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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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Franz Joseph Haydn - Symphony No. 88 in G - Tafelmusik/Bruno Weil - Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 88, 89, 90 / Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra / Bruno Weil - Sony

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Louise Farrenc - Variations on a theme by Aristide Farrenc, Op. 2 - Maria Stratigou, p - Louise Farrenc: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 2: Variations - Grand Piano

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Leonard Bernstein - Facsimile (Choreographic Essay) - New York Phil/Leonard Bernstein - Bernstein: Theatre Works, Vol. 1 - Sony

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Johann Sebastian Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F Major, BWV 1046 - Academy of Ancient Music/Richard Egarr - JS Bach: Brandenburg Concertos - Harmonia Mundi

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Claude Debussy - Prelude No. 19, La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune - Jean-Yves Thibaudet, p - Debussy: Preludes (Livres I Et II): The Complete Works For Solo Piano Vol. I / Jean-Yves Thibaudet - Decca

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Robert Schumann - Symphony No. 1 in B-Flat, Op. 38, Spring - Chamber Orch of Europe/Yannick Nezet-Seguin - Schumann: Symphonies Nos. 1-4 - DG

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Maurice Ravel - Tzigane - Midori, v; Robert McDonald, p - Great Moments at Carnegie Hall - Sony

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Frederic Chopin - Nocturne in B, Op. 9, No. 3 - Yundi Li, p - Chopin: Nocturnes * Yundi - EMI

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Andante and Variations in G, K. 501 - Deborah Moriarty & Zhihua Tang, p - Connecting Cultures - Blue Griffin

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Antonio Vivaldi - Two-Violin Concerto in C, R. 508 - Riccardo Minasi & Dmitry Sinkovsky, v's; Il Pomo d'Oro - Vivaldi: Concerti per due violini e archi I - Naive

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Felix Mendelssohn - Variations serieuses in D minor, Op. 54 - Sarah Beth Briggs, p - Variations - Avie

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Clara Schumann - Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 17 - Anne-Sophie Mutter, v; Pablo Ferrandez, vc; Lambert Orkis, p - Brahms: Double Concerto; Clara Schumann: Piano Trio - Sony

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Frederic Chopin - Rondo a la Krakowiak, Op. 14 - Joel Fan, p; Northwest Sinfonietta/Christophe Chagnard - Dances for Piano and Orchestra - Reference

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Louise Heritte-Viardot - Piano Quartet No. 2 in D, Op. 11, Spanish - Matous Michal, v; Lawrence Neuman, vi; David Cunliffe, vc; Victor Santiago Asuncion, p - Rush Hour Concerts: French Romantic Piano Quartets (July 30, 2024) - Classical Music Chicago

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George Enescu - Aria and Scherzino - Charlie Siem, v; Philharmonia Orch/Oleg Caetani - Brahms & Enescu - Signum Classics

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Helene Liebmann - Piano Trio in A, Op. 11 - Gernot Susmuth, v; Ramon Jaffe, vc; Monica Gutman, p - Helene Liebmann: Violin Sonata - Cello Sonata - Piano Trio - CPO

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Antonin Dvořak - Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104 - Yo-Yo Ma, vc; New York Phil/Kurt Masur - Dvořak, Herbert: Concertos from the New World - Sony

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Maurice Ravel - Sonatine - Martha Argerich, p - Martha Argerich * Early Recordings - DG

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Morten Lauridsen - Les chansons des roses - St. Charles Singers/Jeffrey Hunt; harpist - - WFMT Recording

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Serenade No. 10 in B-Flat, K. 361, Gran Partita - Sabine Meyer Wind Ensemble - Mozart: Serenade K. 361 / Sabine Meyer Wind Ensemble - EMI

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Johann Sebastian Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major, BWV 1048 - Philip Jones Brass Ensemble - Music for the Courts of Europe - Decca

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Peter WILTSCHINSKY - Papillon - Peter Wiltschinsky, Robin Hill, g's - The Art of Robin Hill and Peter Wiltschinsky - Teldec

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Sergei Rachmaninoff - Oriental Sketch (1917) - Howard Shelley, p - Rachmaninov: The Early Piano Works - Hyperion

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Sergei Rachmaninoff - Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini, Op. 43 - Vladimir Feltsman, p; Israel Phil/Zubin Mehta - Piano Concerto No. 3, Rhapsody On A Theme Of Paganini - CBS

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Umberto Giordano - Fedora - Vittorio Grigolo, t; Teatro Regio di Parma Orch/Giorgio Morandi - Vittorio Grigolo: Arrivederci - Sony

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Luigi Boccherini - String Sextet in f, Op 23/4, G 457 - Europa Galante - Boccherini: Trio * Quartet * Quintet * Sextet for Strings - Virgin Classics

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Alexander Scriabin - Two Poems, Op 71 (1914) - Joseph Villa, p - - Dante

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Camille Saint-Saens - La Muse et le Poete, Op. 132 - Renaud Capucon, v; Gautier Capucon, vc; Radio France Phil Orch/Lionel Bringuier - Saint-Saens: Violin Concerto No 3; La Muse et le poete; Cello Concerto No 1 - Erato

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Franz von Suppe - Poet and Peasant - Tokyo Metropolitan Sym Orch/Ken-Ichiro Kobayashi - Romantic Overtures - Denon

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Carl Nielsen - Cupid and the Poet incidental music, Op 54 - Odense Sym Orch/Eduard Serov - Nielsen: Symphony No 2, Overture, Etc - Kontrapunkt

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Frederic Chopin - Mazurkas, Op. 68 - Russell Sherman, p - Chopin: Mazurkas Nos. 1-51 - Avie

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Mieczyslaw Karlowicz - Symphonic Poem, Stanislaw and Anna Oswiecimowie - BBC Phil/Yan Pascal Tortelier - Karlowicz - Chandos

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Jean Sibelius - The Oceanides, Op. 73 - Scottish National Orch/Sir Alexander Gibson - Sibelius: Complete Tone Poems - Chandos

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Edwin GRASSE - Wellenspiel - Jascha Heifetz, v, Emanuel Bay, p - The Heifetz Collection, Volume 19: 51 Miniatures 1944-1946 - RCA

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Johann Sebastian Bach - Solo Violin Sonata No. 1 in g minor, BWV 1001 - Johnny Gandelsman, v - BACH, J.S.: Sonatas and Partitas - In a Circle Records

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Jean-Philippe Rameau - Nouvelles suite de pieces de clavecin (1728) - Pieter-Jan Belder, hc - Rameau: Complete Harpsichord Works - Brilliant

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Maurice Ravel - Rapsodie espagnole - Louis Lortie, Helene Mercier, p - Ravel - Piano Music for Four Hands - Chandos

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Carl Reinecke - Die wilde Schwane, Op. 164 - Schwanen- Ensemble/Peter Kreutz - Die wilde Schwane - CPO

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Thomas Tallis - O ye Tender Babes - Lawrence Cummings, virginal - Tallis: Complete Works - Signum

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Ralph Vaughan Williams - Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus (1939) - London Phil/Bryden Thomson - Vaughan Williams: Norfolk Rhapsody - Chandos

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Elias Parish-Alvars - Introduction and Variations after Bellini's Norma - Isabelle Moretti, h - Cantare: La Voix de la Harpe * Isabelle Moretti * Felicity Lott - Naive

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Aaron Copland - Appalachian Spring - San Francisco Sym/Michael Tilson Thomas - Copland The Populist - RCA

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Ludwig van Beethoven - Variations and Fugue in E-Flat, Op. 35, Eroica - Inna Faliks, p - Live from WFMT: Inna Faliks (October 12, 2009) - WFMT

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Claude Gervaise - Branles - Renaissonics - Dance! - Titanic

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Johann Strauss II - Emperor Waltz, Op. 437 - Chicago Sym Orch/Fritz Reiner - Fritz Reiner: The Complete RCA Album Collection - RCA

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Fernando Sor - Guitar Sonata in C, Op 15b - Goran Sollscher, g - The History of Classical Music in 24 Hours - DG

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Howard Hanson - Symphony No. 7, A Sea Symphony - Seattle Sym & Cho/Gerard Schwarz - Howard Hanson: Symphonies - Delos

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Johannes Brahms - Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-Flat, Op. 83 - Daniel Barenboim, p; Berlin Staatskapelle/Gustavo Dudamel - Brahms: The Piano Concertos - DG

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Ludwig van Beethoven - Piano Concerto No. 4 in G, Op. 58 - Wilhelm Kempff, p; Berlin Phil/Ferdinand Leitner - The History of Classical Music in 24 Hours - DG

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Piano Sonata No. 9 in D, K. 311 - Su Yeon Kim, p - Mozart Recital - Steinway & Sons

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