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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Jonas Friddle - The Midnight Special - fretless banjo - Jonas Friddle - Midnight Special Collection - Midnight Special Collection

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 11 days ago

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

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Sergei Rachmaninoff - Symphonic Dances, Op. 45 - Philadelphia Orch/Yannick Nezet-Seguin - Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 1, Symphonic Dances - DG

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 13 days ago

Gwyneth Walker - Fantasy Etudes - Blue Violet Duo - Strike, Strum and Stride - Centaur

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Ryan Opera Center Recital Series - - -

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Last heard 24 days 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

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

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

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Johann Sebastian Bach - Klavierbuchlein fur Wilhelm Friedemann Bach - Joseph Payne, hc - Klavierbuchlein for Wilhelm Friedemann - Hanssler Classic

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George Templeton Strong - From a Notebook of Sketches - Moscow Sym Orch/ Adriano - Strong - Naxos

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

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 23 days ago

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

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

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Claire Cowan - Hansel and Gretel - New Zealand Sym Orch/Hamish McKeich - Royal New Zealand Ballet * Hansel and Gretel * Music by Claire Cowan - (Claire Cowan)

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First heard 2 years ago

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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

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

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First heard a year ago

Last heard 23 days ago

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

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 6 hours ago

Peter Tchaikovsky - Serenade for Strings in C, Op. 48 - Berlin Phil Strings/Semyon Bychkov - Tchaikovsky, Wolf, Elgar, Barber: Serenades - Philips

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Last heard 12 days ago

Amilcare Ponchielli - Il Convegno - Larry Combs & Eddie Daniels, cl's; Chicago String Quartet; Brad Opland, db - Crossing the Line - Summit

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Peter Warlock - Capriol Suite - Guildhall String Ensemble/Robert Salter - English Music For Strings - RCA

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 15 days ago

Florence Price - Five Folksongs in Counterpoint - Catalyst Quartet - Uncovered, Vol. 2: Florence Price - Azica

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 20 days ago

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

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First heard a year ago

Last heard 23 days ago

Josef Suk - Fantastic Scherzo, Op. 25 - Czech Phil/Charles Mackerras - Suk: Summer Tale, Fantastic Scherzo / Mackerras - Decca

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

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Johann David Heinichen - Dresden Concerto in G, S 214 - Musica Antiqua Cologne/Reinhard Goebel - Heinichen: Dresden Concerti - Archiv

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Aaron Copland - Our Town - St. Louis Sym Orch/Leonard Slatkin - Music For Films - RCA

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First heard a year ago

Last heard 24 days ago

William Grant Still - Danzas de Panama - Berlin Sym Orch/Isaiah Jackson - William Grant Still: La Guiablesse, Danzas de Panama, Quit Dat Fool'nish, Summerland - Koch

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Modest Mussorgsky - Khovanshchina - Berlin Phil/Claudio Abbado - St. John's Night on the Bare Mountain - Sony

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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

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Josef Suk - Fantastic Scherzo, Op. 25 - Buffalo Phil Orch/JoAnn Falletta - Suk: Fairy Tale * Fantastic Scherzo - Naxos

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 11 days ago

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Clarinet Quintet in A, K. 581 - Anthony McGill, cl; Pacifica Quartet - Mozart and Brahms Clarinet Quintets - Cedille

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

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 13 days ago

Emmanuel Chabrier - Trois valses romantiques - Toulouse Capitole Orch/Michel Plasson - Chabrier: A la Musique, La Sulamite, Gwendoline, Larghetto for Horn, Valses romantiques, Habanera - EMI

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First heard 2 years ago

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Jean-Michel Damase - Seventeen Variations for Woodwind Quintet - Reykjavik Wind Quintet - French Wind Music - Chandos

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

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Morley Calvert - Monteregian Hills Suite - Chicago Brass Quintet - Virtuoso Brass - Facet

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Richard Strauss - Wind Serenade in E-flat, Op. 7 - Minnesota Orch Winds/Edo de Waart - An Alpine Symphony / Serenade - Virgin

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

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 14 days ago

Jean Sibelius - The Tempest, Op. 109 - St Martin's Academy/Neville Marriner - The Tempest Suites, Op.109 - Hanssler Classic

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

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First heard a year ago

Last heard 16 days ago

Florence Price - Symphony No. 3 in C minor - Philadelphia Orch/Yannick Nezet-Seguin - Florence Price - Symphonies 1 & 3 - DG

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

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Dmitri Shostakovich - Jazz Suite No. 1 - Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Riccardo Chailly - Shostakovich: The Jazz Album - Decca

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

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Aaron Copland - An Outdoor Overture - Seattle Sym/Gerard Schwarz - Portraits Of Freedom - Delos

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - The Magic Flute, K. 620 - Amadeus Ensemble/Julius Rudel - Mozart: The Magic Flute and The Abduction from the Seraglio - Musicmasters

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Paul Taffanel - Wind Quintet in G minor - Aulos Wind Quintet - Aulos-Blaserquintett - Vol. VI - Virtuoso Romantic Music - Koch

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Gustav Holst - St Paul's Suite, Op. 29, No. 2 - Guildhall String Ensemble/Robert Salter - English Music For Strings - RCA

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First heard 2 years ago

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

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 20 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

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First heard 2 years ago

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