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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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Sergei Rachmaninoff - Song, Zdes' khorosho (It's Peaceful Here), Op. 21, No. 7 - Yo-Yo Ma, vc; Kathryn Stott, p - Songs of Comfort & Hope - Sony

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Peter Tchaikovsky - Valse sentimentale, Op. 51, No. 6 - Isaac Stern, v; Alexander Zakin, p - A Life In Music - Encores For Violin & Piano - Sony

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Sergei Prokofiev - Romeo and Juliet Suite No. 1, Op. 64bis - Royal Scottish National Orch/Neeme Jarvi - Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet Suites - Chandos

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Johannes Brahms - Fantasies, Op. 116 - Jorge Federico Osorio, p - Final Thoughts: The Last Piano Works of Schubert & Brahms - Cedille

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Philippe de Monte - Super flumina Babylonis - ORA Ensemble/Suzi Digby - Upheld by Stillness - Harmonia Mundi

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Alexandre Desplat - Wes Anderson's Suite - F Calvo, man; G Caserotto, banjo; L Morar, dulcimer; Orchestre de Paris/Alexandre Desplat - Paris - Hollywood - Warner Classics

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Sunday Afternoons with Robbie Ellis - - -

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Gabriela Lena Frank - Three Latin American Dances - Utah Sym/Keith Lockhart - Symphonic Dances - Reference

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Claude Debussy - String Quartet in G minor, Op. 10 - Avalon String Quartet - Illuminations - Cedille

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Claude Debussy - Syrinx - James Galway, f - Clair de Lune - RCA

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Ravinia Festival 2026 - - -

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Josef Suk - String Serenade in E-Flat, Op. 6 - Polish Radio Chamber Orch/Agnieszka Duczmal - Tchaikovsky & Suk: Serenades for Strings; Grieg: Holberg Suite and Two Elegiac Melodies - ASV

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Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp minor - Grand Teton Music Fest Orch/Donald Runnicles - Mahler: Symphony No. 5 - Reference

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Johann Sebastian Bach - Mass in B minor, BWV 232 - Monteverdi Cho, English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner - Bach: Mass in B minor - Soli Deo Gloria

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Leonard Bernstein - Candide - Ofra Harnoy, vc's; Mike Herriott, brass - Portrait - H&H Records

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Leonard Bernstein - Rondo for Lifey - Alison Balsom, tr; Tom Poster, p - Legende - Warner

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Bassoon Concerto in B-Flat, K. 191 - David McGill, bn; Cleveland Orch/Christoph von Dohnanyi - Mozart: Clarinet Concerto, Oboe Concerto, Bassoon Concerto - Decca

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Alexander Glazunov - Les ruses d'amour (Lady Soubrette), Op. 61 - Russian State Sym Orch/Yevgeny Svetlanov - Waltzes And Polonaises By Russian Composers - Melodiya

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Aaron Copland - Two Pieces for Violin and Piano - Elena Urioste, v; Tom Poster, p - From Brighton to Brooklyn - Chandos

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Mitridate, re di Ponto, K. 87 - La Cetra/Andrea Marcon - Mozart Overtures - DG

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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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Louis Moreau Gottschalk - Home Sweet Home, Op. 51 - Alan Feinberg, p - The American Virtuoso - Argo

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William Grant Still - Symphony No. 3, Sunday - North Arkansas Sym Orch/Carlton Woods - A Festive Sunday with William Grant Still - Cambria

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Camille Saint-Saens - Samson and Delilah, Op. 47 - Grant Park Orch/Thomas Wilkins - Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony (July 30, 2016) - Grant Park Music Festival

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Alfred Schnittke - Suite in the Old Style - Daniel Hope, v; Alexey Botvinov, p - Schnittke: Works for Violin and Piano - DG

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Louis Moreau Gottschalk - Home Sweet Home, Op. 51 - Alan Feinberg, p - The American Virtuoso - Argo

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Ellen Taaffe Zwilich - Upbeat! - Boston Modern Orchestra Project/Gil Rose - Ellen Taaffe Zwilich: Symphony No. 5, Upbeat!, Concerto Elegia, Commedia dell'Arte - BMOP Sound

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Billy Joel - And So it Goes - Harry Watters, tb; Salt River Brass/Patrick Sheridan - The Great American Songbook - Soundset

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Ellis Marsalis - Fourth Autumn - Karen Walwyn, p - Dark Fires, Vol. 2 - Albany

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John Rutter - Cityscapes - Royal Phil Orch/John Rutter - John Rutter - Reflections - Decca

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Traditional African-American - Spiritual, Swing Low, Sweet Chariot - Chicago Brass Quintet - American Voices - Centaur

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Gustav Holst - The Planets, Op. 32 - Royal Phil Orch/Andre Previn - The Planets Op. 32 - Telarc

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Ola Gjeilo - The Lake Isle - Tenebrae/Nigel Short; Ola Gjeilo, p; Kristian Kvalvaag, g; str quartet - Voices, Piano, Strings - Decca

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Joseph Bologne (Chevalier de Saint-Georges) - Violin Concerto in G, Op. 2, No. 1 - Fumika Mohri, v; Czech Chamber Phil Orch/Michael Halasz - Bologne: Violin Concertos, Opp. 2 & 7 - Naxos

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Johann Sebastian Bach - Cantata No. 146, Wir mussen durch viel Trubsal - Empire Brass; Douglas Major, o - A Bach Festival - EMI

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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor - African Suite, Op. 35 - Chineke! Orch/Kevin John Edusei - Chineke! Orchestra: Coleridge-Taylor - Decca

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George Frideric Handel - Acis and Galatea - Atlanta Sym Cho & Orch/Robert Shaw - Grand and Glorious - Great Operatic Choruses - Telarc

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Harold Arlen - Get Happy - Jenny Lin, p - Get Happy - Steinway & Sons

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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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Franz Joseph Haydn - Piano Trio in G, H XV:25 - Beaux Arts Trio - Haydn: Complete Piano Trios - Philips

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Benny Goodman; Carl Maria von Weber - Let's Dance - Benny Goodman & His Orchestra - - CBS

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Johannes Brahms - Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80 - New York Phil/Leonard Bernstein - Brahms: Symphony No. 4/ Academic Festival Overture/ Tragic Overture - Sony

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Justin Holland - Carnival of Venice Fantasy - Christopher Mallett, g - Justin Holland: Guitar Works & Arrangements - Naxos

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Gioachino Rossini - String Sonata No. 5 in E-Flat - Age of Enlightenment Orch members - Gioachino Rossini - The String Sonatas - Hyperion

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Ludwig van Beethoven - Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-Flat, Op. 19 - Martha Argerich, p; Mito Chamber Orch/Seiji Ozawa - Beethoven: Piano Concerto 2; Grieg: Holberg Suite - Decca

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Astor Piazzolla - Maria de Buenos Aires - Lucienne Renaudin Vary, tr; Monte Carlo Phil Orch/Sascha Goetzel - Piazzolla Stories - Warner

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Cecile Chaminade - Valse-Caprice - Enid Katahn, p - Cecile Chaminade: Music for Piano - Gasparo

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Antonio Estevez - Mediodia en el Llano - Simon Bolivar Youth Orch/Gustavo Dudamel - Fiesta * Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela * Gustavo Dudamel - DG

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