The Mighty Handful was a quintet of Russian composers -- Modest Mussorgsky, Mily Balakirev, César Cui, Alexander Borodin, and Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov -- whose music explored Russian nationalist ideas. For a Russian audience of the late 19th century programming them together would have made sense, but the idea is rarely explored nowadays. British pianist Philip Edward Fisher here takes a shot at grouping the Mighty Handful in the realm of piano music; his efforts make more sense in some places than in others, but there are ...
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The Mighty Handful was a quintet of Russian composers -- Modest Mussorgsky, Mily Balakirev, César Cui, Alexander Borodin, and Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov -- whose music explored Russian nationalist ideas. For a Russian audience of the late 19th century programming them together would have made sense, but the idea is rarely explored nowadays. British pianist Philip Edward Fisher here takes a shot at grouping the Mighty Handful in the realm of piano music; his efforts make more sense in some places than in others, but there are some delightful moments here. The program is bookended by two well-known works, the original version of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition (known the world over in orchestral arrangements) and Balakirev's Islamey, a whirl of Orientalist ideas and sheer pianistic fireworks. Fisher is superb in the latter work, although his Pictures at an Exhibition doesn't quite capture the rough-edged quality of Mussorgsky's piano writing. The real innovation of the program lies in the works by...
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