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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Gioachino Rossini - La gazza ladra - London Classical Players/Roger Norrington - Rossini: Overtures - EMI

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Sergei Prokofiev - Romeo and Juliet, Op. 64 - Chicago Sym Orch/Riccardo Muti - Prokofiev: Suite from Romeo and Juliet - CSO Resound

Popularity:

7days10.16%28days20.07%6months20.01%12months60.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 6 days ago

Jessie Montgomery - Strum - Catalyst Quartet - Strum: Music for Strings - Azica

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

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Dave Brubeck - Joy in the Morning - Cincinnati Sym Orch/Jesus Lopez-Cobos - Into The Light: Symphonic Expressions Of Spirit - Telarc

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

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

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

Popularity:

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

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 3 months ago

Ottorino Respighi - Trittico botticelliano - Orpheus Chamber Orch - Respighi: Ancient Airs and Dances I & III, Three Botticelli Pictures, The Birds - DG

Popularity:

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

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 25 days ago

Bedřich Smetana - Festive Symphony - Prague Sym Orch/Jiři Bělohlavek - Smetana Festival - Supraphon

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

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Lars-Erik Larsson - Little Serenade for Strings, Op. 12 - Stockholm Sinfonietta/Esa-Pekka Salonen - A Swedish Serenade - BIS

Popularity:

7days00%28days00%6months50.02%12months60.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Johannes Brahms - Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98 - Chamber Orch of Europe/Yannick Nezet-Seguin - Brahms: The Symphonies - DG

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7days10.16%28days10.03%6months30.01%12months60.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 6 days ago

Jennifer Higdon - Dance Card - Chicago Sinfonietta/Mei-Ann Chen - Project W - Cedille

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7days00%28days10.03%6months30.01%12months60.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 18 days ago

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

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

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Juventino Rosas - Sobre las olas (Over the Waves) - Cuarteto Latinoamericano and friends - Valses Mexicanos 1900 - Dorian

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7days00%28days00%6months50.02%12months60.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Alexander Glazunov - The Seasons, Op. 67 - Royal Scottish National Orch/Jose Serebrier - Glazunov: Symphony No. 5, The Seasons - Warner

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Giuseppe Verdi - Don Carlos - Chicago Sym Cho & Orch/Sir Georg Solti - Verdi: Choruses - Decca

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

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Peter Boyer - Celebration Overture - London Phil Orch/Peter Boyer - Boyer: Symphony No. 1, Silver Fanfare, Festivities, Three Olympians, Celebration Overture - Naxos

Popularity:

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

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 15 days ago

Andrew Beyer - The Midnight Special - Melodica - Andrew Beyer - Midnight Special Collection - Midnight Special Collection

Popularity:

7days10.16%28days20.07%6months40.02%12months60.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 days ago

Ferenc Farkas - Ancient Hungarian Dances - Borealis Wind Quintet - A La Carte: Short Works for Wind Quintet - MSR Classics

Popularity:

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

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Aaron Copland - Our Town - London Sym Orch/Aaron Copland - Copland Conducts Copland - CBS

Popularity:

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

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 19 days ago

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

Popularity:

7days00%28days00%6months10%12months60.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 3 months ago

Charles Gounod - Petite Symphonie in B-Flat - St. Paul Chamber Orch Winds/Christopher Hogwood - Bizet: L'Arlesienne • Gounod: Petite Symphonie, Symphony No.1 - Decca

Popularity:

7days00%28days10.03%6months50.02%12months60.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 23 days ago

Gustav Holst - Suite No. 2 in F, Op. 28, No. 2 - Cleveland Symphonic Winds/Frederick Fennell - Music for Wind Band - Telarc

Popularity:

7days00%28days10.03%6months30.01%12months60.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

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

Popularity:

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

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 4 months ago

Nino Rota - Balli (Dances) - Ferrara City Orch/Giuseppe Grazioli - Concerto soiree - Travelling

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

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Joaquin Rodrigo - Concierto andaluz - Amadeus Guitar Duo, Eden Stell Duo, International Phil Orch/Horst-Hans Backer - Spanish Night - Naxos

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7days00%28days10.03%6months20.01%12months60.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 7 days ago

Gustav Holst - A Moorside Suite (1928) - Dallas Wind Sym/Howard Dunn - Holst: Hammersmith & Suites - Reference

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

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 13 days ago

Franz Schubert - Symphony No. 5 in B-Flat, D. 485 - Age of Enlightenment Orch/Charles Mackerras - Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 5, 8, 9 - Virgin

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

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

Popularity:

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

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Andrew Beyer - The Midnight Special - organ - Andrew Beyer - Midnight Special Collection - Midnight Special Collection

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7days00%28days00%6months50.02%12months60.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Leo Delibes - Coppelia - Rotterdam Phil/David Zinman - Essential Ballet - Philips

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

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 4 months ago

František Janoska - The Four Seasons in Janoska Style (after Vivaldi) - Janoska Ensemble - Vivaldi: The Four Seasons in Janoska Style - DG

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

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Louise Farrenc - Sextet for piano and winds in C minor, Op. 40 - Linos Ensemble - Farrenc: Piano Trios and Sextet - CPO

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 11 days ago

Johannes Brahms - Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98 - London Phil Orch/Marin Alsop - Brahms: Symphony No. 4, Hungarian Dances Nos. 2, 4-9 - Naxos

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7days00%28days00%6months50.02%12months60.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 3 months ago

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

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

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 15 days ago

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor - The Song of Hiawatha - RTE Concert Orch/Adrian Leaper - Coleridge-Taylor: Hiawatha Overture - Petite Suite - Naxos

Popularity:

7days00%28days10.03%6months30.01%12months60.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 11 days ago

Franz Schubert - Overture in C, In the Italian Style, D 591 - La Scala Phil/Riccardo Chailly - Musa Italiana - Decca

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

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 7 days ago

Marc Mellits - Black Moon - Black Moon Trio - Principal - Black Moon Trio

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

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 8 days ago

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach - Hamburg Symphony No. 3 in C, Wq 182/3 - Berlin Academy for Ancient Music - CPE Bach Symphonies From Berlin to Hamburg - Harmonia Mundi

Popularity:

7days00%28days10.03%6months30.01%12months60.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 18 days ago

Richard Strauss - Le bourgeois gentilhomme, Op. 60 - Orpheus Chamber Orch - Strauss: Le bourgeois gentilhomme, Divertimento after Couperin - DG

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Henry Cowell - Old American Country Set - Manhattan Chamber Orch/Richard Auldon Clark - Henry Cowell: Persian Set - Koch

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

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 23 days ago

Augusta Holmes - Andromede - Toulouse Capitole Orch/Leo Hussain - Compositrices: New Light on French Romantic Women Composers - Bru Zane

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

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

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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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 3 months ago

Maddalena Sirmen - String Quartet No. 2 in B-Flat - Allegri String Quartet - Sirmen: The Six String Quartets - Cala

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Giles Farnaby - Suite of Six Dances - Philip Jones Brass Ensemble - Music from the Royal Court - Decca

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 20 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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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Edvard Grieg - Holberg Suite, Op. 40 - St Martin's Academy/Sir Neville Marriner - Grieg, Sibelius: Suites - Philips

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 19 days ago

Francis Poulenc - Two-Piano Concerto in D minor - Katia Labeque & Marielle Labeque, p's; Boston Sym Orch/Seiji Ozawa - Poulenc, Milhaud: Concerto Pour 2 Pianos Et Orchestre - Philips

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 12 days ago

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

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7days00%28days10.03%6months20.01%12months60.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 17 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 2 years ago

Last heard 4 months ago

Michael Torke - Oboe Concerto, South - Ryan Roberts, ob; Albany Sym/David Alan Miller - Sky - Albany

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Benjamin Britten - Gloriana, Op. 53 - Bournemouth Sym Orch/Uri Segal - Britten: Gloriana: Symphonic Suite; The Prince Of The Pagodas: Prelude And Dances - EMI

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago