Notturnometer

Works

The 100 most-aired works across the whole corpus. An airing is one play on one night; every spelling and phrasing the BBC has used for a work counts towards the same total.

#WorkComposerAirings
1 Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune Claude Debussy 217
2 Serenade for Strings in E minor, Op 20 Edward Elgar 163
3 Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis Ralph Vaughan Williams 163
4 Italian Serenade Hugo Wolf 161
5 Holberg Suite, Op 40 Edvard Grieg 153
6 L'Isle joyeuse Claude Debussy 146
7 Cello Sonata in D minor Claude Debussy 143
8 Phantasiestucke Op 73 for clarinet & piano Robert Schumann 143
9 Nocturne no 1 in E flat minor, Op 33 no 1 Gabriel Fauré 142
10 Hebrides - overture (Op.26) Felix Mendelssohn 141
11 Keyboard Concerto in F minor, BWV.1056 Johann Sebastian Bach 140
12 Violin Sonata in A major, M.8 César Franck 140
13 Sonata for piano in C, K 545 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 138
14 Overture from Suite no 1 in C major, BWV.1066 Johann Sebastian Bach 131
15 Norwegian Dance no 1 for piano duet, Op 35 Edvard Grieg 131
16 String Quartet in G minor, Op 10 Claude Debussy 129
17 Pictures at an Exhibition Modest Mussorgsky 129
18 Slavonic Dance no 10 in E minor, Op 72 no 2 Antonín Dvořák 127
19 Piano Trio in E flat, 'Notturno' Franz Schubert 127
20 Elegy Op 23 arr. for piano trio Josef Suk 126
21 5 Ancient Hungarian Dances for wind quintet Ferenc Farkas 125
22 Coriolan Overture, Op 62 Ludwig van Beethoven 123
23 Ballade for piano no 1 in G minor, Op 23 Frédéric Chopin 123
24 Fantasia and Variations on a theme of Franz Danzi in B flat major, Op 81 Louis Spohr 122
25 Adagio and allegro in A flat major, Op 70 Robert Schumann 121
26 String Octet in E flat major, Op 20 Felix Mendelssohn 119
27 Introduction and variations on a theme from Mozart's Magic Flute, Op 9 Fernando Sor 118
28 Clarinet Quintet in B flat major, Op 34 Carl Maria von Weber 118
29 Symphony no 4 in A major, Op 90 'Italian' Felix Mendelssohn 117
30 Variations on a theme by Haydn vers. for orchestra, Op 56a Johannes Brahms 115
31 Overture in the Italian Style, D.590 Franz Schubert 115
32 Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied - motet BWV.225 Johann Sebastian Bach 114
33 24 Preludes for piano, Op 28 Frédéric Chopin 107
34 Symphony no 1 in D major, Op 25 'Classical' Sergey Prokofiev 107
35 Komm, Jesu, komm, BWV.229 Johann Sebastian Bach 106
36 12 Variations on 'Ein Madchen oder Weibchen' for cello and piano, Op 66 Ludwig van Beethoven 106
37 Quintet in E flat major, K452 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 106
38 Violin Concerto in E minor, Op 64 Felix Mendelssohn 105
39 Le Carnaval Romain, Op 9 Hector Berlioz 104
40 Suite for orchestra no.3 in D major (BWV.1068) Johann Sebastian Bach 103
41 Romeo and Juliet - fantasy overture Pyotr Tchaikovsky 103
42 Concerto in C major, RV.444 for recorder, strings & continuo Antonio Vivaldi 103
43 Trio Sonata in D minor, Op 1 no 12, 'La Folia' (1705) Antonio Vivaldi 103
44 La Mer Claude Debussy 101
45 String Quartet no 12 in F major, Op 96, 'American' Antonín Dvořák 101
46 Jesu, meine Freude - motet BWV.227 Johann Sebastian Bach 100
47 Scherzo no 2 in B flat minor, Op 31 Frédéric Chopin 100
48 Overture from Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), K.620 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 100
49 Symphony No.41 in C major (K.551) "Jupiter" Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 99
50 Overture to The Wasps - Aristophanic suite (from incidental music) Ralph Vaughan Williams 99
51 Academic Festival Overture Johannes Brahms 98
52 Estampes Claude Debussy 98
53 Piano Trio in A minor Maurice Ravel 98
54 Le Tombeau de Couperin Maurice Ravel 98
55 Overture from Ruslan i Lyudmila Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka 97
56 Divertimento in C major, London Trio no 1 (Hob.4 no 1) Joseph Haydn 97
57 String Quartet in F major Maurice Ravel 97
58 St Paul's Suite, Op 29 no 2 Gustav Holst 96
59 Gaspard de la nuit Maurice Ravel 95
60 Alborada del gracioso Maurice Ravel 94
61 Violin Romance in G major, Op 26 Johan Svendsen 94
62 Danse sacree et danse profane for harp and strings Claude Debussy 93
63 Tzigane - rapsodie de concert for violin and piano Maurice Ravel 93
64 Fantasia in F minor for piano duet, D.940 Franz Schubert 93
65 Barcarolle in F sharp major, Op 60 Frédéric Chopin 92
66 String Quartet no 1 in G minor, Op 27 Edvard Grieg 92
67 Quintet for wind, Op 43 Carl Nielsen 92
68 La Valse Maurice Ravel 92
69 Rhapsody for piano in B minor, Op 79 no 1 Johannes Brahms 91
70 Symphony no 38 in D major "Prague" K.504 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 91
71 Peer Gynt Suite no 1, Op 46 Edvard Grieg 90
72 Capriccio Espagnol, Op 34 Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov 90
73 Sonata for arpeggione and piano (D.821) in A minor Franz Schubert 90
74 Variations on a theme by Robert Schumann for piano in F sharp minor, Op 20 Clara Schumann 90
75 Nulla in mundo pax sincera, RV 630 Antonio Vivaldi 90
76 Adagio for Strings, Op 11 Samuel Barber 89
77 Sonatina for clarinet & piano (1956) Bohuslav Martinů 89
78 Beatrice et Benedict (Overture) Hector Berlioz 88
79 Ballade for piano no 4 in F minor, Op 52 Frédéric Chopin 88
80 Première rapsodie arr. for clarinet and orchestra Claude Debussy 88
81 Quatre motets sur des themes gregoriens, Op 10 Maurice Duruflé 88
82 Variations on an original theme 'Enigma' for orchestra (Op.36) Edward Elgar 88
83 Vocalise (Op.34 No.14) [orig. for voice and piano] Sergey Rachmaninov 88
84 Violin Concerto in A minor (BWV.1041) Johann Sebastian Bach 87
85 Symphony no 7 in A major, Op 92 Ludwig van Beethoven 87
86 Trois Pièces Brèves for wind quintet Jacques Ibert 87
87 Piano Quintet in A major (D.667), "Trout" Franz Schubert 87
88 Finlandia, Op 26 Jean Sibelius 87
89 Symphony no 8 in F major, Op 93 Ludwig van Beethoven 86
90 25 Variations and fugue on a theme by G F Handel for piano, Op 24 Johannes Brahms 86
91 Rondo in C major, Op 73 Frédéric Chopin 86
92 Scherzo Capriccioso, Op 66 Antonín Dvořák 86
93 Theme and variations on the Name "Abegg", Op 1 Robert Schumann 86
94 Vltava (Moldau) - from 'Ma Vlast' Bedrich Smetana 86
95 Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op 115 Johannes Brahms 85
96 Wind Serenade in D minor, Op 44 Antonín Dvořák 85
97 Trumpet Concerto in E flat major, H.7e.1 Joseph Haydn 85
98 Rondo in A minor K.511 for piano Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 85
99 Violin Concerto in D major, Op 35 Pyotr Tchaikovsky 85
100 Brandenburg concerto no 3 in G major, BWV.1048 Johann Sebastian Bach 84