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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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John Mackey - Sheltering Sky - Dallas Winds/Jerry Junkin - Asphalt Cocktail: Music of John Mackey - Reference

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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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Fritz Kreisler - Romance (Larghetto on a Theme by Carl Maria von Weber) - David Garrett, v; Royal Phil Orch/Ion Marin - Legacy - Decca

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Johann Adolf Hasse - Sinfonia, Op. 5, No. 6 - Concerto Koln/Pablo Heras-Casado - El Maestro: Farinelli - Archiv

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Arturo Marquez - Violin Concerto, Fandango - Anne Akiko Meyers, v; Los Angeles Phil/Gustavo Dudamel - Fandango - Platoon

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Germaine Tailleferre - Piano Trio (1916-17, rev. 1978) - Neave Trio - A Room of Her Own - Chandos

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Maddalena Sirmen - String Quartet No. 2 in B-Flat - Allegri String Quartet - Sirmen: The Six String Quartets - Cala

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Charles-Edouard Lefebvre - Wind Suite, Op 57 - Borealis Wind Quintet - Borealis en Salon: 19th Century French Music for Winds - MSR Classics

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Richard Wagner - Rienzi - Cleveland Orch/Franz Welser-Most - Wagner: Preludes & Overtures, Wesendonck-Lieder - DG

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Duke Ellington - Three Black Kings - Buffalo Phil Orch/JoAnn Falletta - Ellington: Black, Brown and Beige - Naxos

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Sergei Prokofiev - Romeo and Juliet Suite No. 1, Op. 64bis - Royal Scottish National Orch/Neeme Jarvi - Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet Suites - Chandos

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Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No. 7 in A, Op. 92 - Chicago Sym Orch/Sir Georg Solti - Beethoven: The Symphonies - Decca

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Heinrich von Biber - Two-Trumpet Sonata No. 7 in C - C Steele-Perkins & S Keavy, tr's; Parley of Instruments/Goodman - Heinrich Biber: Sonatae tam aris, quam aulis - Hyperion

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Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 9 in D - Chicago Sym Orch/Sir Georg Solti - Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 9 - Decca

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Last heard 16 days ago

Richard Strauss - Le bourgeois gentilhomme, Op. 60 - Chicago Sym Orch/Fritz Reiner - Richard Strauss: Symphonia Domestica / Suite From Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme - RCA

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Johann Sebastian Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 in B-flat Major, BWV 1051 - Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood - Bach: Brandenburg Concertos - L'Oiseau-Lyre

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Richard Wagner - Parsifal - Zoltan Kocsis, p - Wagner: Piano Transcriptions - Philips

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Franz Joseph Haydn - Piano Trio in F, H XV:2 - Guarneri Trio Prague - Haydn: Piano Trios - Praga

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George Frideric Handel - Concerto grosso in C, Alexander's Feast - Berlin Academy for Ancient Music - Handel: Famous Arias - Harmonia Mundi

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Nicola Porpora - Cello Concerto in G - Pulcinella/Ophelie Gaillard, vc - A Night in London - Aparte

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Michael Praetorius - Terpsichore (1612) - Brass Ring - Brass Ring - Berio, Praetorius, Gabrieli, Bach, Ewald, Kelly - Crystal

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Dana Suesse - Syncopated Love Song - Sara Davis Buechner, p - Jazz Nocturne: The Piano Works of Dana Suesse - eOne

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Ottorino Respighi - Ancient Airs and Dances for the Lute, Set 1 - Orpheus Chamber Orch - Respighi: Ancient Airs and Dances I & III, Three Botticelli Pictures, The Birds - DG

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Samuel Barber - Souvenirs, Op. 28 - John Browning & Leonard Slatkin, p - Samuel Barber: Symphony No. 1, Piano Concerto, Souvenirs - RCA

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Henriette Bosmans - Poeme - Dmitri Ferschtman, vc, Netherlands Radio Chamber Orch/Ed Spanjaard - Henriette Bosmans - NM Classics

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Peter Tchaikovsky - Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66 - Philadelphia Orch/Eugene Ormandy - Tchaikovsky - Highlights from The Three Grandest Ballets - CBS

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Johann Sebastian Bach - Orchestra Suite No. 2 in B minor, BWV 1067 - Freiburg Baroque Orch/Gottfried von der Goltz - J S Bach: Ouverturen (Complete Orchestral Suites) - Harmonia Mundi

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Symphony No. 38 in D, K. 504, Prague - Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood - Mozart: The Complete Symphonies - L'Oiseau-Lyre

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Giuseppe Verdi - Aida - Bournemouth Sym Orch/Jose Serebrier - Verdi: Complete Ballet Music from the Operas - Naxos

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Biagio Marini - La Albana, Sinfonia Breve - Clemencic Consort - La Pazzia Senile - Accord

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Astor Piazzolla - Four Seasons of Buenos Aires - Cavatina Duo - Cavatina Duo Plays Astor Piazzolla - Bridge

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Bohuslav Martinu - La Revue de Cuisine (Kitchen Revue) - St Paul Chamber Orch/Christopher Hogwood - Martinů - London

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Michael Torke - Bright Blue Music - Baltimore Sym Orch/David Zinman - Michael Torke - Color Music / David Zinman - Argo

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George Frideric Handel - Water Music Suite No. 2 in D - Berlin Academy for Ancient Music - Handel: Water Music Suites Nos. 1-3 - Harmonia Mundi

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Darius Milhaud - Saudades do Brasil, Op. 67 - Antonio Barbosa, p - Antonio Barbosa - Debussy, Milhaud - Connoisseur

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Ferruccio Busoni - Duettino concertante after Mozart's K 459 - Anderson & Roe Piano Duo - An Amadeus Affair - Steinway & Sons

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Richard Strauss - Schlagobers, Op. 70 - Detroit Sym Orch/Neeme Jarvi - Richard Strauss: Suite from Schlagobers & Munchen - Chandos

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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor - African Suite, Op. 35 - Chineke! Orch/Kevin John Edusei - Chineke! Orchestra: Coleridge-Taylor - Decca

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Dmitri Shostakovich - Hamlet (Incidental Music, 1932), Op. 32 - Boston Sym Orch/Andris Nelsons - Shostakovich: Under Stalin's Shadow - DG

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Peter Tchaikovsky - Suite No. 4 in G, Op. 61, Mozartiana - Stuttgart Radio Sym/Sir Neville Marriner - 'Mozartiana' Suites No. 3 and 4 - Capriccio

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Emmanuel Chabrier - Gwendoline - Vienna Phil/John Eliot Gardiner - Chabrier: Espana, Suite pastorale, etc. - DG

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Gabriel Faure - Requiem, Op. 48 - Tanglewood Festival Cho, Boston Sym Orch/Seiji Ozawa - A Century of French Music - Sony

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Isaac Albeniz - Suite espanola, Op. 47 - Norbert Kraft, g - Cavatina: Popular Guitar Music - Naxos

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Sergei Prokofiev - Symphony No. 1 in D, Op. 25, Classical - Orpheus Chamber Orch - Prokofiev: Classical Symphony, Bizet: Symphony in C, Britten: Simple Symphony - DG

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Georg Philipp Telemann - Overture (Suite) in G minor - English Concert/Trevor Pinnock - Telemann: Suites, Concerto In D / Pinnock, English Concert - Archiv

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Johannes Brahms - Tragic Overture, Op. 81 - London Phil Orch/Marin Alsop - Brahms: Symphony No. 1, Overtures - Naxos

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Luigi Denza - Song, Funiculi-Funicula - Diabolicus/Dietrich Henschel - A nos amours - Naive

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Carl Nielsen - Maskarade - Danish National Sym Orch/Thomas Dausgaard - Carl Nielsen: Orchestral Music - Dacapo

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Hugo Alfven - Swedish Rhapsody No. 1, Op. 19, Midsommarvaka - Minnesota Orch/Eiji Oue - Ports of Call - Reference

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Giovanni Gabrieli - Jubilate Deo - Music of the Baroque Choir & Brass/Edward Zelnis - O Be Joyful - Renaissance Brass & Choral Music - Music of the Baroque - Music of the Baroque

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