98.7 WFMT (Chicago)

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Playlist updated 7 hours ago · Oct 20, 2026, 11:58 AM 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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Peter Tchaikovsky - String Sextet, Op. 70, Souvenir de Florence - Nash Ensemble - Tchaikovsky & Korngold: String Sextets - Hyperion

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Carlos Chavez - Chapultepec (Obertura Republicana) - Simon Bolivar Sym Orch/Keri-Lynn Wilson - Danzon - Dorian

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7days10.19%28days10.03%6months30.01%12months30%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 6 days ago

Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 1 in D, Titan - Chicago Sym Orch/Claudio Abbado - Symphonie No. 1 - DG

Popularity:

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

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 18 days ago

Aaron Copland - El Salon Mexico - Dallas Sym/Eduardo Mata - Great American Showpieces - EMI

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

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 4 months ago

Erik Satie - Jack-in-the-Box - Utah Sym/Maurice Abravanel - The Complete Ballets of Erik Satie - Vanguard

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Leonard Bernstein - Divertimento for Orchestra - Boston Pops Orch/John Williams - American Classics - Philips

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Last heard 2 months ago

Michael Torke - Bliss - University of Kansas Wind Ensemble/Paul W. Popiel - Michael Torke: Concerto for Orchestra - Ecstatic Records

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Last heard a month ago

Johann Strauss II - Waltz, Roses from the South, Op. 388 - Diabolicus/Dietrich Henschel - A nos amours - Naive

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Margaret Bonds - Troubled Water - Ashley Jackson, h - Take Me to the Water - Decca

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 15 days ago

Stanisław Moniuszko - Bajka (Fairy Tale) - Warsaw Phil Orch/Antoni Wit - Stanisław Moniuszko: Overtures - Naxos

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 10 days ago

Florence Price - Piano Quintet in A minor - Takacs Quartet; Marc-Andre Hamelin, p - Dvořak & Price: Piano Quintets - Hyperion

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Last heard 3 months ago

Francois Couperin - Concert royal No. 4 in E minor - Le Concert des Nations/Jordi Savall - Francois Couperin - Les Concerts Royaux - Alia Vox

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Georges Bizet - Carmen - Bastille Opera Orch/Myung-Whun Chung - Carmen Suite, L'Arlesienne Suite 1 and 2 - DG

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Ruth Gipps - Violin Concerto, Op. 24 - Charlie Lovell-Jones, v; BBC Phil/Rumon Gamba - Ruth Gipps: Orchestral Works Vol. 4 - Chandos

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 19 days ago

Johann Sebastian Bach - Three-Part Sinfonias, BWV 787-801 - Ton Koopman, hc - - Capriccio

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First heard a year ago

Last heard 3 months ago

Georg Mathias Monn - Cello Concerto in D - Yo-Yo Ma, vc; Boston Sym Orch/Seiji Ozawa - Strauss: Don Quixote; Schoenberg: Concerto in D - CBS

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First heard a year ago

Last heard a month ago

Astor Piazzolla - Maria de Buenos Aires - Lucienne Renaudin Vary, tr; Monte Carlo Phil Orch/Sascha Goetzel - Piazzolla Stories - Warner

Popularity:

7days00%28days00%6months30.01%12months70.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Ina Boyle - Violin Concerto, To the Memory of My Mother - Esther Abrami, v; Vienna Radio Sym Orch/Irene Delgado-Jimenez - Women - Sony

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First heard a year ago

Last heard 14 days ago

Bela Bartok - Suite No. 1, Op. 3 - BBC Scottish Sym Orch/Thomas Dausgaard - Bartok: Suite No. 1 & Concerto for Orchestra - Onyx

Popularity:

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First heard a year ago

Last heard 14 days ago

Dmitri Shostakovich - Four Waltzes - Philippa Davies, f; Michael Collins, cl; Ian Brown, p - Shostakovich: Piano Quintet; Piano Trio No. 2; 4 Waltzes - Virgin

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Last heard a month ago

William Walton - Capriccio burlesco - London Phil Orch/Bryden Thomson - Walton: Orchestral Works - Chandos

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Last heard a month ago

Francesco Durante - String Concerto No. 5 in A - Concerto Koln - Durante: Concertos for Strings Nos. 1-6 - Capriccio

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Last heard 2 months ago

Ralph Vaughan Williams - Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1 - London Phil Orch/Bernard Haitink - Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5; Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1; The Lark Ascending - EMI

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Last heard 3 months ago

Georges Bizet - L'Arlesienne - Chicago Sym Orch/Jean Martinon - Jean Martinon - The Complete CSO Recordings - Sony Classical

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Carlos Guastavino - Jeromita Linares - Pablo Cohen, g; Camerata Bariloche - Impresiones - Dorian

Popularity:

7days00%28days00%6months30.01%12months80.02%

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Last heard 2 months ago

Joseph Kreutzer - Grand Trio, Op. 16 - Alexa Still, f; Robert Alemany, cl; JoAnn Falletta, g - The Viennese Guitar - Koch

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First heard a year ago

Last heard 19 days ago

Antonio Casimir Cartellieri - Two-Clarinet Concerto in B-Flat - Dieter Klocker & Sandra Arnold, cl's, Czech Phil Chamber Orch - Cartellieri: Clarinet Concerto's, Vol. 2 - MD G

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First heard a year ago

Last heard 11 days ago

Edvard Grieg - Lyric Pieces, Op. 43 - Andrey Gugnin, p - Edvard Grieg: Holberg Suite, Ballade & Lyric Pieces - Hyperion

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First heard a year ago

Last heard 22 days ago

Emmanuel Chabrier - Le roi malgre lui - Vienna Phil/John Eliot Gardiner - Chabrier: Espana, Suite pastorale, etc. - DG

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Last heard a month ago

Johann Strauss II - Waltz, Tales from the Vienna Woods, Op. 325 - Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel - Ein Straussfest - Telarc

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Last heard 20 days ago

Bryce Dessner - Haven - Katia Labeque & Marielle Labeque, p's; David Chalmin & Bryce Dessner, g's - El Chan - DG

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First heard a year ago

Last heard 16 days ago

Alexandre Desplat - The Shape of Water - Emmanuel Pahud, f; Myriam Lafargue, acc; French National Orch/Alexandre Desplat - Airlines - Warner

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John Adams - Short Ride in a Fast Machine - San Francisco Sym/Edo de Waart - The Chairman Dances - Nonesuch

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First heard a year ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Louise Heritte-Viardot - Piano Quartet No. 1 in A, Op. 9, Im Sommer - Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective - Brahms & Contemporaries, Vol. 2 - Chandos

Popularity:

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

First heard a year ago

Last heard 22 days ago

Moritz Moszkowski - From Foreign Lands, Op. 23 - Polish National Radio Sym Orch/Antoni Wit - Moszkowski: Piano Concerto in E major; From Foreign Lands - Naxos

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First heard a year ago

Last heard 10 days ago

Zoltan Kodaly - Marosszek Dances - Buffalo Phil Orch/JoAnn Falletta - Kodaly: Concerto for Orchestra, Dances of Galanta, Dances of Marosszek, The Peacock Variations - Naxos

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

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Last heard a month ago

Nicola Matteis - Ballo dei Bagatellieri - Il Pomo d'Oro/Maxim Emelyanychev - Facce d'Amore - Erato

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7days10.19%28days10.03%6months30.01%12months50.01%

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Last heard a day ago

Hugo Friedhofer - The Best Years of Our Lives - London Phil Orch/Franco Collura - The Best Years of Our Lives - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack - Screen Classics

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First heard a year ago

Last heard 4 months ago

Steve "Q" Quinn - The Midnight Special – Harmonica Greasy (Traditional) - Steve “Q” Quinn - Midnight Special Collection - Midnight Special Collection

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Last heard 2 months ago

Samuel Barber - Essay No. 2, Op. 17 - Baltimore Sym Orch/David Zinman - Barber: Adagio, Symphony No. 1, The School for Scandal, Essays - Argo

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Last heard 2 months ago

Maurice Ravel - Sheherazade, ouverture de feerie - Orch de Paris/Jean Martinon - Ravel: Orchestral Works - EMI

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Last heard 25 days ago

Ralph Vaughan Williams - Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus - London Sym Orch Strings/Richard Hickox - Vaughan Williams: Five Tudor Portraits; Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus - Chandos

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Haydn Wood - An 18th Century Scherzo - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/David Lloyd-Jones - ENGLISH STRING MINIATURES, Vol. 3 - Naxos

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Last heard 25 days ago

Leonard Bernstein - Candide - Hadley, Anderson, Green, Ludwig, London Sym Cho, Orch/Leonard Bernstein - Bernstein: Candide - DG

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First heard a year ago

Last heard 4 months ago

Johannes Brahms - Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68 - New York Phil/Leonard Bernstein - Brahms: Symphony No. 1 & Serenade No. 2 - Sony

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Last heard 8 days ago

Franz Joseph Haydn - Piano Trio in G, H XV:25 - Beaux Arts Trio - Haydn: Complete Piano Trios - Philips

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Last heard 2 months ago

Peter Tchaikovsky - Suite No. 2 in C, Op. 53, Caracteristique - BBC Scottish Sym Orch/Alpesh Chauhan - Tchaikovsky: Orchestral Works, Vol. 3 - Chandos

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Last heard 2 months ago

Manuel de Falla - Seven Popular Spanish Songs - Avi Avital, m; Ensemble - Between Worlds - DG

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7days00%28days10.03%6months30.01%12months70.02%

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Last heard 14 days ago

Edward Elgar - Enigma Variations, Op. 36 - City of Birmingham Sym Orch/Simon Rattle - Elgar: Enigma Variations, Falstaff, Grania and Diarmid - EMI

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Last heard 2 months ago

Robert Schumann - Marchenerzahlungen (Fairy Tales), Op. 132 - Michael Collins, cl; Steven Isserlis, vc; Stephen Hough, p - Brahms, Fruhling, Schumann - Clarinet Trios, Marchenerzahlungen, Traumerei - RCA

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