98.7 WFMT (Chicago)

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Playlist updated 18 minutes ago · Oct 14, 2026, 1:03 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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Franz Joseph Haydn - Piano Concerto in G, H XVIII:4 - Norwegian Chamber Orch/Leif Ove Andsnes, p - Haydn: Piano Concertos Nos. 3, 4 & 11 - EMI

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Last heard 4 days ago

Johann Friedrich Fasch - Sinfonia in G minor - Tempesta di Mare - Fasch: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2 - Chandos

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Last heard 6 days ago

Josef Suk - String Serenade in E-Flat, Op. 6 - I Musici de Montreal/Yuli Turovsky - Tchaikovsky & Suk: Serenades - Chandos

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Gioachino Rossini - Otello - Monte Carlo Opera Cho, Orch/Antonio de Almeida - Rossini: Ballet Music - Philips

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Last heard 11 days ago

Cecile Chaminade - Six pieces romantiques, Op. 55 - EStrella Piano Duo - In Her Own Voice - Sheridan Music Studio

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William Grant Still - Festive Overture - Royal Phil Orch/Arthur Bennett Lipkin - A Festive Sunday with William Grant Still - Cambria

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Maddalena Sirmen - String Quartet No. 4 in B-Flat - Allegri String Quartet - Sirmen: The Six String Quartets - Cala

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Last heard 25 days ago

Charles Tomlinson Griffes - The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan, Op. 8 - Seattle Sym/Gerard Schwarz - The Musical Fantasies of Charles Griffes and Deems Taylor - Delos

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Darius Milhaud - La Cheminee du roi Rene, Op. 205 - Reykjavik Wind Quintet - French Wind Music - Chandos

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Last heard 8 days ago

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

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Last heard 7 days ago

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Don Giovanni, K. 527 - La Petite Bande/Sigiswald Kuijken - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Complete Edition - Brilliant Classics

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Last heard 11 days ago

Bedřich Smetana - From Bohemia's Meadows and Forests - Czech Phil/Charles Mackerras - Smetana: Ma Vlast - Supraphon

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Last heard 24 days ago

Marin Marais - Alcyone - Tempesta di Mare - Comedie et Tragedie, Vol. 1 - Chandos

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Last heard 12 days ago

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor - Nonet in F minor, Op. 2, Gradus ad Parnassum - Chineke! Orch members - Chineke! Orchestra: Coleridge-Taylor - Decca

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 13 days ago

Henry Purcell - The Indian Queen - Tafelmusik/Jeanne Lamon - Purcell: Ayres for the Theatre - Sony

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Dmitri Shostakovich - The Gadfly, Op. 97 - KBS Sym Orch/Vakhtang Jordania - Dmitri Shostakovich - Suites For Film And Stage - Koch

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Last heard 24 days ago

Aram Khachaturian - Spartacus - Scottish National Orch/Neeme Jarvi - Khachaturian: Spartacus Suites - Chandos

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Last heard 8 days ago

Robert Schumann - Symphony No. 1 in B-Flat, Op. 38, Spring - Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Riccardo Chailly - Schumann: Symphonies 1 & 4 / Riccardo Chailly - Decca

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Last heard 25 days ago

Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 7 in E minor, Song of the Night - Berlin Phil/Claudio Abbado - Symphony No. 7 - DG

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Rebecca Clarke - Piano Trio - Neave Trio - Her Voice: Piano Trios by Farrenc, Beach, and Clarke - Chandos

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Franz Liszt - Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 in C-sharp minor - Boston Pops Orch/Arthur Fiedler - Hi-Fi Fiedler - RCA

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Georg Philipp Telemann - Tafelmusik, Book 1 - Freiburg Baroque Orch members - The Complete Tafelmusik - Harmonia Mundi

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Isaac Albeniz - Cantos de Espana, Op. 232 - Julian Bream & John Williams, g's - Together - RCA

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Maurice Ravel - Miroirs - Vincent Larderet, p - Ravel: The Complete Works for Solo Piano, Vol. 1 - Avie

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Last heard 6 days ago

Justin Holland - Carnival of Venice Fantasy - Christopher Mallett, g - Justin Holland: Guitar Works & Arrangements - Naxos

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 17 days ago

Joseph Bologne (Chevalier de Saint-Georges) - Concertante Quartet No. 5 in G - Arabella String Quartet - Bologne: Six Concertante Quartets - Naxos

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Johann Sebastian Bach - Orchestra Suite No. 4 in D, BWV 1069 - St Martin's Academy/Sir Neville Marriner - Orchestral Suites Nos. 2 - 4 - EMI

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Last heard 20 days ago

Maddalena Sirmen - String Quartet No. 3 in G minor - Allegri String Quartet - Sirmen: The Six String Quartets - Cala

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George Enescu - Romanian Rhapsody in D, Op. 11, No. 2 - French National Orch/Cristian Măcelaru - George Enescu: Symphonies Nos. 1-3, Romanian Rhapsodies 1 & 2 - DG

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Last heard 18 days ago

Candelario Huizar - Imagenes - Phil Orch of the Americas/Alondra de la Parra - Mi Alma Mexicana - Sony

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Kathy Mattea - The Maple's Lament (Lewis) - Kathy Mattea - Calling Me Home - Sugar Hill

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Jim Gaffigan - Seasons (Fall excerpt) - Jim Gaffigan - Cinco - Comedy Dynamics/Netflix

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Antsy McClain - The Autumn Trees - Antsy McClain - The Indelible Man - Unhitched

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Eva Cassidy - Autumn Leaves (Mercer/Kosma/Prevert) - Eva Cassidy - Songbird - Songbird

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Joe Crookston - Turning Gold - Joe Crookston - Nine Becomes One, Chapter 7 - joecrookston.com

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Jacob Furr - Turning - Jacob Furr - Turning - jacobfurr.com

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Cowboy Junkies - Hard to Build, Easy to Break - Cowboy Junkies - Such Ferocious Beauty - Cooking Vinyl

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Gretchen Yanover - Willow Waltzes On - Gretchen Yanover, vc's - Bridge Across Sound - Gretchen Yanover

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Alberto Nepomuceno - O Garatuja - Minas Gerais Phil/Fabio Mechetti - Nepomuceno: Symphony in G Minor, O Garatuja: Prelude, Serie brasileira - Naxos

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Last heard 9 days ago

Giuseppe Verdi - La forza del destino - La Scala Phil/Riccardo Muti - Verdi: Preludes and Overtures - Sony

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Last heard 25 days ago

Claude Debussy - Images, Set 3 - Cleveland Orch/Pierre Boulez - Debussy: Images, Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune, Printemps - DG

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Last heard 21 days ago

George Gershwin - Embraceable You - Jenny Lin, p - Get Happy - Steinway & Sons

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Charles Ives - Piano Sonata No. 2, Concord, Mass. 1840-60 - San Francisco Sym/Michael Tilson Thomas - Masterpieces in Miniature - SFS Media

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Last heard 23 days ago

Georg Philipp Telemann - Whimsical Symphony - Apollo's Fire/Jeannette Sorrell - Don Quixote: Concertos and Suites by Telemann / Apollo's Fire / Jeannette Sorrell - Koch

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John Rutter - Te Deum - Cambridge Singers, City of London Sinfonia/John Rutter - John Rutter - Te Deum - Collegium

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Jean Sibelius - Suite mignonne, Op. 98a - Tapiola Sinfonietta/Tuomas Ollila - Northern Highlights: The Ultimate Finnish Orchestral Favourites - Ondine

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