98.7 WFMT (Chicago)

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Playlist updated 8 hours ago · Oct 15, 2026, 11:59 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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Jessie Montgomery - Hymn for Everyone - Chicago Sym Orch/Riccardo Muti - Contemporary American Composers - CSO Resound

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Last heard 12 days ago

George Frideric Handel - Occasional Suite in D - English Concert/Trevor Pinnock - Handel: Music For The Royal Fireworks - Archiv

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Last heard 14 days ago

Erich Wolfgang Korngold - The Prince and the Pauper - London Sym Orch/Andre Previn - Previn Conducts Korngold - DG

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Last heard 10 days ago

Shawn E. Okpebholo - city beautiful - Lincoln Trio - Trios from Contemporary Chicago - Cedille

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Last heard 8 days ago

Franz Schubert - Octet in F, D 803 - Chicago Chamber Musicians - The Chicago Chamber Musicians - Celebrating 15 Years - Chicago Chamber Musicians

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Bedřich Smetana - Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 15 - Neave Trio - Rooted - Chandos

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Last heard 23 days ago

Aram Khachaturian - Spartacus - London Sym Orch/Stanley Black - Weekend Classics: Ballet Weekend - Decca

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Ottorino Respighi - Trittico botticelliano - New Zealand Sym Orch/Andrew Schenck - Respighi: Trittico Botticelliano, The Birds, Ancient Airs & Dances - Stradivari

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Last heard 21 days ago

Margaret Bonds - The Bells - Rochelle Sennet, p - Bach to Black: Suites for Piano, Vol. 6 - Albany

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Last heard 18 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

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Giacomo Meyerbeer - L'Etoile du Nord Ballet Suite - Barcelona Sym Orch/Michal Nesterowicz - Meyerbeer: Ballet Music from the Operas - Naxos

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Last heard 16 days ago

Svend S. Schultz - Une Amourette (Little Serenade) - Carion - Nielsen's Footsteps - Odradek

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Franz Joseph Haydn - String Quartet in B-Flat, Op. 76, No. 4, Sunrise - Takacs Quartet - Haydn: String Quartets, Op. 76, 4-6 - Decca

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Adolphe Adam - Giselle - Royal Opera House Orch/Richard Bonynge - Adam: Giselle - Ballet - Decca

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Last heard 22 days ago

Pehr Henrik Nordgren - Portraits of Country Fiddlers, Op. 26 - Ostrobothnian Chamber Orch/Juha Kangas - Folk Into Classic - Ondine

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Josiah Kelly Alwood - Unclouded Day - St. Charles Singers/Jeffrey Hunt - American Reflections - MSR Classics

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Last heard 13 days ago

Richard Wagner - Lohengrin - Northwestern U Sym Wind Ensemble/Mallory Thompson - Heroes, Dreams, & Icons: A Tribute to John P. Paynter - Summit

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Last heard 17 days ago

Nathan Johnson - Knives Out! - Orchestra - Knives Out (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) - Cut Narrative

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Last heard 19 days ago

Nathan Johnson - Knives Out! - String Quartet - Knives Out (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) - Cut Narrative

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Last heard 19 days ago

František Janoska - The Four Seasons in Janoska Style (after Vivaldi) - Janoska Ensemble - Vivaldi: The Four Seasons in Janoska Style - DG

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Last heard 23 days ago

Sons of the Never Wrong - Pull Me Through (Roper) - Sons of the Never Wrong - Song of Sons - Waterbug

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Last heard 19 days ago

Nanci Griffith - Three Flights Up (Christian) - Nanci Griffith - Other Voices, Other Rooms - Elektra

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

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Igor Stravinsky - The Soldier's Tale - Chicago Pro Musica - The Medinah Sessions - Reference

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Last heard 17 days ago

Michael Fink - Monteverdiana - Los Angeles Guitar Quartet - For Thy Pleasure - Delos

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Louise Farrenc - Sextet for piano and winds in C minor, Op. 40 - Linos Ensemble - Farrenc: Piano Trios and Sextet - CPO

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

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William Boyce - Overture No. 8 in D - Cantilena/Adrian Shepherd - Boyce: Overtures 1-9 - Chandos

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Jacques Offenbach - The Tales of Hoffmann - Berlin Phil/Herbert von Karajan - Offenbach: Overtures - DG

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Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 1 in D, Titan - Chicago Sym Orch/Bernard Haitink - Mahler: Symphony No. 1 - CSO Resound

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Last heard 14 days ago

Peter Tchaikovsky - Eugene Onegin, Op. 24 - Slovak Radio Sym Orch/Ondrej Lenard - Can-Can and Other Dances from the Opera - Naxos

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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

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Ludwig van Beethoven - Trio in B-Flat, Op. 11 - Orion Ensemble - The Orion Collection: Beethoven und Schumann - Orion Ensemble

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Last heard 24 days ago

Gabriel Faure - Cantique de Jean Racine, Op. 11 - Cambridge Singers, City of London Sinfonia/John Rutter - Faure: Requiem (1893 Version) and Other Choral Music - Collegium

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Last heard 13 days ago

Carlos Salzedo - Jeux d'eau, Op. 29 - Lavinia Meijer, h - Lavinia Meijer plays Salzedo, Caplet & Ibert - Channel Classics

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Last heard 21 days ago

Florence Price - Symphony No. 3 in C minor - Philadelphia Orch/Yannick Nezet-Seguin - Florence Price - Symphonies 1 & 3 - DG

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Francesco Geminiani - The Enchanted Forest - CBC Vancouver Orch/John Eliot Gardiner - Baroque Masterpieces - Radio Canada Int'l

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Leonard Bernstein - Candide - London Sym Orch/Marin Alsop - Bernstein: Candide - LSO Live

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Joaquin Rodrigo - Per la flor del lliri blau - London Sym Orch/Enrique Batiz - The Rodrigo Edition - EMI

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Paul Hindemith - Symphonic Metamorphoses on Themes by Weber - London Sym Orch/Claudio Abbado - Hindemith: Symphony 'Mathis der Maler

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Edvard Grieg - Symphonic Dances, Op. 64 - Gothenburg Sym Orch/Neeme Jarvi - Grieg: Symphonic Dances, Norwegian Dances, Lyric Suite - DG

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Last heard 21 days ago

Aaron Copland - El Salon Mexico - Boston Pops Orch/Keith Lockhart - The Latin Album - RCA

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Johann Sebastian Bach - Cello Suite No. 6 in D, BWV 1012 - Lodestar Trio - Bach to Folk - Naxos

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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor - The Song of Hiawatha - RTE Concert Orch/Adrian Leaper - Coleridge-Taylor: Hiawatha Overture - Petite Suite - Naxos

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Last heard 7 days ago

Giuseppe Verdi - String Quartet in E minor - Melos Quartet - Jean Sibelius, Giuseppe Verdi: String Quartets - Harmonia Mundi

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Kurt Weill - Lady in the Dark - Bournemouth Sym/Marin Alsop - Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2 / Lady in the Dark - Symphonic Nocturne - Naxos

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Last heard 16 days ago

Franz Schubert - Overture in C, In the Italian Style, D 591 - La Scala Phil/Riccardo Chailly - Musa Italiana - Decca

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Marc Mellits - Black Moon - Black Moon Trio - Principal - Black Moon Trio

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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach - Hamburg Symphony No. 3 in C, Wq 182/3 - Berlin Academy for Ancient Music - CPE Bach Symphonies From Berlin to Hamburg - Harmonia Mundi

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Last heard 14 days ago