Classical

88.5FM WFCR broadcasts a wide selection of the most appealing classical music from every era, with special emphasis on new releases and music of timely interest. Tune in for Classical Music weekdays with John Montanari and Walter Carroll, Saturday Opera from the Metropolitan, Chicago Lyric and other leading houses, Overnight Classical with Peter Van de Graaff, Sunday Baroque with Suzanne Bona, and Sunday Classical Music with Walter Carroll.

Saturday Opera on 88.5FM WFCR continues with the Lyric Opera of Chicago. Please click here for more information!

For your convenience, WFCR provides playlists of all of its classical music. Here you can find out exactly what you heard on any of our classical shows, with links provided for more information on the composers and performers. You can access these playlists here.

Classical Music Blog

06/18/2013
The piece that will begin a little past 3:00 Tuesday afternoon on WFCR might at first sound familiar.  That "pum pum pum" in the double basses, bass drum and tambourine.  The modal,...
06/14/2013
So, I read the other day in the Boston Globe  that the Somerville, Mass. concert series Opensound would be continuing an annual tradition with tomorrow evening's performance of John...

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