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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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Doreen Carwithen - Suffolk Suite - London Sym Orch/Richard Hickox - Carwithen: Orchestral Works - Chandos

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

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Astor Piazzolla - Maria de Buenos Aires - Lucienne Renaudin Vary, tr; Monte Carlo Phil Orch/Sascha Goetzel - Piazzolla Stories - Warner

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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor - Piano Quintet, Op. 1 - Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective - Coleridge-Taylor: Nonet, Piano Trio, Piano Quintet - Chandos

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Nikos Skalkottas - 36 Greek Dances - BBC Symphony/Nikos Christodoulou - Nikos Skalkottas - BIS

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Will Gregory - Orbit - Jess Gillam, sx; Jess Gillam Ensemble - Jess Gillam: Time - Decca

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

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Madeleine Dring - Trio for oboe, bassoon & keyboard - Nicholas Daniel, ob; Amy Harman, bn; Antonio Oyarzabal, p - Complete Works for Oboe by Madeleine Dring - Chandos

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

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Peter Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker, Op. 71 - Milwaukee Sym Orch/Andreas Delfs - Sergei Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet; Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker - Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra

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Alessandro Scarlatti - Concerto grosso No. 3 in F - Europa Galante/Fabio Biondi - A Scarlatti & D Scarlatti: Concerti & Sinfonie - Virgin

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

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Claude Debussy - La Mer - Cleveland Orch/Pierre Boulez - Debussy: La Mer, Nocturnes, Jeux, Rhapsody for Clarinet and Orchestra - DG

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

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Vincent d'Indy - Chanson et danses, Op. 50 - Les Vents de Montreal/Jacques Lacombe - Chansons et Danses - Radio Canada Int'l

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Percy Grainger - Walking Tune - Borealis Wind Quintet - A La Carte: Short Works for Wind Quintet - MSR Classics

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Johann Adolf Hasse - Sinfonia, Op. 5, No. 6 - Concerto Koln/Pablo Heras-Casado - El Maestro: Farinelli - Archiv

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Jessie Montgomery - Peace - Anthony McGill, cl; Gloria Chien, p - Here With You - Cedille

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Claude Debussy - Suite bergamasque - Inon Barnatan, p - Darknesse Visible - Avie

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William Grant Still - Symphony No. 1, Afro-American - Detroit Sym Orch/Neeme Jarvi - Still: Symphony No. 1 · Ellington: The River - Chandos

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Johann Friedrich Fasch - Orchestra Suite (Overture) in D - Tempesta di Mare - Fasch: Orchestral Works Vol. 4 - Chandos

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

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Claude Debussy - La plus que lente - I Salonisti - The Last Dance - Music For A Vanishing Era - RCA-DHM

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Gustav Holst - Brook Green Suite - Royal Phil Strings/Barry Wordsworth - English String Music - Tring

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Jean Sibelius - String Quartet in E-Flat (1885) - Sibelius Academy Quartet - Sibelius: Early Chamber Works / Sibelius Academy String Quartet - Finlandia

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Carl Maria von Weber - Oberon - Vienna Phil/Christian Thielemann - German Overtures - DG

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Dmitri Shostakovich - Ballet Suite No. 1 - Royal Scottish National Orch/Neeme Jarvi - Shostakovich: Five Ballet Suites - Chandos

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Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 2 in C minor, Resurrection - Chicago Sym Orch/Sir Georg Solti - Mahler: Symphony No 2 - Decca

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

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Joseph Bologne (Chevalier de Saint-Georges) - Violin Sonata in B-Flat, Op. 1b, No. 1 - Samuel Nebyu, v; Bethany Brooks, p - Music by Composers of African Descent - BCM D Records

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Ruth Gipps - Ambarvalia - BBC Phil/Rumon Gamba - Ruth Gipps: Orchestral Works Vol. 3 - Chandos

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Johann Strauss II - Waltz, Wiener Bonbons, Op. 307 - Vienna Phil/Zubin Mehta - New Year's Concert 1998 - RCA

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Ottorino Respighi - La boutique fantasque (after Rossini) - Eastman Wind Ensemble/Frederick Fennell - Ballet For Band - Mercury

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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

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

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Leo Delibes - Coppelia - Lyon Opera Orch/Kent Nagano - Delibes: Coppelia (Highlights) - Erato

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Valerie Coleman - Umoja, Anthem of Unity - New York Youth Sym/Michael Repper - New York Youth Symphony: Florence Price, Valerie Coleman, Jessie Montgomery - Avie

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Antonin Dvořak - Czech Suite, Op 39 - Milwaukee Sym Orch/Zdenek Macal - Dvořak: Symphony No. 8, Czech Suite - Koss

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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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Adolphus Hailstork - Symphony No. 3 - Grand Rapids Sym/David Lockington - Hailstork: Symphonies Nos. 2 and 3 - Naxos

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Luigi Boccherini - Symphony in E-Flat, Op. 35, No. 2 (G 510) - London Festival Orch/Ross Pople - Boccherini: Six Symphonies Op. 35 - Hyperion

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Erich Wolfgang Korngold - The Adventures of Robin Hood - Hollywood Bowl Orch/John Mauceri - Hollywood Dreams - Philips

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Duke Ellington - Suite from The River (1970) - Buffalo Phil Orch/JoAnn Falletta - Ellington: Black, Brown, and Beige - Naxos

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Jessie Montgomery - Coincident Dances - Chicago Sinfonietta/Mei-Ann Chen - Project W - Cedille

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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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Fanny Mendelssohn - Overture (1830) - Women's Phil/JoAnn Falletta - The Women's Philharmonic: Mendelssohn, Schumann, Tailleferre, Boulanger - Koch

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Francis Poulenc - Three Novelettes - Pascal Roge, p - Poulenc: Les Soirees De Nazelles, 3 Mouvements Perpetuels, 3 Novelettes, 9 Improvisations - Decca

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First heard 2 years ago

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