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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William Alwyn - Suite of Scottish Dances - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland - British Light Music World Premieres - ASV

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Peter Warlock - Capriol Suite - Guildhall String Ensemble/Robert Salter - English Music For Strings - RCA

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Ernest Bloch - Concerto Grosso No. 1 - Jenny Lin, p; Southwest German Radio Sym Orch/Jiři Starek - Ernest Bloch: Concerto Symphonique, Concerto Grosso No. 1, Scherzo Fantasque - Hanssler Classic

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Eric Ewazen - Oboe Concerto, Down a River of Time - Linda Strommen, ob; Sejong Soloists - Sejong Plays Ewazen - Albany

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William Boyce - Symphony No. 1 in B-Flat - Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood - Boyce: Symphonies, Op. 2 - L'Oiseau-Lyre

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Eric Coates - From Meadow to Mayfair - BBC Phil/John Wilson - Eric Coates: Orchestral Works, Vol. 4 - Chandos

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Florence Price - Violin Concerto No. 1 in D - Randall Goosby, v; Philadelphia Orch/Yannick Nezet-Seguin - Max Bruch & Florence Price: Violin Concertos - Decca

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Clarice Assad - Constellation - Harumi Rhodes, v; Clarice Assad, p - Takacs Assad Libro - Yarlung

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Igor Stravinsky - Le Baiser de la fee - London Sinfonietta/Riccardo Chailly - Stravinsky: Divertimento, Fanfare for a New Theatre, Three Pieces for Clarinet Solo, Suites Nos. 1 and 2 - Decca

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Ralph Vaughan Williams - English Folk Song Suite - London Wind Orch/Denis Wick - Wind Music of Holst and Vaughan Williams - ASV

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Michael Praetorius - Terpsichore - Collegium Terpsichore/Fritz Neumeyer - Dance Music of the High Renaissance - Boston Skyline

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

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

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Augusta Holmes - Andromede - Toulouse Capitole Orch/Leo Hussain - Compositrices: New Light on French Romantic Women Composers - Bru Zane

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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 - Konzertstuck in D minor, Op. 114 - Thea King, cl; Julian Farrell, basset hn; English Chamber Orch Winds - Classic Champagne - Salon Music for Wind Instruments - EMI

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Franz Joseph Haydn - String Quartet in G, Op. 64, No. 4 - Angeles String Quartet - Haydn: Complete String Quartets - Philips

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Peter Schickele - Serenade for Three - Orion Ensemble - A Celebration of American Chamber Music - Orion Ensemble

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

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Peter Tchaikovsky - Capriccio italien, Op. 45 - Cincinnati Sym Orch/Erich Kunzel - 1812, Capriccio Italien, Cossack Dance - Telarc

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

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Sarah Rimkus - My Heart is Like a Singing Bird - Gesualdo Six/Owain Park - Fading - Hyperion

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Johann Sebastian Bach - Italian Concerto in F, BWV 971 - Andras Schiff, p - J. S. Bach: Italian Concerto in F, French Suite No. 5 in G, French Overture - Omega

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

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Peter Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker, Op. 71 - Los Angeles Guitar Quartet - Dances from Renaissance to Nutcracker - Delos

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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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Mily Balakirev - Islamey - Bavarian Radio Sym Orch/Esa-Pekka Salonen - Tchaikovsky, Borodin, Balakirev: 1812, Polovtsian Dances, Islamey - Philips

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Benjamin Britten - Gloriana, Op. 53 - Bournemouth Sym Orch/Uri Segal - Britten: Gloriana: Symphonic Suite; The Prince Of The Pagodas: Prelude And Dances - EMI

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

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Jean-Philippe Rameau - Platee - Philharmonia Baroque Orch/Nicholas McGegan - Suites from Platee and Dardanus - Conifer

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Scott Joplin - Treemonisha - The Paragon Ragtime Orchestra/Rick Benjamin - Scott Joplin: Treemonisha - New World

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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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Carlos Simon - Memory of Summer - Carlos Simon, p - Together - Decca

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George Frideric Handel - Terpsichore - Apollo's Fire/Jeannette Sorrell - The Power of Love: Arias from Handel Operas - Avie

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Benjamin Britten - Simple Symphony, Op. 4 - Guildhall String Ensemble/Robert Salter - Britten, Tippett, Walton - RCA

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Franz Joseph Haydn - String Quartet in D, Op. 64, No. 5, Lark - Hagen Quartet - Haydn: Three String Quartets - DG

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

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Christoph Willibald Gluck - Orpheus and Eurydice - Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood - Pachelbel: Canon - Handel, Vivaldi, Gluck - L'Oiseau-Lyre

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

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

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George Frideric Handel - Alcina - English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner - Handel: Alcina, Il Pastor Fido, Terpsichore - Erato

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

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

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Antonin Dvořak - Czech Suite, Op 39 - Milwaukee Sym Orch/Zdenek Macal - Dvořak: Symphony No. 8, Czech Suite - Koss

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Edvard Grieg - Holberg Suite, Op. 40 - Gothenburg Sym Orch Strings/Neeme Jarvi - Grieg: Holberg Suite, 2 Elegiac Melodies, 2 Nordic Melodies, 2 Melodies, 2 Lyric Pieces - DG

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Maddalena Sirmen - String Quartet No. 6 in E - Allegri String Quartet - Sirmen: The Six String Quartets - Cala

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

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Cecile Chaminade - Callirhoe, Op. 37 - Metz Grand Est National Orch/David Reiland - Compositrices: New Light on French Romantic Women Composers - Bru Zane

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