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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Joe Jencks - It's Not For Sale - Joe Jencks - Folkstage – Joe Jencks 3.18.2023 (Encore) -

Popularity:

7days10.14%

28days10.04%

6months10%

12months20%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 3 days ago

Owen Walsh - The Midnight Special (Trad.) - Owen Walsh - The Midnight Special "exclusive" - single

Popularity:

7days10.14%

28days20.08%

6months50.04%

12months110.05%

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Last heard 3 days ago

Arturo Sandoval - Wildflower - Yolanda Kondonassis, h - Wildflower (Single) - Azica

Popularity:

7days10.14%

28days10.04%

6months10%

12months30.01%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 2 days ago

Manuel de Falla - Four Spanish Pieces - Jorge Federico Osorio, p - Piano Espanol - Cedille

Popularity:

7days10.14%

28days10.04%

6months20.01%

12months40.02%

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Last heard 3 days ago

Ludwig van Beethoven - Piano Trio no.6 in B-Flat, Op.97, Archduke - Daniel Barenboim, p; Pinchas Zukerman, v; Jacqueline Du Pre, vc - - EMI

Popularity:

7days10.14%

28days10.04%

6months10%

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First heard a year ago

Last heard 8 hours ago

Dmitri Shostakovich - Piano Concerto No. 1 in C minor, Op. 35 - Martha Argerich, p; Guy Touvron, tr; Wurttemberg Chamber Orch/Jorg Faerber - Martha Argerich, Shostakovich / Haydn - Piano Concerto No. 1 / Piano Concerto No. 11 / Jorg Faerber - DG

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7days10.14%

28days10.04%

6months10%

12months30.01%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 5 days ago

Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck - Motet, Tanto tempore vobiscum - Netherlands Chamber Choir/Paul van Nevel - - Radio Nederland

Popularity:

7days10.14%

28days10.04%

6months10%

12months20%

First heard 8 months ago

Last heard 4 days ago

Frederic Chopin - Polish Songs, Op. 74 - Ewa Podles, c; Garrick Ohlsson, p - Chopin: The Complete Piano Works, Vol. 12 - Songs - Arabesque

Popularity:

7days10.14%

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6months10%

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Last heard 6 days ago

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

Popularity:

7days10.14%

28days10.04%

6months80.06%

12months100.04%

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Last heard 2 days ago

Antonin Dvořak - String Quartet No. 10 in E-Flat, Op. 51, Slavonic - Kontras Quartet - All Made of Stories - MSR Classics

Popularity:

7days10.14%

28days10.04%

6months20.01%

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Traditional English - The Keel Row - St. Charles Singers/Jeffrey Hunt - Bushes & Briars - MSR Classics

Popularity:

7days10.14%

28days10.04%

6months10%

12months10%

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Last heard 6 days ago

Jean Sibelius - Night Ride and Sunrise, Op. 55 - Royal Stockholm Phil/Paavo Jarvi - Sibelius: Lemminkainen Suite, Luonnotar, Nightride and Sunrise - Virgin

Popularity:

7days10.14%

28days10.04%

6months10%

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Last heard 4 days ago

Nataša Đuragić - The Three Kings Came - St. Stephen of Dečani Choir/Tamara Adamov Petijević - Serbian Christmas - WFMT

Popularity:

7days10.14%

28days10.04%

6months10%

12months10%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 7 days ago

Robert Nathaniel Dett - Enchantment - Clipper Erickson, p - My Cup Runneth Over - The Complete Piano Works of R. Nathaniel Dett - Navona

Popularity:

7days10.14%

28days10.04%

6months30.02%

12months40.02%

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Last heard 3 days ago

Franz Joseph Haydn - Symphony No. 52 in c - Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orch/Adam Fischer - Haydn 'The Esterhazy Recordings' Symphonies Volume 3 - Nimbus

Popularity:

7days10.14%

28days10.04%

6months10%

12months20%

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Last heard 2 days ago

Eric Whitacre - Little Tree - Elora Festival Singers/Noel Edison; Leslie De'Ath, p - Eric Whitacre: Choral Music - Naxos

Popularity:

7days10.14%

28days10.04%

6months20.01%

12months20%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 7 days ago

Peter Tchaikovsky - The Tempest, Op. 18 - Chicago Sym Orch/Claudio Abbado - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 2, The Tempest - CBS

Popularity:

7days10.14%

28days10.04%

6months10%

12months20%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 10 hours ago

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - The Magic Flute, K. 620 - Amadeus Ensemble/Julius Rudel - Mozart: The Magic Flute and The Abduction from the Seraglio - Musicmasters

Popularity:

7days10.14%

28days10.04%

6months40.03%

12months50.02%

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Last heard 2 days ago

Saturday Morning Listener's Choice - - -

Popularity:

7days10.14%

28days30.12%

6months130.1%

12months250.1%

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Last heard 4 days ago

Vincent Persichetti - Pastoral, Op. 21 - Prairie Winds - Gale Force - Albany

Popularity:

7days10.14%

28days10.04%

6months20.01%

12months30.01%

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Last heard 5 days ago

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Eine kleine Nachtmusik, K. 525 - Les Folies Francoises/Patrick Cohen-Akenine - Mozart: Nachtmusik * Les Folies Francoises - Alpha

Popularity:

7days10.14%

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Alfred Newman - 20th Century Fox Fanfare - London Phil Orch/John Mauceri - The Genius of Film Music - LPO

Popularity:

7days10.14%

28days20.08%

6months80.06%

12months220.09%

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Last heard 4 days ago

Best of Studs Terkel - - -

Popularity:

7days10.14%

28days40.16%

6months200.15%

12months380.16%

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Last heard 4 days ago

George Frideric Handel - Water Music Suite No. 2 in D - Prague Chamber Soloists/Andrew Mogrelia - Handel: Water Music, Music for the Royal Fireworks - Naxos

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7days10.14%

28days10.04%

6months10%

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Last heard 3 days ago

Malcolm Arnold - Four Scottish Dances, Op. 59 - Queensland Sym Orch/Andrew Penny - Sir Malcolm Arnold: Dances - Naxos

Popularity:

7days10.14%

28days10.04%

6months10%

12months20%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 7 days ago

Richard Strauss - Le bourgeois gentilhomme, Op. 60 - Orpheus Chamber Orch - Strauss: Le bourgeois gentilhomme, Divertimento after Couperin - DG

Popularity:

7days10.14%

28days10.04%

6months20.01%

12months60.03%

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Last heard 6 days ago

Daniel-Francois Auber - Fra Diavolo - Royal Scottish National Orch/Lance Friedel - Great Comedy Overtures - Naxos

Popularity:

7days10.14%

28days10.04%

6months30.02%

12months40.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 21 hours ago

Jacques Offenbach - Vert-vert (Kakadu) - Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel - Jaques Offenbach: Gaite Parisienne, 5 Overtures - MMG

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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor - Romance of the Prairie Lilies, Op. 39 - RTE Concert Orch/Adrian Leaper - Coleridge-Taylor: Hiawatha Overture - Petite Suite - Naxos

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7days10.14%

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Ferde Grofe - Hudson River Suite - Bournemouth Sym Orch/William T Stromberg - Ferde Grofe: Death Valley Suite, Hudson River Suite, Hollywood Suite - Naxos

Popularity:

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6months10%

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First heard a year ago

Last heard 21 hours ago

Gustav Holst - St Paul's Suite, Op. 29, No. 2 - City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox - Holst: Orchestral Works - Chandos

Popularity:

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Ronn McFarlane - On the Heath - Ronn McFarlane & William Simms, l's - One Morning - Dorian

Popularity:

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6months10%

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Arthur Bliss - The Royal Palaces - Black Dyke Band/John Wilson - Bliss: Works for Brass Band - Chandos

Popularity:

7days10.14%

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6months20.01%

12months20%

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Last heard 6 days ago

Florence Price - Piano Sonata in E minor - Althea Waites, p - Black Diamonds * Althea Waites plays music by African-American Composers - Cambria

Popularity:

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Edvard Grieg - Sigurd Jorsalfar, Op. 22 - Swedish Radio Sym Orch/Esa-Pekka Salonen - A Nordic Festival - Sony

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7days10.14%

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Johann Sebastian Bach - Chorale, Gott sei gelobet und benedeiet, BWV 322 - Chamber Cho of Europe/Nicol Matt - Bach Edition: Complete Works - Brilliant Classics

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Last heard 4 days ago

Moleiro - Fugue in c# - Clara Rodriguez, p - Moleiro: Piano Music - ASV

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Georg Philipp Telemann - Partie polonaise, TWV 39:1 - Holland Baroque - Telemann: Polonoise - Pentatone

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First heard a year ago

Last heard a day ago

Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov - The Maid of Pskov - Seattle Sym/Gerard Schwarz - RIMSKY-KORSAKOV, N.A.: Capriccio espagnol / Overtures (Seattle Symphony, Schwarz) - Naxos

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First heard 7 months ago

Last heard 3 days ago

Jean-Philippe Rameau - Le temple de la gloire - Philharmonia Baroque Orch/Nicholas McGegan - Temple de la Gloire - PBP

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Joaquin Rodrigo - Concierto andaluz - Amadeus Guitar Duo, Eden Stell Duo, International Phil Orch/Horst-Hans Backer - Spanish Night - Naxos

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Alexander Scriabin - 24 Preludes, Op. 11 - Zara Lawler, f; Paul Fadoul, mar - Prelude Cocktail - Lawler Fadoul

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First heard 4 days ago

Last heard 4 days ago

Bernadette Peters & Mandy Patinkin - Move On (Sondheim) - Bernadette Peters & Mandy Patinkin - Broadway's Showplace - RCA Victor

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6months10%

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First heard 4 days ago

Last heard 4 days ago

Ethel Smyth - String Trio - Hague String Trio - Ethel Smyth - Cobra

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6months10%

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First heard 7 months ago

Last heard 3 days ago

Peter Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 1 in G minor, Op. 13, Winter Dreams - Chicago Sym Orch/Claudio Abbado - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 1, The Nutcracker (Suite) - Sony

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First heard a year ago

Last heard 6 days ago