98.7 WFMT

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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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Gioachino Rossini - William Tell - Monte Carlo Opera Orch, Chorus/Antonio de Almeida - Rossini: Ballet Music - Philips

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 24 days ago

Dmitri Shostakovich - Moscow, Cheryomushki, Op. 105 - Philadelphia Orch/Riccardo Chailly - Shostakovich: The Dance Album - Decca

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 13 days ago

Manuel de Falla - Four Spanish Pieces - Jorge Federico Osorio, p - Piano Espanol - Cedille

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Giacomo Puccini - Madama Butterfly - Royal Opera House Cho & Orch/Lamberto Gardelli - Italian Opera Choruses - EMI

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Mia Makaroff - Butterfly - La Caccina - Becoming - La Caccina

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Jose Bragato - Graciela y Buenos Aires - Viktor Aepli, vc, Camerata Bariloche - ¡Tango! - Dorian

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Johann Sebastian Bach - Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2, BWV 870/91 - Angela Hewitt, p - Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier - Hyperion

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Ralph Vaughan Williams - Three Shakespeare Songs - Cambridge Singers/John Rutter - There Is Sweet Music (English Choral Songs, 1890-1950) - Collegium

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Hector Berlioz - The Damnation of Faust, Op. 24 - Baltimore Sym/David Zinman - Berlioz: La Marseillase, Love Scene from Romeo and Juliet, Three Excerpts from the Damnation of Faust - Telarc

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George Gershwin - Piano Concerto in F - Daniil Trifonov, p; Philadelphia Orch/Yannick Nezet-Seguin - My American Story: North - DG

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Franz Schubert - Rosamunde Incidental Music, D 797 - Utah Sym Orch/Maurice Abravanel - Music For The Theater: Beethoven: Incidental Music for Goethe's Egmont, The Creatures of Prometheus/ Schubert: Rusamunde - Vanguard

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Ferdinand David - Introduction and Variations on a theme by Schubert, Op 8 - Dieter Klocker, cl; Slovak Radio Sym Orch/G. Schmalfuss - Clarinet and Orchestra - Marco Polo

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Emmanuel Chabrier - Espana - St. Louis Sym Orch/Leonard Slatkin - Encore! - RCA

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George Gershwin - Second Rhapsody - Stewart Goodyear, p; Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel - American Piano Classics - Telarc

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Barbara Harbach - Following the Sacred Sun - London Phil Orch/David Angus - Orchestral Music VII - MSR Classics

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Last heard 21 days ago

William Walton - Facade - St. Paul Chamber Orch/Hugh Wolff - Ballets- De Falla, Milhaud, Walton, Martin - Teldec

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First heard 2 years ago

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Frederic Chopin - Introduction and Polonaise brillante in C, Op. 3 - Gautier Capucon, vc; Yuja Wang, p - Chopin, Franck, Piazzolla - Erato

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Gottfried Huppertz - Metropolis - Berlin Radio Sym Orch/Frank Strobel - Metropolis: The Complete Motion Picture Score - Pan Classics

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Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach - Sinfonia in D - Concerto Koln - Music of the Bach Sons - Capriccio

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Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No. 4 in B-Flat, Op. 60 - Vienna Phil/Simon Rattle - Beethoven: Symphonies - EMI

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Johannes Brahms - Piano Trio No. 1 in B, Op. 8 - Joshua Bell, v; Steven Isserlis, vc; Jeremy Denk, p - For the Love of Brahms - Sony

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First heard a year ago

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Augusta Holmes - Ouverture pour une comedie - Rheinland-Pfalz State Phil/Samuel Friedmann - Augusta Holmes: Orchestral Works - Marco Polo

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Anna Bon - Flute Sonata in G, Op. 1, No. 6 - Sabine Dreier, f; Irene Hegen, hc - Anna Bon di Venezia: Flute Sonatas Op.1 / Sabine Dreier, Irene Hegen - CPO

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William Grant Still - Prelude for flute, string quartet, double-bass and piano - Alexa Still, f; Michael Steer, db; Susan DeWitt Smith, p; New Zealand SQ - Still: Summerland - Koch

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First heard a year ago

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Franz Liszt - Mephisto Waltz No. 1 (Dance in the Village Inn) - La Pieta/Angele Dubeau, v - Infernal Violins - Analekta

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Edvard Grieg - Lyric Pieces, Op. 43 - Leif Ove Andsnes, p - Grieg: Piano Concerto, Sonata Op. 7, Lyric Pieces Op. 43, 54, and 65 - Virgin

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Nino Rota - Romeo and Juliet - City of Prague Phil Orch/Nic Raine - Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet - Nino Rota - Silva

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Hector Berlioz - Benvenuto Cellini, Op. 23 - Lyon National Orch/Leonard Slatkin - Berlioz: Harold en Italie, Le carnaval romain, Benvenuto Cellini: Overture - Naxos

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Astor Piazzolla - Histoire du Tango - Emmanuel Pahud, f; Manuel Barrueco, g - Cantos y Danzas - Warner

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Gustav Holst - Suite No. 1 in E-Flat, Op. 28, No. 1 - Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orch/Timothy Reynish - British Wind Band Classics - Chandos

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Lukas Foss - Three American Pieces - Duo Sonidos - Wild Dance - Naxos

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Anton Bruckner - Rondo in C minor - Quatuor Diotima - Bruckner & Klose String Quartets - Pentatone

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Lauren McCall - A Spark and a Glimmer - Caitlin Edwards, v; Nancy Ives, vc; Monica Ohuchi, p - Amplify: All Classical Portland's RII Vol. 1 - Navona

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Last heard 19 days ago

Caroline Shaw - Three Essays - Calidore String Quartet - Babel - Signum

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First heard 2 years ago

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Maurice Ravel - String Quartet in F - Emerson String Quartet - Debussy / Ravel: String Quartets - DG

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Antonin Dvořak - American Suite in A, Op. 98 - Atlanta Sym Orch/Nathalie Stutzmann - Dvořak: Symphony No. 9 From The New World, American Suite - Erato

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Henry Purcell - Abdelazer - Tafelmusik/Jeanne Lamon - A Baroque Feast - Analekta

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Paul Dukas - Villanelle - Hermann Baumann, hn; Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Kurt Masur - Hermann Baumann plays Gliere, Saint-Saens, Dukas, Chabrier - Philips

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Pietro Mascagni - Cavalleria rusticana - BBC Concert Orch/Barry Wordsworth - Opera Without Words - Decca

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Jens Kruger - Roan Mountain Suite - Kruger Brothers; Kontras Quartet - Roan Mountain Suite - Double Time Music

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Adolphus Hailstork - Two Romances - Beverly Baker, vi; Virginia Chamber Players - As Falling Leaves * The Virginia Chamber Players in Concert - Albany

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Don Giovanni, K. 527 - Athena Ensemble - Mozart: Don Giovanni for Wind Ensemble - Chandos

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Antonin Dvořak - Symphony No. 6 in D, Op. 60 - Milwaukee Sym Orch/Zdenek Macal - Dvořak: Symphony No. 6, Husitska - Koss

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 24 days ago

Bedřich Smetana - Vyšehrad (The High Castle) - Czech Phil/Charles Mackerras - Smetana: Ma Vlast - Supraphon

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Camille Saint-Saens - Samson and Delilah, Op. 47 - Orchestre de Paris/Daniel Barenboim - Panorama: A la francaise - DG

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Zoltan Kodaly - Hary Janos Suite, Op. 35a - Chicago Sym Orch/Sir Georg Solti - Solti: Bartok - Decca

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Gregorio Lambranzi - Danze da Nuova e curiosa scuola de' balli teatrali - Le Consort; Marie-Ange Petit, per - Vivaldi: Le Quattro Stagioni - Harmonia Mundi

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Daniel-Francois Auber - The Bronze Horse - BBC Phil/Yan Pascal Tortelier - Tortelier's French Bonbons - Chandos

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Michael Praetorius - Terpsichore (1612) - Los Angeles Guitar Quartet - TCHAIKOVSKY, P.: The Nutcracker Suite / PRAETORIUS, M.: Terpsichore / WARLOCK, P.: Capriol Suite (arr. for guitar quartet) (Los Angeles Guitar Quartet - Delos

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