98.7 WFMT

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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 playlist

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Andrzej Panufnik - Old Polish Suite - Polish Chamber Orch/Mariusz Smolij - Panufnik: Homage to Polish Music - Naxos

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Domenico Cimarosa - Serenade - James Galway, f; Kazuhito Yamashita, g - Italian Serenade - RCA

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Last heard 23 days ago

Florence Price - Symphony No. 4 in D minor - Philadelphia Orch/Yannick Nezet-Seguin - Price: Symphony No. 4; Dawson: Negro Folk Symphony - DG

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Peter Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 1 in G minor, Op. 13, Winter Dreams - Chicago Sym Orch/Claudio Abbado - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 1, The Nutcracker (Suite) - Sony

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Eine kleine Nachtmusik, K. 525 - Kremerata Baltica/Gidon Kremer - After Mozart - Nonesuch

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Antonin Dvorak - Silhouettes, Op 8 - Tomas Visek, p - Piano Music - Rosa

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Enrique Granados - Goyescas (piano suite) - Javier Perianes, p - Granados: Goyescas, El Pelele - Harmonia Mundi

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Gabriel Faure - Masques et Bergamasques, Op. 112 - Orpheus Chamber Orch - Pavane - DG

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Franz Schubert - Symphony No. 5 in B-Flat, D. 485 - Age of Enlightenment Orch/Charles Mackerras - Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 5, 8, 9 - Virgin

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Johann Strauss II - Sweetheart Waltzes, Op. 418 (from Der Zigeunerbaron) - Boston Sym Chamber Players - Johann Strauss: Waltzes - Transcriptions by Berg, Webern & Schoenberg; Igor Stravinsky: Octet, Pastorale, Ragtime, Concertino - DG

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Traditional African-American - Spiritual, Swing Low, Sweet Chariot - Chicago Brass Quintet - American Voices - Centaur

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Alexander Borodin - In the Steppes of Central Asia - Boston Pops Orch/Arthur Fiedler - Pops Caviar - Russian Orchestral Fireworks - RCA

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Emmanuel Chabrier - Bourree fantasque - Suisse Romande Orch/Neeme Jarvi - Chabrier: Orchestral Works - Chandos

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Last heard 16 days ago

Johann Friedrich Fasch - Sinfonia in G minor - Tempesta di Mare - Fasch: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2 - Chandos

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Franz Schubert - Die Winterreise, D 911 - Leslie Howard, p - The Complete Liszt Piano Music - Hyperion

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Joaquin Turina - Sinfonia sevillana, Op. 23 - Cincinnati Sym Orch/Jesus Lopez-Cobos - Music of Turina & Debussy - Telarc

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Edvard Grieg - Lyric Pieces, Op. 65 - St Martin's Academy/Sir Neville Marriner - Grieg, Sibelius: Suites - Philips

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Marianna Martines - Sinfonia in C - Women's Phil/JoAnn Falletta - Baroquen Treasures - Newport Classic

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Last heard 15 days ago

Ignacio Cervantes - Danzas cubanas - Jorge Luis Prats, p - Live in Zaragoza - Decca

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William Grant Still - Poem for Orchestra - Fort Smith Sym/John Jeter - American Classics * William Grant Still * Symphonies Nos 4 and 5 - Naxos

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William Grant Still - Festive Overture - Royal Phil Orch/Arthur Bennett Lipkin - A Festive Sunday with William Grant Still - Cambria

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Johann Strauss II - Waltz, On the Beautiful Blue Danube, Op. 314 - Vienna Phil/Daniel Barenboim - 2022 New Year's Concert - Sony

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Richard Strauss - Wind Serenade in E-flat, Op. 7 - Netherlands Wind Ensemble - Favourite Serenades for Orchestra - Philips

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Arthur Honegger - Pastorale d'ete - Toulouse Capitole Orch/Michel Plasson - Pacific 231, Horace Victorieux, Rugby, Mermoz, Pastorale d'ete, La Tempete - DG

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Richard Strauss - Till Eulenspiegel einmal anders - Chicago Pro Musica - The Medinah Sessions - Reference

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Edvard Grieg - Norwegian Dances, Op. 35 - Gothenburg Sym Orch/Neeme Jarvi - Grieg: Symphonic Dances, Norwegian Dances, Lyric Suite - DG

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George Frideric Handel - Alcina - English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner - Handel: Alcina, Il Pastor Fido, Terpsichore - Erato

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Johannes Brahms - String Sextet No. 1 in B-flat, Op. 18 - Music@Menlo Ensemble - Music@Menlo Live: Through Brahms - Music@Menlo

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John Alden Carpenter - Adventures in a Perambulator - Eastman-Rochester Orch/Howard Hanson - Pageant of P.T. Barnum, Adventures in a Perambulator, Once Upon a Time, Selections from McGuffey's Readers - Mercury

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William Alwyn - Concerto grosso No. 1 - City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox - Alwyn: Oboe Concerto, Concerti Grossi - Chandos

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Jean-Philippe Rameau - Le temple de la gloire - Philharmonia Baroque Orch/Nicholas McGegan - Temple de la Gloire - PBP

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Antonin Dvořak - The Noon Witch, Op. 108 - Berlin Phil/Simon Rattle - Dvořak: Tone Poems - EMI

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Philip Glass - Echorus - Jennifer Koh & Jaime Laredo, v's; Curtis 20/21 Ensemble/Vinay Parameswaran - Two x Four - Cedille

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John Adams - The Chairman Dances - San Francisco Sym/Edo de Waart - The Chairman Dances - Nonesuch

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Carter Pann - Slalom - Cincinnati Sym Orch/Paavo Jarvi - American Portraits - Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra Media

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Georges Bizet - L'Arlesienne - Toronto Sym Orch/Sir Andrew Davis - Bizet: L'Arlesienne Suites Nos. 1 & 2; Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker Suite - CBS

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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov - May Night - Seattle Sym/Gerard Schwarz - Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio espagnol / Overtures - Naxos

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Augusta Read Thomas - Of Paradise and Light - Chicago Youth Sym Orch/Allen Tinkham - CYSO Symphony Orchestra Fall 2019 Concert (November 17, 2019) - CYSO

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Camille Saint-Saens - Carnival of the Animals - The Kanneh-Masons - Carnival - Decca

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Manuel Ponce - Four Mexican Dances - Argentina Duran, p - Rapsodia Mexicana - Bravo Music

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Robert Nathaniel Dett - Cinnamon Grove - Clipper Erickson, p - My Cup Runneth Over - The Complete Piano Works of R. Nathaniel Dett - Navona

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Peter Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker, Op. 71 - Milwaukee Sym Orch/Andreas Delfs - Sergei Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet; Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker - Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra

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Alan Thomas - Trio Sefardi - Cavatina Duo; David Cunliffe, vc - Sephardic Journey - Cedille

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Ludwig van Beethoven - Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-Flat, Op. 19 - Stewart Goodyear, p; BBC National Orch of Wales/Andrew Constantine - Beethoven: Complete Piano Concertos - Orchid Classics

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Ludwig van Beethoven - String Quartet No. 11 in F minor, Op. 95, Serioso - Calidore String Quartet - Beethoven: The Middle Quartets - Signum

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Arnold Bax - Three Pieces for Small Orchestra (1928) - English Chamber Orch/Jeffrey Tate - The Banks of Green Willow - EMI

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Alexander Glazunov - Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 82 - Nicola Benedetti, v; Bournemouth Sym Orch/Kirill Karabits - Shostakovich & Glazunov Violin Concertos - Decca

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