98.7 WFMT

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

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Franz Joseph Haydn - Scherzando No. 4 in G, H II:36 - Berlin Haydn Ensemble - F.J. & J.M. Haydn: Flute Concertos & Scherzandi / Emmanuel Pahud - EMI

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Michael Torke - Bright Blue Music - Baltimore Sym Orch/David Zinman - Michael Torke - Color Music / David Zinman - Argo

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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov - The Snow Maiden - Seattle Sym/Gerard Schwarz - Rimsky-Korsakov: Orchestral Suites - Naxos

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Franz Liszt - Mephisto Waltz No. 1 (Dance in the Village Inn) - La Pieta/Angele Dubeau, v - Infernal Violins - Analekta

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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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Duke Ellington - Suite from The River (1970) - Detroit Sym Orch/Neeme Jarvi - Still: Symphony No. 1 · Ellington: The River - Chandos

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

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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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Zoltan Kodaly - Marosszek Dances - Buffalo Phil Orch/JoAnn Falletta - Kodaly: Concerto for Orchestra, Dances of Galanta, Dances of Marosszek, The Peacock Variations - Naxos

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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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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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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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Richard Strauss - Schlagobers, Op. 70 - Tokyo Metropolitan Sym Orch/Hiroshi Wakasugi - Strauss: Schlagobers, Ballet Music, Op. 70 - MHS

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

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Joseph Boudin de Boismortier - Daphnis et Chloe - Le Concert Spirituel, Herve Niquet, ob - Daphnis et Chloe - Glossa

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Gustav Holst - St Paul's Suite, Op. 29, No. 2 - Lake Effect Clarinet Quartet - Cooler By The Lake - Lake Effect Clarinet Quartet

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Antonin Dvořak - Twelve Cypresses (1887) - Cypress String Quartet - Dvořak: Cypresses & String Quartet No. 13 - Avie

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Pablo de Sarasate - Fantasy on Mozart's The Magic Flute, Op. 54 - Gil Shaham, v; Akira Eguchi, p - The Fiddler of the Opera - DG

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Peter Tchaikovsky - The Months (The Seasons), Op. 37b - Vassily Primakov, p - Tchaikovsky: The Seasons, Op 37bis, Grand Sonata, Op 37 - Bridge

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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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Edvard Grieg - Symphonic Dances, Op. 64 - Gothenburg Sym Orch/Neeme Jarvi - Grieg: Symphonic Dances, Norwegian Dances, Lyric Suite - DG

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Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 1 in D, Titan - Chicago Sym Orch/Claudio Abbado - Symphonie No. 1 - DG

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Frederick Delius - Dance Rhapsody No. 2 - Welsh National Opera Orch/Charles Mackerras - Delius: Violin Concerto, Etc. - Argo

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

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Charles-Edouard Lefebvre - Wind Suite, Op 57 - Borealis Wind Quintet - Borealis en Salon: 19th Century French Music for Winds - MSR Classics

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Claude Debussy - Cello Sonata in D minor - Steven Isserlis, vc; Pascal Devoyon, p - Debussy, Poulenc, Franck: Cello Sonatas - Virgin

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Gabriel Faure - Cantique de Jean Racine, Op. 11 - Cambridge Singers, City of London Sinfonia/John Rutter - Faure: Requiem (1893 Version) and Other Choral Music - Collegium

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Arnold Bax - Three Pieces for Small Orchestra (1928) - English Chamber Orch/Jeffrey Tate - The Banks of Green Willow - EMI

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Dobrinka Tabakova - Truro Canticles - Truro Cathedral Cho/Christopher Gray; Joseph Wicks, o - Dobrinka Tabakova * Kynance Cove * On the South Downs * and works for choir - Regent

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Bach/Gounod - Ave Maria - Eaken Piano Trio - CHRISTMAS and HANUKAH: I'll Be Home for the Holidays - Naxos

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Darius Milhaud - Saudades do Brasil, Op. 67 - Antonio Barbosa, p - Antonio Barbosa - Debussy, Milhaud - Connoisseur

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Arnold Bax - The Happy Forest - Royal Liverpool Phil Orch/John Wilson - Made in Britain - Avie

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Gabriel Faure - Barcarolle No. 3 in G-Flat, Op. 42 - Carol Rosenberger, p - Singing on the Water - Piano Barcarolles - Delos

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

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Dobrinka Tabakova - Concerto for cello and strings - Kristina Blaumane, vc; Lithuanian Chamber Orch/Maxim Rysanov - Dobrinka Tabakova * String Paths - ECM

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Paul Chihara - The Tempest - Performing Arts Orch/Jean-Louis LeRoux - The Tempest - Reference Recordings

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Antonio Vivaldi - Mandolin Concerto in C, R 425 - Avi Avital, m; Venice Baroque Orch - Vivaldi - DG

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Johann Johannsson - The Theory of Everything - La Pieta/Angele Dubeau, v - Pulsations - Analekta

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James Stephenson - The Storyteller - Bowden & Dash, tr's; Lam, v; Chicago Youth Sym Orch/Tinkham - Storyteller: Contemporary Concertos for Trumpet - Cedille

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Erich Wolfgang Korngold - Tanzchen im alten Stil - Helsinki Phil Orch/John Storgards - Korngold: Symphony in F-Sharp, etc - Ondine

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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach - Hamburg Symphony No. 1 in G, Wq 182/1 - Berlin Academy for Ancient Music - CPE Bach Symphonies From Berlin to Hamburg - Harmonia Mundi

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Edvard Grieg - Sigurd Jorsalfar, Op. 22 - Swedish Radio Sym Orch/Esa-Pekka Salonen - A Nordic Festival - Sony

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

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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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Michael Torke - Unseen - East Coast Chamber Orch, Michael Torke Orch/Michael Torke - Unseen - Michael Torke - Ecstatic Records

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John Stanley - String Concerto in D, Op 2/1 - Parley of Instruments/Roy Goodman - Six Concertos in Seven Parts, Op. 2 - Hyperion

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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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Peter Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74, Pathetique - Chicago Sym Orch/Fritz Reiner - Fritz Reiner: The Complete RCA Album Collection - RCA

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