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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William Alwyn - Concerto grosso No. 1 - City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox - Alwyn: Oboe Concerto, Concerti Grossi - Chandos

Popularity:

7days10.12%

28days20.06%

6months30.02%

12months40.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a day ago

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

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.06%

6months40.02%

12months40.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 9 days ago

Domenico Cimarosa - Serenade - James Galway, f; Kazuhito Yamashita, g - Italian Serenade - RCA

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.06%

6months30.02%

12months40.01%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 22 days ago

Ralph Vaughan Williams - Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1 - London Phil Orch/Bernard Haitink - Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5; Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1; The Lark Ascending - EMI

Popularity:

7days20.25%

28days20.06%

6months20.01%

12months30.01%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 5 days ago

Frank Bridge - There is a willow grows aslant a brook (1928) - English Chamber Orch/Jeffrey Tate - The Banks of Green Willow - EMI

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.06%

6months20.01%

12months20%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 13 days ago

Duke Ellington - New World a-Comin' - Jeffrey Biegel, p; Brown U Orch/Paul Phillips - Manhattan Intermezzo - Naxos

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.06%

6months40.02%

12months70.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 25 days ago

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

Popularity:

7days20.25%

28days20.06%

6months20.01%

12months30.01%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 7 days ago

Francis Poulenc - Suite francaise - London Wind Orch/Denis Wick - Shepherd's Hey: Wind Music of Grainger, Milhaud and Poulenc - ASV

Popularity:

7days10.12%

28days20.06%

6months60.03%

12months130.04%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 5 days ago

Zez Confrey - Dizzy Fingers - Eteri Andjaparidze, p - Harmony and Rhythm – Music selected by WFMT - WFMT

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.06%

6months20.01%

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First heard a month ago

Last heard 21 days ago

Claude Debussy - Images, Set 3, for Orchestra - Cleveland Orch/Pierre Boulez - Images • Prelude A L'Apres-Midi D'Un Faune • Printemps - DG

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.06%

6months20.01%

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First heard 25 days ago

Last heard 18 days ago

Francois Joseph Gossec - Tambourin - Martin Ruderman, f; Laurindo Almeida, g - - EMI

Popularity:

7days10.12%

28days20.06%

6months20.01%

12months20%

First heard 24 days ago

Last heard 2 days ago

Richard Strauss - Der Rosenkavalier, Op. 59 - Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Herbert Blomstedt - Richard Strauss: Complete Tone Poems and Concertos - Decca

Popularity:

7days20.25%

28days20.06%

6months30.02%

12months30.01%

First heard 4 months ago

Last heard 2 days ago

Samuel Barber - Violin Concerto, Op. 14 - James Ehnes, v; Vancouver Sym/Bramwell Tovey - Barber, Korngold, Walton - Radio Canada Int'l

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.06%

6months30.02%

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First heard 4 months ago

Last heard 11 days ago

Felix Mendelssohn - A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 61 - Royal Phil/Jane Glover - - Tring

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.06%

6months20.01%

12months20%

First heard 19 days ago

Last heard 15 days ago

Dario Marianelli - Pride and Prejudice - Jean-Yves Thibaudet, p; English Chamber Orch/Benjamin Wallfisch - Pride & Prejudice (Music from the Motion Picture) - Decca

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.06%

6months60.03%

12months70.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 12 days ago

Edvard Grieg - Lyric Pieces, Op. 65 - St Martin's Academy/Sir Neville Marriner - Grieg, Sibelius: Suites - Philips

Popularity:

7days20.25%

28days20.06%

6months30.02%

12months40.01%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 3 days ago

Benjamin Britten - Gloriana, Op. 53 - Bournemouth Sym Orch/Uri Segal - Britten: Gloriana: Symphonic Suite; The Prince Of The Pagodas: Prelude And Dances - EMI

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.06%

6months40.02%

12months50.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 11 days ago

Igor Stravinsky - Le Baiser de la fee - London Sinfonietta/Riccardo Chailly - Stravinsky: Divertimento, Fanfare for a New Theatre, Three Pieces for Clarinet Solo, Suites Nos. 1 and 2 - Decca

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.06%

6months60.03%

12months80.03%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 14 days ago

Herbert Howells - Three Dances, Op 7 (1915) - Malcolm Stewart, v; Royal Liverpool Phil/Vernon Handley - Hoewells: Piano Concerto No 2, Concerto For Strings, Three Dances - Hyperion

Popularity:

7days10.12%

28days20.06%

6months20.01%

12months20%

First heard 24 days ago

Last heard 4 days ago

Peter Tchaikovsky - Valse-Scherzo in C, Op. 34 - Midori, v; London Sym Orch/Leonard Slatkin - Paganini: Violin Concerto No. 1; Tchaikovsky: Serenade melancolique, Valse-Scherzo - Philips

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.06%

6months30.02%

12months40.01%

First heard 8 months ago

Last heard 14 days ago

From Vienna State Opera - - -

Popularity:

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28days20.06%

6months20.01%

12months40.01%

First heard 7 months ago

Last heard 13 days ago

George Frideric Handel - Harpsichord Suite No. 5 in E - New Mexico Brass Quintet - New Mexico Brass Quintet - Crystal

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.06%

6months20.01%

12months20%

First heard 22 days ago

Last heard 9 days ago

Duke Ellington - Suite from The River (1970) - Buffalo Phil Orch/JoAnn Falletta - Ellington: Black, Brown, and Beige - Naxos

Popularity:

7days20.25%

28days20.06%

6months30.02%

12months40.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 6 days ago

Eric Coates - Summer Days Suite - BBC Phil/John Wilson - Coates: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2 - Chandos

Popularity:

7days20.25%

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6months30.02%

12months30.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 7 days ago

Dmitri Kabalevsky - Romeo and Juliet - Moscow Sym Orch/Vasily Jelvakov - Dmitri Kabalevsky - Naxos

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.06%

6months20.01%

12months20%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 19 days ago

Peter Tchaikovsky - Suite No. 2 in C, Op. 53, Caracteristique - BBC Scottish Sym Orch/Alpesh Chauhan - Tchaikovsky: Orchestral Works, Vol. 3 - Chandos

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.06%

6months40.02%

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First heard a year ago

Last heard 11 days ago

Marc Mellits - Black Moon - Black Moon Trio - Principal - Black Moon Trio

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.06%

6months50.03%

12months70.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 11 days ago

Nino Rota - The Godfather - London Phil Orch/John Mauceri - The Genius of Film Music - LPO

Popularity:

7days20.25%

28days20.06%

6months30.02%

12months30.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 5 days ago

Franz Schubert - Piano Sonata in E, D 157, Unfinished - Arcadi Volodos, p - Schubert: Solo Piano Works - Sony

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.06%

6months20.01%

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First heard a year ago

Last heard 24 days ago

Leos Janacek - Three Moravian Dances - Mikhail Rudy, p - - EMI/Ang

Popularity:

7days20.25%

28days20.06%

6months20.01%

12months30.01%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 6 days ago

Ralph Vaughan Williams - The Wasps - London Phil Orch/Sir Adrian Boult - Vaughan Williams: Sinfonia antartica, Aristophanic Suite - EMI

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.06%

6months20.01%

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 24 days ago

William Grant Still - Danzas de Panama - Oregon String Quartet - Oregon Festival of American Music Presents William Grant Still - Koch

Popularity:

7days10.12%

28days20.06%

6months40.02%

12months70.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 days ago

Franz Schubert - Symphony No. 5 in B-Flat, D. 485 - Age of Enlightenment Orch/Charles Mackerras - Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 5, 8, 9 - Virgin

Popularity:

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28days20.06%

6months30.02%

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 12 days ago

Edvard Grieg - Sigurd Jorsalfar, Op. 22 - Swedish Radio Sym Orch/Esa-Pekka Salonen - A Nordic Festival - Sony

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.06%

6months60.03%

12months70.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 8 days ago

Peter Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker, Op. 71 - Milwaukee Sym Orch/Andreas Delfs - Sergei Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet; Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker - Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.06%

6months40.02%

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First heard a year ago

Last heard 15 days ago

Jean Sibelius - String Quartet in E-Flat (1885) - Sibelius Academy Quartet - Sibelius: Early Chamber Works / Sibelius Academy String Quartet - Finlandia

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.06%

6months30.02%

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 9 days ago

Franz Schubert - Symphony No. 3 in D, D. 200 - Vienna Phil/Carlos Kleiber - Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 3 and 8 - DG

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.06%

6months60.03%

12months70.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 16 days ago

Alexander Glazunov - Raymonda, Op 57 - Royal Scottish National Orch/Jose Serebrier - Glazunov: Symphonies 1, 2, 3, 9 - Warner Classics

Popularity:

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28days20.06%

6months20.01%

12months20%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 13 days ago

Live from WFMT - - -

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.06%

6months290.15%

12months400.13%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 25 days ago

Johannes Brahms - Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98 - London Phil Orch/Marin Alsop - Brahms: Symphony No. 4, Hungarian Dances Nos. 2, 4-9 - Naxos

Popularity:

7days10.12%

28days20.06%

6months40.02%

12months40.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 days ago

Afternoon Music with Candice Agree - - -

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.06%

6months120.06%

12months280.09%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 14 days ago

Florence Price - Dances in the Canebrakes - Chicago Sinfonietta/Mei-Ann Chen - Project W - Cedille

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.06%

6months70.04%

12months70.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 15 days ago

Claude Debussy - Two Arabesques - Jean-Yves Thibaudet, p - Debussy: Preludes (Livres I Et II): The Complete Works For Solo Piano Vol. I / Jean-Yves Thibaudet - Decca

Popularity:

7days10.12%

28days20.06%

6months20.01%

12months20%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 6 days ago

Johann Sebastian Bach - English Suite No. 5 in E minor, BWV 810 - Piotr Anderszewski, p - Bach: English Suites 1, 3, 5 - Warner

Popularity:

7days10.12%

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12months20%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 4 days ago

Michael Praetorius - Terpsichore (1612) - New York Renaissance Band/Sally Logemann - Praetorius: Terpsichore- Suites Nos. 1-4 - Arabesque

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 13 days ago

Dmitri Shostakovich - Hamlet (Incidental Music, 1932), Op. 32 - Gothenburg Sym Orch/Neeme Jarvi - Symphony No. 12 "The Year 1917" • Hamlet • The Age Of Gold - DG

Popularity:

7days10.12%

28days20.06%

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12months20%

First heard 18 days ago

Last heard 3 days ago