98.7 WFMT (Chicago)

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Playlist updated 8 hours ago · Oct 19, 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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Peter Boyer - Rolling River (Sketches on Shenandoah) - London Sym Orch/Peter Boyer - Boyer: Balance of Power - Orchestral Works - Naxos

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Errollyn Wallen - Mighty River - Orchestra X/Andrew Morley - Errollyn Wallen: Mighty River (Live) - NMC

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Margaret Bonds - Troubled Water - Agave - In Her Hands - Acis

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George Gershwin - Girl Crazy - Grant Park Orch/David Loebel - Independence Day Eve at Grant Park - Grant Park Music Festival

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Edward Elgar - In the South (Alassio) Overture, Op. 50 - London Phil Orch/Sir Georg Solti - Sir Edward Elgar: Symphonies 1 & 2, Cockaigne, In the South / Georg Solti - Decca

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Christoph Willibald Gluck - Orpheus and Eurydice - Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood - Pachelbel: Canon - Handel, Vivaldi, Gluck - L'Oiseau-Lyre

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Elfrida Andree - Piano Quintet in E minor - Midsummer's Music - Midsummer's Music: Spohr / Andree / Karg-Elert - Centaur

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Bedřich Smetana - Vltava (The Moldau) - Detroit Sym Orch/Neeme Jarvi - The Water Planet - Chandos

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Antonin Dvořak - String Quartet No. 12 in F, Op. 96, American - Modern Mandolin Quartet - Americana - Sono Luminus

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Florence Price - Five Folksongs in Counterpoint - Catalyst Quartet - Uncovered, Vol. 2: Florence Price - Azica

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Ralph Vaughan Williams - English Folk Song Suite - London Wind Orch/Denis Wick - Wind Music of Holst and Vaughan Williams - ASV

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Sergei Prokofiev - Cinderella, Op. 87 - St. Louis Sym Orch/Leonard Slatkin - Prokofiev: Cinderella (Suite) / Leonard Slatkin - RCA

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Gaetano Donizetti - La fille du regiment - Paris National Opera Orch/Bruno Campanella - Donizetti: La Fille du Regiment - EMI

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Franz Lehar - The Merry Widow - Philharmonia Hungarica/Antal Dorati - Wienerwalzer Paprika - Mercury

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Peter Warlock - Capriol Suite - Guildhall String Ensemble/Robert Salter - English Music For Strings - RCA

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Last heard 24 days ago

Franz Liszt - Annees de pelerinage: 1st Year, Switzerland - Jorge Federico Osorio, p - Jorge Federico Osorio: Debussy & Liszt - Cedille

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Manuel de Falla - The Three-Cornered Hat - City of Granada Orch/Josep Pons - Falla: El sombrero de tres picos, etc. - Harmonia Mundi

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Johann Sebastian Bach - Violin Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004 - Leon Fleisher, p - All The Things You Are - Bridge

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Ralph Vaughan Williams - Suite for Pipes - London Early Music Consort - A Contemporary Elizabethan Concert - Angel

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Johan Svendsen - String Quintet in C, Op. 5 - Oslo String Quartet, Henning Kraggerud, vi - Svendsen: String Quartet, String Quintet / Kraggerud, Oslo - CPO

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Gioachino Rossini - Il Viaggio a Reims - Philharmonia Orch/Riccardo Muti - Rossini: Overtures - EMI

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Last heard 19 days ago

Anton Bruckner - Symphony No. 7 in E - Chicago Sym Orch/Bernard Haitink - Bruckner 7 - CSO Resound

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Mikhail Glinka - Jota aragonesa (Spanish Overture No. 1) - Nicholas Walker, p - Balakirev: Piano Music Vol. 2 - ASV

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Johann Christoph Pezel - German Dance Suite - Canadian Brass - CBC Radio Years - Radio Canada Int'l

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Maurice Greene - Overture No. 5 in D - Baroque Band/Garry Clarke - Greene: Overtures - Cedille

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Maurice Ravel - Sonatine - Vincent Larderet, p - Ravel: The Complete Works for Solo Piano, Vol. 1 - Avie

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John Scott - Gathering Crowds - KPM Orch - Gathering Crowds - KPM Music

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Giuseppe Verdi - Nabucco - Berlin Deutsche Oper Cho and Orch/Giuseppe Sinopoli - The History of Classical Music in 24 Hours - DG

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Joaquin Turina - Tres danzas andaluzas, Op. 8 - Sara Davis Buechner, p - Turina: Mujeres Espanolas, Woman of Spain -- Five Suites for Piano - Connoisseur

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Stephen Foster - Hard Times Come Again No More - Oregon Guitar Quartet - Something Wondrous Fair - Cube Squared

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Percy Grainger - Ramble on Love, arranged from Der Rosenkavalier - Percy Grainger, p - - Vanguard

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Francois Couperin - Concert royal No. 1 in G - Les Talens Lyriques/Christophe Rousset - Francois Couperin: Concerts Royaux - Aparte

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Jules Massenet - Manon - Royal Opera House Orch/Richard Bonynge - Jules Massenet: Manon - Ballet - Decca

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Justin Hurwitz - La La Land - Orch/Tim Davies - La La Land (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) - Interscope

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William Grant Still - Seven Traceries - Denver Oldham, p - Africa: Piano Music of William Grant Still - Koch

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Last heard 8 days ago

Sergei Prokofiev - Romeo and Juliet, Op. 64 - Chicago Sym Orch/Riccardo Muti - Prokofiev: Suite from Romeo and Juliet - CSO Resound

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Erich Wolfgang Korngold - The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex - London Sym Orch/Andre Previn - Previn Conducts Korngold - DG

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Anna Bon - Keyboard Sonata in B minor, Op. 2, No. 5 - Sarah Cahill, p - The Future is Female, Vol. 1 - First Hand Records

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Leonard Bernstein - Divertimento for Orchestra - Bournemouth Sym Orch/Marin Alsop - American Classics * Bernstein: Serenade * Facsimile * Divertimento - Naxos

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Jessie Montgomery - Strum - Catalyst Quartet - Strum: Music for Strings - Azica

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Francesco Tristano - A Soft Shell Groove - Alice Sara Ott & Francesco Tristano, p's - Scandale - DG

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Joseph Bologne (Chevalier de Saint-Georges) - Violin Concerto in G, Op. 8 - Lausanne Chamber Orch/Renaud Capucon, v - Vivaldi: The Four Seasons & Saint-Georges: Violin Concertos Op. 5 & 8 - Erato

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Antonin Dvořak - Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95, From the New World - Los Angeles Phil/Gustavo Dudamel - Dvořak: Symphonies Nos. 7-9 - DG

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Edmond Dede - Chicago, grande valse a l'Americaine - Hot Springs Music Festival/Richard Rosenberg - Dede: Mon pauvre coeur- Francoise et Tirtillard- Mephisto masque - Naxos

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Claude Debussy - Suite bergamasque - Jean-Yves Thibaudet, p - Debussy: Complete Works for Solo Piano, Vol. 2: Images, Etudes - Decca

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Henriette Bosmans - Piano Concertino - Ronald Brautigam, p, Netherlands Radio Chamber Orch/Ed Spanjaard - Piano Concertos In The Netherlands - NM Classics

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Ethel Smyth - String Trio in D, Op. 6 - Hague String Trio - Celebrating Women! - Cobra

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Aldemaro Romero - Suite for Strings No. 1 - Sphinx Virtuosi - Songs for Our Times - DG

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Florence Price - Concert Overture No. 2 - Wurttemberg Phil/John Jeter - Florence Beatrice Price: Songs of the Oak, Concert Overtures Nos. 1 & 2, The Oak, Colonial Dance, Suite of Dances - Naxos

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