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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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Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 9 in D - Chicago Sym Orch/Sir Georg Solti - Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 9 - 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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Scott Joplin - Bethena: A Concert Waltz - Agave - American Originals: A New World, A New Canon - Acis

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

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William Grant Still - Symphony No. 3, Sunday - North Arkansas Sym Orch/Carlton Woods - A Festive Sunday with William Grant Still - Cambria

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

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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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Johannes Brahms - Three Intermezzi, Op. 117 - Radu Lupu, p - Great Pianists of the 20th Century: Radu Lupu - Philips

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John Powell - At the Fair: Sketches of American Fun (1907) - Nicholas Ross, p - John Powell: Early Piano Works. In the South, Op. 16 - Centaur

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William Grant Still - Symphony No. 4, Autochthonous - Fort Smith Sym/John Jeter - American Classics * William Grant Still * Symphonies Nos 4 and 5 - Naxos

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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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Edvard Grieg - Peer Gynt, Op. 23 - Philadelphia Orch/Eugene Ormandy - Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites, Piano Concerto - RCA

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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach - Hamburg Symphony No. 1 in G, Wq 182/1 - Berlin Academy for Ancient Music - CPE Bach Symphonies From Berlin to Hamburg - Harmonia Mundi

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Franz Joseph Haydn - String Quartet in B-Flat, Op. 76, No. 4, Sunrise - Takacs Quartet - Haydn: String Quartets, Op. 76, 4-6 - Decca

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Sergei Prokofiev - Piano Sonata No. 5 in C, Op. 38/Op. 135 - Boris Berman, p - Prokofiev: Piano Music, Vol. 1 - Chandos

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Geronimo Gimenez - La Boda de Luis Alonso - Sinfonia por el Peru Youth Orch/Guillermo Garcia Calvo - Florez: Zarzuela - Florez Records

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Alexander Borodin - In the Steppes of Central Asia - Bavarian Radio Sym Orch/Esa-Pekka Salonen - Tchaikovsky, Borodin, Balakirev: 1812, Polovtsian Dances, Islamey - Philips

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Astor Piazzolla - Maria de Buenos Aires - Axiom Brass - Astor - Axiom Brass

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Douglas Lilburn - Festival Overture - New Zealand Sym Orch/James Judd - Lilburn Orchestral Works - Naxos

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Carrie Newcomer - Shape of a Perfect Arc - Carrie Newcomer - A Great Wild Mercy - Available Light Records

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Edward Elgar - Dream Children, Op 43 - English Chamber Orch/Paul Goodwin - Elgar: Nursery Suite, Serenade, Dream Children & Other Works - Harmonia Mundi

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Morten Lauridsen - Lux Aeterna - Polyphony, Britten Sinfonia/Stephen Layton - Lux aeterna & other choral works - Hyperion

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John Stanley - String Concerto in D, Op 2/1 - Parley of Instruments/Roy Goodman - Six Concertos in Seven Parts, Op. 2 - Hyperion

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Amilcare Ponchielli - Capriccio, Op. 80 - Quartetto Gelato - Rustic Chivalry - Marquis

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Igor Stravinsky - Suite No. 2 for Small Orchestra - Northern Sinfonia/Simon Rattle - Pulcinella Complete Ballet, Suites Nos. 1 and 2 - EMI

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Antonio Vivaldi - Sinfonia in G, R. 149 - Academy of Ancient Music/Andrew Manze - Vivaldi: Concert for the Prince of Poland - Harmonia Mundi

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

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Edward Elgar - Introduction and Allegro, Op. 47 - London Sym Orch Strings/Sir Colin Davis - Elgar: Enigma Variations, Introduction and Allegro - LSO Live

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Georg Philipp Telemann - Suite in B-Flat (Ouverture burlesque) - Collegium Musicum 90/Simon Standage - Telemann: Overture Burlesque, Vol. 2 - Chandos

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Three German Dances, K. 605 - Orpheus Chamber Orch - Mozart: A Little Light Music - DG

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Domenico Scarlatti - Clavier Sonata in d, Kk 213 (L 108) - Albert Fuller, hc - - Helicon Classics

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Malcolm Arnold - Four Scottish Dances, Op. 59 - Dallas Wind Sym/Jerry Junkin - Malcolm Arnold for Band - Reference

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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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Emil von Reznicek - Donna Diana - Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel - Erich Kunzel, Cincinnati Pops Orchestra - William Tell & Other Favorite Overtures - Telarc

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Claude Debussy - La Mer - Orch de Paris/Daniel Barenboim - The History of Classical Music in 24 Hours - DG

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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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George Frideric Handel - An Occasional Oratorio - Berlin Academy for Ancient Music/Justin Doyle - Handel: Coronation Anthems - Harmonia Mundi

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George Frideric Handel - Acis and Galatea - Atlanta Sym Cho & Orch/Robert Shaw - Grand and Glorious - Great Operatic Choruses - Telarc

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

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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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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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