98.7 WFMT (Chicago)

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Playlist updated 8 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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Mauro Giuliani - Pieces faciles et agreables, Op 74 - Mikael Helasvuo, f; Jukka Savijoki, g - Mauro Giuliani - The Complete Works for Flute and Guitar, Vol.3 - BIS

Popularity:

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First heard 9 months ago

Last heard 4 months ago

Gilbert & Sullivan - Iolanthe - St Martin's Academy/Neville Marriner - Gilbert and Sullivan: Overtures - Philips

Popularity:

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

First heard 9 months ago

Last heard 8 days ago

Johan Wagenaar - Waltz cycle, Wiener Dreivierteltakt, Op. 38 - Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Riccardo Chailly - Johan Wagenaar: Saul en David, Amphitrion, Cyrano de Bergerac, De Getemde Feeks - Decca

Popularity:

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

First heard 9 months ago

Last heard a month ago

Jean Sibelius - Cortege - Turku Phil Orch/Leif Segerstam - Sibelius: Belshazzar's Feast, Overture in E major, Scene de ballet, Cortege, Menuetto - Naxos

Popularity:

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

First heard 9 months ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Meyer/Thile/Duncan - Attaboy - Stuart Duncan, v; Chris Thile, man; Yo-Yo Ma, vc; Edgar Meyer, db - The Goat Rodeo Sessions - Sony

Popularity:

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First heard 9 months ago

Last heard 5 days ago

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

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

First heard 9 months ago

Last heard 19 days ago

Antonin Dvořak - String Quintet No. 3 in E-Flat, Op. 97, American - Emerson String Quartet; Paul Neubauer, vi - Old World -- New World - DG

Popularity:

7days10.16%28days10.03%6months50.02%12months60.02%

First heard 6 months ago

Last heard 6 days ago

Bach, Johann Sebastian - Klavierbuchlein fur Wilhelm Friedemann Bach - Joseph Payne, hc - Klavierbuchlein for Wilhelm Friedemann - Hanssler Classic

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First heard 2 months ago

Last heard 9 days ago

Giuseppe Verdi - Don Carlos - Bournemouth Sym Orch/Jose Serebrier - Verdi: Complete Ballet Music from the Operas - Naxos

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Gioachino Rossini - The Siege of Corinth - Philharmonia Orch/Riccardo Muti - Rossini: Overtures - EMI

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 6 days ago

Arthur Sullivan - Overture di Ballo - St Martin's Academy/Sir Neville Marriner - Gilbert and Sullivan: Overtures - Philips

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Caroline Shaw - Three Essays - Calidore String Quartet - Babel - Signum

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 10 days ago

Ferde Grofe - Mississippi Suite - Boston Pops Orch/Keith Lockhart - American Visions - RCA

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 23 days ago

Sunday Afternoons with Robbie Ellis - - -

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 22 days ago

George Frideric Handel - Alcina - English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner - Handel: Alcina, Il Pastor Fido, Terpsichore - Erato

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Christoph Willibald Gluck - Orpheus and Eurydice - Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood - Pachelbel: Canon - Handel, Vivaldi, Gluck - L'Oiseau-Lyre

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7days00%28days00%6months20.01%12months50.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

William Alwyn - Concerto grosso No. 1 - City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox - Alwyn: Oboe Concerto, Concerti Grossi - Chandos

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 19 days ago

Carlos Simon - Memory of Summer - Carlos Simon, p - Together - Decca

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 16 days ago

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

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 19 days ago

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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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Ron Nelson - Savannah River Holiday - Boston Pops Orch/Keith Lockhart - American Visions - RCA

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Alberto Ginastera - Estancia, Op. 8 - Simon Bolivar Youth Orch/Gustavo Dudamel - Fiesta * Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela * Gustavo Dudamel - DG

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Francois Couperin - Concert royal No. 1 in G - Les Talens Lyriques/Christophe Rousset - Francois Couperin: Concerts Royaux - Aparte

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Gabriel Faure - Masques et Bergamasques, Op. 112 - Seattle Sym/Ludovic Morlot - Faure: Masques et bergamasques & Pelleas et Melisande - Seattle Symphony Media

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 13 days ago

Aldemaro Romero - Suite for Strings No. 1 - Sphinx Virtuosi - Songs for Our Times - DG

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Mario Gangi - Suite Barocca - Andrea Pace & Cristiano Poli Cappelli, g's - Mario Gangi: Complete Music for 2 Guitars - Brilliant Classics

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 3 months ago

Bryan Kelly - Suite Parisienne - Brass Ring - Brass Ring - Music For Brass Quintet - Crystal

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 5 months ago

Maria Hester Park - Piano Sonata in C, Op. 7 - Betty Ann Miller, p - Music By Maria Hester Park, Marie Bigot And Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel - Centaur

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 3 months ago

Gabriel Faure - Requiem, Op. 48 - Tanglewood Festival Cho, Boston Sym Orch/Seiji Ozawa - A Century of French Music - Sony

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Ralph Vaughan Williams - Serenade to Music - Atlanta Sym Orch & Cho/Robert Spano - Vaughan Williams: Tallis Fantasia/Symphony No 5 - Telarc

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 6 days ago

Sergei Prokofiev - Symphony No. 1 in D, Op. 25, Classical - Orpheus Chamber Orch - Prokofiev: Classical Symphony, Bizet: Symphony in C, Britten: Simple Symphony - DG

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Augusta Holmes - Ouverture pour une comedie - Rheinland-Pfalz State Phil/Samuel Friedmann - Augusta Holmes: Orchestral Works - Marco Polo

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First heard 2 years ago

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Christoph Graupner - Suite in F for flute, viola d'amore, chalumeau, strings and cembalo - Soloists, Finnish Baroque Orch/Sirkka-Liisa Kaakinen-Pilch, vi d'amore - Graupner: Orchestral Suites - Ondine

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 19 days ago

William Grant Still - Symphony No. 3, Sunday - North Arkansas Sym Orch/Carlton Woods - A Festive Sunday with William Grant Still - Cambria

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 7 days ago

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

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 11 days ago

Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No. 6 in F, Op. 68, Pastoral - Vienna Phil/Andris Nelsons - Beethoven: Complete Symphonies - DG

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 5 months ago

Franz Schubert - Rosamunde, D 797 - Chamber Orch of Europe/Claudio Abbado - Schubert: Rosamunde - DG

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 4 months ago

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

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Florence Price - String Quartet in G (unfinished) - Pacifica Quartet - American Voices - Cedille

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 17 days ago

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

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 13 days ago

Frederic Chopin - Etudes, Op. 10 - Yunchan Lim, p - Yunchan Lim: Chopin Etudes - Decca

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

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

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 25 days ago

Eric Coates - From Meadow to Mayfair - BBC Phil/John Wilson - Eric Coates: Orchestral Works, Vol. 4 - Chandos

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 11 days ago

Jean-Philippe Rameau - Platee - Philharmonia Baroque Orch/Nicholas McGegan - Suites from Platee and Dardanus - Conifer

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Sergei Rachmaninoff - Symphonic Dances, Op. 45 - Philadelphia Orch/Yannick Nezet-Seguin - Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 1, Symphonic Dances - DG

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 6 months ago

Howard Cable - Quebec Folk Fantasy - Edmonton Wind Ensemble/Harry Pinchin - Snake Fence Country - Radio Canada Int'l

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

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

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 5 months ago

Mark O'Connor - Appalachia Waltz - La Pieta/Angele Dubeau - Blanc - Analekta

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 23 days ago

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach - Symphony in E-Flat, Wq 183/2 - Berlin Academy for Ancient Music - CPE Bach: Symphonies, Harpsichord Concerto - Harmonia Mundi

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First heard 2 years ago

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