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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Nicola Matteis - Sett of Ayres in G major - Theotime Langlois de Swarte, v; Thomas Dunford, l - The Mad Lover - Harmonia Mundi

Popularity:

7days10.12%

28days10.03%

6months30.02%

12months30.01%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 4 days ago

Gabriel Faure - Violin Sonata No. 1 in A, Op. 13 - Bella Hristova, v; Michael Houstoun, p - Reveiller - Rattle

Popularity:

7days10.12%

28days10.03%

6months20.01%

12months20%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 4 days ago

Aaron Copland - Danzon cubano - Mexico City Phil/Enrique Batiz - Copland: Fanfare for the Common Man, El Salon Mexico, Quiet City, Four Dance Episodes from "Rodeo", Dance Symphony, Danzon Cubano - EMI

Popularity:

7days10.12%

28days10.03%

6months10%

12months10%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 7 days ago

Carl Maria von Weber - Clarinet Quintet in B-Flat, Op. 34 - Arthur Stockel, cl; Quatuor Hanson - Weber: Clarinet Concertos, Clarinet Quintet - Aparte

Popularity:

7days10.12%

28days10.03%

6months30.02%

12months50.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 5 days ago

Justin Hurwitz - La La Land - Emma Stone, voice; Orch/Tim Davies - La La Land (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) - Interscope

Popularity:

7days10.12%

28days10.03%

6months10%

12months10%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 6 days ago

Hector Berlioz - Overture, Le corsaire, Op. 21 - Baltimore Sym Orch/David Zinman - Berlioz: La Marseillaise, Love Scene from Romeo & Juliet, The Damnation of Faust, etc. - Telarc

Popularity:

7days10.12%

28days10.03%

6months10%

12months10%

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Last heard 4 days ago

Felix Mendelssohn - A Midsummer Night's Dream Overture, Op. 21 - Berlin Phil/Claudio Abbado - Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (excerpts); Symphony No. 4 in A (Italian) - Sony

Popularity:

7days10.12%

28days10.03%

6months10%

12months10%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 7 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%

28days10.03%

6months10%

12months20%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 5 days ago

Laura Love - I Still Believe (Unplugged) - Laura Love - She Loved Red - Laura Love

Popularity:

7days10.12%

28days40.13%

6months240.13%

12months320.1%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 6 days ago

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%

12months30.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 6 days ago

Elmer Bernstein - To Kill a Mockingbird - Royal Scottish National Orch/Elmer Bernstein - To Kill a Mockingbird - Varese Sarabande

Popularity:

7days10.12%

28days10.03%

6months20.01%

12months20%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 7 days ago

Adolphus Hailstork - Two Romances - Beverly Baker, vi; Virginia Chamber Players - As Falling Leaves * The Virginia Chamber Players in Concert - Albany

Popularity:

7days10.12%

28days10.03%

6months20.01%

12months30.01%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 4 days ago

Sergei Prokofiev - Cinderella, Op. 87 - Cleveland Orch/Vladimir Ashkenazy - Prokofiev: Cinderella - Decca

Popularity:

7days10.12%

28days10.03%

6months10%

12months10%

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Last heard 5 days ago

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

Popularity:

7days10.12%

28days10.03%

6months30.02%

12months40.01%

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Last heard 4 days ago

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

Popularity:

7days10.12%

28days10.03%

6months40.02%

12months40.01%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 3 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

Alexander Glazunov - Carnival, Op 45 - Moscow Sym Orch/Igor Golovschin - Glazunov: Orchestral Works, Vol. 6 - Naxos

Popularity:

7days10.12%

28days10.03%

6months30.02%

12months30.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 4 days ago

Amanda Maier - Piano Trio in E-Flat - Frank Almond, v; Alexander Hersh, vc; Victor Santiago Asuncion, p - A Violin's Life, Volume 3 - Avie

Popularity:

7days10.12%

28days10.03%

6months10%

12months10%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 4 days ago

Maria Hester Park - Piano Sonata in F, Op. 4, No. 1 - Betty Ann Miller, p - Music By Maria Hester Park, Marie Bigot And Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel - Centaur

Popularity:

7days10.12%

28days10.03%

6months20.01%

12months20%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 5 days ago

Douglas Lilburn - Aotearoa Overture - New Zealand Sym Orch/James Judd - Lilburn Orchestral Works - Naxos

Popularity:

7days10.12%

28days10.03%

6months20.01%

12months20%

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Last heard 5 days ago

Aaron Copland - Rodeo - London Sym Orch/Aaron Copland - Copland Conducts Copland - CBS

Popularity:

7days10.12%

28days10.03%

6months10%

12months10%

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Last heard 3 days ago

Bastiano Chilese - Canzon in Echo a 8 (1608) - Hesperion XXI/Jordi Savall - Battaglie And Lamenti 1600-1660: Monteverdi, Peri, Fontei, Strozzi - Alia Vox

Popularity:

7days10.12%

28days10.03%

6months30.02%

12months30.01%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 14 hours ago

Erik Satie - Three Gymnopedies - Michel Legrand, p - Erik Satie By Michel Legrand - Erato

Popularity:

7days10.12%

28days10.03%

6months10%

12months10%

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Conni Ellisor - Blackberry Winter - Stephen Seifert, dulcimer; Nashville Chamber Orch/Paul Gambill - Ellisor: Conversations In Silence; Blackberry Winter; Barber: Canzonetta; Scearce: Endymion's Sleep; Mock: The Stone - Warner Classics

Popularity:

7days10.12%

28days10.03%

6months10%

12months40.01%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 2 days ago

Igor Stravinsky - Pastorale (Song Without Words) - Los Angeles Guitar Quartet - Barber of Seville Overture - GHA

Popularity:

7days10.12%

28days10.03%

6months20.01%

12months20%

First heard 3 months ago

Last heard 4 days ago

Julius Williams - Toccatina - Dvorak Sym Orch/Julius Williams - Somewhere Far Away * The Music of Julius Williams - Albany

Popularity:

7days10.12%

28days10.03%

6months10%

12months10%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 3 days ago

Jacques Offenbach - La Belle Helene - Detroit Sym Orch/Paul Paray - Marches and Overtures a la Francaise - Mercury

Popularity:

7days10.12%

28days10.03%

6months10%

12months10%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 5 days ago

Frederic Chopin - Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21 - Polish Festival Orch/Krystian Zimerman, p - Chopin Piano Concertos 1 & 2 - DG

Popularity:

7days10.12%

28days10.03%

6months10%

12months10%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 4 days ago

Jessie Montgomery - Peace - Anthony McGill, cl; Gloria Chien, p - Here With You - Cedille

Popularity:

7days10.12%

28days20.06%

6months30.02%

12months30.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 3 days ago

Malcolm Arnold - English Dances, Set 1, Op. 27 - Philharmonia Orch/Bryden Thomson - Arnold: Dances - Chandos

Popularity:

7days10.12%

28days10.03%

6months10%

12months10%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 days ago

John Johnsone - Sellenger's Rounde - Jakob Lindberg, Paul O'Dette, l's - English Lute Duets - BIS

Popularity:

7days10.12%

28days10.03%

6months10%

12months10%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 4 days ago

Paul Taffanel - Fantasy on Weber's Der Freischutz - Cavatina Duo - Cavatina at the Opera - Bridge

Popularity:

7days10.12%

28days10.03%

6months10%

12months20%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 7 days ago

Ralph Vaughan Williams - Three Preludes on Welsh Hymn Tunes (1920) - Washington National & Grace Cathedral Cho's/Douglas Major, o - Light's Glitter Morn - EMI

Popularity:

7days10.12%

28days10.03%

6months10%

12months10%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 6 days ago

William Grant Still - Danzas de Panama - Oregon String Quartet - Oregon Festival of American Music Presents William Grant Still - Koch

Popularity:

7days10.12%

28days20.06%

6months40.02%

12months70.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 days ago

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - The Abduction from the Seraglio, K. 384 - Royal Phil Orch/Colin Davis - Mozart: Symphony No 40, Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Etc / Davis - Seraphim

Popularity:

7days10.12%

28days10.03%

6months10%

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First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 days ago

Dana Suesse - The Cocktail Suite - Sara Davis Buechner, p - Jazz Nocturne: The Piano Works of Dana Suesse - eOne

Popularity:

7days10.12%

28days10.03%

6months20.01%

12months20%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 days ago

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

Popularity:

7days10.12%

28days10.03%

6months50.03%

12months50.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 3 days ago

Max Reger - Nachtlied, Op. 138, No. 3 - Voces8 - Nightfall - Decca

Popularity:

7days10.12%

28days10.03%

6months10%

12months10%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 6 days ago

Peter Tchaikovsky - Hamlet, Op. 67 - USSR Radio Sym/Alexander Gauk - - Mobile Fidelity

Popularity:

7days10.12%

28days10.03%

6months20.01%

12months20%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 4 days ago

Giles Farnaby - Suite of Six Dances - Philip Jones Brass Ensemble - Music from the Royal Court - Decca

Popularity:

7days10.12%

28days10.03%

6months50.03%

12months50.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 days ago

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

Popularity:

7days10.12%

28days10.03%

6months20.01%

12months30.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 4 days ago

Leonard Bernstein - West Side Story - Orch/Gustavo Dudamel - West Side Story (2021 Motion Picture Soundtrack) - Hollywood Records

Popularity:

7days10.12%

28days10.03%

6months20.01%

12months20%

First heard 3 months ago

Last heard 6 days ago

Johannes Brahms - Piano Pieces, Op. 118 - Stewart Goodyear, p - For Glenn Gould - Sono Luminus

Popularity:

7days10.12%

28days20.06%

6months30.02%

12months30.01%

First heard 3 months ago

Last heard 6 days ago

Joaquin Turina - Mujeres espanolas Set 2, Op. 73 - Sara Davis Buechner, p - Turina: Mujeres Espanolas, Woman of Spain -- Five Suites for Piano - Connoisseur

Popularity:

7days10.12%

28days10.03%

6months20.01%

12months30.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a day ago

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Idomeneo ballet music, K. 367 - Apollo's Fire/Jeannette Sorrell - Mozart: Symphony No 40, Ballet Music from Idomeneo - Avie

Popularity:

7days10.12%

28days10.03%

6months10%