Chess The Musical 2025 Original Broadway Cast Recording

Description

With music by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus of ABBA and lyrics by Tim Rice, CHESS the Musical returns with this new recording of the show performed on Broadway in 2025, featuring 33 new orchestral arrangements and major performers from the New York scene such as Lea Michele, Aaron Tveit, and Nicholas Christopher. Through a plot intertwining chess competition, international rivalries, politics, and love stories, this new production brings to life the great classics of the work, including Anthem, Nobody's Side, Pity the Child, Heaven Help My Heart, and One Night in Bangkok. This 2CD edition includes the entire show and offers a complete dive into this contemporary reinterpretation of a musical classic. Tracklisting: CD1 1. Overture 2. Difficult and Dangerous Times 3. Where I Want to Be 4. Pity the Child #1 5. Merano 6. What a Scene/What a Joy 7. Press Conference 8. The Arbiter 9. Chess Match #1 10. Quartet (A Model of Decorum and Tranquility) 11. 1956, Budapest is Rising 12. Nobody's Side 13. Mountain Duet 14. Florence Quits 15. Pity the Child #2 16. Heaven Help My Heart 17. Anatoly & the Press 18. Anthem CD2 1. Golden Bangkok 2. One Night In Bangkok 3. He Is a Man, He Is a Child 4. The Soviet Machine 5. The Interview 6. You and I 7. The Deal (Pt. 1) 8. The Deal (Pt. 2) 9. Pity the Child 10. I Know Him So Well 11. Endgame (Pt. 1) 12. Endgame (Pt. 2) 13. Someone Else's Story 14. You and I (Reprise) 15. Epilogue