12months40%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 9 days ago

Johann Sebastian Bach - Toccata & Fugue in D Minor, BWV 565

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months40.01%

12months40%

First heard 6 months ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Gabriel Fauré - Cantique de Jean Racine

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months40.01%

12months60.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Johann Pachelbel - Canon and Gigue in D major

2023-11-03

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days20.04%

6months40.01%

12months80.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 6 days ago

Hannah Peel - Sunrise through the Dusty Nebula

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months40.01%

12months80.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony no.2 in D major Op.36 (4th mvt)

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months40.01%

12months40%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 3 months ago

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina - Fundamenta ejus - motet for 4 voices

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.04%

6months40.01%

12months50%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 9 days ago

Total: 1,000

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