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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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Traditional Peruvian - El Condor Pasa - James Galway, f; National Phil Orch/Charles Gerhardt - The Very Best of James Galway - RCA

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Andres Sas - Sonatina Fantasia - Jessica Warren, f; Christopher Cooley, p - Acentos - Filarmonika

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Igor Stravinsky - Scherzo a la russe - Philharmonia Orch/Michael Tilson Thomas - Portrait of Michael Tilson Thomas - CBS

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George Gershwin - An American in Paris - Haerim Elizabeth Lee, v; Alex Brown, p - My Time Is Now: Inspirations from the Gershwins - Innova

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Aaron Copland - Symphony No. 3 - New York Phil/Leonard Bernstein - Copland: Symphony No. 3, Quiet City - DG

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Leonard Bernstein - Seven Anniversaries - Zuill Bailey, vc; Lara Downes, p - Some Other Time - Steinway & Sons

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Aaron Copland - Appalachian Spring - Los Angeles Phil/Leonard Bernstein - Mad About American Music - DG

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Johannes Brahms - Zigeunerlieder, Op 103 - Margaret Price, s; Graham Johnson, p - Brahms: Lieder - RCA

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Johannes Brahms - Piano Trio No. 3 in c, Op. 101 - Delphi Trio - Triptych - MSR Classics

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Johannes Brahms - Four Songs (Women's Chorus, Two Horns & Harp), Op 17 - Monteverdi Cho/Sir John Eliot Gardiner; D Wynne, h; A Halstead & C Rutherford, fh's - Brahms * Choral Works - Philips

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Tan Dun - Eight Memories in Watercolor, Op 1 - Shen Lu, p - Watercolor - Steinway & Sons

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Modest Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition - New Jersey Sym Orch/Zdenek Macal - MUSSORGSKY, M.: Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. M. Ravel) / Dream of the Peasant Gritzko (New Jersey Symphony, Macal) - Delos

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Georg Philipp Telemann - Brockes-Passion - RIAS Chamber Cho; Berlin Academy for Ancient Music/Rene Jacobs - Brockes-Passion - Harmonia Mundi

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Georg Philipp Telemann - Three-Trumpet Concerto #1 - C Geyer, B Butler, J Hickey, tr's; Music of the Baroque Orch/T Wikman - - D'note

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Johann Ernst Altenburg - Concerto for Seven Trumpets and Timpani - New York Trumpet Ensemble/Gerard Schwarz, tr - The Sound of Trumpets - Delos

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Thomas Tomkins - The Lady Folliott's Galliard - Edward Parmentier, hc - Musick as befitts a Quene - Wildboar

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Heinrich von Biber - String Sonata No. 3 in g minor - Freiburg Baroque Orch Consort - Biber & Muffat: Sonatas - RCA-DHM

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Arnold Bax - Sinfonietta (Symphonic Fantasy) (1932) - Slovak Phil/Barry Wordsworth - BAX : Sinfonietta / Overture / Elegy & Rondo - Naxos

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

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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach - Clavier Sonata #3 - Elizabeth Rich, p - Haydn and C.P.E. Bach - Connoisseur

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Cesar Franck - Piano Quintet in f - Trio Wanderer; Catherine Montier, v; Christophe Gauge, vi - Cesar Franck - Harmonia Mundi

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Giuseppe Verdi - Rigoletto - Mario Lanza, t; Orch/Constantine Callinicos - - RCA

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Giuseppe Verdi - Aida - Bournemouth Sym/Jose Serebrier - Complete Ballet Music from Verdi's Operas - Naxos

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Luigi Bottesini - Tarantella - Gianni Amadio, db; I Solisti Italiani - - Denon

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Valerie Coleman - Umoja: Anthem of Unity (2013) - New York Youth Sym/Michael Repper - New York Youth Symphony - Avie

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Valerie Coleman - Shotgun Houses - Anthony McGill, cl; Pacifica Quartet - Valerie Coleman - Cedille

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Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov - In Spring, Op. 43 - Mikhail Lanskoy, ms; Ilya Scheps, p - - Chant du Monde

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Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov - Symphony No. 2, Op. 9, Antar - Pittsburgh Sym Orch/Lorin Maazel - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 2 "Little Russian"/ Rimsky-Korsakov: Symphony No. 2 "Antar" - Telarc

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Sergei Rachmaninoff - Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27 - Royal Phil Orch/Yuri Temirkanov - Tchaikovsky: 'Manfred' Symphony, March slave, Romeo and Juliet, Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2 - EMI

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Gerald Finzi - Five Bagatelles, Op. 23 - Emma Johnson, cl; Malcolm Martineau, p - Stanford & Finzi: Clarinet Works - ASV

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Adrien Francois Servais - Caprice on Rossini's Le Comte Ory - Anner Bylsma & Kenneth Slowik, vc's - Adrien-Francois Servais: Souvenirs & Caprices - EMI

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Franz Joseph Haydn - Symphony No. 61 in D - Philharmonia Hungarica/Antal Dorati - Haydn: The Complete Symphonies - Decca

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Edouard Lalo - Le roi d'Ys - Chicago Sym Orch/Jean Martinon - Jean Martinon - The Complete CSO Recordings - Sony Classical

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Edvard Grieg - Holberg Suite, Op. 40 - Australian Chamber Orch/Richard Tognetti - Grieg: Holberg Suite, String Quartet in G minor, Two Elegiac Melodies, Erotik - BIS

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Franz Schubert - Notturno in E-Flat, D 897 - Jaime Laredo, v; Sharon Robinson, vc; Joseph Kalichstein, p - Franz Schubert: The Piano Trios & "Arpeggione" Sonata - Bridge

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Christoph Schonberger - Trumpet Concerto - Matilda Lloyd, tr; London Sym Orch/Lee Reynolds - Resonance - Chandos

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Ferde Grofe - Grand Canyon Suite - Utah Sym/Maurice Abravanel - Great American Landscapes - EMI

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Ludwig van Beethoven - Variations on See the Conquering Hero Comes, WoO 45 - Steven Honigberg, vc; Carol Honigberg, p - Beethoven: Complete Works for Cello and Piano - Albany

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Antonin Dvořak - In Nature's Realm Overture, Op. 91 - Vienna Phil/Seiji Ozawa - Dvorak: Symphony No. 9, In Der Natur - Philips

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Friedrich Kalkbrenner - Grand Septuor in A, Op. 132 - Claudius Tanski, p; Consortium Classicum members - Friedrich Kalkbrenner: Chamber Works - MD G

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Albert Roussel - Divertissement, Op. 6 - Orsino Ensemble; Pavel Kolesnikov, p - Belle Epoque - French Music for Wind - Chandos

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Frederic Chopin - Scherzo No. 1 in B minor, Op. 20 - Seong-Jin Cho, p - Chopin: PIano Concerto No. 2; Scherzi - DG

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Luigi Boccherini - Symphony in B-Flat, Op. 21, No. 5 (G 497) - Tafelmusik/Jeanne Lamon - Boccherini: Concerti Da Violoncello, Sinfonie - RCA

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Dan Locklair - Hail the Coming Day - Slovak National Sym Orch/Michael Rohač - Locklair: Symphony No. 2, "America"; Hail the Coming Day; Organ Concerto; Phoenix - Naxos

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Pietro Paolo Borrono - Tocha tocha la Canella - Paul O'Dette, l - Dolcissima Et Amorosa: Early Italian Renaissance Lute Music - Harmonia Mundi

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Robert Schumann - Symphony No. 1 in B-Flat, Op. 38, Spring - Vienna Phil/Wilhelm Furtwangler - Franck: Symphony in D Minor/ Schumann: Spring Symphony - London

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Alfredo Catalani - Tempo di valzer (Alla Tedesca) - Pietro Spada, Giorgio Cozzolino, p's - Martucci: Complete Works for 2 Pianos/ Rendano: Allegro; Catalani: Tempo di Walzer; Serenata - ASV

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