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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Zoltan Kodaly - Hary Janos Suite, Op. 35a - Chicago Sym Orch/Sir Georg Solti - Solti: Bartok - Decca

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Avril Coleridge-Taylor - Sussex Landscape, Op. 27 - Chineke! Orch/Fawzi Haimor - Chineke! Orchestra: Coleridge-Taylor - Decca

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Giuseppe Verdi - Don Carlos - Chicago Sym Cho & Orch/Sir Georg Solti - Verdi: Choruses - Decca

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

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Michael Praetorius - Terpsichore (1612) - Los Angeles Guitar Quartet - TCHAIKOVSKY, P.: The Nutcracker Suite / PRAETORIUS, M.: Terpsichore / WARLOCK, P.: Capriol Suite (arr. for guitar quartet) (Los Angeles Guitar Quartet - Delos

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Duke Ellington - Come Sunday - Lara Downes, p; PUBLIQuartet - New Day Begun - Rising Sun Music

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Jose Pablo Moncayo - Huapango - Mexican Sym Orch/Enrique Batiz - Ponce: Violin Concerto; Galindo: Sones de Mariachi; Revueltas: La Noche de los Mayas; Moncayo: Huapango - EMI

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Valerie Coleman - Afro-Cuban Concerto for Wind Quintet - Imani Winds - The Classical Underground - Koch

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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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Franz Liszt - Six Grand Etudes after Paganini (1838) - Daniil Trifonov, p - Transcendental: Daniil Trifonov Plays Liszt - DG

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Ruth Gipps - Symphony No. 1 in F minor, Op. 22 - BBC Phil/Rumon Gamba - Ruth Gipps: Orchestral Works Vol. 3 - Chandos

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William Schuman - American Festival Overture - St. Louis Sym Orch/Leonard Slatkin - William Schuman: Symphony No. 10, New England Triptych, American Festival Overture / Leonard Slatkin - RCA

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

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Luigi Boccherini - Symphony in E-Flat, Op. 35, No. 2 (G 510) - London Festival Orch/Ross Pople - Boccherini: Six Symphonies Op. 35 - Hyperion

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Felix Mendelssohn - Piano Concerto No. 2 in D minor, Op. 40 - Lars Vogt, p; Paris Chamber Orchestra - Mendelssohn: Piano Concertos, Capriccio brillant - Ondine

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Jan Koetsier - Brass Symphony, Op. 80 - TenThing - tenThing - 10 - EMI

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Tomas Breton - En la Alhambra - City of Granada Orch/Juan de Udaeta - En la Alhambra: 19th Century Spanish Symphonic Music - Almaviva

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Eric Coates - Summer Days Suite - BBC Phil/John Wilson - Coates: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2 - Chandos

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Leroy Anderson - Piano Concerto in C - Stewart Goodyear, p; Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel - American Piano Classics - Telarc

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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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Richard Strauss - Till Eulenspiegel einmal anders - Chicago Pro Musica - The Medinah Sessions - Reference

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Gustav Holst - Brook Green Suite - Royal Phil Strings/Barry Wordsworth - English String Music - Tring

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Travis, Merle - Midnight Special Travis picked guitar - Merle Travis - In Boston 1959 - Travis Pickin'

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Francis Poulenc - Two-Piano Concerto in D minor - Katia Labeque & Marielle Labeque, p's; Boston Sym Orch/Seiji Ozawa - Poulenc, Milhaud: Concerto Pour 2 Pianos Et Orchestre - Philips

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William Alwyn - Concerto grosso No. 1 - City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox - Alwyn: Oboe Concerto, Concerti Grossi - Chandos

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Luigi Boccherini - Night Music in the Streets of Madrid, Op. 30, No. 6 - United Strings of Europe/Julian Azkoul - United Strings of Europe: In Motion - BIS

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Vincent d'Indy - Chanson et danses, Op. 50 - Les Vents de Montreal/Jacques Lacombe - Chansons et Danses - Radio Canada Int'l

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Jean-Philippe Rameau - Anacreon - Capella Savaria/Mary Terey-Smith - Rameau: Anacreon; Daphnis et Aegle - Naxos

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

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Clarinet Quintet in A, K. 581 - Anthony McGill, cl; Pacifica Quartet - Mozart and Brahms Clarinet Quintets - Cedille

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Leslie Adams - Etudes, Part I - Maria Thompson Corley, p - Maria Corley * Leslie Adams * Twelve Etudes - Albany

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Carl Maria von Weber - Oberon - Vienna Phil/Christian Thielemann - German Overtures - DG

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Percy Grainger - Walking Tune - Borealis Wind Quintet - A La Carte: Short Works for Wind Quintet - MSR 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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Joseph Bologne (Chevalier de Saint-Georges) - Violin Sonata in B-Flat, Op. 1b, No. 1 - Samuel Nebyu, v; Bethany Brooks, p - Music by Composers of African Descent - BCM D Records

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Ottorino Respighi - La boutique fantasque (after Rossini) - Eastman Wind Ensemble/Frederick Fennell - Ballet For Band - Mercury

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Maddalena Sirmen - String Quartet No. 2 in B-Flat - Allegri String Quartet - Sirmen: The Six String Quartets - Cala

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Claude Debussy - Suite bergamasque - Inon Barnatan, p - Darknesse Visible - Avie

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William Grant Still - Symphony No. 1, Afro-American - Detroit Sym Orch/Neeme Jarvi - Still: Symphony No. 1 · Ellington: The River - Chandos

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Johann Friedrich Fasch - Orchestra Suite (Overture) in D - Tempesta di Mare - Fasch: Orchestral Works Vol. 4 - Chandos

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Amy Beach - From Grandmother's Garden, Op. 97 - Joanne Polk, p - Amy Beach: Fire Flies - Arabesque

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Claude Debussy - La plus que lente - I Salonisti - The Last Dance - Music For A Vanishing Era - RCA-DHM

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Ruth Gipps - Ambarvalia - BBC Phil/Rumon Gamba - Ruth Gipps: Orchestral Works Vol. 3 - Chandos

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

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Peter Tchaikovsky - The Months (The Seasons), Op. 37 - Moscow Chamber Orch/Constantine Orbelian - TCHAIKOVSKY, P.: Serenade in C Major / The Seasons (arr. A. Gauk) (Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Orbelian) - Delos

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

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Jean Sibelius - String Quartet in E-Flat (1885) - Sibelius Academy Quartet - Sibelius: Early Chamber Works / Sibelius Academy String Quartet - Finlandia

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Adolphus Hailstork - Symphony No. 3 - Grand Rapids Sym/David Lockington - Hailstork: Symphonies Nos. 2 and 3 - Naxos

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Jose Bragato - Graciela y Buenos Aires - Viktor Aepli, vc, Camerata Bariloche - ¡Tango! - Dorian

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George Gershwin - I Got Rhythm Variations - Michael Boriskin, p; Eos Orch/Jonathan Sheffer - Gershwin: Concerto For Piano and Orchestra in F, Rhapsody in Blue, etc. - Conifer

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