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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Ludwig van Beethoven - Rondo in B-Flat, WoO 6 - Sviatoslav Richter, p; Vienna Phil/Kurt Sanderling - Essential Beethoven - DG

Popularity:

7days10.12%

28days10.03%

6months20.01%

12months20%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 2 days ago

Meg Davis - Upon a Summer's Sky - Meg Davis - Music of Wonderland - Meg Music

Popularity:

7days10.12%

28days10.03%

6months10%

12months10%

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Last heard 6 days ago

Jenny Bienemann - The Beach - Jenny Bienemann - Heading Slowly Toward the Beginning - jennybienemann.com

Popularity:

7days10.12%

28days10.03%

6months10%

12months10%

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Last heard 6 days ago

Lawrence Ashmore - Four Seasons (Suite of English Folk Songs) - Richard Stoltzman, cl; Guildhall String Ensemble/Robert Salter - Finzi: Bagatelles, Op. 23 & Clarinet Concerto in C-Minor, Op. 31 & Ashmore: Four Seasons - RCA

Popularity:

7days10.12%

28days10.03%

6months20.01%

12months40.01%

First heard a year ago

Last heard a day ago

Franz Schubert - Ave Maria (Ellens Gesang III), D 839 - Gautier Capucon, vc; Maitrise Notre-Dame de Paris, Paris Chamber Orch/Adrien Perruchon - Emotions - Erato

Popularity:

7days10.12%

28days10.03%

6months10%

12months10%

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Guy Clark - The Randall Knife - Guy Clark - Songs and Stories - Dualtone

Popularity:

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28days10.03%

6months10%

12months10%

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Frank Bridge - Summer - Royal Liverpool Phil Orch/Sir Charles Groves - Frank Bridge: The Sea, Enter Spring, Summer, Cherry Ripe, Lament - EMI

Popularity:

7days10.12%

28days10.03%

6months10%

12months20%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 6 days ago

From La Scala - - -

Popularity:

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28days10.03%

6months10%

12months10%

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Billy Strayhorn - Take the A Train - Daniel Barenboim, p; Chicago Sym Orch members & guests - Tribute To Ellington - Teldec

Popularity:

7days10.12%

28days10.03%

6months10%

12months10%

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Last heard 6 days ago

Peter Tchaikovsky - Serenade melancolique, Op. 26 - Robert Chen, v; NDR Radio Phil/Pavel Kogan - Chen Plays Tchaikovsky - Berlin Classics

Popularity:

7days10.12%

28days10.03%

6months20.01%

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Last heard 4 days ago

Frederic Chopin - Variations on Mozart's La ci darem la mano, Op. 2 - Sinfonia Varsovia/Ian Hobson, p - Fryderyk Chopin Vol 3 * Ian Hobson, Piano - Zephyr

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7days10.12%

28days10.03%

6months10%

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Last heard 4 days ago

Edward Elgar - Enigma Variations, Op. 36 - City of Birmingham Sym Orch/Simon Rattle - Elgar: Enigma Variations, Falstaff, Grania and Diarmid - EMI

Popularity:

7days10.12%

28days10.03%

6months20.01%

12months20%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 7 days ago

Gioachino Rossini - String Sonata No. 2 in A - I Solisti Veneti/Claudio Scimone - Rossini: 6 Sonate a quattro - Erato

Popularity:

7days10.12%

28days10.03%

6months10%

12months20%

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Last heard a day ago

Haydn Wood - An 18th Century Scherzo - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/David Lloyd-Jones - ENGLISH STRING MINIATURES, Vol. 3 - Naxos

Popularity:

7days10.12%

28days10.03%

6months30.02%

12months30.01%

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Last heard 4 days ago

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor - Ballade in A minor, Op. 33 - Chineke! Orch/Kalena Bovell - Chineke! Orchestra: Coleridge-Taylor - Decca

Popularity:

7days10.12%

28days10.03%

6months20.01%

12months70.02%

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Last heard 2 days ago

William Grant Still - Symphony No. 1, Afro-American - Chicago Sinfonietta/Paul Freeman - African Heritage Symphonic Series - Vol. I - Cedille

Popularity:

7days10.12%

28days10.03%

6months20.01%

12months30.01%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 7 days ago

Leonard Bernstein - Candide - Hadley, Anderson, Green, Ludwig, London Sym Cho, Orch/Leonard Bernstein - Bernstein: Candide - DG

Popularity:

7days10.12%

28days10.03%

6months20.01%

12months30.01%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 3 days ago

Claude Debussy - Violin Sonata in G minor - Janine Jansen, v; Itamar Golan, p - Beau Soir - Decca

Popularity:

7days10.12%

28days10.03%

6months10%

12months20%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 5 days ago

John Williams - Saving Private Ryan - Boston Sym Orch/John Williams - Saving Private Ryan (Music From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) - DreamWorks

Popularity:

7days10.12%

28days10.03%

6months20.01%

12months20%

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Last heard 6 days ago

Juan de Lienas - Laudate pueri a 8 - Newberry Consort/Ellen Hargis - Juan de Lienas: Vespers - Navona

Popularity:

7days10.12%

28days10.03%

6months10%

12months10%

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Last heard 4 days ago

Tomaso Albinoni - Suite in G - Empire Brass - Royal Brass - Telarc

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28days10.03%

6months10%

12months10%

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Robert Schumann - String Quartet No. 3 in A, Op. 41, No. 3 - Emerson String Quartet - Brahms: Quartet No. 1 in c, Op. 51; Schumann: Quartet in A, Op. 41, No. 3. - DG

Popularity:

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6months10%

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Alfred Newman - 20th Century Fox Fanfare - London Phil Orch/John Mauceri - The Genius of Film Music - LPO

Popularity:

7days10.12%

28days30.1%

6months150.08%

12months210.07%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 6 days ago

Mia Makaroff - Butterfly - La Caccina - Becoming - La Caccina

Popularity:

7days10.12%

28days10.03%

6months20.01%

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Last heard 6 days ago

Alexandre Desplat - The Shape of Water - Emmanuel Pahud, f; Myriam Lafargue, acc; French National Orch/Alexandre Desplat - Airlines - Warner

Popularity:

7days10.12%

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6months30.02%

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Last heard 3 days ago

Giacomo Puccini - Madama Butterfly - Royal Opera House Cho & Orch/Lamberto Gardelli - Italian Opera Choruses - EMI

Popularity:

7days10.12%

28days10.03%

6months20.01%

12months30.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 6 days ago

Best of Studs Terkel - - -

Popularity:

7days10.12%

28days40.13%

6months250.13%

12months430.14%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 7 days ago

Francois Couperin - Concert royal No. 4 in E minor - Le Concert des Nations/Jordi Savall - Francois Couperin - Les Concerts Royaux - Alia Vox

Popularity:

7days10.12%

28days10.03%

6months20.01%

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Last heard 4 days ago

Peter Warlock - Serenade for Strings - Nash Ensemble/Martyn Brabbins - Warlock: The Curlew, Capriol, Serenade & Songs - Hyperion

Popularity:

7days10.12%

28days10.03%

6months10%

12months10%

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Last heard 4 days ago

Jacques Offenbach - Le voyage dans la lune - Musiciens du Louvre/Marc Minkowski - Offenbach Romantique - DG Archiv

Popularity:

7days10.12%

28days10.03%

6months10%

12months20%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 6 days ago

Ruth Gipps - Trio, Op. 10 - Juliana Koch, ob; Julian Bliss, cl; Michael McHale, p - Piper of Dreams – Ruth Gipps Chamber Music - Chandos

Popularity:

7days10.12%

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6months20.01%

12months20%

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Last heard a day ago

Amy Beach - Romance, Op. 23 - Augustin Hadelich, v; Orion Weiss, p - American Road Trip - Warner

Popularity:

7days10.12%

28days10.03%

6months10%

12months20%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 3 days ago

Ludwig van Beethoven - Violin Sonata No. 5 in F, Op. 24, Spring - Maxim Vengerov, v; Itamar Golan, p - Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn: Violin Sonatas - Teldec

Popularity:

7days10.12%

28days10.03%

6months20.01%

12months20%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 7 days ago

Louise Farrenc - Variations on Rossini's La Cenerentola, Op. 5 - Maria Stratigou, p - Louise Farrenc: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 2: Variations - Grand Piano

Popularity:

7days10.12%

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6months30.02%

12months50.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 2 days ago

Joseph Bologne (Chevalier de Saint-Georges) - L'amant anonyme - Soloists; Haymarket Opera Orch/Craig Trompeter - L'Amant Anonyme - Cedille

Popularity:

7days10.12%

28days10.03%

6months20.01%

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First heard a year ago

Last heard 7 days ago

Eduard Tubin - Prelude solennel - Gothenburg Sym Orch/Neeme Jarvi - Eduard Tubin: Prelude sollenel, Violin Concerto No. 1, Suite on Estonian Dances - BIS

Popularity:

7days10.12%

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6months30.02%

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First heard a year ago

Last heard 7 days ago

Jean-Philippe Rameau - Les Paladins - Age of Enlightenment Orch/Gustav Leonhardt - Rameau: Les Paladins - Philips

Popularity:

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6months20.01%

12months20%

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Franz Joseph Haydn - Symphony No. 104 in D, London - Philharmonia Baroque Orch/Nicholas McGegan - Haydn: Symphonies No. 104 London, No. 88, No. 101 Clock / Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra - Philharmonia Baroque

Popularity:

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Ralph Vaughan Williams - The Lark Ascending - Solomiya Ivakhiv, v; Ukraine National Sym Orch/Volodymyr Sirenko - Poems & Rhapsodies - Centaur

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Ailbhe McDonagh - The Irish Four Seasons - Lynda O'Connor, v; Anamus/David Brophy - The Irish Seasons - Avie

Popularity:

7days10.12%

28days10.03%

6months50.03%

12months60.02%

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Last heard 5 days ago

Celso Machado - Musiques populaires bresiliennes - Michelle LaPorte, f; Gerry Saulter, g; James Carroll, per - Siempre Vivo! South American Songs, Preludes & Dances - Centaur

Popularity:

7days10.12%

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Max Bruch - Eight Pieces, Op. 83 - Patrick Messina, cl; Lise Berthaud, vi; Fabrizio Chiovetta, p - Mozart, Bruch - Aparte

Popularity:

7days10.12%

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First heard a year ago

Last heard 7 days ago

Richard Wagner - Siegfried - Vienna Phil/Sir Georg Solti - Solti: A Passion for Music - Decca

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 4 days ago

The New York Philharmonic This Week - - -

Popularity:

7days10.12%

28days40.13%

6months250.13%

12months510.16%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 19 hours ago

William Byrd - Walsingham - Charivari Agreable - The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book - Signum

Popularity:

7days10.12%

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6months10%

12months10%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 days ago

Adolphe-Charles Adam - Giselle - Vienna Phil/Herbert von Karajan - Adam * Giselle * Wiener Philharmoniker * Karajan - London

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7days10.12%

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6months10%

12months30.01%

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Last heard 6 days ago

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Three-Piano Concerto No. 7 in F, K. 242 - Alfred Brendel & Imogen Cooper, p's; St Martin's Academy/Sir Neville Marriner - Mozart: Concertos 2 & 3 Pianos / Alfred Brendel, Imogen Cooper/St Martin's Academy/Neville Marriner - Phili

Popularity:

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28days10.03%

6months10%

12months20%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 7 days ago