The Mighty Five

More than 200 recordings featuring music by Mily Balakirev, Alexander Borodin, César Cui, Modest Mussorgsky, and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov — who have come to be known historically as “The Mighty Five” or “The Mighty Handful,” are on sale now at ArkivMusic!

Sale ends at 9:00am ET, Tuesday, January 28, 2025.

  • Rimsky-Korsakov: The Golden Cockerel / Ulyanov, Minasyan, Rustioni, Lyon National Opera
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    Rimsky-Korsakov: The Golden Cockerel / Ulyanov, Minasyan, Rustioni, Lyon National Opera

    $18.99 Regular price $26.99

    Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Golden Cockerel (Le Coq d’or) is based on a Pushkin folk tale, but the opera’s Orientalism, comedy and sultry elements go far beyond its original influence. The composer saw in the story of...


    Format: DVD, Blu-Ray

    Release Date: August 12, 2022

  • Afanasiev, Borodin, Rachmaninov, Rimsky-Korsakov: String Quartets / Leipzig String Quartet
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    Afanasiev, Borodin, Rachmaninov, Rimsky-Korsakov: String Quartets / Leipzig String Quartet

    $15.99 Regular price $23.99

    RUSSIAN STRING QUARTETS • Leipzig Str Qrt • MDG 307 1758-2 (76:56) AFANASIEV String Quartet, “Volga.” RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Chorale and Variations. Fugue, “In the Monastery.” RACHMANINOFF Romanze and Scherzo. BORODIN String Quartet No. 2 This release...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: August 01, 2012

  • A Musical Journey -  Russia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
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    A Musical Journey - Russia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan

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    RUSSIA / UKRAINE / UZBEKISTAN The Places Peter the Great founded St Petersburg in 1703 on Swedish territory, a provocation to Sweden, then the most powerful state in the region. Over a few years, he...


    Format: DVD

    Release Date: September 25, 2012

  • Arensky, Rimsky-korsakov / Nash Ensemble
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    Arensky, Rimsky-korsakov / Nash Ensemble

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    Classical Music


    Format: CD

    Release Date: January 01, 1991

  • Balakirev: Grand Fantasia, 30 Songs / Krimets, Banowetz
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    Balakirev: Grand Fantasia, 30 Songs / Krimets, Banowetz

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    The track from this album was nominated for the 2008 Grammy Award for "Best Chamber Music Performance."


    Format: CD

    Release Date: May 08, 2007

  • Balakirev: Symphony No 2, Russia / Golovschin
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    Balakirev: Symphony No 2, Russia / Golovschin

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    BALAKIREV: Symphony No. 2 / Russia


    Format: CD

    Release Date: April 12, 1994

  • Cui: Piano Transcriptions / Ivanova, Zagarinskiy
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    Cui: Piano Transcriptions / Ivanova, Zagarinskiy

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    The works of the outstanding composer César Cui (1835–1918), whose name will forever be remembered in music history, are yet to be rediscovered and fully appreciated. Cui was a rare type, one of those universal...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: April 27, 2018

  • Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 - Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition / Jansons
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    Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 - Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition / Jansons

    $20.99 Regular price $32.99

    Also available on Blu-ray This brilliant live recording features the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks under the capable baton of Maris Jansons performing Antonin Dvorak’s Symphony No 9 in E minor op. 95 “From the New...


    Format: DVD

    Release Date: September 14, 2018

  • Golden Cockerel
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    Golden Cockerel

    $20.99 Regular price $32.99

    The old Tzar Dodon, tired of ruling his country, manipulated by his political advisors - among which the obscure Astrologer - and showing little interest in protecting his kingdom against foreign agression, relies on a...


    Format: DVD

    Release Date: March 23, 2018

  • Kabalevsky: Piano Concerto No 3; Rimsky-korsakov: Piano Concerto / Liu, Yablonsky
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    Kabalevsky: Piano Concerto No 3; Rimsky-korsakov: Piano Concerto / Liu, Yablonsky

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    Simple catchy exuberance and patriotic aggression. Here is an inexpensive collection of three works by Kabalevsky and one by Rimsky-Korsakov. The Kabalevsky Third Piano Concerto, dedicated to Soviet Youth, is well enough known. It is...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: June 24, 2008

  • Kurt Sanderling Conducts Rachmaninov Symphony No. 3
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    Kurt Sanderling Conducts Rachmaninov Symphony No. 3

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    The legendary conductor Kurt Sanderling has always been a great admirer of Rachmaninov’s music. This is a recording form 1995 of Sanderling conducting Rachmaninov’s 3rd Symphony. The eminent German conductor, Kurt Sanderling, was born to...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: January 05, 2018

  • Les Vendredis / Szymanowski Quartet
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    Les Vendredis / Szymanowski Quartet

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    Les Vendredis is a collection of string quartets by several Russian composers, who played a key role at the famous Friday evening concerts organized by the music publisher Belaieff at the end of the 19th...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: April 14, 2017

  • Mussorgsky: Bilder Einer Ausstellung
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    Mussorgsky: Bilder Einer Ausstellung

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    Modest Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, composed for piano but best known via Maurice Ravel’s orchestrated edition, is here arranged for organ and trumpet. + Three encore tracks, two from Mussorgsky and one appropriately enough...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: July 08, 2014

  • Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov / Noseda, Anastassov, Zubov, Marianelli, Storey, Bronder
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    Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov / Noseda, Anastassov, Zubov, Marianelli, Storey, Bronder

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    Also available on Blu-ray Boris Godunov is the story not only of a troubled leader but of an entire nation, and its history is as eventful as that of Mother Russia herself. In this new...


    Format: DVD

    Release Date: August 30, 2011

  • Mussorgsky:  Boris Godunov  / Nagano,  Tsymbalyuk, Sokolik, Nakamura, Grotzinger,   Siegel, Eiche [blu-ray]
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    Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov / Nagano, Tsymbalyuk, Sokolik, Nakamura, Grotzinger, Siegel, Eiche [blu-ray]

    $27.99 Regular price $42.99

    This Blu-ray Disc is only playable on Blu-ray Disc players and not compatible with standard DVD players. Also available on standard DVD Opera in four parts and seven scenes, First version (1868/1869) Libretto: Modest Mussorgsky...


    Format: Blu-Ray

    Release Date: March 25, 2014