98.7 WFMT (Chicago)

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Playlist updated 21 minutes ago · Oct 18, 2026, 10:15 PM 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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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 a month ago

Margaret Bonds - Montgomery Variations - Royal Scottish National Orch/Kellen Gray - African American Voices II - Linn

Popularity:

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

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month 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

Popularity:

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

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

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

Popularity:

7days10.15%28days10.03%6months30.01%12months70.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 6 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

Popularity:

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

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Alberto Nepomuceno - Suite antiga, Op. 11 - English Chamber Orch/Neil Thomson - Serenata: Brazilian Music for Chamber Orchestra - Naxos

Popularity:

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

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 11 days ago

Scott Joplin - Treemonisha - The Paragon Ragtime Orchestra/Rick Benjamin - Scott Joplin: Treemonisha - New World

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

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

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

Popularity:

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

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 24 days ago

William Grant Still - American Suite - Royal Scottish National Orch/Avlana Eisenberg - William Grant Still: Summerland - Naxos

Popularity:

7days10.15%28days20.06%6months50.02%12months70.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 5 days ago

Ron Nelson - Courtly Airs and Dances - Dallas Wind Sym/Jerry Junkin - Holidays & Epiphanies - The Music of Ron Nelson - Reference

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

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 10 days ago

Emilie Mayer - Symphony No. 6 in E - Bremerhaven Phil Orch/Marc Niemann - Emilie Mayer: Symphonies Nos. 6 & 3 - Hannsler Classic

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7days00%28days10.03%6months30.01%12months70.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 19 days ago

Emmanuel Chabrier - Bourree fantasque - Suisse Romande Orch/Neeme Jarvi - Chabrier: Orchestral Works - Chandos

Popularity:

7days10.15%28days20.06%6months60.03%12months70.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 5 days ago

Florence Price - Scenes in Tin Can Alley - Josh Tatsuo Cullen, p - Scenes in Tin Can Alley - Blue Griffin

Popularity:

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

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

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

Popularity:

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

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 4 months ago

Joseph Bologne (Chevalier de Saint-Georges) - Concertante Quartet No. 6 in B-Flat - Arabella String Quartet - Bologne: Six Concertante Quartets - Naxos

Popularity:

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

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Frederick Delius - A Village Romeo and Juliet - Welsh National Opera Orch/Charles Mackerras - Delius: Brigg Fair, In a Summer Garden, The Walk to the Paradise Garden, North Country Sketches / Sir Charles Mackerras - Argo

Popularity:

7days00%28days00%6months60.03%12months70.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Svend S. Schultz - Une Amourette (Little Serenade) - Carion - Nielsen's Footsteps - Odradek

Popularity:

7days10.15%28days10.03%6months50.02%12months70.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 4 days ago

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

Popularity:

7days00%28days10.03%6months30.01%12months70.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 23 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%28days10.03%6months30.01%12months70.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 19 days ago

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

Popularity:

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

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 3 months ago

Leroy Anderson - Piano Concerto in C - Stewart Goodyear, p; Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel - American Piano Classics - Telarc

Popularity:

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

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 11 days ago

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

Popularity:

7days00%28days10.03%6months20.01%12months70.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 23 days ago

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

Popularity:

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

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Claude Debussy - Two Arabesques - Richard Stoltzman, cl; Nancy Allen, h - Romance - RCA

Popularity:

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

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 3 months ago

Bill Giardini - The Midnight Special – Accordion (Traditional) - Bill Giardini - Midnight Special Collection - Midnight Special Collection

Popularity:

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

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 3 months ago

Heitor Villa-Lobos - Sexteto Mistico - Lontano Ensemble/Odaline de la Martinez - Villa-Lobos Chamber and Choral Music - Lorelt

Popularity:

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

First heard a year ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Manuel de Falla - Seven Popular Spanish Songs - Avi Avital, m; Ensemble - Between Worlds - DG

Popularity:

7days00%28days10.03%6months30.01%12months70.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 12 days ago

Henry Cowell - Hymn and Fuguing Tune No. 10 - Celia Nicklin, ob; St Martin's Academy/Sir Neville Marriner - Barber, Ives, Copland - Argo

Popularity:

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

First heard a year ago

Last heard a month 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 a month 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

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

First heard a year ago

Last heard 3 months ago

Jose White - Violin Concerto in F-sharp minor - Rachel Barton Pine, v; Encore Chamber Orch/Daniel Hege - Violin Concertos by Black Composers of the 18th and 19th Centuries - Cedille

Popularity:

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

First heard a year ago

Last heard 18 days ago

Zygmunt Noskowski - Symphony No. 3 in F, From Spring to Spring - Rheinland-Pfalz State Phil/Antoni Wit - Zygmunt Noskowski: Symphony No. 3 - Capriccio

Popularity:

7days10.15%28days20.06%6months50.02%12months70.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 5 days ago

Joseph Bologne (Chevalier de Saint-Georges) - Violin Concerto in D, Op. 2, No. 2 - Fumika Mohri, v; Czech Chamber Phil Orch/Michael Halasz - Bologne: Violin Concertos, Opp. 2 & 7 - Naxos

Popularity:

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

First heard a year ago

Last heard a month ago

Bernhard Henrik Crusell - Introduction, Theme and Variations on a Swedish Air, Op. 12 - Martin Frost, cl; Ostgota Symphonic Wind Ensemble/Arie van Beek - Hekas! - BIS

Popularity:

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

First heard a year ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Ernest John Moeran - Overture for a Masque (1944) - Ulster Orch/JoAnn Falletta - Moeran: In the Mountain Country - Naxos

Popularity:

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

First heard a year ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Heitor Villa-Lobos - Dancas caracteristicas africanas - Brazilian Guitar Quartet - Brazilian Guitar Quartet Plays Villa-Lobos - Delos

Popularity:

7days00%28days10.03%6months10%12months70.02%

First heard 10 months ago

Last heard 19 days ago

Francis Poulenc - Flute Sonata - Emmanuel Pahud, f; Eric Le Sage, p - Paris - EMI

Popularity:

7days00%28days00%6months60.03%12months70.02%

First heard 10 months ago

Last heard a month ago

Antonio Soler - Fandango - L'Arpeggiata/Christina Pluhar - Los Pajaros Perdidos * The South American Project - Virgin

Popularity:

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

First heard 9 months ago

Last heard 3 months ago

Giacomo Puccini - Three Minuets (1892) - Ensō Quartet - Strauss: String Quartet in A; Puccini: Crisantemi, Three Minuets; Verdi: String Quartet - Naxos

Popularity:

7days00%28days10.03%6months60.03%12months70.02%

First heard 9 months ago

Last heard 13 days ago

Jacques Offenbach - Le voyage dans la lune - Philharmonia Orch/Antonio de Almeida - Offenbach: Can Can, Overtures & Ballets: s - Philips

Popularity:

7days00%28days00%6months60.03%12months70.02%

First heard 9 months ago

Last heard a month ago

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

Popularity:

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

First heard 6 months ago

Last heard 4 months ago

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

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7days00%28days00%6months20.01%12months60.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Andre Gretry - Cephale et Procris - Orch National de Bretagne/Stefan Sanderling - Gretry: Suites & Overtures - ASV

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7days00%28days00%6months30.01%12months60.02%

First heard 2 years ago

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

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7days00%28days00%6months30.01%12months60.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Richard Strauss - Schlagobers, Op. 70 - Tokyo Metropolitan Sym Orch/Hiroshi Wakasugi - Strauss: Schlagobers, Ballet Music, Op. 70 - MHS

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7days00%28days00%6months30.01%12months60.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 3 months ago

Charles-Edouard Lefebvre - Wind Suite, Op 57 - Borealis Wind Quintet - Borealis en Salon: 19th Century French Music for Winds - MSR Classics

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7days00%28days00%6months30.01%12months60.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Antonin Dvořak - American Suite in A, Op. 98 - Atlanta Sym Orch/Nathalie Stutzmann - Dvořak: Symphony No. 9 From The New World, American Suite - Erato

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7days00%28days00%6months40.02%12months60.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

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

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

William Schuman - American Festival Overture - St. Louis Sym Orch/Leonard Slatkin - William Schuman: Symphony No. 10, New England Triptych, American Festival Overture / Leonard Slatkin - RCA

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7days00%28days10.03%6months40.02%12months60.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 25 days ago

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

Popularity:

7days00%28days00%6months20.01%12months60.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago