98.7 WFMT (Chicago)

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Playlist updated 5 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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Edgar Meyer - Short Trip Home - Joshua Bell, v; Sam Bush, m; Mike Marshall, g; Edgar Meyer, db - Short Trip Home - Sony

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Last heard 2 months ago

Gabriela Lena Frank - Three Latin American Dances - Utah Sym/Keith Lockhart - Symphonic Dances - Reference

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Last heard 24 days ago

Hosted by Dave Schwan. - - -

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Last heard 3 months ago

Hugo Wolf - Italian Serenade in G - Orpheus Chamber Orch - Wagner, Sibelius, Puccini, Wolf, Turina, Dvořak, Berlioz - DG

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7days00%28days00%6months30.01%12months90.02%

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Last heard a month ago

Dmitri Kabalevsky - The Comedians, Op. 26 - National Phil/Leonard Slatkin - Leonard Slatkin - Conducts Russian Showpieces - RCA

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Last heard 15 days ago

Manuel de Falla - Nights in the Gardens of Spain - Josep Colom, p; City of Granada Orch/Josep Pons - Falla: El sombrero de tres picos, etc. - Harmonia Mundi

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Florence Price - Snapshots - Samantha Ege, p - Fantasie Negre: The Piano Music of Florence Price - Lorelt

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Jules Massenet - Orchestral Suite No. 5, Scenes napolitaines - New Zealand Sym Orch/Jean-Yves Ossonce - Massenet: Orchestral Suites Nos. 4 - 7 - Naxos

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Leo Brouwer - Cuban Landscape with Rain - Los Angeles Guitar Quartet - El Amor Brujo - GHA

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Gaetano Donizetti - La Favorite - Philharmonia Orch/Antonio de Almeida - Donizetti: Complete Ballet Music From The Operas - Philips

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Gilbert & Sullivan - The Pirates of Penzance - St Martin's Academy/Sir Neville Marriner - Gilbert and Sullivan: Overtures - Philips

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Clara Schumann - Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 17 - Anne-Sophie Mutter, v; Pablo Ferrandez, vc; Lambert Orkis, p - Brahms: Double Concerto; Clara Schumann: Piano Trio - Sony

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Robert Schumann - Symphony No. 1 in B-Flat, Op. 38, Spring - Chamber Orch of Europe/Yannick Nezet-Seguin - Schumann: Symphonies Nos. 1-4 - DG

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Last heard 7 days ago

Ludwig van Beethoven - Piano Trio in B-Flat, Op. 97, Archduke - Leonidas Kavakos, v; Yo-Yo Ma, vc; Emanuel Ax, p - Beethoven for Three: Symphony No. 4 and Op. 97 "Archduke" - Sony

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Stefania De Kenessey - Sunburst - Nanette Kaplan Solomon, p - Sunbursts: Solo Piano Works By 7 American Women - Leonarda

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

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Last heard 3 months ago

Josef Suk - String Serenade in E-Flat, Op. 6 - London Chamber Orch/Christopher Warren-Green - Tchaikovsky, Suk, Dvořak: Serenades - Virgin

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Last heard 10 days ago

Peter Tchaikovsky - Valse-Scherzo in C, Op. 34 - Midori, v; London Sym Orch/Leonard Slatkin - Paganini: Violin Concerto No. 1; Tchaikovsky: Serenade melancolique, Valse-Scherzo - Philips

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Last heard 22 days ago

Manuel Ponce - Concierto del Sur - Pablo Sainz-Villegas, g; Phil Orch of the Americas/Alondra de la Parra - Mi Alma Mexicana - Sony

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George Whitefield Chadwick - Symphonic Sketches - Cincinnati Pops/Erich Kunzel - American Jubilee - Popular & Patriotic Works - Telarc

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Last heard 5 months ago

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

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Last heard 4 months ago

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

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Last heard 2 months ago

Alexander Glazunov - Mazurka-Obereque - Itzhak Perlman, v; Abbey Road Ensemble/Lawrence Foster - A la carte - EMI

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Johann Sebastian Bach - Three-Violin Concerto in D, BWV 1064 - Linda Melsted & David Greenberg, v's; Tafelmusik/Jeanne Lamon, v - Bach: Concertos for Violin - Sony

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Ernest John Moeran - Overture for a Masque (1944) - Ulster Orch/JoAnn Falletta - Moeran: In the Mountain Country - Naxos

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

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Georg Philipp Telemann - Overture (Suite) in A minor, TWV 55:a1 - L'Orfeo Barockorchester/Carin van Heerden - Telemann: VI Ouvertures a 4 ou 6 TWV 55 (1736) - CPO

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Jennifer Higdon - Trumpet Songs - Scott Meredith, tr; Rubia Santos, p - Chamber Music of Jennifer Higdon - Albany

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Franz Joseph Haydn - Scherzando No. 3 in D, H II:35 - Berlin Haydn Ensemble - F.J. & J.M. Haydn: Flute Concertos & Scherzandi / Emmanuel Pahud - EMI

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Duke Ellington - Night Creature - Courtney Bryan, p; Cincinnati Sym Orch/Louis Langree - American Dreams - Fanfare Cincinnati

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Last heard 24 days ago

Ernest Chausson - Concert in D, Op. 21 - Rachel Barton Pine, v; Orion Weiss, p; Pacifica Quartet - French Impressions: Chamber Music by Chausson & Tailleferre - Cedille

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Last heard 21 days ago

Ludwig van Beethoven - Cello Sonata No. 3 in A, Op. 69 - Yo-Yo Ma, vc; Emanuel Ax, p - Hope Amid Tears - Sony

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Richard Wagner - The Flying Dutchman - Chicago Sym Orch/Daniel Barenboim - Wagner Overtures and Preludes - Teldec

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Ludwig van Beethoven - Piano Concerto No. 1 in C, Op. 15 - Alice Sara Ott, p; Netherlands Radio Phil Orch/Karina Canellakis - Beethoven - DG

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Last heard 21 days ago

Gaetano Donizetti - Dom Sebastien - Philharmonia Orch/Antonio de Almeida - Donizetti: Complete Ballet Music From The Operas - Philips

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Last heard 6 days ago

Robert Schumann - Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat, Op. 97, Rhenish - Philharmonia Orch/Christian Thielemann - Schumann - Symphony No. 3 "Rhenish" - DG

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Dmitri Shostakovich - The Tale of the Silly Little Mouse film score, Op. 56 - Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Riccardo Chailly - The Film Album - Decca

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First heard 10 months ago

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Henry Charles Litolff - Piano Trio No. 2 in E-Flat, Op. 56 - Leonore Piano Trio - Henry Charles Litolff: Piano Trios Nos. 1 & 2 - Hyperion

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Jean-Marie Leclair - Two-Violin Sonata in E minor, Op. 3, No. 5 - Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman, v's - Duets for Two Violins - Warner Classics

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Last heard 22 days ago

Josef Suk - Pohadka (Fairy Tale), Op. 16 - Czech Phil/Jiři Bělohlavek - Suk: Asrael Symphony, Fairy Tale, Serenade for Strings - Chandos

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Last heard 2 days ago

Henry Charles Litolff - Concerto symphonique No. 3 in E-Flat, Op. 45 - Peter Donohoe, p; BBC Scottish Sym Orch/Andrew Litton - - Hyperion

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Last heard a month ago

Joseph Hellmesberger Sr. - Ball Scene - Vienna Phil/Mariss Jansons - New Year's Concert 2016 - Sony

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Harold Arlen - Get Happy - Jenny Lin, p - Get Happy - Steinway & Sons

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Antonio Soler - Fandango - L'Arpeggiata/Christina Pluhar - Los Pajaros Perdidos * The South American Project - Virgin

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

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

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Violin Sonata No. 18 in G, K. 301 - Hilary Hahn, v; Natalie Zhu, p - Mozart: Violin Sonatas - DG

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Antonin Dvořak - String Sextet in A, Op. 48 - Fine Arts Quartet; Anna Kreetta Gribajcevic, vi; Jens Peter Maintz, vc - Dvořak: Spirit of Bohemia - Naxos

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Last heard 19 days ago

Franz Schubert - Piano Sonata in B-Flat, D 960 - Murray Perahia, p - Schubert: Piano Sonatas D.958, 959, 960 - Sony

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Felix Mendelssohn - Piano Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25 - Lang Lang, p; Chicago Sym Orch/Daniel Barenboim - First Piano Concertos - DG

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Last heard a month ago

Alexandre Desplat - Wes Anderson's Suite - F Calvo, man; G Caserotto, banjo; L Morar, dulcimer; Orchestre de Paris/Alexandre Desplat - Paris - Hollywood - Warner Classics

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First heard 9 months ago

Last heard 19 days ago