98.7 WFMT (Chicago)

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Playlist updated 7 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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Emmanuel Chabrier - Suite pastorale - Vienna Phil/John Eliot Gardiner - Chabrier: Espana, Suite pastorale, etc. - DG

Popularity:

7days10.16%28days20.07%6months60.03%12months100.03%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 5 days ago

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

Popularity:

7days10.16%28days10.03%6months40.02%12months100.03%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 7 days ago

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

Popularity:

7days00%28days00%6months50.02%12months100.03%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

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

Popularity:

7days10.16%28days20.07%6months60.03%12months100.03%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 3 days ago

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

Popularity:

7days00%28days10.03%6months70.03%12months100.03%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 18 days ago

Franz Liszt - Responsories and Antiphons - Leslie Howard, p - Responsories and Antiphons - Hyperion

Popularity:

7days00%28days00%6months20.01%12months100.03%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 5 months 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%28days20.07%6months40.02%12months100.03%

First heard a year ago

Last heard a month ago

Andrew York - Sunburst - Jason Vieaux, g - Play - Azica

Popularity:

7days00%28days10.03%6months70.03%12months100.03%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 22 days ago

Grant Park Music Festival 2026 - - -

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7days00%28days00%6months100.05%12months100.03%

First heard 4 months ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Doreen Carwithen - Suffolk Suite - London Sym Orch/Richard Hickox - Carwithen: Orchestral Works - Chandos

Popularity:

7days10.16%28days10.03%6months50.02%12months90.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 7 days ago

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

Popularity:

7days00%28days00%6months40.02%12months90.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Peter Tchaikovsky - The Maid of Orleans - Royal Opera House Orch/Colin Davis - Tchaikovsky: Ballet Music - Philips

Popularity:

7days00%28days00%6months50.02%12months90.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month 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%28days00%6months80.04%12months90.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Edvard Grieg - Symphonic Dances, Op. 64 - Bergen Phil Orch/Edward Gardner - Grieg: Symphonic Dances, Before a Southern Convent, Funeral March for Rikard Nordaak, Bergliot - Chandos

Popularity:

7days00%28days00%6months30.01%12months90.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 4 months ago

Edvard Grieg - Symphonic Dances, Op. 64 - Gothenburg Sym Orch/Neeme Jarvi - Grieg: Symphonic Dances, Norwegian Dances, Lyric Suite - DG

Popularity:

7days00%28days10.03%6months60.03%12months90.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 25 days ago

Amy Beach - From Grandmother's Garden, Op. 97 - Joanne Polk, p - Amy Beach: Fire Flies - Arabesque

Popularity:

7days10.16%28days10.03%6months70.03%12months90.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 6 days ago

Joaquin Rodrigo - Concierto serenata - Isabelle Moretti, h; Royal Seville Sym Orch/Edmon Colomer - Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez - Valois

Popularity:

7days00%28days10.03%6months60.03%12months90.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 14 days 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%6months10%12months90.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Wynton Marsalis - Blues Symphony - Detroit Sym Orch/Jader Bignamini - Marsalis: Blues Symphony - Pentatone

Popularity:

7days10.16%28days10.03%6months40.02%12months90.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a day ago

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

Popularity:

7days00%28days10.03%6months50.02%12months90.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 17 days ago

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

Popularity:

7days00%28days00%6months30.01%12months90.02%

First heard a year 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%28days10.03%6months50.02%12months80.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 13 days ago

Michael Torke - Bright Blue Music - Baltimore Sym Orch/David Zinman - Michael Torke - Color Music / David Zinman - Argo

Popularity:

7days00%28days10.03%6months50.02%12months80.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 14 days ago

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

Popularity:

7days00%28days10.03%6months60.03%12months80.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 8 days ago

Alfonso Montes - Surama - Amadeus Guitar Duo - Images from the South - Naxos

Popularity:

7days10.16%28days10.03%6months40.02%12months80.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 5 days ago

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

Popularity:

7days00%28days00%6months20.01%12months80.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 4 months ago

Georges Bizet - La jolie fille de Perth - Orch de Paris/Daniel Barenboim - Barenboim in Paris - EMI

Popularity:

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

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month 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%28days00%6months50.02%12months80.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months 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%28days10.03%6months40.02%12months80.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 21 days ago

Serge Prokofiev - Cinderella, Op. 87 - Cleveland Orch/Vladimir Ashkenazy - Sergei Prokofiev: Cinderella / Mazurka - London

Popularity:

7days00%28days00%6months10%12months80.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 4 months ago

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

Popularity:

7days00%28days00%6months40.02%12months80.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Astor Piazzolla - Maria de Buenos Aires - Lucienne Renaudin Vary, tr; Monte Carlo Phil Orch/Sascha Goetzel - Piazzolla Stories - Warner

Popularity:

7days00%28days00%6months30.01%12months80.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 2 months ago

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

Popularity:

7days00%28days00%6months30.01%12months80.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Astor Piazzolla - Tango Suite - Yo-Yo Ma, vc; Sergio Assad & Odair Assad, g's - Soul of the Tango - The Music of Astor Piazzolla - Sony

Popularity:

7days10.16%28days10.03%6months50.02%12months80.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 7 days ago

Francois Couperin - Pieces en concert - Jian Wang, vc; Camerata Salzburg - The Baroque Album - DG

Popularity:

7days10.16%28days10.03%6months50.02%12months80.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 6 days 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%6months10%12months80.02%

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%28days00%6months40.02%12months80.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 4 months 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%28days00%6months40.02%12months80.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard a month ago

Georg Philipp Telemann - Flute, Oboe and Bassoon Suite in b - Soloists; European Baroque Soloists - Telemann: Suite in B; Concerto in G; Six Canonic Sonatas - Denon

Popularity:

7days00%28days10.03%6months50.02%12months80.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 12 days ago

Hubert Parry - Lady Radnor's Suite - English String Orch/William Boughton - The Spirit of England - Nimbus

Popularity:

7days00%28days00%6months50.02%12months80.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard a month ago

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

Popularity:

7days00%28days20.07%6months60.03%12months80.02%

First heard 9 months ago

Last heard 21 days ago

Karl Goldmark - Symphony No. 1 in E-Flat, Op. 26, Rustic Wedding - Utah Sym/Maurice Abravanel - Goldmark: Rustic Wedding Symphony; Enescu: Rumanian Rhapsodies 1 & 2 - Vanguard

Popularity:

7days00%28days10.03%6months50.02%12months80.02%

First heard 9 months ago

Last heard 21 days ago

Ravinia Festival 2026 - - -

Popularity:

7days00%28days00%6months80.04%12months80.02%

First heard 3 months ago

Last heard a month ago

Jean-Fery Rebel - Les Plaisirs Champetres - La Petite Bande/Sigiswald Kuijken - Concert de danse - Accent

Popularity:

7days00%28days00%6months30.01%12months70.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 4 months ago

Leslie Adams - Etudes, Part I - Maria Thompson Corley, p - Maria Corley * Leslie Adams * Twelve Etudes - Albany

Popularity:

7days00%28days10.03%6months50.02%12months70.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 17 days ago

Richard Strauss - Till Eulenspiegel einmal anders - Chicago Pro Musica - The Medinah Sessions - Reference

Popularity:

7days00%28days10.03%6months50.02%12months70.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 19 days ago

Arthur Honegger - Pastorale d'ete - Toulouse Capitole Orch/Michel Plasson - Pacific 231, Horace Victorieux, Rugby, Mermoz, Pastorale d'ete, La Tempete - DG

Popularity:

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

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Eric Ewazen - Sinfonia for Strings - Sejong Soloists - Sejong Plays Ewazen - Albany

Popularity:

7days10.16%28days20.07%6months30.01%12months70.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 5 days ago

Peter Tchaikovsky - Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66 - Scottish National Orch/Neeme Jarvi - Stravinsky: Le Baiser de la Fee & Tchaikovsky: 'Bluebird' Pas de deux - Chandos

Popularity:

7days00%28days10.03%6months40.02%12months70.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 10 days ago

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

Popularity:

7days00%28days00%6months20.01%12months70.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago