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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Alice Mary Smith - Symphony in A minor - London Mozart Players/Howard Shelley - Alice Mary Smith: Symphonies - Chandos

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months70.04%

12months90.03%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Carlos Guastavino - Jeromita Linares - Pablo Cohen, g; Camerata Bariloche - Impresiones - Dorian

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months40.02%

12months90.03%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Johann Sebastian Bach - Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1, BWV 846/69 - Keith Jarrett, p - Bach: Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1 - ECM

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months60.03%

12months80.03%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 4 months ago

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor - African Suite, Op. 35 - Chineke! Orch/Kevin John Edusei - Chineke! Orchestra: Coleridge-Taylor - Decca

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months40.02%

12months80.03%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Henry Purcell - King Arthur - Alison Balsom, tr; English Concert/Trevor Pinnock - Sound The Trumpet (Royal Music of Purcell & Handel) - EMI

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.03%

6months60.03%

12months80.03%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 14 days ago

Cecile Chaminade - Callirhoe, Op. 37 - Metz Grand Est National Orch/David Reiland - Compositrices: New Light on French Romantic Women Composers - Bru Zane

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months40.02%

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Ludwig van Beethoven - 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%

28days00%

6months40.02%

12months80.03%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Hugo Wolf - Italian Serenade in G - Orpheus Chamber Orch - Wagner, Sibelius, Puccini, Wolf, Turina, Dvořak, Berlioz - DG

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.03%

6months60.03%

12months80.03%

First heard 10 months ago

Last heard 23 days ago

Johannes Brahms - Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68 - NFM Wrocław Phil/Giancarlo Guerrero - Brahms: Symphony No. 1 & Academic Festival Overture - CD Accord

Popularity:

7days00%

28days60.19%

6months70.04%

12months80.03%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 17 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

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%

28days00%

6months60.03%

12months80.03%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco - Guitar Quintet, Op. 143 - Jason Vieaux, g; Escher Quartet - Dance - Azica

Popularity:

7days00%

28days30.1%

6months70.04%

12months80.03%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 11 days ago

Antonio Vivaldi - Mandolin Concerto in C, R 425 - Avi Avital, m; Venice Baroque Orch - Vivaldi - DG

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.03%

6months40.02%

12months70.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 24 days ago

Emmanuel Chabrier - Suite pastorale - Vienna Phil/John Eliot Gardiner - Chabrier: Espana, Suite pastorale, etc. - DG

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.03%

6months70.04%

12months70.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 10 days ago

Joseph Bologne (Chevalier de Saint-Georges) - L'amant anonyme - Haymarket Opera Orch/Craig Trompeter - L'Amant Anonyme - Cedille

Popularity:

7days10.12%

28days10.03%

6months50.03%

12months70.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 7 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

Mark O'Connor - The American Seasons - Mark O'Connor, v; Metamorphosen/Scott Yoo - Mark O'Connor: The American Seasons - Sony

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months60.03%

12months70.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard a month 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 16 days ago

Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No. 1 in C, Op. 21 - Leonidas Kavakos, v; Yo-Yo Ma, vc; Emanuel Ax, p - Beethoven for Three: Symphony No. 1; Op. 70, No. 1 "Ghost;" Op. 11 "Gassenhauer" - Sony

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months20.01%

12months70.02%

First heard 10 months ago

Last heard 3 months ago

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor - Clarinet Quintet, Op. 10 - Anthony McGill, cl; Catalyst Quartet - Uncovered, Volume 1 - Azica

Popularity:

7days10.12%

28days10.03%

6months30.02%

12months70.02%

First heard 10 months ago

Last heard 4 days ago

Adolphus Hailstork - Sonata da Chiesa - Czech National Sym Orch/Paul Freeman - Paul Freeman Introduces... - Albany

Popularity:

7days10.12%

28days10.03%

6months30.02%

12months70.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 7 days ago

Johann Sebastian Bach - Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1, BWV 846/69 - Angela Hewitt, p - Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier - Hyperion

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.03%

6months70.04%

12months70.02%

First heard 2 months ago

Last heard 15 days ago

Claude Debussy - La Mer - Cleveland Orch/Pierre Boulez - Debussy: La Mer, Nocturnes, Jeux, Rhapsody for Clarinet and Orchestra - DG

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.03%

6months40.02%

12months70.02%

First heard a year 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

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

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

William Grant Still - Symphony No. 4, Autochthonous - Fort Smith Sym/John Jeter - American Classics * William Grant Still * Symphonies Nos 4 and 5 - Naxos

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.03%

6months40.02%

12months70.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 10 days ago

Leslie Adams - Etudes, Part II - Thomas Otten, p - Thomas Otten * H. Leslie Adams * Piano Etudes, Part II - Albany

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months60.03%

12months70.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month 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

Florence Price - Octet for Brasses and Piano - Onyx Brass; Viv McLean, p - Transatlantic - Chandos

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.03%

6months30.02%

12months70.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 14 days ago

Georg Philipp Telemann - Tafelmusik, Book 3 - Musica Antiqua Cologne/Reinhard Goebel - Telemann: Tafelmusik Selections - Archiv

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months30.02%

12months70.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Johannes Brahms - Clarinet Sonata No. 2 in E-Flat, Op. 120, No. 2 - Daniel Ottensamer, cl; Berlin German Sym Orch/Stephan Koncz - Brahms/Koncz: Sonatas for Clarinet and Orchestra - Pentatone

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months40.02%

12months70.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 3 months ago

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor - Ballade in A minor, Op. 33 - Chineke! Orch/Kalena Bovell - Chineke! Orchestra: Coleridge-Taylor - Decca

Popularity:

7days10.12%

28days10.03%

6months20.01%

12months70.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 2 days ago

Serge Prokofiev - Cinderella, Op. 87 - Russian National Orch/Mikhail Pletnev - Cinderella / Summer Night - Suite - DG

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months70.04%

12months70.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Franz Schubert - Rosamunde, D 797 - Chamber Orch of Europe/Claudio Abbado - Schubert: Rosamunde - DG

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.03%

6months40.02%

12months70.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 9 days ago

Michael Torke - Bliss - University of Kansas Wind Ensemble/Paul W. Popiel - Michael Torke: Concerto for Orchestra - Ecstatic Records

Popularity:

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28days00%

6months40.02%

12months70.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 2 months ago

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

Popularity:

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28days20.06%

6months60.03%

12months70.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 16 days ago

Shawn E. Okpebholo - city beautiful - Lincoln Trio - Trios from Contemporary Chicago - Cedille

Popularity:

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28days10.03%

6months60.03%

12months70.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 18 days ago

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

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First heard a year ago

Last heard a month 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:

7days10.12%

28days10.03%

6months60.03%

12months60.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 3 days ago

Charles Loeffler - Octet - Ensemble/Graeme Steele Johnson, cl - Forgotten Sounds - Delos

Popularity:

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6months40.02%

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First heard a year ago

Last heard 3 months ago

Darius Milhaud - Suite d'apres Corrette, Op. 161b - Chicago Chamber Musicians - French Wind Trios - Cedille

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.03%

6months50.03%

12months60.02%

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%

28days10.03%

6months50.03%

12months60.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 23 days ago

Ethel Smyth - Serenade in D - BBC Phil/Odaline de la Martinez - Smyth: Orchestral Works - Chandos

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Ailbhe McDonagh - The Irish Four Seasons - Lynda O'Connor, v; Anamus/David Brophy - The Irish Seasons - Avie

Popularity:

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28days10.03%

6months50.03%

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First heard a year ago

Last heard 5 days ago

William Schuman - Newsreel - Milwaukee Sym Orch/Lukas Foss - American Festival - Pro Arte

Popularity:

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28days10.03%

6months50.03%

12months60.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 14 days ago

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor - Piano Quintet, Op. 1 - Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective - Coleridge-Taylor: Nonet, Piano Trio, Piano Quintet - Chandos

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6months40.02%

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Jacques Offenbach - Gaite Parisienne - Boston Sym Orch/Seiji Ozawa - Gaite Parisienne / Faust / Espana / Mignon - DG

Popularity:

7days00%

28days30.1%

6months40.02%

12months60.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 11 days ago

Ottorino Respighi - Brazilian Impressions - Cincinnati Sym Orch/Jesus Lopez-Cobos - Respighi: Church Windows, Brazilian Impressions, Roman Festivals - Telarc

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.03%

6months50.03%

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First heard a year ago

Last heard 18 days ago