98.7 WFMT (Chicago)

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Playlist updated 7 minutes ago · Oct 14, 2026, 5:54 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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First heard

Last heard

Johannes Brahms - Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56 - Scottish Chamber Orch/Charles Mackerras - Symphony No. 2, Variations on a Theme by Haydn - Telarc

Popularity:

7days10.12%28days20.06%6months30.01%12months50.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 4 days ago

Wilhelm Peterson-Berger - Flowers of Froson - Don Bailey, f; Arcata String Quartet, Grace Paradise, h; Scott Pingel, db - Voyage - Don Bailey - Summit

Popularity:

7days00%28days20.06%6months30.01%12months40.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 12 days ago

Igor Stravinsky - Pulcinella - Mahler Chamber Orch/Pablo Heras-Casado - Stravinsky: Pulcinella Suite; Falla: El retablo de maese Pedro, Harpsichord Concerto - Harmonia Mundi

Popularity:

7days00%28days20.06%6months40.02%12months40.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 16 days ago

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco - Love's Labour's Lost, Op. 167 - Malmo Sym/Andrew Mogrelia - Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 / 4 Dances for Love's Labour's Lost - Naxos

Popularity:

7days00%28days20.06%6months70.03%12months110.03%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 15 days ago

Richard Strauss - Piano Quartet in C minor, Op. 13 - R Capucon, v; P Zientara, vi; J Hagen, vc; G Bellom, p - Richard Strauss - Renaud Capucon - Seiji Ozawa - DG

Popularity:

7days00%28days20.06%6months60.03%12months60.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 12 days ago

Colby Maddox - The Midnight Special - fiddle - Colby Maddox - Midnight Special Collection - Midnight Special Collection

Popularity:

7days10.12%28days20.06%6months50.02%12months70.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 3 days ago

Henry Purcell - Dioclesian - Le Concert des Nations/Jordi Savall - Purcell: The Fairy Queen & The Prophetess - Orchestral Suites - Fontalis

Popularity:

7days00%28days20.06%6months30.01%12months30%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 15 days ago

Michael Torke - Unseen - East Coast Chamber Orch; Michael Torke Orch/Michael Torke - Unseen - Michael Torke - Ecstatic Records

Popularity:

7days00%28days20.06%6months80.04%12months100.03%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 13 days ago

Lead Belly - The Midnight Special THEME (excerpt 1) - Lead Belly - Midnight Special - RCA Victor

Popularity:

7days00%28days20.06%6months110.05%12months230.06%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 10 days ago

Maurice Ravel - Sheherazade, ouverture de feerie - Orch de Paris/Jean Martinon - Ravel: Orchestral Works - EMI

Popularity:

7days00%28days20.06%6months30.01%12months30%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 19 days ago

Johann Sebastian Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D Major, BWV 1050 - Berlin Academy for Ancient Music - Bach: Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 1-6 - Harmonia Mundi

Popularity:

7days00%28days20.06%6months40.02%12months100.03%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 22 days ago

Johannes Brahms - Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68 - New York Phil/Leonard Bernstein - Brahms: Symphony No. 1 & Serenade No. 2 - Sony

Popularity:

7days00%28days20.06%6months20.01%12months30%

First heard a year ago

Last heard a day ago

Josef Suk - Summer Impressions, Op. 22b - Margaret Fingerhut, p - Suk: Piano Works - Chandos

Popularity:

7days00%28days20.06%6months50.02%12months70.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 22 days ago

Sergei Prokofiev - Cinderella, Op. 87 - Royal Scottish National Orch/Neeme Jarvi - Prokofiev: Cinderella Suites / Neeme Jarvi - Chandos

Popularity:

7days10.12%28days20.06%6months20.01%12months20%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 5 days ago

Gustav Holst - Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda, Op. 26 - Holst Singers/Hilary Davan Wetton; Thelma Owen, h - Britten: Choral dances from Gloriana; Bliss: Pastoral 'Lie strewn the white flocks

Popularity:

7days10.12%28days20.06%6months20.01%12months30%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 3 days ago

Claude Debussy - Petite Suite - Lang Lang & Gina Alice, p - Lang Lang - Saint-Saens - DG

Popularity:

7days10.12%28days20.06%6months20.01%12months30%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 6 days ago

Ludwig van Beethoven - Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 27, No. 2, Moonlight - Alessio Bax, p - Alessio Bax plays Beethoven - Signum

Popularity:

7days00%28days20.06%6months20.01%12months20%

First heard a year ago

Last heard a month ago

Aaron Copland - Appalachian Spring - Music@Menlo Ensemble - Resonance - Music@Menlo

Popularity:

7days20.25%28days20.06%6months40.02%12months50.01%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 8 days ago

John Alden Carpenter - Sea-Drift - Royal Phil Orch/Karl Krueger - American Tone Poems - Bridge

Popularity:

7days10.12%28days20.06%6months30.01%12months30%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 6 days ago

Felix Mendelssohn - A Midsummer Night's Dream Overture, Op. 21 - Age of Enlightenment Orch/Charles Mackerras - Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4, Italian; A Midsummer Night's Dream: Overture And Incidental Music - Virgin

Popularity:

7days00%28days20.06%6months20.01%12months50.01%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 19 days ago

George Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue - Orion Weiss, p; Buffalo Phil Orch/JoAnn Falletta - Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue, Strike Up the Band: Overture, Promenade, Catfish Row - Naxos

Popularity:

7days00%28days20.06%6months20.01%12months30%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 13 days ago

Amy Beach - Symphony in E minor, Op. 32, Gaelic - Detroit Sym Orch/Neeme Jarvi - Barber, Beach: Symphonies - Chandos

Popularity:

7days00%28days20.06%6months40.02%12months50.01%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 23 days ago

Robert Schumann - Arabeske in C, Op. 18 - Vassily Primakov, p - Vassily Primakov: Schumann Recital - Bridge

Popularity:

7days00%28days20.06%6months20.01%12months40.01%

First heard 10 months ago

Last heard 20 days ago

Felix Mendelssohn - Overture, The Fair Melusina, Op. 32 - Bern Sym Orch/Peter Maag - Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 'Italian', Three Overtures - MCA Classics

Popularity:

7days00%28days20.06%6months20.01%12months30%

First heard 10 months ago

Last heard 20 days ago

Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 10 in F-Sharp - Cleveland Orch/Pierre Boulez - Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn, Adagio - DG

Popularity:

7days00%28days20.06%6months20.01%12months30%

First heard 10 months ago

Last heard 24 days ago

John Cheetham - Sonata for Brass Quintet - Gaudete Brass - Chicago Moves - Cedille

Popularity:

7days10.12%28days20.06%6months40.02%12months50.01%

First heard 10 months ago

Last heard 4 days ago

Samuel Barber - Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Op. 24 - Renee Fleming, s; Royal Stockholm Phil Orch/Sakari Oramo - Distant Light - Decca

Popularity:

7days00%28days20.06%6months20.01%12months30%

First heard 10 months ago

Last heard 11 days ago

Johannes Brahms - Serenade No. 2 in A, Op. 16 - Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Riccardo Chailly - Brahms Serenades - Decca

Popularity:

7days00%28days20.06%6months60.03%12months80.02%

First heard 9 months ago

Last heard 16 days ago

Antonin Dvořak - Slavonic Dances, Op. 72 - Katia Labeque & Marielle Labeque, p's - Dvořak: Slavonic Dances, Op. 46 and 72 - Philips

Popularity:

7days00%28days20.06%6months20.01%12months40.01%

First heard 9 months ago

Last heard 13 days ago

Franz Schubert - Piano Sonata in B-Flat, D 960 - Murray Perahia, p - Schubert: Piano Sonatas D.958, 959, 960 - Sony

Popularity:

7days10.12%28days20.06%6months30.01%12months40.01%

First heard 9 months ago

Last heard 6 days ago

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Sinfonia Concertante in E-Flat, K. 297b - Music of the Baroque/Jane Glover - Journey to Our 50th Season - Music of the Baroque

Popularity:

7days00%28days20.06%6months40.02%12months40.01%

First heard 6 months ago

Last heard 21 days ago

Johann Strauss II - Waltz, Wine, Women and Song, Op. 333 - Alban Berg Quartet; Alfred Mitterhofer, harmonium - J. Strauss II, J. Strauss I, Lanner arr. Berg, Schoenberg, Webern: Walzer - EMI

Popularity:

7days00%28days20.06%6months40.02%12months40.01%

First heard 6 months ago

Last heard 15 days ago

Vincent d'Indy - Piano Trio No. 2, Op. 98, En forme de suite - Horszowski Trio - Horszowki Trio plays Saint-Saens, Faure and d'Indy - Bridge

Popularity:

7days00%28days20.06%6months40.02%12months40.01%

First heard 5 months ago

Last heard 19 days ago

Astor Piazzolla - Le grand tango - Tabea Zimmermann, vi; Javier Perianes, p - Cantilena - Harmonia Mundi

Popularity:

7days00%28days20.06%6months30.01%12months30%

First heard 4 months ago

Last heard a month ago

George Gershwin - Love Is Here to Stay - Tactus String Quartet - Tactus plays Gershwin - Pavane

Popularity:

7days10.12%28days20.06%6months30.01%12months30%

First heard 4 months ago

Last heard 3 days ago

Josef Mysliveček - Sinfonia in E-Flat - Concerto Koln - Il Divino Boemo: Josef Mysliveček Symphonies - Archiv

Popularity:

7days10.12%28days20.06%6months30.01%12months30%

First heard 2 months ago

Last heard 9 days ago

Beethoven, Ludwig van - 12 German Dances, WoO 8 - Capella Istropolitana/Oliver Dohnanyi - BEETHOVEN, L. van: 11 Dances, "Modlinger Tanze" / 12 German Dances / 12 Minuets (Capella Istropolitana, Dohnanyi) - Naxos

Popularity:

7days00%28days20.06%6months40.02%12months40.01%

First heard 2 months ago

Last heard 21 days ago

Tchaikovsky, Peter - Piano Pieces, Op. 72 - Mikhail Pletnev, p - 18 Pieces - DG

Popularity:

7days00%28days20.06%6months30.01%12months30%

First heard a month ago

Last heard 10 days ago

Jean Sibelius - Symphony No. 7 in C, Op. 105 - Oslo Phil/Klaus Makela - Sibelius: Complete Symphonies - Decca

Popularity:

7days00%28days20.06%6months30.01%12months30%

First heard a month ago

Last heard 21 days ago

Emilie Mayer - Cello Sonata in A Major - Raphaela Gromes, vc; Julian Riem, p - Fortissima - Sony

Popularity:

7days10.12%28days20.06%6months30.01%12months30%

First heard a month ago

Last heard 3 days ago

Popper, David - Etudes, Op 73 - Janos Starker, vc - The Road To Cello Playing - Parnassus

Popularity:

7days10.12%28days20.06%6months20.01%12months20%

First heard a month ago

Last heard 5 days ago

Francisco Tarrega - Recuerdos de la Alhambra - Jason Vieaux, g - Jason Vieaux - Play - Azica

Popularity:

7days00%28days20.06%6months20.01%12months20%

First heard a month ago

Last heard 25 days ago

Johann Sebastian Bach - French Suite No. 6 in E, BWV 817 - Murray Perahia, p - Bach: French Suites - DG

Popularity:

7days00%28days20.06%6months20.01%12months20%

First heard a month ago

Last heard a month ago

Ludwig van Beethoven - Six Bagatelles, Op. 126 - Paul Lewis, p - Ludwig van Beethoven - 'Fur Elise' / Bagatelles - Harmonia Mundi

Popularity:

7days00%28days20.06%6months20.01%12months20%

First heard 25 days ago

Last heard 25 days ago

Beach, Amy - Children's Carnival - Sahan Arzruni, p - Childhood Memories: Music for Younger Pianists - New World

Popularity:

7days00%28days20.06%6months20.01%12months20%

First heard 25 days ago

Last heard 24 days ago

Louis Spohr - Symphony No. 2 in D minor, Op. 49 - Singapore Sym Orch/Choo Hoey - Franz Lachner: Symphony No. 1; Ludwig Spohr: Symphony No. 2 - Records Int'l

Popularity:

7days00%28days20.06%6months20.01%12months20%

First heard 25 days ago

Last heard 12 days ago

Smetana, Bedrich - Ma vlast (My Fatherland) - Chicago Sym Orch/Rafael Kubelik - Ma Vlast ("My Country"), Symphonic Cycle - Mercury

Popularity:

7days00%28days20.06%6months20.01%12months20%

First heard 21 days ago

Last heard 16 days ago

Powell, John - At the Fair: Sketches of American Fun (1907) - Nicholas Ross, p - John Powell: Early Piano Works. In the South, Op. 16 - Centaur

Popularity:

7days10.12%28days20.06%6months20.01%12months20%

First heard 17 days ago

Last heard 9 days ago

Mel Bonis - Sarabande, Op. 82, No. 2 - WDR Orch Cologne/Joseph Bastian - Mel Bonis Orchestral Works - CPO

Popularity:

7days10.12%28days20.06%6months20.01%12months20%

First heard 11 days ago

Last heard 4 days ago

From National Centre for the Performing Arts - - -

Popularity:

7days10.12%28days20.06%6months20.01%12months20%

First heard 11 days ago

Last heard 4 days ago

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