98.7 WFMT (Chicago)

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Playlist updated 9 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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George F. Bristow - Symphony No. 3 in F-sharp minor, Op. 26 - Detroit Sym Orch/Neeme Jarvi - Barber & Bristow: Symphonies - Chandos

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 21 days ago

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

Popularity:

7days00%28days10.03%6months20.01%12months50.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 23 days ago

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

Popularity:

7days00%28days10.03%6months40.02%12months50.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 18 days ago

Johannes Brahms - Serenade No. 1 in D, Op. 11 - London Sym Orch/Istvan Kertesz - Weekend Serenade - Serenades 1 & 2 - Decca

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

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

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Joseph Bologne (Chevalier de Saint-Georges) - Concertante Quartet No. 1 in B-Flat - Arabella String Quartet - Bologne: Six Concertante Quartets - Naxos

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

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

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 18 days ago

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

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

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

Popularity:

7days10.16%28days20.07%6months30.01%12months50.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 9 hours ago

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

Popularity:

7days10.16%28days10.03%6months30.01%12months50.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 4 days ago

Jean Sibelius - Symphony No. 3 in C, Op. 52 - Oslo Phil/Klaus Makela - Sibelius: Complete Symphonies - Decca

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

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

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Don Giovanni, K. 527 - Athena Ensemble - Mozart: Don Giovanni for Wind Ensemble - Chandos

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 25 days ago

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

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Josef Martin Kraus - Soliman II - Swedish Royal Opera Orch/Philip Brunelle - Kraus: Soliman II * A Gustavian Turkish Opera * Royal Opera of Sweden - Virgin

Popularity:

7days00%28days00%6months30.01%12months50.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 3 months ago

Antonin Dvořak - Symphony No. 7 in D minor, Op. 70 - Los Angeles Phil/Gustavo Dudamel - Dvořak: Symphonies Nos. 7-9 - DG

Popularity:

7days10.16%28days20.07%6months40.02%12months50.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 10 hours ago

Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari - Serenade for Strings in E-Flat - I Virtuosi Italiani - I Virtuosi Italiani - Arcadia

Popularity:

7days00%28days10.03%6months30.01%12months50.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 21 days ago

Ottorino Respighi - The Birds - Orpheus Chamber Orch - Respighi: Ancient Airs and Dances I & III, Three Botticelli Pictures, The Birds - DG

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 3 months ago

Richard Rodgers - Carousel - Stephen Hough, p - Stephen Hough's New Piano Album - Hyperion

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 3 months ago

Carl Nielsen - Maskarade - Swedish Radio Sym Orch/Esa-Pekka Salonen - A Nordic Festival - Sony

Popularity:

7days00%28days10.03%6months40.02%12months50.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 13 days ago

Leo Weiner - Serenade for small orchestra, Op. 3 - Budapest Festival Orch/Sir Georg Solti - Sir Georg Solti, Budapest Festival Orchestra - The Last Recording - Decca

Popularity:

7days00%28days10.03%6months40.02%12months50.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

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

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 4 months ago

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

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 3 months ago

Duke Ellington - Suite from The River (1970) - Buffalo Phil Orch/JoAnn Falletta - Ellington: Black, Brown, and Beige - Naxos

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Dmitri Shostakovich - Jazz Suite No. 1 - Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Riccardo Chailly - Shostakovich: The Jazz Album - Decca

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 3 months ago

Paul Taffanel - Wind Quintet in G minor - Aulos Wind Quintet - Aulos-Blaserquintett - Vol. VI - Virtuoso Romantic Music - Koch

Popularity:

7days00%28days00%6months10%12months50.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Scott Joplin - Bethena: A Concert Waltz - Agave - American Originals: A New World, A New Canon - Acis

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 24 days ago

Benjamin Britten - The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Op. 34 - English Sym Orch/William Boughton - Orchestral Favourites Vol. V - Britten's Four Sea Interludes - Nimbus

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 22 days ago

Richard Strauss - Wind Serenade in E-flat, Op. 7 - Minnesota Orch Winds/Edo de Waart - An Alpine Symphony / Serenade - Virgin

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 3 months ago

Aaron Copland - Old American Songs Set 1 - Chicago Brass Quintet - American Voices - Centaur

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Nino Rota - Sarabande e Toccata - Mariko Anraku, h - Mariko Anraku - EMI

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Jean-Michel Damase - Seventeen Variations for Woodwind Quintet - Reykjavik Wind Quintet - French Wind Music - Chandos

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 4 months ago

Daniel-Francois Auber - Fra Diavolo - Royal Scottish National Orch/Lance Friedel - Great Comedy Overtures - Naxos

Popularity:

7days00%28days10.03%6months30.01%12months50.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 24 days ago

Anton Arensky - String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 35 - Sejong Soloists - Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky, Arensky, Stravinsky - Samsung

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

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

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Ferruccio Busoni - Duettino concertante after Mozart's K 459 - Anderson & Roe Piano Duo - An Amadeus Affair - Steinway & Sons

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

George Frideric Handel - Water Music Suite No. 2 in D - Berlin Academy for Ancient Music - Handel: Water Music Suites Nos. 1-3 - Harmonia Mundi

Popularity:

7days10.16%28days10.03%6months30.01%12months50.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 6 days ago

Darius Milhaud - Suite francaise, Op. 248 - London Wind Orch/Denis Wick - Shepherd's Hey: Wind Music of Grainger, Milhaud and Poulenc - ASV

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Dmitri Shostakovich - Ballet Suite No. 1 - Royal Scottish National Orch/Neeme Jarvi - Shostakovich: Five Ballet Suites - Chandos

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Ottorino Respighi - Ancient Airs and Dances for the Lute, Set 1 - Orpheus Chamber Orch - Respighi: Ancient Airs and Dances I & III, Three Botticelli Pictures, The Birds - DG

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

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

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 3 months ago

William Boyce - Symphony No. 4 in F - Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood - Boyce: Symphonies, Op. 2 - L'Oiseau-Lyre

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 25 days ago

Karl Jenkins - Palladio - London Phil Orch Strings/Karl Jenkins - Karl Jenkins: Diamond Music - The Smith Quartet - Sony

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 9 days ago

John Rutter - Suite for Strings - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/David Lloyd-Jones - English String Miniatures, Vol. 1 - Naxos

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Samuel Barber - The School for Scandal Overture, Op. 5 - Baltimore Sym Orch/David Zinman - Barber: Adagio, Symphony No. 1, The School for Scandal, Essays - Argo

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Henry Purcell - Abdelazer - Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood - The Baroque Experience - L'Oiseau-Lyre

Popularity:

7days10.16%28days10.03%6months40.02%12months50.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 7 days ago

Ralph Vaughan Williams - The Wasps - BBC Sym Orch/Sir Andrew Davis - 40 Most Beautiful Spring Classics - Warner

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 13 days ago

Alexander Glazunov - Poeme lyrique in D-Flat, Op. 12 - Bamberg Sym/Neeme Jarvi - Glazunov: Symphony No. 6 & Poeme lyrique - Orfeo

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Johann Adolf Hasse - Sinfonia, Op. 5, No. 6 - Concerto Koln/Pablo Heras-Casado - El Maestro: Farinelli - Archiv

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 21 days ago

Percy Grainger - Walking Tune - Borealis Wind Quintet - A La Carte: Short Works for Wind Quintet - MSR Classics

Popularity:

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

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