Flight of the Bumblebee
Rimsky-Korsakov / Rachmaninoff
Flight of the Bumblebee is an orchestral interlude written by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov for his opera The Tale of Tsar Saltan, composed in 1899–1900. The piece closes Act III, Tableau 1, during which a prince is changed into an insect so that he can fly away to visit his father. Sergei Rachmaninoff made a popular solo-piano arrangement of this famous work.
The Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844 - 1908) was a master of orchestration. His best-known orchestral compositions—Capriccio Espagnol, Russian Easter Festival Overture, and the symphonic suite Scheherazade—are considered staples of the classical music repertoire, along with suites and excerpts from some of his fifteen operas.
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