Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (1844 – 1908) :
A1 - Capriccio Espagnol
Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev (1837 – 1910) :
A2 - Ballade
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (1839 – 1881) :
B1 - Khovanchtchina
César Antonovich Cui (1835 – 1918) :
B2 - In Modo Populari
Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin (1833 – 1887) :
B3 - Dans les steppes de l'Asie Centrale

The Five, also known as the Mighty Handful and the New Russian School, were five prominent 19th-century Russian composers who worked together to create distinct Russian classical music. Mily Balakirev (the leader), César Cui, Modest Mussorgsky, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Alexander Borodin all lived in Saint Petersburg, and collaborated from 1856 to 1870.

This Disque Charlin LP is a New Old Stock record of the early 1980's. André Charlin (1903 - 1983) was a French audio engineer and entrepreneur. He was a prolific inventor and filed many patents for radio amplifiers, movie sound recording equipment and music recording; he founded and operated companies to make his own equipment and to make the recordings. In 1949 André Charlin recorded and produced the first European microgroove vinyl record.

The "golden age" of recordings was from 1955 to 1965, at the beginning of the LP and the stereo era, where pure vacuum tube amplification helped produce recordings demonstrating unparalleled fidelity and warmth, lifelike presence and illumination.