98.7 WFMT (Chicago)

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Playlist updated 5 minutes ago · Oct 14, 2026, 2:23 PM 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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Dana Suesse - Blue Moonlight - Sara Davis Buechner, p - Jazz Nocturne: The Piano Works of Dana Suesse - eOne

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Last heard 18 days ago

Ethel Smyth - Serenade in D - BBC Phil/Odaline de la Martinez - Smyth: Orchestral Works - Chandos

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Last heard 20 days ago

Peter Tchaikovsky - Swan Lake, Op. 20 - London Sym/Andre Previn - Swan Lake • The Sleeping Beauty • The Nutcracker : Highlights - EMI

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Last heard 10 days ago

Gabriel Faure - Pavane, Op. 50 - Tanglewood Festival Cho, Boston Sym Orch/Seiji Ozawa - Mad About Romance - DG

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George F. Bristow - Symphony No. 3 in F-sharp minor, Op. 26 - Detroit Sym Orch/Neeme Jarvi - Barber & Bristow: Symphonies - Chandos

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Last heard 16 days ago

Mark Isham - October Sky - String Ensemble/Ken Kugler - October Sky (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) - Sony

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Arturo Marquez - Danzon No. 2 - Phil Orch of the Americas/Alondra de la Parra - Mi Alma Mexicana - Sony

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Franz Schubert - Schwanengesang, D 957 - Brandon Acker, g - Schubert: A Wanderer's Guitar - Jester Recordings

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Gioachino Rossini - Wind Quartet No. 4 in B-Flat - Philadelphia Woodwind Quintet members - Musical Banquet - Boston Records

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Felix Mendelssohn - Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage Overture, Op. 27 - London Sym Orch/Claudio Abbado - Mendelssohn: 5 Symphonies, 7 Overtures / Abbado - DG

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Brandee Younger - Essence of Ruby - Ashley Jackson, h - Ennanga - Bright Shiny Things

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William Grant Still - American Suite - Royal Scottish National Orch/Avlana Eisenberg - William Grant Still: Summerland - Naxos

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Aaron Copland - Our Town - London Sym Orch/Aaron Copland - Copland Conducts Copland - CBS

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

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Last heard 14 days ago

Giuseppe Torelli - Sinfonia in C - La Serenissima/Adrian Chandler - The Italian Job - Avie

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Last heard 13 days ago

Ron Nelson - Courtly Airs and Dances - Dallas Wind Sym/Jerry Junkin - Holidays & Epiphanies - The Music of Ron Nelson - Reference

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Last heard 6 days ago

Anton Bruckner - Theme with Variations in E-flat Major, WAB 210 - Quatuor Diotima - Bruckner & Klose String Quartets - Pentatone

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Last heard 23 days ago

Felix Mendelssohn - A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 61 - Seraph Brass - Asteria - Summit

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Last heard 24 days ago

Emilie Mayer - Symphony No. 6 in E - Bremerhaven Phil Orch/Marc Niemann - Emilie Mayer: Symphonies Nos. 6 & 3 - Hannsler Classic

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7days00%28days10.03%6months30.01%12months70.02%

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Last heard 14 days ago

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov - Scheherazade, Op. 35 - Bastille Opera Orch/Myung-Whun Chung - Virtuoso- Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade/ Stravinsky: Firebird - DG

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Last heard 6 days ago

Richard Rodney Bennett - Country Dances - BBC Scottish Sym Orch/John Wilson - Richard Rodney Bennett: Orchestral Works, Vol. 4 - Chandos

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Igor Stravinsky - Scherzo fantastique, Op. 3 - Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Riccardo Chailly - Stravinsky: Apollon Musagete, Scherzo Fantastique, The Firebird Suite - Decca

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Charles Gounod - Petite Symphonie in B-Flat - St. Paul Chamber Orch Winds/Christopher Hogwood - Bizet: L'Arlesienne • Gounod: Petite Symphonie, Symphony No.1 - Decca

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Last heard 18 days ago

Camille Saint-Saens - Suite algerienne, Op. 60 - Detroit Sym Orch/Paul Paray - Marches and Overtures a la Francaise - Mercury

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Kevin Puts - SIMAKU (1996) - Antares - Eclipse - Innova

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Last heard 7 days ago

Johann Strauss II - Der Waldmeister - Vienna Phil/Daniel Barenboim - New Year's Concert 2014 - Sony

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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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Last heard 22 days ago

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Eine kleine Nachtmusik, K. 525 - Orpheus Chamber Orch - Mozart: Eine kleine Nachtmusik, Divertimenti K.131 & K.252 - DG

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Last heard 15 days ago

Johann David Heinichen - Dresden Concerto in F, S 235 - Musica Antiqua Cologne/Reinhard Goebel - Heinichen: Dresden Concerti - Archiv

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

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Traditional English - Blow away the morning dew - King's Singers - The King's Singers - My Spirit Sang All Day - EMI

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John Alden Carpenter - Adventures in a Perambulator - Eastman-Rochester Orch/Howard Hanson - Pageant of P.T. Barnum, Adventures in a Perambulator, Once Upon a Time, Selections from McGuffey's Readers - Mercury

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Last heard 13 days ago

Edvard Grieg - Norwegian Dances, Op. 35 - Gothenburg Sym Orch/Neeme Jarvi - Grieg: Symphonic Dances, Norwegian Dances, Lyric Suite - DG

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Antonio Vivaldi - String Concerto in G minor, R. 157 - Concerto Italiano/Rinaldo Alessandrini - Vivaldi: Concerti per archi II - Naive

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John Rutter - Anthem, I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes - Cambridge Singers, City of London Sinfonia/John Rutter - John Rutter: Requiem - Collegium

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Johann Sebastian Bach - Triple Concerto in A minor, BWV 1044 - English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner - Bach Cantatas Vol. 2 * Gardiner - Soli Deo Gloria

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Georges Bizet - L'Arlesienne - Berlin Phil/Claudio Abbado - Berlin Gala - DG

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Percy Grainger - Children's March, Over the Hills and Far Away - US Marine Band/Michael J Colburn - Monumental Works for Winds - Naxos

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Last heard 21 days ago

Louis Moreau Gottschalk - Symphony No. 1, A Night in the Tropics - Utah Sym/Maurice Abravanel - Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Vol. 2 - Vanguard

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Carlos Chavez - Baile - State of Mexico Sym Orch/Enrique Batiz - Carlos Chavez, Enrique Batiz - Musica Mexicana: Vol. 7 - Chavez - ASV

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Lilian Elkington - Out of the Mist - BBC Sym Orch/David Lloyd-Jones - Edward Elgar - The Spirit of England - Dutton

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John Dowland - Go from My Window - David Russell, g - Renaissance Favorites For Guitar - Telarc

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Malcolm Arnold - Four Scottish Dances, Op. 59 - Boston Pops Orch/Keith Lockhart - The Celtic Album - RCA

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Michael Giacchino - Rogue One: A Star Wars Story - Studio Orch/Michael Giacchino - Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) - Walt Disney Records

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John Prine & Kelsey Waldon - Love at the Five & Dime (Griffith) - John Prine & Kelsey Waldon - More Than a Whisper: Celebrating the Music of Nanci Griffith - Rounder

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Joan Baez - Hello In There (Prine) - Joan Baez - The Complete A&M Recordings, disc 3 - A&M/Chronicles

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Jeffrey Foucault - He Was in Heaven Before He Died (Prine) - Jeffrey Foucault - Shoot the Moon Straight Between the Eyes - Songs of John Prine - Signature Sounds

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