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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.

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Johannes Brahms - Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80 - Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Herbert Blomstedt - Brahms: Symphony No. 2 - Academic Festival Overture - Pentatone

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Antonio Vivaldi - Bassoon Concerto in C, R. 477 - Peter Whelan, b

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Mark O'Connor - The American Seasons - Mark O'Connor,

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Fritz Kreisler - Viennese Rhapsodic Fantasietta - Charlie Siem,

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Johann Sebastian Bach - Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 582 - Canadian Brass - Perfect Landing - Opening Day

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Stewart Goodyear - Callaloo - Stewart Goodyear,

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Edvard Grieg - Two Elegiac Melodies, Op. 34 - English Chamber Orch - - Vanguard

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Leopold Mozart - Frog Partie - Rhein Bach Collegium - Funny Program Music of the Baroque Period: The Marriage of the Hen and the Cuckoo - CPO

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Josef Strauss - Phoenix March, Op. 105 - Vienna Phil/Daniel Barenboim - 2022 New Year's Concert - Sony

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Easley Blackwood - Two Nocturnes, Op. 41 - Easley Blackwood, p - Blackwood Plays Blackwood - Cedille

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Jennifer Higdon - Piano Trio (2003) - Lincoln Trio - Notable Women - Cedille

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Dobrinka Tabakova - Concerto for cello and strings - Kristina Blaumane, v

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Maurice Ravel - Piano Trio in A minor - Geneva Lewis,

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Johann Sebastian Bach - Fantasia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 537 - BBC Phil/Leonard Slatkin - Bach Transcriptions - Chandos

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Morten Lauridsen - Ave Maria - Los Angeles Master Chorale/Paul Salamunovich - Lauridsen: Lux Aeterna - RCM

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Ludwig van Beethoven - Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37 - Paul Lewis,

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Traditional American - Shenandoah - Yo-Yo Ma, v

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Jake Heggie - Facing Forward - Lara Downes, p - This Land - Pentatone

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Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin - - -

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Johann Friedrich Fasch - Two-Horn Concerto in D, Die Jagd - Hermann Baumann & Radovan Vlatković, hn'

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Modest Mussorgsky - Sorochinsky Fair - Philadelphia Orch/Eugene Ormandy - Russia's Greatest Hits - Sony

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Heitor Villa-Lobos - Concerto for Guitar & Small Orchestra (1951) - Goran Sollscher,

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Felix Mendelssohn - String Octet in E-Flat, Op 20 - Concertante Chamber Players - Mendelssohn: Octet In E- Flat, Op. 20/ Tchaikovsky: Souvenir de Florence, Op. 70 - Helicon

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George Frideric Handel - Harpsichord Suite No. 5 in E - Lisa Smirnova, p - Georg Friedrich Handel: Eight Great Suites - Lisa Smirnova - ECM

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Bassoon Concerto in B-Flat, K. 191 - David McGill, b

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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach - Cello Concerto in A, Wq 172 - Lynn Harrell, v

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Richard Strauss - Don Quixote, Op. 35 - Mstislav Rostropovich, v

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Alessandro Stradella - Sinfonia No. 22 in E minor - Convivium - Early Italian Violin Sonatas - Hyperion

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Antonio Vivaldi - Trio Sonata in B-Flat, R. 76 (Op. 5/17) - Rebel - Antonio Vivaldi - Shades of Red - Bridge

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Henry Purcell - The Fairy Queen - Le Concert des Nations/Jordi Savall - Purcell: The Fairy Queen & The Prophetess - Orchestral Suites - Fontalis

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Peggy Glanville-Hicks - Etruscan Concerto - Keith Jarrett,

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Zenobia Powell Perry - Tawawa House Suite - Josephine Gandolfi & Deanne Tucker, p - Zenobia Powell Perry Piano Works - Cambria

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Lou Harrison - A Waltz for Evelyn Hinrichsen - Yvar Mikhashoff, p - The Waltz Project (17 Contemporary Waltzes For Piano) - Nonesuch

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Johannes Brahms - Ein deutsches Requiem, Op. 45 - Bella Voce/Andrew Lewi

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Ivan Hallstrom - An Adventure in Scotland - Malmo Opera Orch/Michael Bartosch - Ivar Hallstrom Ballet Music - Sterling

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Carl Maria von Weber - Clarinet Quintet in B-Flat, Op. 34 - Charles Neidich, c

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Maurice Ravel - Miroirs - Pierre-Laurent Aimard, p - Ravel: The Piano Concertos, Miroirs - DG

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Manuel Ponce - Four Mexican Dances - Argentina Duran, p - Rapsodia Mexicana - Bravo Music

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Collectors' Corner with Henry Fogel - - -

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Giuseppe Tartini - Violin Sonata in G minor, Devil's Trill - Trondheim Soloists/Anne-Sophie Mutter, v - Anne-Sophie Mutter, Trondheim Soloists* - Vivaldi: The Four Seasons • Tartini: Devil's Trill - DG

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Johannes Brahms - Serenade No. 2 in A, Op. 16 - London Sym Orch/Bernard Haitink - Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 1-4 - LSO Live

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

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Ludwig van Beethoven - String Quartet No. 12 in E-Flat, Op. 127 - Cuarteto Casals - Beethoven: The Complete String Quartets, Volume 1 - Harmonia Mundi

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Einojuhani Rautavaara - Vigilia (in memory of St John the Baptist) - Finnish Radio Chamber Cho/Timo Nuoranne - Rautavaara: Vigilia - Ondine

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Frederic Chopin - Nocturnes, Op. 9 - William Kapell, p - Chopin: Sonatas Nos. 2 & 3, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Mozart - RCA

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Edvard Grieg - Symphonic Dances, Op. 64 - Royal Scottish National Orch/Bjarte Engeset - GRIEG, E.: Orchestral Music, Vol. 1 - Piano Concerto, Op. 16 / Symphonic Dances / In Autumn (Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Engeset) - Naxos

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