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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Enrique Granados - Goyescas (piano suite) - Javier Perianes, p - Granados: Goyescas, El Pelele - Harmonia Mundi

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

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Franz Schubert - Die Winterreise, D 911 - Leslie Howard, p - The Complete Liszt Piano Music - Hyperion

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Peter Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 1 in G minor, Op. 13, Winter Dreams - Chicago Sym Orch/Claudio Abbado - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 1, The Nutcracker (Suite) - Sony

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

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Alexander Borodin - In the Steppes of Central Asia - Boston Pops Orch/Arthur Fiedler - Pops Caviar - Russian Orchestral Fireworks - RCA

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Marianna Martines - Sinfonia in C - Women's Phil/JoAnn Falletta - Baroquen Treasures - Newport Classic

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Franz Schubert - Symphony No. 5 in B-Flat, D. 485 - Age of Enlightenment Orch/Charles Mackerras - Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 5, 8, 9 - Virgin

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Edvard Grieg - Lyric Pieces, Op. 65 - St Martin's Academy/Sir Neville Marriner - Grieg, Sibelius: Suites - Philips

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Joaquin Turina - Sinfonia sevillana, Op. 23 - Cincinnati Sym Orch/Jesus Lopez-Cobos - Music of Turina & Debussy - Telarc

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Michael Praetorius - Dance Suite - Los Angeles Guitar Quartet - Dances from Renaissance to Nutcracker - Delos

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Johannes Brahms - String Sextet No. 1 in B-flat, Op. 18 - Music@Menlo Ensemble - Music@Menlo Live: Through Brahms - Music@Menlo

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Emmanuel Chabrier - Bourree fantasque - Suisse Romande Orch/Neeme Jarvi - Chabrier: Orchestral Works - Chandos

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Georges Bizet - L'Arlesienne - Toronto Sym Orch/Sir Andrew Davis - Bizet: L'Arlesienne Suites Nos. 1 & 2; Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker Suite - CBS

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Ignacio Cervantes - Danzas cubanas - Jorge Luis Prats, p - Live in Zaragoza - Decca

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William Grant Still - Poem for Orchestra - Fort Smith Sym/John Jeter - American Classics * William Grant Still * Symphonies Nos 4 and 5 - Naxos

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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov - May Night - Seattle Sym/Gerard Schwarz - Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio espagnol / Overtures - Naxos

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Richard Strauss - Wind Serenade in E-flat, Op. 7 - Netherlands Wind Ensemble - Favourite Serenades for Orchestra - Philips

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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor - Clarinet Quintet, Op. 10 - Harold Wright, cl; Hawthorne String Quartet - Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Clarinet Quintet, Petite Suite, Ballade, Spirituals - Koch

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

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Heitor Villa-Lobos - Harmonica Concerto - Jose Staneck, harm; Sao Paulo Sym Orch/Giancarlo Guerrero - Villa-Lobos: Guitar Concerto / Harmonica Concerto / Sexteto mistico - Naxos

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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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Manuel Ponce - Balada Mexicana - Eva Suk, p; Mexico State Sym Orch/Enrique Batiz - Musica Mexicana Vol. 6 - ASV

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Peter Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker, Op. 71 - Milwaukee Sym Orch/Andreas Delfs - Sergei Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet; Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker - Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra

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Alan Thomas - Trio Sefardi - Cavatina Duo; David Cunliffe, vc - Sephardic Journey - Cedille

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Camille Saint-Saens - Carnival of the Animals - The Kanneh-Masons - Carnival - Decca

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Reinhold Gliere - The Red Poppy - New Jersey Sym Orch/Zdenek Macal - Gliere: Symphony No. 2, The Red Poppy Suite - Delos

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Alexander Glazunov - Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 82 - Nicola Benedetti, v; Bournemouth Sym Orch/Kirill Karabits - Shostakovich & Glazunov Violin Concertos - Decca

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Mary D. Watkins - Five Movements in Color - New Black Music Repertory Ensemble/Leslie Dunner - Recorded Music of the African Diaspora - Albany

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Philip Glass - Echorus - Jennifer Koh & Jaime Laredo, v's; Curtis 20/21 Ensemble/Vinay Parameswaran - Two x Four - Cedille

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Ludwig van Beethoven - Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-Flat, Op. 19 - Stewart Goodyear, p; BBC National Orch of Wales/Andrew Constantine - Beethoven: Complete Piano Concertos - Orchid Classics

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Jean-Philippe Rameau - Le temple de la gloire - Philharmonia Baroque Orch/Nicholas McGegan - Temple de la Gloire - PBP

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Felix Mendelssohn - String Symphony No. 1 in C - Amsterdam Sinfonietta/Lev Markiz - Mendelssohn: Symphonies (Complete) - Brilliant Classics

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Antonin Dvořak - String Quartet No. 10 in E-Flat, Op. 51, Slavonic - Kontras Quartet - All Made of Stories - MSR Classics

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Lili Boulanger - D'un soir triste - Women's Phil/JoAnn Falletta - The Women's Philharmonic: Mendelssohn, Schumann, Tailleferre, Boulanger - Koch

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Michael Torke - Oboe Concerto, South - Ryan Roberts, ob; Albany Sym/David Alan Miller - Sky - Albany

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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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Ludwig van Beethoven - String Quartet No. 11 in F minor, Op. 95, Serioso - Calidore String Quartet - Beethoven: The Middle Quartets - Signum

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Joseph Boudin de Boismortier - Fragments melodiques - Le Concert Spirituel/Herve Niquet - BOISMORTIER: Serenades Francaises / Fragments Melodiques - Naxos

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Will Gregory - Orbit - Jess Gillam, sx; Jess Gillam Ensemble - Jess Gillam: Time - Decca

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Andrea Casarrubios - Piano Quintet - Andrea Casarrubios, vc; Manhattan Chamber Players - SEVEN - Odradek

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Stewart Goodyear - Callaloo - Stewart Goodyear, p; Chineke! Orch/Wayne Marshall - Stewart Goodyear: Callaloo & Piano Sonata - Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue - Orchid Classics

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Antonin Dvořak - The Noon Witch, Op. 108 - Berlin Phil/Simon Rattle - Dvořak: Tone Poems - EMI

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Claude Debussy - Three Nocturnes - Los Angeles Phil/Esa-Pekka Salonen - Debussy: Nocturnes • La Damoiselle Elue / Dawn Upshaw, Paula Rasmussen/Esa-Pekka Salonen - Sony

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Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson - String Sinfonietta No. 1 - Chicago Sinfonietta/Paul Freeman - Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson: A Celebration - Cedille

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Nino Rota - 15 Preludes - Danielle Laval, p - Nino Rota - Naive

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Augusta Read Thomas - Of Paradise and Light - Chicago Youth Sym Orch/Allen Tinkham - CYSO Symphony Orchestra Fall 2019 Concert (November 17, 2019) - CYSO

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

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Arthur Honegger - Pastorale d'ete - Toulouse Capitole Orch/Michel Plasson - Pacific 231, Horace Victorieux, Rugby, Mermoz, Pastorale d'ete, La Tempete - DG

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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor - Othello, Op. 79 - RTE Concert Orch/Adrian Leaper - Coleridge-Taylor: Hiawatha Overture - Petite Suite - Naxos

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