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.

  • Mussorgsky:  Boris Godunov  / Nagano,  Tsymbalyuk, Sokolik, Nakamura, Grotzinger,   Siegel, Eiche
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    Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov / Nagano, Tsymbalyuk, Sokolik, Nakamura, Grotzinger, Siegel, Eiche

    $15.99 Regular price $32.99

    Also available on Blu-ray Opera in four parts and seven scenes. Original version (1868/1869) Libretto: Modest Mussorgsky after Alexander Pushkin & Nikolai Karamsins Stage direction: Calixto Bieito Set design: Rebecca Ringst Costume design: Ingo Krügler...


    Format: DVD

    Release Date: March 25, 2014

  • Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov / Noseda, Anastassov, Zubov, Marianelli, Storey, Bronder [blu-ray]
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    Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov / Noseda, Anastassov, Zubov, Marianelli, Storey, Bronder [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 oris Godunov is the story not only of a troubled leader but of...


    Format: Blu-Ray

    Release Date: August 30, 2011

  • Mussorgsky: Pictures At An Exhibition; A Night On The Bare Mountain; Borodin: In The Steppes Of Central Asia
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    Mussorgsky: Pictures At An Exhibition; A Night On The Bare Mountain; Borodin: In The Steppes Of Central Asia

    $10.99 Regular price $16.99

    Classical Music


    Format: CD

    Release Date: July 01, 2002

  • Mussorgsky: Pictures At An Exhibition - Scriabin: Poem of Ecstasy / Järvi, Chicago Symphony Orchestra
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    Mussorgsky: Pictures At An Exhibition - Scriabin: Poem of Ecstasy / Järvi, Chicago Symphony Orchestra

    $10.99 Regular price $22.99

    Recorded in: Orchestra Hall, Chicago 27, 28 November 1989 Producer(s) Brian Couzens Sound Engineer(s) Ralph Couzens Mitchell Heller (assistant)


    Format: CD

    Release Date: April 01, 1990

  • Mussorgsky, Glinka, Bohme, Alabiev /Fine Arts Brass Ensemble
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    Mussorgsky, Glinka, Bohme, Alabiev /Fine Arts Brass Ensemble

    $13.99 Regular price $20.99

    While there are many recordings by brass ensembles which reflect modern jazz-influenced ideas, this one is distinctively "classical". More the better, for there is no other context that would do justice to Russian nationalistic music,...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: March 01, 2004

  • Mussorgsky: Pictures At An Exhibition, Night On The Bare Mountain, Etc / Ponti, Et Al
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    Mussorgsky: Pictures At An Exhibition, Night On The Bare Mountain, Etc / Ponti, Et Al

    $13.99 Regular price $21.99

    This is a hybrid Super Audio CD playable on both regular and Super Audio CD players.


    Format: CD

    Release Date: November 18, 2008

  • Mussorgsky: Pictures At An Exhibition; Songs And Dances Of Death; The Nursery / Breiner [blu-ray Audio]
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    Mussorgsky: Pictures At An Exhibition; Songs And Dances Of Death; The Nursery / Breiner [blu-ray Audio]

    $13.99 Regular price $21.99

    This is an audio-only (i.e., with no video content) Blu-ray disc playable only on Blu-ray players. Also available on standard CD Originally written as a set of piano pieces, Mussorgsky’s splendid Pictures at an Exhibition...


    Format: Blu-Ray

    Release Date: November 19, 2013

  • Mussorgsky: Pictures At An Exhibition; Liszt: Piano Concerto No 1
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    Mussorgsky: Pictures At An Exhibition; Liszt: Piano Concerto No 1

    $8.99 Regular price $19.99

    An eclectic collection, colourful and often arresting. Mussorgsky’s Pictures were originally composed for the piano. In that form he created a spacious canvas necessitating something of a symphonic sound from the piano. This proved exquisitely...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 30, 2008

  • Mussorgsky: Pictures At An Exhibition; Tchaikovsky: Album For The Young / Feltsman
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    Mussorgsky: Pictures At An Exhibition; Tchaikovsky: Album For The Young / Feltsman

    $13.99 Regular price $20.99

    Pianist and conductor Vladimir Feltsman is one of the most versatile and constantly interesting musicians of our time, whose vast repertoire encompasses music from the Baroque to the 20th century. A regular guest soloist with...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: January 01, 2013

  • Three Russian Piano Concertos
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    Three Russian Piano Concertos

    $11.99 Regular price $18.99

    Classical Music


    Format: CD

    Release Date: March 17, 2008

  • Rachmaninov: Symphony no 2; Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnol / De Waart, Rotterdam PO
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    Rachmaninov: Symphony no 2; Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnol / De Waart, Rotterdam PO

    $13.99 Regular price $21.99

    This is a hybrid Super Audio CD playable on both regular and Super Audio CD players.


    Format: SACD

    Release Date: June 24, 2008

  • Rimsky-korsakov: Legend Of The Invisible City Of Kitezh / Vedernikov, Kazakov, Panfilov
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    Rimsky-korsakov: Legend Of The Invisible City Of Kitezh / Vedernikov, Kazakov, Panfilov

    $20.99 Regular price $42.99

    RIMSKY-KORSAKOV The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevronya • Vitaly Panfilov ( Prince Vsevolod ); Tatiana Monogarova ( Fevronya ); Mikhail Gubsky ( Grishka Kuterma ); Mikhail Kazakov ( Prince...


    Format: DVD

    Release Date: December 13, 2011

  • Rimsky-Korsakov: 1001 Nights / Cribbins
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    Rimsky-Korsakov: 1001 Nights / Cribbins

    $12.99 Regular price $19.99

    This is a Spoken Word album:"Sinbad" and other exotic tales narrated by Bernard Cribbins over music by Rimsky-Korsakov.


    Format: CD

    Release Date: November 01, 2001

  • Rimsky-korsakov For Piano Duo: Scheherazade; Antar; Neapolitan Song
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    Rimsky-korsakov For Piano Duo: Scheherazade; Antar; Neapolitan Song

    $12.99 Regular price $19.99

    Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov arranged his most famous work, Scheherazade, and the little jolly Neapolitan Song, op. 63, for piano four hands.


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 14, 2014

  • Rimsky-Korsakov: Antar, Scheherazade / Bakels, Malaysian Philharmonic
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    Rimsky-Korsakov: Antar, Scheherazade / Bakels, Malaysian Philharmonic

    $13.99 Regular price $21.99

    Having recently recorded the symphonies of both Glazunov and Rachmaninov, we continue our Russian theme with the first of a series of recordings of Rimsky-Korskov's symphonies. These are performed by the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra conducted...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: August 01, 2003