98.7 WFMT (Chicago)

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Playlist updated 11 minutes ago · Oct 20, 2026, 11:21 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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Pablo de Sarasate - Caprice basque, Op. 24 - Maria Duenas, v; Itamar Golan, p - Paganini: 24 Caprices - DG

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 3 months ago

Georg Philipp Telemann - Three-Trumpet Concerto in D - Soloists; Music of the Baroque Orch/Thomas Wikman - With Clarion Voice - D'Note

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Herbert Clarke - Valse Brillante, Sounds from the Hudson - Wynton Marsalis, cornet; Eastman Wind Ensemble/Donald Hunsberger - Carnaval - CBS

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

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Last heard 2 months ago

Lucie Vellere - String Quartet No. 3 - Crescent String Quartet - Vive la Difference - String Quartets by Women Composers - Leonarda

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Wynton Marsalis - Blues Symphony - Detroit Sym Orch/Jader Bignamini - Marsalis: Blues Symphony - Pentatone

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7days10.16%28days10.03%6months40.02%12months90.02%

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Last heard 2 days ago

William Grant Still - Folk Suite No. 2 - Sierra Winds; Kim DeLibero, h - Get on Board: American Music for Woodwinds by William Grant Still - Cambria

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

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

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Franz Schubert - Piano Sonata in E, D 157, Unfinished - Arcadi Volodos, p - Schubert: Solo Piano Works - Sony

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Michael Abels - Winged Creatures - Demarre McGill, f; Anthony McGill, cl; Chicago Youth Sym Orch/Allen Tinkham - Winged Creatures - Cedille

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Florence Price - Piano Concerto in D minor - Michelle Cann, p; New York Youth Sym/Michael Repper - New York Youth Symphony: Florence Price, Valerie Coleman, Jessie Montgomery - Avie

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WFMT Membership Drive - - -

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7days40.64%28days40.13%6months40.02%12months260.07%

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

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

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Ron Nelson - Sonoran Desert Holiday - Dallas Wind Sym/Jerry Junkin - Holidays & Epiphanies - The Music of Ron Nelson - Reference

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7days10.16%28days10.03%6months40.02%12months60.02%

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Last heard 6 days ago

Sergei Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30 - Yunchan Lim, p; Fort Worth Sym Orch/Marin Alsop - Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3, Live from the 2022 Cliburn Competition - Decca

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Johann Sebastian Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D Major, BWV 1050 - Berlin Academy for Ancient Music - Bach: Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 1-6 - Harmonia Mundi

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7days00%28days20.07%6months40.02%12months100.03%

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Frederic Chopin - Preludes, Op. 28 - Seong-Jin Cho, p - Chopin Competition Winner 2015: Seong-Jin Cho - DG

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

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Symphony No. 31 in D, K. 297, Paris - Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood - Mozart: The Complete Symphonies - L'Oiseau-Lyre

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Kevin Puts - Home - Miro Quartet - Home - Pentatone

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From La Scala - - -

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Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco - Guitar Quintet, Op. 143 - Jason Vieaux, g; Escher Quartet - Dance - Azica

Popularity:

7days00%28days00%6months40.02%12months80.02%

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Last heard 4 months ago

Antonio Carlos Gomes - String Sonata in D - English Chamber Orch/Neil Thomson - Serenata: Brazilian Music for Chamber Orchestra - Naxos

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

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Joseph Horovitz - Music Hall Suite - Onyx Brass - Transatlantic - Chandos

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Florence Price - Octet for Brasses and Piano - Onyx Brass; Viv McLean, p - Transatlantic - Chandos

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

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Last heard 17 days ago

Dario Marianelli - Pride and Prejudice - Jean-Yves Thibaudet, p; English Chamber Orch/Benjamin Wallfisch - Pride & Prejudice (Music from the Motion Picture) - Decca

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7days00%28days00%6months40.02%12months80.02%

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Gabriel Faure - Dolly Suite, Op. 56 - Seattle Sym/Ludovic Morlot - Faure: Masques et bergamasques & Pelleas et Melisande - Seattle Symphony Media

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Clarinet Trio in E-Flat, K. 498, Kegelstatt - Patrick Messina, cl; Lise Berthaud, vi; Fabrizio Chiovetta, p - Mozart, Bruch - Aparte

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Last heard 21 days ago

Benjamin Godard - Suite de trois morceaux, Op. 116 - Susan Milan, f; City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox - La Flute Enchantee - Chandos

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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%

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Last heard 20 days ago

Margaret Bonds - Fields of Wonder - Cantus - Fields of Wonder - Signum

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

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Aram Khachaturian - Masquerade Suite - Scottish National Orch/Neeme Jarvi - Khachaturian: Piano Concerto, Masquerade Suite, Gayaneh - Chandos

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7days10.16%28days10.03%6months40.02%12months60.02%

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Fanny Mendelssohn - Songs Without Words, Op. 8 - Sylviane Deferne, p - Fanny & Felix Mendelssohn: The Last Rose of Summer - Radio Canada Int'l

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Aaron Copland - Appalachian Spring - Music@Menlo Ensemble - Resonance - Music@Menlo

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Last heard 14 days ago

Otto Klemperer - Merry Waltz - Philharmonia Orch/Otto Klemperer - Klemperer Conducts German Opera Overtures - EMI

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Last heard 19 days ago

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Horn Quintet in E-Flat, K. 407 - Felix Klieser, hn; Zemlinsky Quartet - Mozart & Haydn For Horn & String Quartet - Berlin Classics

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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

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

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George Gershwin - I Got Rhythm Variations - Jean-Yves Thibaudet, p; Baltimore Sym Orch/Marin Alsop - Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue & Piano Concerto - Decca

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Ludwig van Beethoven - Piano Trio in D, Op. 70, No. 1, Ghost - Leonidas Kavakos, v; Yo-Yo Ma, vc; Emanuel Ax, p - Beethoven for Three: Symphony No. 1; Op. 70, No. 1 "Ghost;" Op. 11 "Gassenhauer" - Sony

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

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From Vienna State Opera - - -

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Amy Beach - Symphony in E minor, Op. 32, Gaelic - Detroit Sym Orch/Neeme Jarvi - Barber, Beach: Symphonies - Chandos

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Joseph Turrin - Fandango - Mary Elizabeth Bowden, tr; Zenas Kim-Banther, tb; Milana Strezeva, p - Radiance - Summit

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Last heard 17 days ago

John Cheetham - Sonata for Brass Quintet - Gaudete Brass - Chicago Moves - Cedille

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Last heard 11 days ago

Jean Francaix - L'Horloge de Flore (The Flower Clock) - Albrecht Mayer, ob; St Martin's Academy/Mathias Monius - Bonjour Paris * Albrecht Mayer - Decca

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First heard 10 months ago

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Felix Mendelssohn - String Symphony No. 5 in B-Flat - Amsterdam Sinfonietta/Lev Markiz - Mendelssohn: Symphonies (Complete) - Brilliant Classics

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Henry Charles Litolff - Concerto symphonique No. 4 in D minor, Op. 102 - Peter Donohoe, p; Bournemouth Sym Orch/Andrew Litton - Litolff: Concerto symphonique No. 2 in B minor, Concerto symphonique No. 4 in D minor - Hyperion

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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor - Othello, Op. 79 - Chineke! Orch/Fawzi Haimor - Chineke! Orchestra: Coleridge-Taylor - Decca

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First heard 9 months ago

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Mauro Giuliani - Guitar Concerto No. 1 in A, Op 30 - Pepe Romero, g; St Martin's Academy/Neville Marriner - Philips Classics: The Stereo Years - Philips

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Franz Schubert - Piano Quintet in A, D. 667, Trout - The Kanneh-Masons - River of Music - Decca

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Last heard 20 days ago

Arnold Bax - Morning Song (Maytime in Sussex) - Piers Lane, p; The Orchestra Now/Leon Botstein - The Romantic Piano Concerto, Vol. 81: Rubbra & Bliss - Hyperion

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First heard 8 months ago

Last heard a month ago

Georg Philipp Telemann - Divertimento in A - Musica Antiqua Cologne/Reinhard Goebel - Telemann: String Concertos - Archiv

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Last heard 4 months ago

George Gershwin - Porgy and Bess - Chicago Brass Quintet - American Voices - Centaur

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