Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Flight Of The Bumble Bee: Flute: Instrumental Work

As part os The Canadian Brass Ensemble Series Nicolay Rimsky-Korsakov's famous The Flight Of The Bumble Bee has been arranged for Brass Quintet by Howard Cable. Score and Parts.

Concert Piece after Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov-The popular Flight of the Bumblebee by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov is a welcome opportunity for every musician to demonstrate his or her technical skills. The Russian composer-pianist Alexander Rosenblatt composed a virtuoso Piano arrangement of the famous theme which moves masterfully back and forth between jazz and classical music thus being a 'cross-over' work: bebop (a jazz style from the 1940s and 1950s) is added to 'Bumblebee' which makes this work not only an amusing play on words ('Bumble-Bee-Bop') but also a virtuoso concert piece which ought to be enjoyable for both performers and listeners alike.

Flight of the Bumble Bee from the opera 'The Legend of Tsar Saltan' based on a text by Pushkin is without doubt the best-known work in the oeuvre of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1906). The musical droning of the bumble bee has wedged its way into the concert halls and radio stations in different arrangements and interpretations. Uwe Korn now presents a new arrangement for piano duet. The well-balanced and nice-sounding setting is of medium difficulty and makes Flight of the Bumble Bee accessible to pupils for private music-making or auditions.

Arranged by J. Strimer this popular 20th Classical work is an ideal encore piece for any advanced pianist.