98.7 WFMT (Chicago)

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Playlist updated 8 minutes ago · Oct 14, 2026, 10:23 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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Josef Mysliveček - Concertino in E-Flat - Concerto Koln - Il Divino Boemo: Josef Mysliveček Symphonies - Archiv

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Carlo Monza - String Quartet in D, Opera in musica - Europa Galante - Opera in Musica: Carlo Monza Quartets - Naive

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 9 days ago

Johann Sebastian Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major, BWV 1048 - St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble - Bach: Brandenburg Concertos - St Luke's Collection

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 20 days ago

Antonio Carlos Gomes - Il Guarany - Minas Gerais Phil Orch/Fabio Mechetti - Gomes: Opera Overtures & Preludes - Naxos

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 23 days ago

William Grant Still - Violin and Piano Suite - Rachel Barton Pine, v; Matthew Hagle, p - Blues Dialogues - Cedille

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 7 days ago

Camille Saint-Saens - Samson and Delilah, Op. 47 - Minnesota Orch/Eiji Oue - Exotic Dances from the Opera - Reference

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 12 days ago

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

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7days00%28days10.03%6months20.01%12months40.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 25 days ago

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor - Ballade in D minor, Op. 4 - Michael Ludwig, v; Virginia Eskin, p - Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Clarinet Quintet, Petite Suite, Ballade, Spirituals - Koch

Popularity:

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

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 23 days ago

Harold Arlen - Over the Rainbow - King's Singers; Liam Dunachie, p; Misha Mullov-Abbado, db - The King's Singers: The Library, Vol. 4 - Signum

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 8 days ago

Maurice Ravel - Miroirs - Seong-Jin Cho, p - Ravel: The Complete Solo Piano Works - DG

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 15 days ago

Henryk Gorecki - Symphony No. 3, Op. 36, Symphony of Sorrowful Songs - Hera Hyesang Park, s; Teatro Carlo Felice Orch/Jochen Rieder - Breathe - DG

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 3 days ago

Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach - Flute Concerto in A, Wq 168 - Emmanuel Pahud, f; Potsdam Chamber Academy/Trevor Pinnock - The Flute King: Music from the Court of Frederick The Great - EMI

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 19 days ago

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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7days00%28days10.03%6months20.01%12months40.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 18 days ago

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

Popularity:

7days00%28days10.03%6months20.01%12months40.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Eric Whitacre - Three Flower Songs - Voces8/Eric Whitacre - Home - Decca

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 21 days ago

Ottorino Respighi - The Birds - Atlanta Sym Orch/Louis Lane - Classical Zoo - Telarc

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 17 days ago

Peter Tchaikovsky - String Sextet, Op. 70, Souvenir de Florence - Nash Ensemble - Tchaikovsky & Korngold: String Sextets - Hyperion

Popularity:

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

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 22 days ago

Frederick Delius - Florida Suite - Bournemouth Sym Orch/Richard Hickox - Victoria Presents Musical Moments in the Garden - EMI

Popularity:

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

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 16 days ago

Franz Liszt - Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-Flat - Alice Sara Ott, p; Munich Phil/Thomas Hengelbrock - Liszt & Tchaikovsky: First Piano Concertos - DG

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 8 days ago

Michael Abels - Winged Creatures - Demarre McGill, f; Anthony McGill, cl; Chicago Youth Sym Orch/Allen Tinkham - Winged Creatures - Cedille

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

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

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Felix Mendelssohn - Violin Sonata in F (1838) - Alina Ibragimova, v; Cedric Tiberghien, p - Mendelssohn: Violin Sonatas - Hyperion

Popularity:

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

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 21 days ago

Claude Debussy - Three Nocturnes - Cleveland Orch/Pierre Boulez - Debussy: La Mer, Nocturnes, Jeux, Rhapsody for Clarinet and Orchestra - DG

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 13 days ago

Louise Coombe - The Girl Upstairs (Coombe/Paxton) - Louise Coombe - Paris - Zoe Cat

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 10 days ago

Claude Debussy - Jeux (Poeme danse) - Orch de Paris/Klaus Makela - Stravinsky: Petrushka; Debussy: Jeux, Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune - Decca

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 11 days ago

Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 1 in D, Titan - Chicago Sym Orch/Claudio Abbado - Symphonie No. 1 - DG

Popularity:

7days00%28days10.03%6months30.01%12months60.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 12 days ago

Clara Schumann - Soirees musicales, Op. 6 - Fiona Mato, p - An Invitation at the Schumanns' - Harmonia Mundi

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First heard 2 years ago

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Francois Couperin - Concert royal No. 1 in G - Debra Nagy, ob; Mark Edwards, hc - The Poet and Prodigy - Les Delices

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 17 days ago

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 23 in A, K. 488 - Northern Sinfonia/Imogen Cooper, p - Mozart * Piano Concertos 9 & 23 * Northern Sinfonia * Imogen Cooper - Avie

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 18 days ago

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

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First heard 2 years ago

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

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 14 days ago

Franz Joseph Haydn - Piano Sonata No. 50 in D, H XVI:37 - Leif Ove Andsnes, p - Haydn: Piano Sonatas - EMI

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 14 days ago

Burleigh - Four Concert Pieces (1920) - Zina Schiff, v; Mary Barranger, p - BURLEIGH: Music for Violin and Piano - Naxos

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Joseph-Nicholas-Pancrace Royer - La Marche des scythes - Alexandre Tharaud, p - Versailles - Erato

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 16 days ago

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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7days00%28days10.03%6months10%12months40.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 14 days ago

Elfrida Andree - Symphony No. 1 in C - Norrkoping Sym Orch/Hermann Baumer - Andree: Symphony No. 1; Frithiof Suite - CPO

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 9 days ago

Claude Debussy - Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun - Orch de Paris/Klaus Makela - Stravinsky: Petrushka; Debussy: Jeux, Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune - Decca

Popularity:

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

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 19 days ago

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

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Dora Pejačević - Symphony in F-sharp minor, Op. 41 - BBC Sym Orch/Sakari Oramo - Dora Pejačević: Piano Concerto, Symphony - Chandos

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Last heard 20 days ago

Malcolm Holcombe - Hard Luck City - Malcolm Holcombe - Bits and Pieces - Need to Know

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 10 days ago

Francois-Joseph Gossec - Gavotte - Orch National de Bretagne/Stefan Sanderling - Gossec: Gavotte, Suite De Danses, 4 Symphonies - ASV

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 12 days ago

Darius Milhaud - Le boeuf sur le toit, Op. 58 - Manon Galy, v; Jorge Gonzalez Buajasan, p - Nuits Parisiennes - Aparte

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 9 days ago

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

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First heard a year ago

Last heard 9 days ago

Luigi Boccherini - String Quintet in D minor, Op. 25, No. 1 (G 295) - Europa Galante members - Boccherini: String Quintets • Minuet In A / Europa Galante/Fabio Biondi - Virgin

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First heard a year ago

Last heard 21 days ago

Georg Philipp Telemann - Danses d'Polonie - Holland Baroque - Telemann: Polonoise - Pentatone

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First heard a year ago

Last heard 4 days ago

Camille Saint-Saens - Barcarolle, Op. 108 - Fine Arts Quartet; Cristina Ortiz, p - Saint-Saens: Piano Quartet, Piano Quintet, Barcarolle - Naxos

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Last heard 20 days ago

Alexandre Tansman - Inventions (Hommage a Bach) - Thibaut Garcia, g - Bach Inspirations - Erato

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Last heard 14 days ago

Stanisław Moniuszko - Bajka (Fairy Tale) - Warsaw Phil Orch/Antoni Wit - Stanisław Moniuszko: Overtures - Naxos

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

First heard a year ago

Last heard 4 days ago

Edward Elgar - Froissart Overture, Op. 19 - BBC Sym/Sir Andrew Davis - Elgar: Falstaff, Bassoon Romance, Froissart, Grania and Diarmid - Teldec

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First heard a year ago

Last heard 23 days ago

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Flute Concerto No. 2 in D, K. 314 - James Galway, f; St Martin's Academy/Neville Marriner - Mozart: Flute Concertos - RCA

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First heard a year ago

Last heard 16 days ago

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