98.7 WFMT (Chicago)

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Playlist updated 26 minutes ago · Oct 18, 2026, 8:11 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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Allan Sherman - You Went the Wrong Way, Old King Louie - Allan Sherman - My Son, The Box: Disc 2 - Rhino Handmade

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Jose Pons - Symphony in G - Concerto Koln - Sinfonias espanolas - Capriccio

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Johann Friedrich Fasch - Sinfonia in B-flat Major - Tempesta di Mare - Fasch: Orchestral Works Vol. 4 - Chandos

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Frank Ticheli - There Will Be Rest - Voces8 - Nightfall - Decca

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Manuel Ponce - Sonata romantica - Norbert Kraft, g - Romantic Works for Guitar - Chandos

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Henry Purcell - Abdelazer - Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood - The Baroque Experience - L'Oiseau-Lyre

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

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William Grant Still - Pastorela - Zina Schiff, v; Royal Scottish National Orch/Avlana Eisenberg - William Grant Still: Summerland - Naxos

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Isaac Albeniz - Iberia, Book 4 - Cincinnati Sym Orch/Jesus Lopez-Cobos - Albeniz: Iberia - Complete - Telarc

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Florence Price - Violin Concerto No. 1 in D - Randall Goosby, v; Philadelphia Orch/Yannick Nezet-Seguin - Max Bruch & Florence Price: Violin Concertos - Decca

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William Walton - Christopher Columbus Suite (1942) - Westminster Singers, City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox - - Chandos

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Franz Schubert - Symphony No. 9 in C, D. 944, Great - Vienna Phil/John Eliot Gardiner - Schubert: Symphony No. 9; Song of the Spirits Over the Waters - DG

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Peter Tchaikovsky - Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 23 - Alice Sara Ott, p; Munich Phil/Thomas Hengelbrock - Liszt & Tchaikovsky: First Piano Concertos - DG

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Francis Poulenc - Oboe, Bassoon and Piano Trio - Maurice Bourgue, ob; Amaury Wallez, bn; Pascal Roge, p - Poulenc Chamber Music - Decca

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

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Antonio Vivaldi - Concerto in C, R. 556, Per la Solennita di San Lorenzo - Gli Incogniti/Amandine Beyer - Vivaldi: Il Mondo al rovescio - Harmonia Mundi

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Henryk Wieniawski - Legende, Op. 17 - Gil Shaham, v; London Sym Orch/Lawrence Foster - Wieniawski: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2, Legende; Sarasate: Ziegeunerweisen - DG

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Charles Ives - Symphony No. 2 - Seattle Sym/Ludovic Morlot - Ives: Symphony No. 2; Carter: Instances; Gershwin: An American in Paris - Seattle Symphony Media

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Francis Johnson - Johnson's March - Sym Orch of America/Matthew Phillips - Those Fabulous Americans - Albany

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

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Frederic Chopin - Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21 - Lang Lang, p; Vienna Phil/Zubin Mehta - Chopin: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 - DG

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Florence Price - Piano Quintet in A minor - Catalyst Quartet; Michelle Cann, p - Uncovered, Vol. 2: Florence Price - Azica

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Josef Strauss - Waltz, Spharenklange, Op. 235 - Vienna Phil/Daniel Barenboim - 2022 New Year's Concert - Sony

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Dmitri Shostakovich - The Gadfly, Op. 97 - London Phil Orch/Mariss Jansons - Shostakovich: Symphony No. 15, Piano Concerto No. 2, Romance & Folk Feast (The Gadfly) - EMI

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Barbara Harbach - Following the Sacred Sun - London Phil Orch/David Angus - Orchestral Music VII - MSR Classics

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Gioachino Rossini - La scala di seta - Santa Cecilia Orch/Antonio Pappano - Rossini: Overtures, Andante e tema con variazioni - Warner

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Carter Pann - Slalom - Cincinnati Sym Orch/Paavo Jarvi - American Portraits - Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra Media

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Heinrich von Biber - Mystery Sonatas (Rosary) - Alan Choo, v; Apollo's Fire/Jeannette Sorrell - Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber: Mystery Sonatas - Avie

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Leonard Bernstein - West Side Story - Harlem Quartet; Chicago Sinfonietta/Mei-Ann Chen - Delights & Dances - Cedille

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Henry Thacker Burleigh - Four Southland Sketches - Samuel Nebyu, v; Bethany Brooks, p - Music by Composers of African Descent - BCM D Records

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Fanny Mendelssohn - Three Pieces for piano four hands - EStrella Piano Duo - In Her Own Voice - Sheridan Music Studio

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Edward Elgar - Chanson de nuit, Op. 15, No. 1 - Bournemouth Sinfonietta/Norman Del Mar - Elgar: Favourites - Chansons - Chandos

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Giacomo Puccini - La Boheme - Luciano Pavarotti, t; Berlin Phil/Herbert von Karajan - Luciano Pavarotti - The Greatest Hits - Decca

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Johann Stamitz - Symphony in A - Camerata Chicago/Drostan Hall - Music by Johann & Carl Stamitz - Centaur

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Erich Wolfgang Korngold - Much Ado About Nothing, Op. 11 - Northwest German Phil/Werner Andreas Albert - Korngold: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2 - CPO

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Ottorino Respighi - Trittico botticelliano - Philharmonia Orch/Geoffrey Simon - Respighi - Cala

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

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Giuseppe Verdi - Nabucco - Chicago Sym Orch/Riccardo Muti - Italian Masterworks - CSO Resound

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George Frideric Handel - Music for the Royal Fireworks - Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood - The Baroque Experience - L'Oiseau-Lyre

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Anton Arensky - Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op. 32 - Andres Cardenes, v; Jeffrey Solow, vc; Mona Golabek, p - Arensky & Tchaikovsky: Piano Trios - Delos

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Dobrinka Tabakova - Concerto for cello and strings - Kristina Blaumane, vc; Lithuanian Chamber Orch/Maxim Rysanov - Dobrinka Tabakova * String Paths - ECM

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Clemence de Grandval - Trio de salon, Op. 8 - Lajos Lencses, ob; Libor Šima, bn; Francois Killian, p - Clemence de Grandval: Works For Oboe - Hanssler Classic

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Giovanni Paisiello - Mandolin Concerto in E-Flat - Avi Avital, m; Il Giardino Armonico/Giovanni Antonini - Concertos - DG

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Cristobal de Morales - Jubilate Deo - Stile Antico - From the Imperial Court - Harmonia Mundi

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Zdeněk Fibich - Studies of Paintings, Op 56 - Radoslav Kvapil, p - An Anthology of Czech Piano Music, Vol. 5: Zdenek Fibich - Unicorn-Kanchana

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Carlos Chavez - Chapultepec (Obertura Republicana) - Simon Bolivar Sym Orch/Keri-Lynn Wilson - Danzon - Dorian

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Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67 - Vienna Phil/Carlos Kleiber - Carlos Kleiber: Complete Orchestral Recordings - DG

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Johannes Brahms - String Quintet No. 1 in F, Op. 88 - Alexander String Quartet; Toby Appel, vi - Brahms: The String Quintets & Sextets - Foghorn Classics

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Antonio Vivaldi - La Cetra Concerto No. 3 in G minor, R. 334 - Monica Huggett, v; Raglan Baroque Players/Nicholas Kraemer - Vivaldi: La Cetra Op. 9 - Virgin

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Camille Saint-Saens - Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Op. 78, Organ - Carl Adam Landstrom, o; Malmo Sym Orch/Marc Soustrot - Saint-Saens: Symphonies, Vol. 2 - Naxos

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