98.7 WFMT (Chicago)

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Playlist updated 8 hours ago · Oct 21, 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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Johann Sebastian Bach - Two-Part Inventions, BWV 772/786 - Pieter-Jan Belder, hc - Bach Edition: Complete Works - Brilliant Classics

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Last heard 3 months ago

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

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Eugenio Toussaint - Concierto para piano improvisa - Alex Brown, p; Phil Orch of the Americas/Alondra de la Parra - Mi Alma Mexicana - Sony

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

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Last heard 21 days ago

Dobrinka Tabakova - Concerto for cello and strings - Kristina Blaumane, vc; Lithuanian Chamber Orch/Maxim Rysanov - Dobrinka Tabakova * String Paths - ECM

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Peter Tchaikovsky - Serenade for Strings in C, Op. 48 - Berlin Phil Strings/Semyon Bychkov - Tchaikovsky, Wolf, Elgar, Barber: Serenades - Philips

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

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Modest Mussorgsky - Khovanshchina - Berlin Phil/Claudio Abbado - St. John's Night on the Bare Mountain - Sony

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Josef Mysliveček - Overture in A - Concerto Koln - Il Divino Boemo: Josef Mysliveček Symphonies - Archiv

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Nicola Matteis - Sett of Ayres in G major - Theotime Langlois de Swarte, v; Thomas Dunford, l - The Mad Lover - Harmonia Mundi

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Gioachino Rossini - Il Signor Bruschino - Orpheus Chamber Orch - Rossini: Overtures - DG

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Fritz Kreisler - String Quartet in A minor - Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg & Benny Kim, v's; Masao Kawasaki, vi; Mats Lidstrom, vc - Night and Day - EMI

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Last heard 2 months ago

Felix Mendelssohn - String Symphony No. 2 in D - Europa Galante/Fabio Biondi - Mendelssohn - Europa Galante - Naive

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Last heard 4 months ago

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

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Last heard 7 days ago

Bjork - Venus as a Boy - Jess Gillam, sx; Jess Gillam Ensemble - Jess Gillam: Time - Decca

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Last heard 2 months ago

Francisco Tarrega - Gran Jota - Pablo Sainz-Villegas, g - Soul of Spanish Guitar - Sony

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John Rutter - Suite Antique - Duke Dobing, f; Wayne Marshall, hc; City of London Sinfonia/John Rutter - The Cambridge Singers Collection - Collegium

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Dimitri Cervo - Concerto, The Brazilian Four Seasons - Fabio Brum, tr; Seville Royal Sym Orch/Noam Zur - Alchemy - Naxos

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Germaine Tailleferre - Harp Concertino - Gillian Benet, h; Women's Phil/JoAnn Falletta - The Women's Philharmonic: Mendelssohn, Schumann, Tailleferre, Boulanger - Koch

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Last heard 25 days ago

George Frideric Handel - Harp Concerto in B-Flat, Op. 4, No. 6 - Maxine Eilander, h; Tafelmusik/Jeanne Lamon - A Baroque Feast - Analekta

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Florence Price - Piano Concerto in D minor - Michelle Cann, p; New York Youth Sym/Michael Repper - New York Youth Symphony: Florence Price, Valerie Coleman, Jessie Montgomery - Avie

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Aaron Copland - El Salon Mexico - Dallas Sym/Eduardo Mata - Great American Showpieces - EMI

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Last heard 4 months ago

Erik Satie - Jack-in-the-Box - Utah Sym/Maurice Abravanel - The Complete Ballets of Erik Satie - Vanguard

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Pablo de Sarasate - Fantasy on Mozart's The Magic Flute, Op. 54 - Gil Shaham, v; Akira Eguchi, p - The Fiddler of the Opera - DG

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Last heard 21 days ago

Johann Strauss II - Waltz, Roses from the South, Op. 388 - Diabolicus/Dietrich Henschel - A nos amours - Naive

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Peter Tchaikovsky - Suite No. 3 in G, Op. 55 - NDR Radio Phil/Stanislav Kochanovsky - Tchaikovsky: Orchestral Suite No. 3 - Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnol - Harmonia Mundi

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Margaret Bonds - Troubled Water - Ashley Jackson, h - Take Me to the Water - Decca

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Last heard 16 days ago

Karl Jenkins - The Armed Man - A Mass for Peace - Guy Johnston, vc; National Youth Choir of Great Britain; London Phil Orch/Karl Jenkins - Karl Jenkins - The Armed Man - Decca

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Traditional African-American - Spiritual, Steal Away - Imani Winds - Imani Winds: The Classical Underground - Koch

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Joseito Fernandez - Guantanamera - Sarah Willis, hn; Havana Lyceum Orch/Jose Antonio Mendez Padron - Mozart y Mambo: La Bella Cubana - Alpha

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Francois Couperin - Concert royal No. 4 in E minor - Le Concert des Nations/Jordi Savall - Francois Couperin - Les Concerts Royaux - Alia Vox

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Georges Bizet - Carmen - Bastille Opera Orch/Myung-Whun Chung - Carmen Suite, L'Arlesienne Suite 1 and 2 - DG

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William Grant Still - Ennanga - Ashley Jackson, h; Harlem Chamber Players - Ennanga - Bright Shiny Things

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Georg Mathias Monn - Cello Concerto in D - Yo-Yo Ma, vc; Boston Sym Orch/Seiji Ozawa - Strauss: Don Quixote; Schoenberg: Concerto in D - CBS

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Ludwig van Beethoven - Triple Concerto in C, Op. 56 - Benedetti; Kanneh-Mason; Grosvenor; Philharmonia Orch/Rouvali - Beethoven: Triple Concerto - Decca

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Last heard 25 days ago

Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No. 7 in A, Op. 92 - Philadelphia Orch/Riccardo Muti - Beethoven: The Complete Symphonies - Warner

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Erich Wolfgang Korngold - Piano Quintet in E, Op. 15 - Goldner String Quartet; Piers Lane, p - Bartok & Korngold: Piano Quintets - Hyperion

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William Walton - Capriccio burlesco - London Phil Orch/Bryden Thomson - Walton: Orchestral Works - Chandos

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Gordon Jacob - William Byrd Suite - Eastman Wind Ensemble/Frederick Fennell - British and American Band Classics - Mercury

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Last heard 3 months ago

Francesco Durante - String Concerto No. 5 in A - Concerto Koln - Durante: Concertos for Strings Nos. 1-6 - Capriccio

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Last heard 2 months ago

Joseph Kreutzer - Grand Trio, Op. 16 - Alexa Still, f; Robert Alemany, cl; JoAnn Falletta, g - The Viennese Guitar - Koch

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Last heard 20 days ago

Antonio Casimir Cartellieri - Two-Clarinet Concerto in B-Flat - Dieter Klocker & Sandra Arnold, cl's, Czech Phil Chamber Orch - Cartellieri: Clarinet Concerto's, Vol. 2 - MD G

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Last heard 12 days ago

Josef Lanner - Die Schmetterlinge Landler, Op. 65 - Ensemble Wien - Souvenirs de Vienne - Sony

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Last heard 23 days ago

Emmanuel Chabrier - Le roi malgre lui - Vienna Phil/John Eliot Gardiner - Chabrier: Espana, Suite pastorale, etc. - DG

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Alexandre Desplat - The Shape of Water - Emmanuel Pahud, f; Myriam Lafargue, acc; French National Orch/Alexandre Desplat - Airlines - Warner

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John Adams - Short Ride in a Fast Machine - San Francisco Sym/Edo de Waart - The Chairman Dances - Nonesuch

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Hajime Komatsu - Four Japanese Folk Songs Suite No. 2 - Kontras Quartet - Origins - MSR Classics

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Bright Sheng - Suzhou Overture - Suzhou Sym Orch/Bright Sheng - Bright Sheng: Let Fly - Zodiac Tales - Suzhou Overture - Naxos

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Johann Sebastian Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G Major, BWV 1049 - Taverner Players/Andrew Parrott - Bach: Brandenburg Concertos - EMI

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Last heard 9 days ago

Sergei Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30 - Yunchan Lim, p; Fort Worth Sym Orch/Marin Alsop - Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3, Live from the 2022 Cliburn Competition - Decca

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