The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a dramatic telling of the famous love story on a grand scale, with a lush, emotionally rich score featuring music by Alan Menken (Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast) and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz (Wicked, Pippin). This first-ever recording of the acclaimed American stage score based on the Academy Award-nominated 1996 film brought together a 25-piece orchestra, a choir of 28, and some of Broadway’s most formidable talent: Michael Arden (Big River) as Quasimodo, Patrick Page (Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark) as Dom Claude Frollo, Ciara Renée (Pippin) as Esmeralda, Andrew Samonsky (Lincoln Center’s South Pacific) as Captain Phoebus de Martin, and Erik Liberman (Lovemusik) as Clopin Trouillefou. Available January 22 from Ghostlight Records (sh-k-boom.com). —Troy Carrington
