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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Gioachino Rossini - Il turco in Italia - Prague Sinfonia/Christian Benda - Rossini: Complete Overtures, Vol. 4 - Naxos

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George Frideric Handel - Terpsichore - Apollo's Fire/Jeannette Sorrell - The Power of Love: Arias from Handel Operas - Avie

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William Walton - Troilus and Cressida - City of Birmingham Sym Orch/Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla - The British Project - DG

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Johannes Brahms - Piano Quartet No. 2 in A, Op. 26 - M Nowak, v; K Budnik, vi; Y Okamoto, vc; K Zimmerman, p - Brahms: Piano Quartets Nos. 2 & 3 - DG

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Christoph Willibald Gluck - Orpheus and Eurydice - Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood - Pachelbel: Canon - Handel, Vivaldi, Gluck - L'Oiseau-Lyre

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William Boyce - Symphony No. 1 in B-Flat - Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood - Boyce: Symphonies, Op. 2 - L'Oiseau-Lyre

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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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Erich Wolfgang Korngold - The Adventures of Robin Hood - Hollywood Bowl Orch/John Mauceri - Hollywood Dreams - Philips

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Franz Schubert - Rosamunde, D 797 - Chamber Orch of Europe/Claudio Abbado - Schubert: Rosamunde - DG

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Ernest Bloch - Concerto Grosso No. 1 - Jenny Lin, p; Southwest German Radio Sym Orch/Jiři Starek - Ernest Bloch: Concerto Symphonique, Concerto Grosso No. 1, Scherzo Fantasque - Hanssler Classic

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Igor Stravinsky - Le Baiser de la fee - London Sinfonietta/Riccardo Chailly - Stravinsky: Divertimento, Fanfare for a New Theatre, Three Pieces for Clarinet Solo, Suites Nos. 1 and 2 - Decca

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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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Giles Farnaby - Suite of Six Dances - Philip Jones Brass Ensemble - Music from the Royal Court - Decca

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Peter Schickele - Serenade for Three - Orion Ensemble - A Celebration of American Chamber Music - Orion Ensemble

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Michael Praetorius - Terpsichore - Collegium Terpsichore/Fritz Neumeyer - Dance Music of the High Renaissance - Boston Skyline

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Heitor Villa-Lobos - Dancas caracteristicas africanas - Brazilian Guitar Quartet - Brazilian Guitar Quartet Plays Villa-Lobos - Delos

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First heard 9 months ago

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Jean Francaix - L'Horloge de Flore (The Flower Clock) - Albrecht Mayer, ob; St Martin's Academy/Mathias Monius - Bonjour Paris * Albrecht Mayer - Decca

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William Walton - Johannesburg Festival Overture - London Phil Orch/Bryden Thomson - Walton: Orchestral Works - Chandos

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Sunday Afternoons with Robbie Ellis - - -

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Eric Ewazen - Oboe Concerto, Down a River of Time - Linda Strommen, ob; Sejong Soloists - Sejong Plays Ewazen - Albany

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Percy Grainger - Walking Tune - Borealis Wind Quintet - A La Carte: Short Works for Wind Quintet - MSR Classics

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Scott Joplin - Treemonisha - The Paragon Ragtime Orchestra/Rick Benjamin - Scott Joplin: Treemonisha - New World

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

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Jean Sibelius - Symphony No. 7 in C, Op. 105 - Gothenburg Sym Orch/Santtu-Matias Rouvali - Sibelius Symphonies Nos. 6 & 7, The Tempest - Alpha

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Joseph Turrin - Fandango - Mary Elizabeth Bowden, tr; Zenas Kim-Banther, tb; Milana Strezeva, p - Radiance - Summit

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Jessie Montgomery - Peace - Anthony McGill, cl; Gloria Chien, p - Here With You - Cedille

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Augusta Holmes - Andromede - Toulouse Capitole Orch/Leo Hussain - Compositrices: New Light on French Romantic Women Composers - Bru Zane

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Leslie Adams - Etudes, Part I - Maria Thompson Corley, p - Maria Corley * Leslie Adams * Twelve Etudes - Albany

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Robert Schumann - Carnaval, Op. 9 - Lyon National Orch/Leonard Slatkin - Ravel: Orchestra Music Vol. 3 - Naxos

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Richard Rodgers - Victory at Sea - Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel - Victory at Sea - Telarc

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Alexander Glazunov - Poeme lyrique in D-Flat, Op. 12 - Bamberg Sym/Neeme Jarvi - Glazunov: Symphony No. 6 & Poeme lyrique - Orfeo

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Felix Mendelssohn - Konzertstuck in D minor, Op. 114 - Thea King, cl; Julian Farrell, basset hn; English Chamber Orch Winds - Classic Champagne - Salon Music for Wind Instruments - EMI

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Franz Joseph Haydn - String Quartet in G, Op. 64, No. 4 - Angeles String Quartet - Haydn: Complete String Quartets - Philips

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Josef Suk - Fantastic Scherzo, Op. 25 - Buffalo Phil Orch/JoAnn Falletta - Suk: Fairy Tale * Fantastic Scherzo - Naxos

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Orlandus (Roland de) Lassus - Motet, Sicut rosa - Charles Geyer, tr; Barbara Butler, tr - - D'Note

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Henry Purcell - Abdelazer - Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood - The Baroque Experience - L'Oiseau-Lyre

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Giacomo Puccini - Three Minuets (1892) - Berlin Radio Sym Orch/Riccardo Chailly - Puccini: Orchestral Music - Decca

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First heard 10 months ago

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Luigi Boccherini - Night Music in the Streets of Madrid, Op. 30, No. 6 - United Strings of Europe/Julian Azkoul - United Strings of Europe: In Motion - BIS

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Clarice Assad - Constellation - Harumi Rhodes, v; Clarice Assad, p - Takacs Assad Libro - Yarlung

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Peter Tchaikovsky - Capriccio italien, Op. 45 - Cincinnati Sym Orch/Erich Kunzel - 1812, Capriccio Italien, Cossack Dance - Telarc

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Peter Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker, Op. 71 - Los Angeles Guitar Quartet - Dances from Renaissance to Nutcracker - Delos

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Jean-Philippe Rameau - Platee - Philharmonia Baroque Orch/Nicholas McGegan - Suites from Platee and Dardanus - Conifer

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Sylvius Leopold Weiss - Concerto a Cinque in C - Tempesta di Mare - Weiss: Lute Concerti - Chandos

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William Boyce - Overture No. 4 in D - Cantilena/Adrian Shepherd - Boyce: Overtures 1-9 - Chandos

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Jean Sibelius - String Quartet in E-Flat (1885) - Sibelius Academy Quartet - Sibelius: Early Chamber Works / Sibelius Academy String Quartet - Finlandia

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Dmitri Shostakovich - Ballet Suite No. 1 - Royal Scottish National Orch/Neeme Jarvi - Shostakovich: Five Ballet Suites - Chandos

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Mily Balakirev - Islamey - Bavarian Radio Sym Orch/Esa-Pekka Salonen - Tchaikovsky, Borodin, Balakirev: 1812, Polovtsian Dances, Islamey - Philips

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

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First heard 2 years ago

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