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.

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Gustav Mahler - Blumine - San Francisco Sym/Michael Tilson Thomas - Masterpieces in Miniature - SFS Media

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Ola Gjeilo - Second Eve - Voces8 - Eventide - Decca

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Carl Nielsen - Maskarade - Swedish Radio Sym/Esa-Pekka Salonen - Nielsen: Symphony No. 5, Masquerade - CBS

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Traditional English - Here We Come A-Wassailing - Sym Brass of Chicago/Barry Faldner, Thomas Weisflog, o - Christmas with the Symphony Brass of Chicago - Vox

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Franz Liszt - Weihnachtsbaum - Leslie Howard, p - Liszt Complete Piano Music - Hyperion

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Peter Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker, Op. 71 - Martha Argerich & Nicolas Economou, p's - Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1, The Nutcracker Suite - DG

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Thomas Hewitt Jones - A Christmas Cracker - Voces8 Foundation Orch/Barnaby Smith - A Choral Christmas - Decca

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Michel Corrette - Messe pour le tems de Noel - Daniel Leininger, o - Chants des Noels - ADMSon

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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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Camille Saint-Saens - Carnival of the Animals - The Kanneh-Masons - Carnival - Decca

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Johann Friedrich Fasch - Sinfonia in B-flat Major - Tempesta di Mare - Fasch: Orchestral Works Vol. 4 - Chandos

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Franz Schubert - Military March in D, D 733, No. 1 - Vienna Phil/Hans Knappertsbusch - Weekend Classics - Weekend Marches - Decca

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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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Raymond Warren - Wexford Bells: Suite on Old Irish Tunes - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland - British Light Music Discoveries 2 - ASV

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Felix Mendelssohn - String Symphony No. 12 in g - Northern Chamber Orch/Nicholas Ward - Mendelssohn: The Complete Symphonies and String Symphonies - Naxos

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Leoš Janaček - Five Moravian Dances for orchestra - Warsaw Phil Orch/Antoni Wit - Janaček: Taras Bulba, Lachian Dances, Moravian Dances - Naxos

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Gustav Holst - St Paul's Suite, Op. 29, No. 2 - London Festival Orch Strings/Ross Pople - Gustav Holst: Orchestral Music - Arte Nova

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Ysaye Barnwell - Wanting Memories - Cantus - That Eternal Day - Cantus Recordings

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Florence Price - The Oak - 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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Joaquin Rodrigo - Soleriana (1953) - Mexico State Sym Orch/Enrique B tiz - - EMI/Ang

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

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Horn Concerto No. 3 in E-Flat, K. 447 - English Chamber Orch/Barry Tuckwell, hn - Mozart: Horn Concertos - Decca

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Mana-Zucca - Polka Comique, Op. 275 - Nanette Kaplan Solomon, p - Badinage: The Piano Music of Mana-Zucca - Albany

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George Gershwin - Lullaby - Brodsky Quartet - New World Quartets - Chandos

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Otto Nicolai - The Merry Wives of Windsor - Vienna Phil/Christian Thielemann - German Overtures - DG

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Cesar Franck - Symphony in D minor - Chicago Sym Orch/Pierre Monteux - Symphony In D Minor - RCA

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Traditional Norwegian - Wintertide - Choir of Royal Holloway/Rupert Gough - Winter Songs - Decca

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Tielman Susato - The Danserye (1551) - English Chamber Orch Brass Ensemble/Donald Fraser - Baroque Brass - RCA

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Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat, Op. 55, Eroica - Berlin Phil/Claudio Abbado - Beethoven: 9 Symphonies - DG

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Traditional - Christmas Eve at the Crossroads - Apollo's Fire/Jeannette Sorrell - Christmas on Sugarloaf Mountain - Avie

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William Boyce - Trio Sonata No. 12 in G - Parley of Instruments/Peter Holman - Boyce: Trio Sonatas - Hyperion

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Ludwig van Beethoven - String Quartet No. 11 in F minor, Op. 95, Serioso - Calidore String Quartet - Beethoven: The Middle Quartets - Signum

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George Frideric Handel - Alcina - English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner - Handel: Alcina, Il Pastor Fido, Terpsichore - Erato

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Symphony No. 27 in G, K. 199/161b - Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood - Mozart: The Complete Symphonies - L'Oiseau-Lyre

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Peter Tchaikovsky - Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66 - Philadelphia Orch/Eugene Ormandy - Tchaikovsky - Highlights from The Three Grandest Ballets - CBS

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Johann Sebastian Bach - English Suite No. 3 in G minor, BWV 808 - Simone Dinnerstein, p - Bach: A Strange Beauty * Simone Dinnerstein - Sony

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Ottorino Respighi - Ancient Airs and Dances for the Lute, Set 1 - Orpheus Chamber Orch - Respighi: Ancient Airs and Dances I & III, Three Botticelli Pictures, The Birds - DG

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William Boyce - Symphony No. 1 in B-Flat - Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood - Boyce: Symphonies, Op. 2 - L'Oiseau-Lyre

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Johann Friedrich Fasch - Orchestra Suite (Overture) in D - Tempesta di Mare - Fasch: Orchestral Works Vol. 4 - Chandos

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Ruth Gipps - Ambarvalia - BBC Phil/Rumon Gamba - Ruth Gipps: Orchestral Works Vol. 3 - Chandos

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Andre Caplet - Two Divertissements - Lavinia Meijer, h - Lavinia Meijer plays Salzedo, Caplet & Ibert - Channel Classics

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Dmitri Shostakovich - Ballet Suite No. 1 - Royal Scottish National Orch/Neeme Jarvi - Shostakovich: Five Ballet Suites - Chandos

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Arnold Bax - Three Pieces for Small Orchestra (1928) - English Chamber Orch/Jeffrey Tate - The Banks of Green Willow - EMI

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Hamish MacCunn - Highland Memories, Op 30 - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/John Wilson - The Land of the Mountain and the Flood - ASV

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Pancrace Royer - Pyrrhus - Les Enfants d'Apollon/Michael Greenberg - Pyrrhus - Alpha

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Gustav Holst - A Winter Idyll - London Phil Orch/David Atherton - Gustav Holst: A Winter Idyll, Elegy, Indra, A Song of the Night, Interlude (Sita), Invocation, The Lure, Morning of the Year Dances - Lyrita

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Thomas Canning - Fantasy on a Hymn Tune by Justin Morgan - Cincinnati Sym Orch/Jesus Lopez-Cobos - American Adagios - Telarc

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Florence Price - Fantasie Negre No. 3 in F minor - Samantha Ege, p - Fantasie Negre: The Piano Music of Florence Price - Lorelt

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William Schuman - New England Triptych - St. Louis Sym Orch/Leonard Slatkin - William Schuman * Symphony No. 10 / New England Triptych / American Festival Overture - RCA

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