98.7 WFMT (Chicago)

98%

Playlist updated 15 minutes ago · Oct 14, 2026, 8:22 PM 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

Title

Popularity

First heard

Last heard

Felix Mendelssohn - Symphony No. 4 in A, Op. 90, Italian - New Philharmonia Orch/Riccardo Muti - Mendelssohn: Symphony Nos. 3 and 4 - EMI

Popularity:

7days00%28days10.03%6months20.01%12months20%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 17 days ago

Carlos Chavez - Sarabanda - Mexico Festival Orch Strings/Enrique Batiz - Latin American Classics, Vol. 1 - Naxos

Popularity:

7days00%28days10.03%6months10%12months10%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Michael Giacchino - Up - Studio Orch/Michael Giacchino - Up (Soundtrack From The Motion Picture) - Walt Disney Records

Popularity:

7days10.12%28days10.03%6months10%12months10%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 4 days ago

Miriam Hyde - Piano Concerto No. 2 in C-sharp minor - Miriam Hyde, p; West Australian Sym Orch/Geoffrey Simon - Women of Note, Vol. 4 - ABC Classics

Popularity:

7days00%28days10.03%6months10%12months20%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Johann Sebastian Bach - Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 - Nevermind - Bach: Goldberg Variations - Alpha

Popularity:

7days00%28days10.03%6months10%12months10%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Nadia Boulanger - Three Pieces for cello and piano - Antonio Meneses, vc; Celina Szrvinsk, p - Soirees Internationales - Avie

Popularity:

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

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

John Corigliano - L'Invitation au voyage - Paul Edmund-Davies, f; I Fiamminghi/Rudolf Werthen - Corigliano: Creations and Other Works - Telarc

Popularity:

7days10.12%28days10.03%6months10%12months20%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 6 days ago

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 25 in C, K. 503 - Martha Argerich, p; Orch Mozart/Claudio Abbado - Piano Concertos Nos. 20 & 25 - DG

Popularity:

7days00%28days10.03%6months10%12months20%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 19 days ago

Maurice Ravel - Valses nobles et sentimentales - Cleveland Orch/Pierre Boulez - Maurice Ravel: The Piano Concertos, Valses nobles et sentimentales - DG

Popularity:

7days00%28days10.03%6months10%12months20%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Johann Nepomuk Hummel - Septet in D minor, Op. 74 - Linos Ensemble - Mozart, Hummel: Quintet & Septet - Calig

Popularity:

7days00%28days10.03%6months30.01%12months50.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 15 days ago

David Klock - Water in Motion - Trio Casals - Moto Finale - Navona

Popularity:

7days10.12%28days10.03%6months10%12months10%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 9 days ago

Niccolo Castiglioni - La Buranella (after Galuppi's Harpsichord Sonatas) - Danish National Sym Orch/Gianandrea Noseda - Castiglioni - Salmo XIX etc - Chandos

Popularity:

7days10.12%28days10.03%6months20.01%12months20%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 9 days ago

Santiago de Murcia - La Jota - O'Dette, Player, O'Brien, g's; Lawrence-King, h; Estevan, per - ¡Jacaras! 18th Century Spanish Baroque Guitar Music of Santiago de Murcia - Harmonia Mundi

Popularity:

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

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 22 days ago

Heitor Villa-Lobos - Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 - Renee Fleming, s; New World Sym Cellos/Michael Tilson Thomas - Alma Brasileira - RCA

Popularity:

7days00%28days10.03%6months10%12months10%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 16 days ago

Pauline Viardot - Violin Sonatina - Anna Agafia, v; Frank Braley, p - Compositrices: New Light on French Romantic Women Composers - Bru Zane

Popularity:

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

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 12 days ago

Maurice Ravel - Piano Concerto in G - Philippe Entremont, p; Philadelphia Orch/Eugene Ormandy - A Century of French Music - Sony

Popularity:

7days00%28days10.03%6months10%12months10%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 23 days ago

Gaetano Donizetti - Don Pasquale - Santa Cecilia Orch/Myung-Whun Chung - Italian Overtures - DG

Popularity:

7days00%28days10.03%6months30.01%12months40.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Ed Bland - A Higher Level - Judith Olson, p - Urban Counterpoint * The Piano Music of Ed Bland - Cambria

Popularity:

7days10.12%28days10.03%6months10%12months10%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 5 days ago

Frederic Chopin - Fantaisie-Impromptu in C-sharp minor, Op. 66 - Therese Motard, vc; Louise-Andree Baril, p - Chopin: Cello Sonata, Polonaise brillante, Fantaisie-Impromptu, Nocturnes, Valse - Analekta

Popularity:

7days10.12%28days10.03%6months10%12months20%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 8 days ago

David Popper - Three Pieces, Op. 11 - Wendy Warner, vc; Eileen Buck, p - Wendy Warner plays Popper and Piatigorsky - Cedille

Popularity:

7days00%28days10.03%6months10%12months20%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 21 days ago

Mark O'Connor - Butterfly's Day Out - Mark O'Connor, m; Yo-Yo Ma, vc; Edgar Meyer, db - The Essential Yo-Yo Ma - Sony

Popularity:

7days00%28days10.03%6months20.01%12months20%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 16 days ago

Ricardo Castro - Vals capricho, Op. 1 - Joel Fan, p; Northwest Sinfonietta/Christophe Chagnard - Dances for Piano and Orchestra - Reference

Popularity:

7days00%28days10.03%6months10%12months20%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 18 days ago

Clemence de Grandval - Grand Trio - Andrew Parker, ob; Kristin Jensen, bn; Colette Valentine, p - Clemence de Grandval: Works For Oboe - Navona

Popularity:

7days00%28days10.03%6months30.01%12months40.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 14 days ago

Vincent d'Indy - Suite in Olden Style, Op. 24 - Iceland Sym Orch/Rumon Gamba - d'Indy: Orchestral Works, Volume 6 - Chandos

Popularity:

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

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 19 days ago

Camille Saint-Saens - La jota aragonese, Op. 64 - Oviedo Phil/Marzio Conti - Saint-Saens: Rondo Capriccioso; Jota Aragonese; Concerto No. 3; Symphonie No. 3 - Warner

Popularity:

7days00%28days10.03%6months10%12months10%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 22 days ago

Jean Sibelius - The Tempest, Op. 109 - Gothenburg Sym Orch/Santtu-Matias Rouvali - Sibelius Symphonies Nos. 6 & 7, The Tempest - Alpha

Popularity:

7days00%28days10.03%6months30.01%12months40.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 13 days ago

Astor Piazzolla - Four Seasons of Buenos Aires - Daniel Barenboim, p; Rodolfo Mederos, bandoneon; Hector Console, db - Mi Buenos Aires Querido - Tangos Among Friends - Teldec

Popularity:

7days00%28days10.03%6months20.01%12months30%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 22 days ago

Georg Philipp Telemann - Viola Concerto in G - Antoine Tamestit, vi; Berlin Academy for Ancient Music - Telemann: Viola Concertos - Harmonia Mundi

Popularity:

7days00%28days10.03%6months10%12months20%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 18 days ago

Franz Liszt - Les preludes, Symphonic Poem No. 3 - Chicago Sym Orch/Sir Georg Solti - Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique; Liszt: Les Preludes - Decca

Popularity:

7days00%28days10.03%6months10%12months10%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Richard Strauss - Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 8 - Renaud Capucon, v; Vienna Phil/Petr Popelka - Richard Strauss - Renaud Capucon - Seiji Ozawa - DG

Popularity:

7days00%28days10.03%6months10%12months20%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Celso Machado - Musiques populaires bresiliennes - Michelle LaPorte, f; Gerry Saulter, g; James Carroll, per - Siempre Vivo! South American Songs, Preludes & Dances - Centaur

Popularity:

7days00%28days10.03%6months20.01%12months30%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 25 days ago

Joaquin Rodrigo - Fantasia para un gentilhombre - Goran Sollscher, g; Orpheus Chamber Orch - Rodrigo & Villa-Lobos: Guitar Concertos - DG

Popularity:

7days10.12%28days10.03%6months20.01%12months20%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 7 days ago

Richard Strauss - Horn Concerto No. 1 in E-Flat, Op. 11 - Barry Tuckwell, hn; London Sym Orch/Istvan Kertesz - Strauss: The Concertos - Decca

Popularity:

7days10.12%28days10.03%6months20.01%12months20%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 6 days ago

Johann Sebastian Bach - Aria variata alla maniera italiana, BWV 989 - Vikingur Olafsson, p - Johann Sebastian Bach - DG

Popularity:

7days00%28days10.03%6months10%12months20%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Sergei Rachmaninoff - The Sea and the Gulls (after Etude-Tableau, Op. 39, No. 2) - BBC National Orch of Wales/Tadaaki Otaka - Meditations for a Quiet Dawn - Nimbus

Popularity:

7days10.12%28days10.03%6months10%12months10%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 4 days ago

Josef Triebensee - Two-Oboe and English Horn Trio in B-Flat - Marilyn Zupnik & Kathryn Greenbank, ob's; Elizabeth Starr, eh - Beethoven, Triebensee: Oboe Trios - ASV

Popularity:

7days00%28days10.03%6months10%12months10%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Alfred Newman - The Greatest Story Ever Told - Sebastian Knauer, p; Berlin German Sym Orch/David Newman - Hollywood - Warner Classics

Popularity:

7days10.12%28days10.03%6months10%12months10%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 4 days ago

Turlough O'Carolan - Carolan's Welcome - Carol Thompson, h - Carolan's Welcome: Harp Music of Ireland - Dorian

Popularity:

7days00%28days10.03%6months10%12months10%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 24 days ago

Mauro Giuliani - Six Irish National Airs with Variations, Op. 125 - David Russell, g - Message of the Sea - Celtic Music for Guitar - Telarc

Popularity:

7days00%28days10.03%6months20.01%12months20%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 14 days ago

Sungmin Shin - Pinoy Reverie - Norman Menzales, f; Sungmin Shin, g - Panoramas - Flute Music of the Philippines - Ravello

Popularity:

7days00%28days10.03%6months10%12months10%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Felix Mendelssohn - A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 61 - Isata Kanneh-Mason, p - Mendelssohn - Decca

Popularity:

7days00%28days10.03%6months10%12months10%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 16 days ago

Giovanni Paisiello - Mandolin Concerto in E-Flat - Avi Avital, m; Il Giardino Armonico/Giovanni Antonini - Concertos - DG

Popularity:

7days00%28days10.03%6months20.01%12months30%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 9 hours ago

Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer - Concerto Armonico No. 3 in A - Amsterdam Baroque Orch/Ton Koopman - Van Wassenaer: 6 Concerti Armonici - Erato

Popularity:

7days00%28days10.03%6months10%12months20%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 21 days ago

Jean-Philippe Rameau - Les Paladins - Age of Enlightenment Orch/Gustav Leonhardt - Rameau: Les Paladins - Philips

Popularity:

7days00%28days10.03%6months20.01%12months30%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 13 days ago

Franz Joseph Haydn - London Trio No. 3 in G, H IV:3 - Jean-Pierre Rampal & Wolfgang Schulz, f's; Gilbert Audin, bn - Haydn: 'London' Trios & Duets for Two Flutes - Sony

Popularity:

7days00%28days10.03%6months10%12months20%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Giulio Briccialdi - Wind Quintet, Op 124 - Aulos Wind Quintet - Aulos-Blaserquintett - Vol. VI - Virtuoso Romantic Music - Koch

Popularity:

7days00%28days10.03%6months10%12months20%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 23 days ago

Alexander Krein - Caprice hebraique, Op. 24 - Anne Battegay, v; Chamber Orch Mannheim/Marc-Olivier Oetterli - The Essential Hebrew Violin - ARS Produktion

Popularity:

7days00%28days10.03%6months10%12months10%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago