98.7 WFMT (Chicago)

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Playlist updated 19 minutes ago · Oct 14, 2026, 9:38 PM UTC

98.7WFMT, Chicago's Classical Experience, strives to provide the best and broadest selection of classical music and fine arts programming heard in the country. A broadcasting force for 61 years, the station's appeal continues to widen. 98.7WFMT is currently serving the largest audience in its history. 98.7WFMT is available to listeners across the nation and around the world via the station's enhanced web streaming.

Most popular songs in 98.7 WFMT (Chicago) playlist

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Ruth Gipps - Ambarvalia - Royal Liverpool Phil Orch/Charles Peebles - Piano Concertos by Dora Bright and Ruth Gipps - Somm

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor - The Song of Hiawatha - RTE Concert Orch/Adrian Leaper - Coleridge-Taylor: Hiawatha Overture - Petite Suite - Naxos

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7days10.12%28days10.03%6months30.01%12months60.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 6 days ago

Giuseppe Verdi - String Quartet in E minor - Melos Quartet - Jean Sibelius, Giuseppe Verdi: String Quartets - Harmonia Mundi

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 24 days ago

Kurt Weill - Lady in the Dark - Bournemouth Sym/Marin Alsop - Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2 / Lady in the Dark - Symphonic Nocturne - Naxos

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7days00%28days10.03%6months30.01%12months40.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 15 days ago

Franz Schubert - Overture in C, In the Italian Style, D 591 - La Scala Phil/Riccardo Chailly - Musa Italiana - Decca

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7days00%28days10.03%6months30.01%12months50.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 days ago

Marc Mellits - Black Moon - Black Moon Trio - Principal - Black Moon Trio

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7days10.12%28days10.03%6months40.02%12months60.02%

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Last heard 3 days ago

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach - Hamburg Symphony No. 3 in C, Wq 182/3 - Berlin Academy for Ancient Music - CPE Bach Symphonies From Berlin to Hamburg - Harmonia Mundi

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7days00%28days10.03%6months30.01%12months60.02%

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Last heard 13 days ago

Imogen Holst - Persephone - BBC Concert Orch/Alice Farnham - Discovering Imogen - NMC

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Lerner & Loewe - Camelot - Richard Burton - Camelot (Original Broadway Cast Recording) - Sony

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Last heard 18 days ago

William Grant Still - Danzas de Panama - Oregon String Quartet - Oregon Festival of American Music Presents William Grant Still - Koch

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7days00%28days10.03%6months40.02%12months70.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 19 days ago

Franz von Suppe - Morning, Noon and Night in Vienna - Vienna Phil/Zubin Mehta - Suppe: Overtures - CBS

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Last heard 15 days ago

Franz Schubert - Symphony No. 6 in C, D. 589, Little - London Classical Players/Roger Norrington - Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 6 - EMI

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 7 days ago

Nino Rota - Sarabande e Toccata - Mariko Anraku, h - Mariko Anraku - EMI

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 21 days ago

Cecile Chaminade - Six pieces romantiques, Op. 55 - Roberto Prosseda & Alessandra Ammara, p - Compositrices: New Light on French Romantic Women Composers - Bru Zane

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7days10.12%28days10.03%6months20.01%12months30%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 4 days ago

Daniel-Francois Auber - Fra Diavolo - Royal Scottish National Orch/Lance Friedel - Great Comedy Overtures - Naxos

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 19 days ago

Anton Arensky - String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 35 - Sejong Soloists - Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky, Arensky, Stravinsky - Samsung

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Last heard a month ago

George Frideric Handel - Concerto grosso in g minor, Op. 6, No. 6 - Freiburg Baroque Orch/Gottfried von der Goltz - Freiburger Barockorchester: Edition - RCA-DHM

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 17 days ago

Igor Stravinsky - Dumbarton Oaks - St. Paul Chamber Orch/Christopher Hogwood - Dumbarton Oaks, Pulcinella - Decca

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7days00%28days10.03%6months20.01%12months30%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 24 days ago

Luigi Boccherini - Symphony in A, Op. 35, No. 3 (G 511) - London Festival Orch/Ross Pople - Boccherini: Six Symphonies Op. 35 - Hyperion

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 22 days ago

Earl Wild - Improvisation on Gershwin's Someone to Watch Over Me - Joanne Polk, p - Gershwin & Wild / Polk - Steinway & Sons

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 16 days ago

Ulysses Kay - Concerto for orchestra - Royal Scottish National Orch/Kellen Gray - African American Voices II - Linn

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 24 days ago

Richard Strauss - Le bourgeois gentilhomme, Op. 60 - Orpheus Chamber Orch - Strauss: Le bourgeois gentilhomme, Divertimento after Couperin - DG

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7days00%28days10.03%6months40.02%12months60.02%

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Last heard a month ago

Gabriel Faure - Super Flumina Babylonis - Orch de Paris & Cho/Paavo Jarvi - Faure: Requiem - Virgin

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 14 days ago

Henry Cowell - Old American Country Set - Manhattan Chamber Orch/Richard Auldon Clark - Henry Cowell: Persian Set - Koch

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7days00%28days10.03%6months40.02%12months60.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 18 days ago

Isaac Albeniz - Iberia, Book 3 - Cincinnati Sym Orch/Jesus Lopez-Cobos - Albeniz: Iberia - Complete - Telarc

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 7 days ago

Giorgio Mainerio - Il primo libro di balli - London Early Music Consort/David Munrow - Monteverdi's Contemporaries - Virgin

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Last heard 18 days ago

Benjamin Britten - Simple Symphony, Op. 4 - Guildhall String Ensemble/Robert Salter - Britten, Tippett, Walton - RCA

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 6 days ago

Aaron Copland - Fanfare for the Common Man - Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel - Copland: The Music of America - Telarc

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 25 days ago

Cecile Chaminade - Callirhoe, Op. 37 - Metz Grand Est National Orch/David Reiland - Compositrices: New Light on French Romantic Women Composers - Bru Zane

Popularity:

7days00%28days10.03%6months40.02%12months80.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 16 days ago

Lennon-McCartney - All My Loving - Trio Rococo - Trio Rococo Plays Beatles - Classical Mystery Tour - RCA

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John Williams - Star Wars: The Last Jedi - Orch/John Williams - Star Wars: The Last Jedi - Walt Disney

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 18 days ago

Emmy Bean & Ronnie Kuller - Talkin' Like You/Two Tall Mountains (Converse) - Emmy Bean & Ronnie Kuller - Her Only Light - heronlylight.com

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Last heard 11 days ago

Florence Price - Fantasie Negre No. 2 in G minor - Michelle Cann, p - Revival - Platoon

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Last heard 19 days ago

Paul Taffanel - Fantasy on Weber's Der Freischutz - Cavatina Duo - Cavatina at the Opera - Bridge

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Last heard 15 days ago

Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67 - Vienna Phil/Carlos Kleiber - Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 5 and 7 - DG

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Last heard 20 days ago

Peter Cornelius - The Barber of Baghdad - Royal Scottish National Orch/Lance Friedel - Great Comedy Overtures - Naxos

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Last heard 13 days ago

Max Bruch - Eight Pieces, Op. 83 - Philon Trio - Philon Trio: Max Bruch - Analekta

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Last heard 21 days ago

Jacques Offenbach - Orpheus in the Underworld - Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel - William Tell And Other Favorite Overtures - Telarc

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 7 days ago

Ludwig van Beethoven - Leonore Overture No. 2 in C, Op. 72a - London Sym Orch/Bernard Haitink - Beethoven: Symphony No. 3, 'Eroica

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John Mundy - In Midst of Woods/The Blackbird - Piffaro - Waytes: English Music for A Renaissance Band - Navona

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 17 days ago

Johann Gottfried Berwald - Sinfonia in C - Orebro Chamber Orch/Goran Nilson - Mozart & His Contemporaries - Bluebell

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 19 days ago

George Gershwin - Three Preludes (1926) - Lake Effect Clarinet Quartet - Cooler By The Lake - Lake Effect Clarinet Quartet

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 23 days ago

Alexander Borodin - Symphony No. 3 in A minor - Seattle Sym/Gerard Schwarz - Borodin: Symphonies Nos 1-3 - Naxos

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Maddalena Sirmen - Violin Duet in E, Op. 5, No. 4 - Shelby Yamin & Sarah Bleile Douglas, v's - Maddalena Lombardi: Violin Duets, Op. 5 - Orpheus

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Last heard 6 days ago

Carlos Chavez - Toccata for orchestra (1947) - State of Mexico Sym Orch/Enrique Batiz - Musica Mexicana Vol. 7 - ASV

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Last heard 17 days ago

Franz Liszt - Mephisto Waltz No. 2 - Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Kurt Masur - Liszt: Tasso, Les Preludes, Orpheus, Mazeppa, Mephisto Waltz No. 2 - EMI

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 9 days ago

Tom Waits - What's He Building - Tom Waits - Mule Variations - Epitaph

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Last heard 11 days ago

Thomas Tallis - Videte Miraculum - London Oratory Schola Cantorum/Charles Cole - Sacred Treasues of Christmas * London Oratory Schola Cantorum - Hyperion

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Last heard 13 days ago