On his first solo recital disc for Chandos, Philip Edward Fisher performs piano works by members of the so-called "Mighty Handful", a group of five Russian composers César Cui, Alexander Borodin, Mily Balakirev, Modest Mussorgsky, and Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov who in the 1860s banded together in an attempt to create a truly national school of Russian music, free of the perceived stiffling influences of Italian opera, German lieder, and other western European forms.